. School buildings, school grounds, and their improvement. Kansas, 1911. tructed, heated and ventilatedaccording to approved methods, and a healthy public sentiment in a ruralschool district, and the best city school cannot furnish more wholesomeand stimulating environment for the education of the children of ourcities, than our rural schools favored by such conditions do for the chil-dren in country districts. The schoolroom could and should be made to serve the same purposein training the mind to a perception of beauty in domestic arrangementsthat the personal example of the teacher should e
. School buildings, school grounds, and their improvement. Kansas, 1911. tructed, heated and ventilatedaccording to approved methods, and a healthy public sentiment in a ruralschool district, and the best city school cannot furnish more wholesomeand stimulating environment for the education of the children of ourcities, than our rural schools favored by such conditions do for the chil-dren in country districts. The schoolroom could and should be made to serve the same purposein training the mind to a perception of beauty in domestic arrangementsthat the personal example of the teacher should exercise in the matter ofdress. Children as well as older people are affected by their environments,and nowhere is this more clearly shown than in the schoolroom. Thesilent beauty radiating from the harmoniously tinted walls and ceilings,from beautiful decorations consisting of pictures, casts and plants,quickens and purifies the taste. Such beauty of surroundings has a subtle,silent, ethical influence which is not so much seen as felt. School Buildings and Grounds. 29. A PIONEER SOD SCHOOLHOUSE. This type of schoolhouse is now practically extinct in Kansas, although ten years agoit was not uncommon in some of the western portions of the state.
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