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Article 43. Similarly, it is my opinion that

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Article A3 is one of the most satisfying definitions of

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education which I have ever read in more than thirty

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years of experience in the teaching profession. Although

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many people will read it hurriedly and say, what does it

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mean, there is, in my opinion, no better definition of

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education than the first sentence of Article 43. I

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strongly urge its retention without change.

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Now, my good friend, Mr. Burgess was talking

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about agriculture and I seemed to sense that maybe he

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thought that ought to be pulled out. Agriculture is not

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mentioned here in terms of a "specific subject, other than

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that we educate for agriculture, and I urge you to give

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consideration to that, because it is a beautiful state-

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ment and I think there is just as much reason for having

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agriculture there as there is science and all the other

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statements that have been made. So far as I am concerned

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I would hope you would not change it.

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I hold strongly for the traditions and heri-

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tage which have come down to us from our forefathers and

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believe that such statements, as Articles 36 and 43,