. The American rural school : its characteristics, its future and its problems. her will go even farther than this and spendsome of his hard-earned money in trips to the annual stateand state district meetings. It is money well invested andresults in better teaching, and to the teacher, in betterprofessional ranking. The county and local meetings may be made a sourceof enthusiasm and inspiration to the teacher. New meth-ods are considered, local difficulties are discussed, and pro-fessional spirit is aroused or permanently strengthened. No teacher can continue as a truly successful teacher who


. The American rural school : its characteristics, its future and its problems. her will go even farther than this and spendsome of his hard-earned money in trips to the annual stateand state district meetings. It is money well invested andresults in better teaching, and to the teacher, in betterprofessional ranking. The county and local meetings may be made a sourceof enthusiasm and inspiration to the teacher. New meth-ods are considered, local difficulties are discussed, and pro-fessional spirit is aroused or permanently strengthened. No teacher can continue as a truly successful teacher whoneglects to keep up his professional reading. It is just asunreasonable for a teacher to expect this as it would be fora physician or a lawyer to hope to keep abreast of hisprofession without following carefully the latest periodi-cal output in his respective profession. Let every ruralteacher, therefore, read several teachers journals of stateand national repute. Reading Circles. — Then there is the teachers readingcircle. And for many rural teachers this is the only pro-. Interior of Country Training School, Western Illinois State Normal School,at Macomb.


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