Words from the Wise
Castleford FFA Advisor Dan Billington shares how agricultural education strengthens a community At the last professional development seminar that my school district held, we began by introducing ourselves. We explained what we taught and the reason we chose to teach this one certain area. I told the instructor that I chose to become an agricultural educator because I felt that it is important for students to have an understanding of where their food came from and to take pride in any piece of work that they produce, whether it is in a fabrication course or in floral design. I grew up on my family’s beef cattle ranch in southern Idaho. At an early age I was able to see firsthand that nothing would be handed to you and that the more you worked the more that you were able to reap. I still find it very rewarding today when I have a shy naïve 8th grade student and wants nothing to do with what...