The New Education [he writes] will include training and experience
in domestic science, cookery and home-making; agriculture and
horticulture; pure and applied science, and mechanical and
commercial activities with actual production, distribution and
exchange of commodities. Such training for three to six millions
of both sexes from the age of twelve to twenty-one years will
require land, tools, buildings of various types, machinery,
factory sites by rail and water, timber, water and power sources.

As all civilization is built upon the back of labor, and as
all culture and leisure rests upon labor, and is not possible
otherwise, so all cultural and liberal education, as generally
understood, shall be sequent to the productive and vocational. The
higher intellectual education should grow out of and be earned by
productive vocational training.

Hence our schools should be surrounded by lands of the best
quality obtainable, plots of 10, 50, 100 and more acres. These
lands should be the scene of labor that would be actually
productive and not mere play.... In such a school the moral
elements of labor should be primary, viz.: joy to the producer,
through industry and art; perfect honesty in quality of material
and character of workmanship; social coöperation, mutualism, and
fellowship among the workers or students; and last, but not least,
justice--that is, the full product of labor being secured to the
producer.

He plans to make the schools largely self-supporting, partly through
land endowments easier to obtain under the system of taxation of land
values that is possibly near at hand in the Golden State, for which