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OverviewExcerpt from Farmers' Institutes for Young People In Order, therefore, that opportunity to become acquainted with agricultural operations may be given to those who have left the public School and from whose ranks the future farmers and their wives must be supplied, the farmers' institutes in several States have organized and are now conducting. What are known as institutes for young people. The majority Of these, however, are not as yet institutes in the sense in which the work of the farmers' institute has come to be defined. They are in reality boys and girls' clubs con ducted in the same manner as those organized and Operated by the public schools. That the institutes should have taken up the work for young people along lines similar to those of the schools is not surprising when it is considered that the movement has just begun and the best methods of dealing with it have not been clearly outlined or thoroughly developed. The great need among young people beyond the school age for agricultural instruction was so urgent that it could not be longer delayed, consequently the institute undertook to do whatsit could to supply that need without waiting to make thorough previous study of the conditions or of the methods best adapted to improving these conditions. It simply started, and then following the lines of least resistance, which have been the methods that were pursued by the schools, it has gone on until now a radical departure from these methods 1s seen to be necessary and 1s proposed. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor John Hamilton (Harvard Fas Department of Comparative Literature)Publisher: Forgotten Books Imprint: Forgotten Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.222kg ISBN: 9780260434258ISBN 10: 0260434256 Pages: 46 Publication Date: 22 October 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: In stock Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |