RURAL SCIENCE-RAISE IT?
RATHER STRIKING OPINION. ■tflj Tales'reDh.-Preis Association.) Timaru, September 9; Mr. 11. H'Leod, 8.A., in his presided tial address to tho District Educational Institute, said tint agricultural instruction was fairly well established in (lie primary schools, but it would lie of no roal valuo until carried on through the secondary schools and through tho uni. vorsity, nor would experiment farms' be of much value until fanners were bettor instructed in scientific- method. Agriculture should bo ranked in the universities with chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, or Latin, and thus, farming would bo raised in popular estimation among the professions, and tho tide now flowing from tho country to the towns would lie checked. The university must take tho first step, as its requirements fix the aims of tho secondary schools.
The meeting decided to scud a. remit to the Teachers' Conference ns follows:— "That tho university authorities bo a<ked to make agriculture a subject for the B.A. and B.Sc. degrees."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 6
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161RURAL SCIENCE-RAISE IT? Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 6
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