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42 THE RURAL VOICE
Voice from the Past
It's often been said: "The more thing's change, the more they stay the same."
But farm life has certainly undergone dramatic and irreversible changes.
Writer Wayne Kelly provides evidence for both views: one, the changes in
farming and rural life have been so thorough that the past seems quaint; two,
"modern" problems really aren't so modern after all. Either way, the"voices
from the past" haven't lost their relevance.
AGRICuLTUFAL
COLLEGE I
-P,EOPE;IIIlCr—
PR,RICAL MSTRUGTICM
IN THE S:1 ce•Ct
6RICULZURE
•
From The Farmer's Advocate, September, 1911
KEEP THE BOYS AT SCHOOL
In these days when labour is scarce
and dear, and often inefficient, many a
farmer is tempted to solve the labour
problem by keeping his boys out of
school. To yield to this temptation is
for the farmer to make about the
greatest mistake possible.
There are, it is true, plenty of men
who have made money who had little
or no schooling. Yet the men of this
class who now take rank among our
best citizens are the first to acknowl-
edge the handicap under which they
have run and, further, they are the very
men who see to it that their children
get the best the schools can yield.
Further, the wide world over, the
best citizens are insisting that every
child shall have, by right, a good
schooling. These citizens realize that
while the fellow without any school-
ing may win out in life's battle, the
advantages are on the side of the
fellow with a good education.
Even should the illiterate man
overtake his fortunate, educated fellow
citizen, and come to mix with edu-
cated men and women, his feelings
will be hurt a thousand times because
of his lack of intellectual culture.
Well-bred men and women will try to
overlook his shortcomings and honour
him for his attainments, but when he
realizes his deficiency he will bitterly
regret that he is lacking.in the things
that were his birthright. No boy has a
right to expect his father to make him
rich. He has the right to look for the
best our public schools can give him.
In this get -rich -quick age, parents
should see to it that their boys and
girls are at school every day. The
dollar or two the child saves the father
or mother in wages, at the expense of
school, is about the dearest money
the parents ever get. Farm life now
requires about the best -trained intel-
ligence of any job on earth.
Keep the boys in school, even
though it may seem a sacrifice to do
so. The reward is more than worth the
sacrifice and the conflict. The best
prizes, after all, are for the men and
women of education. It may not ap-
pear at first, and the boy at school may
not admit it, but in the long run a good
education is about the best investment
a farmer can make for his child.0