. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1256 Rural School Leaflet a good well, plenty of hay and fodder, and a little repair shop connected with the barn, where boys might learn something of the trades that are necessary for a farmer to learn. Inside the school there should be, in addition to the assembly room, a kitchen, dining-room, and bedroom, where the children might learn to cook th
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1256 Rural School Leaflet a good well, plenty of hay and fodder, and a little repair shop connected with the barn, where boys might learn something of the trades that are necessary for a farmer to learn. Inside the school there should be, in addition to the assembly room, a kitchen, dining-room, and bedroom, where the children might learn to cook their own dinners, wash dishes, set the table, make the beds, and take care of the home. In such a school as I have in mind, also, the teaching of the book should connect it directly with the interests and problems of the locality. If the school is in a community in which dairying is prominent, there should be a vital con- nection between dairying and what is done in the schoolroom; if in a crop-raising, coal-mining, cotton-raising, manufacturing, or potato-. The rural school building on the Cornell University campus producing community, the same kind of connection should be brought about between the schoolroom and the ; At the beginning of the school year it is always well for a teacher to have in mind some specific improvements to be made before its close, and to keep a record of each when it is made. This will give opportunity at the end of the year for a survey of the work accomplished. Such a record will be of value in succeeding years. Perhaps the following suggestions, many of which have come from rural teachers, will be help- ful in planning future work: In every rural district there should be at least two meetings of parents each year, at which times the teacher may present her plans for the pro- gress of the school and ask for the cooperation that will be needed in order to work them out. Perhaps the most important subject for discussion is the improvemen
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