Town And Country Life
Sir,—Could any reader explain the meaning and object of education? I was bom in the backblocks. I learned to read and write after a fashion. At twelve I was a cowboy on a farm at 10s a week and found. At twenty I had learned to shear, kill and dress sheep, a steer, a pig. train a dog, break in a horse, do some shepherding, droving, erect a fence, sink a well, do some quarrying, drain a swamp, be handy with an axe and do some road-making. I always envied the town folk their education, their kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, and universities, W.E.A., technical schools, Bible classes, Sunday schools, churches, night schools, and theatres. When I get to town
all I tee h young folks filling their stomachs with gut rot, their lungs with lung rot. and their heads with falsehood Yours, etc., BEWILDERED. April 30, IMI.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 7
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152Town And Country Life Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 7
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