Excerpt from Rural Schools in Canada, Their Organization, Administration and Supervision
The quickening of national consciousness in Canada during recent years is a natural outcome of the remarkable development of the past decade. The growing realization of the extent and variety of her natural resources has been accompanied by such a rapid increase in population bent upon their appropriation that the problems of utilization, cultivation, and conservation are being forced upon the consciousness of the people.
Rich as Canada is in minerals, in forests, in fish, and in sources of mechanical power, her agricultural possibilities are, and will continue to be, her chief source of wealth. For many decades the majority of her people will be immediately dependent upon agriculture and its related industries. It is but fitting, therefore, that the question of education for those engaged in agricultural pursuits and those being reared in rural communities should receive a generous share of the attention of educators and liberal support from both the Federal and Provincial governments. The welfare and efficiency of our rural population is economically and socially at the very basis of our national life.
Our leaders in educational work must come to realize more fully that, while it may be necessary to work through the mediums of provincial and local machinery, our educational problems are as truly national as provincial and need to be viewed and understood from the wider as well as the more limited points of view. The mastery of the detail and policy of a local provincial situation is not enough, if we are to have educational statesmen capable of meeting the large opportunities for fruitful service during this, the early period of our national growth. A sympathetic and intelligent appreciation of the special problems and difficulties of all parts of the Dominion and a thorough grasp of the general problems common to our country as a whole ought to be one of the presuppositions of any adequate leadership.
The present study represents the writer's initial effort to contribute something toward the attainment of this wider view.
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