All education is for the sake of human welfare. The thing learned like the material thing possessed is most worth while in proportion as it serves some high human purpose or need. There is abundant opportunity to teach the country boy that education cannot well exist for its own sake or purely for one's own selfish uses. So it is well early to awaken the youth's interest in people. Have him compare his own lot with that of others in very different circumstances. Take him occasionally to the orphanage, the industrial (reform) school, the imbecile and insane asylums, the prisons, and the sweat-shops in the city. Thus through acquainting him with how the other half lives you may cause the boy to reflect seriously on the best meanings and possibilities of his own life, and to plan in his mind a splendid ideal of integrity for his own coming manhood. The boy's education is not going on rightly if he is not being introduced to the current affairs of the world. The literature suggested above should be made to serve the purpose of bringing his attention to these matters. He should become interested in the political welfare of his community, his state, and his nation, and learn to feel his responsibility in regard to such things. But he will probably not voluntarily acquire these better relations to society at large. It should therefore be regarded as the urgent duty of the parent to give the necessary guidance and instruction. Finally, we must again be reminded of the high ideals of education and culture necessary to, and consistent with, substantial country life. The greatest of producing classes--the agronomists--must and can in time rank at the head of all others in moral and intellectual worth. So, let the rural parent look ahead and formulate in his own mind the splendid vision of his son grown up to full maturity of all his best powers. Let him see this future citizen as a man of magnanimity, of splendid personal force, and of great constructive ability in the important work of budding up the affairs of the community in which he is to live. REFERENCES Chapters in Rural Progress. President Kenyon L. Butterfield. Chapter VI. "Education for the Farmer." University of Chicago Press. Education for the Iowa Farm Boy. H. C. Wallace. Pamphlet. (Free.) Chamber of Commerce, Des Moines. Value during Education of a life Career Motive. C. W. Eliot. Annual Volume N.E.A., 1910. To keep Boys on the Farm. M. E. Carr. _Country Life._ April 1, 1911. Education Best Suited for Boys. R. P. Halleck. Annual Volume N.E.A., 1906. p. 58. The Training of Farmers. Dr. L. H. Bailey. The Century Company. Contains a statistical study of why boys leave the farm. The Best Thing a College does for a Man. President Charles F. Tawing. _Forum_, Volume 18. p. 570. The Care of Freshmen. President W. O. Thompson. Annual Volume N.E.A., 1907. p. 723.