The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1900-02-25
-?OCATE THE FARMER
A LOGICAL ADDRESS By STATE
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
GLENN.
AGRICULTURE is IDENTIFIED.
Country Boys Must Be Taught ~
Home the Beauty and Power
Of the FIELDS.

Agricultural Department invited sne
attention OF his excellency to the i'm.
portance Of introducing in our schools
nature studies. agricultural industrial
education, TO the end that young men
who intend 70 become farmers might
enjoy to some extent the practical,
special training for their work which
IA afforded those seeking the professions.
A short time after this School Com
missioner q. r. Glenn delivered an
address before the Cotton States Asso.
citation Of the Commissioners Of Agri-
culture In Atlanta. Believing this adj
dress should have the widest possible
circulation, It is furnished to the press
Of the State for publication
COMMISSIONER oLEsE's ADDRESS
The country boy leaves, the farm
because he has learned at school that
other fields Of human activity offer
higher rewards The country boy is
abitious to rise and to move mp and on
in the world. His teacher has fred his
heart with stories Of what men In the
learned professions have accomplished.
He is attracted by the laurels that men
have won in the pnlpit, at the bar. on
the hustings, on the battlefield, and on
the deck Of fighting ship. The course
OF study that the schools have prescribed
for the boy tell him that to be great Ia
the eyes of the world he must preach a
great sermon. or write great poem, or
make great grafton, or lead grand
charge. or command feet Of warships
from bridge Of flagship In naval
battle. How to win conquests from the
soil Of mother earth. how to make the
fields blossom and ripen into fruitage
Of golden harveHts. has been mp to this
time. no part Of Of the training Of the
boys In our schools. The book learning
Of he academies has led away from the
h bid and exacting manual toll on the
RIM. In case where the boy has had
% learning at all. we have had the
told picture Of the man with the hoo,
the emptiness Of ages in his face. -
"A thing that grieves not and that
never hopes.
etolid and stunned. brother to the
OK
Millet's picture and Markham'a poem
arraign with terrific emphasis the
wrong education. or the lack Of all edu.
cation, that for ages past have been the
lot OF the children on the farm. Not
until recent years has the world come
20 recognize that agricultural pursuits
require as high form Of development.
and a. large degree Of intellectual
power. as may be required In any other
department Of human endeavor.
The country boy win never stay on
che farm until he has been taught at
home and at school how to find the
beauty and the profit and the power
that reside in the fields as they are 60
DO found nowhere else We are late in
learning. but are nevertheless learning
at last, that it IL the business of the
school TO train the children for the life
they are TO lead after they have left the
SCHOOL
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ARR NUMEROUS
In recent years every State in the
Union hasestablished, somewhere with
IN the confines OF the common wealth, &
technical school OF agriculture and
mechanic arts. This is we'll; but it
does not go far enough. We must put
into the public schools, the primary
schools for the masses, such elementary
branches Of study as will be immedi.
Ately and directly helpful in the train.
ing OF our children for agricultural
pursuits. At least o-thirds Of our
school population in the South must Of
hecessity spend their lives on the farm.
Nature studies. the elements of biology,
che elements of chemistry. how plants
grow, how soils are enriched and inn
poverished. how lands may be terraoed.
and q thousand forms Of elemental
instruction can be taught in the schools
with infinitely greater results 50 far as
intellectual development goes, than by
The continued use of many branches Of
study that have come down to rs by
tradition from the monks and khs mo.
nasteries Of ages past
The dead languages are good in their
way and no intelligent man will speak
lightly Of their educational value, but
there are living languages In plants and
blades of grass, and soils and stones.
and streams. and birds. and flowers.
that appeal with infinite delight and
foster unmsasured growth in the heart
Of child. The great minds who have
done the most and the best for this
world, even in literature. in art and in
science have come from the very heart
Of nature, and mature never yet be-.
traysd the heart that loved her" The
Bard OF Avon even, who tuned our
English tongue to higher and sweeter
notes than Ger before were heard, put
his ear close to the meadow land and
his heart to the hills Of life, and his eye
upon this silent stars, while birds and