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of conditioning that was unconsciously provided in the schools, and he wrote: “The teacher measures everything in terms of the city. She talks of the city. She returns to the city at the end of the week. In the meantime all the beauty and attractiveness of the country may go unsuggested. Unconsciously to both the teacher and pupil, the minds of the children are turned toward the city. There results a constant migration to the city, bringing about serious social and economic problems. But, from the educational point of view, the serious part of it is the fact that the school training may unfit the child to live in its normal and natural environment. It is often said that the agricultural college trains the youth away from the farm. The fact is,, the mischief is done long before the youth enters college."
Parents of even pre-school children who find only books set in a city environment may sympathize with Bailey's complaint voiced before the turn of this century. In 18%, he set out to change this state of affairs
Bailey used funds from the New York extension appropriation to distribute a series of nature study leaflets to rural schools. His idea was to show teachers and children that the natural environment
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