Excerpt from The Story of Rural School Consolidation in Indiana
No State in the American union has remained more continuously in the educational spotlight than Indiana.
The elements of this continuity have been both practical and romantic, but unquestionably the state"s crowning educational achievement has been the movement to divorce Mud from Mathematics - to lift the rural school child from a mud-lathered highway into a comfortable conveyance and transport him to a modern, sanitary school house wherein he could have his mind on 7 x 1 = 7, instead of on the mud that made his boots a burden.
Indiana has been almost theatrical in her educational progress. In 1916 the Hoosier commonwealth will be one hundred years old. Within that century the state has marched from the tents of plebeianism into proud recognition as a center of learning. Posey county, now one of the strongest intellectual units in all Hoosierdom, once had a comedy rating as the illiteracy.
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