Abstract

Some time back, we referred in these columns to certain features of education in the secondary schools of Denmark, known as the people's schools. Mr. Faber, Agricultural Adviser to the Danish Legation, London describes, in the course of an interesting article in the current number of the "Edinburgh Review", the position of primary schools in that country in relation to agricultural training in rural parts. The tuition in these ins- titutions, it is stated, has been restricted to a few elementary sub- jects and no attempt is made to teach agriculture, but the school system is so arranged that the children have a chance, while still young, to take part in agricultural work at home. It is said to be a principle of education in Denmark that agriculture, being a col- lection of applied sciences, cannot be taught in elementary schools nor to anybody who has not acquired a thorough practical train- ning. Those children who stay on the land are employed in practical agricultural work and thereby get a leaning towards agriculture. Though this subject is not included in the curriculum of studies in the primary schools, being considerod "too advanced a subject for children," yet some of the subjects connected such as botany, are often taught to pupils.

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