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WE are slowly realising that success in farming depends quite as much upon scientific knowledge as upon practical training. In other countries this fact has been fully appreciated for many years, and elaborate provision for the interests of agriculture forms a prominent feature of their educational systems. Similar provision has become a necessity for England, if we are to compete with them upon anything like equal terms. In furtherance of this object the Agricultural Education Committee, of which some of the most eminent men of science and agriculturists of the day are members, has recently issued certain definite proposals. Foremost amongst these is a recommendation that all the educational work of the Board of Agriculture should, like that of the Science and Art Department, be transferred to the new Board of Education. If the confusion, overlapping and wasteful expenditure of public money, which have resulted from the multiplication of central authorities, are to be avoided, it is essential that one authority alone should be responsible for the agricultural education of the country. It would be the function of this authority, aided by inspectors thoroughly familiar with the needs of the agricultural classes, and with the conditions of rural life, to secure an adequate provision of the various forms and degrees of instruction required by all those who are in any way concerned with the cultivation of the soil.
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Agricultural Education . Nature 61, 332–333 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061332b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/061332b0