The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . ing a real farm community school,unless, to be sure, an exceptional teacher happens to bein charge of the school. A state like Illinois has severalthousand schools of the standard type, but only a scoreof the superior kind. If the state can, by degrees,make over the former group of schools into the latter, theoutlook will be bright indeed for its efficient one-teacherschools. Here is the crux! the standard school is an improvedpioneer school and no more, while the superior
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . ing a real farm community school,unless, to be sure, an exceptional teacher happens to bein charge of the school. A state like Illinois has severalthousand schools of the standard type, but only a scoreof the superior kind. If the state can, by degrees,make over the former group of schools into the latter, theoutlook will be bright indeed for its efficient one-teacherschools. Here is the crux! the standard school is an improvedpioneer school and no more, while the superior schoolgoes far enough in redirecting its work to make it fit reason-ably well into community needs. A careful study of theaverage standard school discloses that, notwithstanding itsgeneral improvement over the original type, it is seldom ableto ofifer the larger boys and girls the vital interests that willkeep them in school till the prescribed course is completed. The superior school of the Illinois type makes provisionfor teaching the elements of agriculture, manual training, and i6o THE RURAL TEACHER AND HIS WORK. EXPLANATIOn:- • STANDARD SCHOOL> SUPERIOR SCHOOL Fig. i8. — This map shows graphically how the rural schools are becomingstandardized in Illinois. The crosses indicate the superior schools. THE REDIRECTED ONE-TEACHER SCHOOL i6i household arts. With these are usually coupled otheractivities that help to draw school and home together. Ithas frequently become the social center of the community,and interesting school and home projects get their inspira-tion from the school. Suggested Requirements for a Really Effective StandardOne-teacher School. — A truly effective one-teacher schoolmust be standardized around such educational essentialsas these: (i) a teacher with specialized preparation andwillingness to make rural community teaching his permanentoccupation; (2) a school plant equipped to provide aneducation related to rural life and its needs ; (3) a cours
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