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MR. MATTHEWS has hardly grasped the point pf our notice—that Messrs. Buchanan and Gregory's book approaches the subject in the wrong spirit. The teacher is provided with a mass of indifferently selected information about farming matters, which he will pass on to his class instead of trying to lead it to observe and reason on its own account. The latter process is more difficult, but it happens to be education. We have of late had only too many occasions to deplore the “rural teachers with little or no country training.” who hand out “condensed in formation” from little books about the country. It is this kind o of instruction which offends, both farmers and educationists, and if Mr. Matthews imagines it is going to counteract the attractions of town life and arrest rural depopulation, we can only hope that on this occasion he does not represent the opinion of the Central Chamber of Agricutture.
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“Lessons on Country Life”. Nature 68, 574 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068574b0
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