AbstractsEducation Research & Administration

The school garden from an educational view point.

by Emilie Yunker




Institution: University of Louisville
Department: College of Arts and Sciences
Degree: MS
Year: 1911
Record ID: 1578717
Full text PDF: http://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/1629


Abstract

"School gardens are not intended to create gardeners or farmers but to afford the growing boy or girl an opportunity for many aided developments." In the school garden the children are taught by one who can inspire them with a love not only for plants, but for everything else that has life and grows to take care of trees, lawns, flowers, vegetables and such things planted with their own hands. It is a place where the plants together with their friends and enemies have an intimate relation to the child personally; where the lessons are far more vital than anything he can get from books, where the child learns the wonderful story of the plant, the life in the seed, the function of root, leaf, stem, flowers and seed by the closest scrutiny of which he is capable.