. The consolidated rural school . useof leisure, would misuse it and bring about their own degra-dation. Here is a great truth. The eight-hour day ofwork, the eight hours of sleep, and the eight hours of leisureare, however, rapidly coming. The Saturday half-holidayand various picnic and other days are now here for manycountry people. A life of constant labor defeats the end ofexistence. Happiness and self-realization are as a fine art is out of the question. We are goingto obtain leisure, and the school and the English teacher,especially, must train for this phase of life. The
. The consolidated rural school . useof leisure, would misuse it and bring about their own degra-dation. Here is a great truth. The eight-hour day ofwork, the eight hours of sleep, and the eight hours of leisureare, however, rapidly coming. The Saturday half-holidayand various picnic and other days are now here for manycountry people. A life of constant labor defeats the end ofexistence. Happiness and self-realization are as a fine art is out of the question. We are goingto obtain leisure, and the school and the English teacher,especially, must train for this phase of life. The countyand state travelling, circulating, and school libraries mustbe made to do their share. How can literature be used to promote the harmless en-joyment of leisure ? Undoubtedly a reasonable and health-ful amount of reading of the right kind would, for enjoy-ment alone, be desirable for most persons. This readingwill be of the most varied kind, because of the great naturalvariability among individuals, and because of the many. Reproduced by courtesy of R. E. SlalcyThe library wagon of Washington County, Maryland, stopping at a farmhouse
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