Excerpt from The American Rural School: Its Characteristics, Its Future, and Its Problems
This book is intended for rural school teachers, superintendents, and schoolboard members; for teachers" reading circles, normal school training classes, and all the public at large who arc interested in the profound movement to make our American rural life richer and its labor more effective by means of schools adapted to the changing needs of rural society and the demands of modern life.
So far as the public school is concerned the term movement is here used advisedly. It is not used in the destructive sense. It does not seek out a new base for school conduct, nor does it run counter to established laws of life and growth. On the contrary, it is constructive in its use. It aims at fundamental harmony by facing the rural school away from the many artificial interests which have hampered the usefulness of this institution in the past. Indeed, the new movement strives to place the school where the school inherently belongs - in the midst of natural interests where it can prepare the youth for sane, wholesome lives on the farm - the only normal American life of our day.
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