Chapter VI
Reading edition
Education for Country Life
How Efficient Rural Citizenship Is Developed
I.Weaknesses in Rural Education
The urbanized country school.
Inferior school equipment and meager support.
Weakness of the district system.
Other problems of the country school.
II.Modern Plans for School Improvement
Arguments for and against consolidation.
Advantages of purely rural centralization.
A thoroughly modern country school.
A rural high school course of study.
Elementary agriculture and school gardens.
III.Allies of the School in Rural Education
School Improvement Leagues.
Rural libraries and literature.
Farmers’ institutes and government cooperation.
Agricultural colleges and their extension work.