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title	The Macdonald Consolidated School, 1905 - 1912
creator	MacKinnon, Darin
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	<p>The farmer's child enters our public schools; he is<br />taught to read, write, and spell. He is then taught<br />arithmetic and grammar. If he shows a desire for<br />knowledge, and his father can spare him from the<br />farm, he may be given instruction in Latin,<br />geometry, English literature and modern and<br />ancient history. It is then thought that he has<br />enough education to make a farmer, and he is<br />taken from school and put to work on the farm.<br />He has spent from ten to twelve years of his life<br />getting a smattering of everything in the<br />educational calendar, except the one industry,<br />the special knowledge of which is largely to<br />determine his success or failure in life.</p><p>"Necessity for an Agricultural Education,"<br />Prince Edward Island Magazine and<br />Educational Outlook, May 1904</p>
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1992
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-427
source	32
language	en_US
rights	<p>Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.</p>

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title	The Macdonald Consolidated School, 1905 - 1912
creator	MacKinnon, Darin
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	<p>The farmer's child enters our public schools; he is<br />taught to read, write, and spell. He is then taught<br />arithmetic and grammar. If he shows a desire for<br />knowledge, and his father can spare him from the<br />farm, he may be given instruction in Latin,<br />geometry, English literature and modern and<br />ancient history. It is then thought that he has<br />enough education to make a farmer, and he is<br />taken from school and put to work on the farm.<br />He has spent from ten to twelve years of his life<br />getting a smattering of everything in the<br />educational calendar, except the one industry,<br />the special knowledge of which is largely to<br />determine his success or failure in life.</p><p>"Necessity for an Agricultural Education,"<br />Prince Edward Island Magazine and<br />Educational Outlook, May 1904</p>
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1992
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-427
source	32
language	en_US
rights	<p>Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.</p>