Peasants throughout the world have demonstrated their capacity to become master farmers—managers capable of planning, organizing, supervising, and overcoming the variety of challenges inherent in farm work and rural living—even though many development workers continue to look upon them as passive objects in technical assistance programs. Agricultural training is not a matter of selecting one method of training over another, but rather of developing an approach that integrates a variety of complementary educational techniques. A real problem in Greek agricultural development has been the shortage of agricultural sergeants: those who link the peasant and the agriculturist and who are trained and equipped to deal with the practical aspects of daily farming. The agricultural knowledge of the peasants was restricted to village practices. Rural schools taught little or nothing about modern agriculture or village development. Essential to the progress of rural development is an educational system based on indigenous needs rather than a system transplanted from an alien culture.