Excerpt from Educational School Gardening and Handwork This work on Educational School Gardening is an endeavour to carry into practical school life the spirit of the following extract from Jock of the Bushveld. "Boys is like pups - you got ter help 'em some; but not too much, an' not too soon. They got ter larn themselves. I reckon if a man's never made a mistake he's never had a good lesson. Ef you don't pay for a thing you don't know what it's worth; and mistakes is part o' the price o' knowledge - the other part is work! But mistakes is the part you don't like paying': thet's why you remember it. You save a boy from makin' mistakes, and ef he's got good stuff in him most like you spoil it. He don't know anything properly, 'cause he don't think; and he don't think, 'cause you saved him the trouble an' he never learned how! He don't know the meaning' o' consequences and risks, 'cause you kep' 'em off him! An' bymbye he gets ter believe it's born in him to go right, an' knows everything, an' can't go wrong; an' if things don't pan out in the end he reckons it's jus' bad luck! No! Sirree! Ef he's got to swim you let him know right there that the water's deep an' thar ain't no one to hol' him up, an' ef he don't wade in an' larn, it's goin' ter be his funeral!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.