Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . Country Training School of the Western Illinois State Normal School—Before Improvement 268 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL haps the fullest development of the country training schoolidea thus far worked out. The guiding motive throughout the undertaking was thatof actual possibility. To insure this practicability three pre-cautions were taken. The school selected was a typical countryschool, with the natural environment and all the difficul
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . Country Training School of the Western Illinois State Normal School—Before Improvement 268 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL haps the fullest development of the country training schoolidea thus far worked out. The guiding motive throughout the undertaking was thatof actual possibility. To insure this practicability three pre-cautions were taken. The school selected was a typical countryschool, with the natural environment and all the difficultiesof the ordinary country school; the teacher was a real coun-try teacher, transferred from another country school of thestate; and the normal school gave no financial support to theundertaking, except to pay the salary of the teacher. Con-cisely summarized, the purposes underlying the establishmentof the Country Training School at Macomb may be statedthus: 1. To remake a typically needy school as a demonstrationof possibility. 2. To show how a country school may be made a socialcenter for its community, and an energizing force for countryli
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