Excerpt from State Manual of the Course of Study in Agriculture: For the Public Schools of Oregon Issued by the State Department of Education, 1914 4. When there is in the home or community an agricultural industry whose activities run more or less throughout the year, like dairying, fruit-growing, poultry-keeping, etc., such industry should be made the backbone of the course. 5. All laboratory work should demonstrate some point or topic under consideration in class. These exercises should exemplify the practical rather than the theoretical points at issue, and the results should be interpreted in terms of home and farm application rather than in terms of pure science. 6. Students manifesting a great deal of interest in agriculture should be encouraged to apply their knowledge at home. That phase of agriculture most attractive to them should be organized into a definite project to be worked out at home under the supervision of the school. The Boys' and Girls' Club movement provides the means and methods for such study and supervision. 7. All of the other school subjects may be vitalized and greatly strengthened by teaching them in terms of agriculture. Agricultural booklet-making provides an effective method for such correlation. Suggestion to Teachers a. You are to be the class leader rather than the instructor. Place the burden of discussion upon the pupils. Every student coming from a farm home, and often from a city home, is brimful of facts, ideas and suggestions gained by intimate contact with the soil, plants, animals, fields and woods. Seek only to find those things of greatest interest to the boys or girls; apply the proper suggestion, or ask a thought-stimulating question and let them tell or do, however crude they may be at first in thus expressing themselves. Telling and doing rather than reciting is the ideal for classroom work in agriculture. b. Do not feel ashamed if your pupils know some facts about the farm or fields not possessed by yourself. Let them glory in telling you and the class what they know. Expression rather than impression is the result desired and the best informed teacher may easily become the poorest by monopolizing the class discussion. c. Do not depend upon the text as the only source of information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.