Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Gardening in Elementary City Schools: I. Why Gardening Should Be Introduced Into the Schools; II. How Gardening May Be Introduced Into the Schools; III. How Gardening May Be Promoted by the Schools
This pamphlet has been prepared for the benefit Of school officials and others who are interested in the promotion of gardening in the elementary schools Of towns and cities. It attempts to Show briefly how productive gardening contributes to the needs of the school and how the work may be organized and administered.
Like most recently accepted school subjects, gardening has been introduced largely as a result of outside pressure. The school has been remarkably responsive to public demand in this respect. This response on the part of the schools is becoming more acute, and it is a promising indication to find that the leading school administrators are recognizing gardening and are prepared to give it a place in the curriculum. From the standpoint of financial support, also, gar dening has had to pass through the same troublous vicissitudes as music, manual training, drawing, and home economics. Like these, it has been financed and its value demonstrated largely by outside in?uence. School boards are just beginning to make provision for the financial support of this subject.
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