Authors

Alan W. Black

Publication Date

3-1973

Comments

Digitised in 2025 from a print copy held by the ACER library.

Quarterly Review of Australian Education Vol 6 No 1 1973

Abstract

'That part of the holding of a farmer or landowner which pays best for cultivation is the small estate within the ring-fence of his skull.'1 These words were written by Charles Dickens in an article concerning the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, to which he sent his own son as a student. That college had been opened in 1846 and it subsequently served as one of the main models on which the early Australian agricultural colleges were fashioned. The other main model was that of the American agricultural colleges, which, at least in the early years of their existence, differed from Cirencester in that they included a component of manual farm work in their curricula.

Place of Publication

Melbourne, Victoria

Publisher

Australian Council for Educational Research

ISBN

0855630949

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