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 . They must seestanding at the end of the undrained stretch of mire the littleungraded, inefficient country school, but standing at the endof the smooth serviceable highway the country school of thefuture, graded, consolidated, pleasant to look upon, andthoroughly efficient—a farm school of the new day, capableof answering all the requirements laid upon it. Roads of the Future. This new life means new demandsupon the roads of the future. It means
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 . They must seestanding at the end of the undrained stretch of mire the littleungraded, inefficient country school, but standing at the endof the smooth serviceable highway the country school of thefuture, graded, consolidated, pleasant to look upon, andthoroughly efficient—a farm school of the new day, capableof answering all the requirements laid upon it. Roads of the Future. This new life means new demandsupon the roads of the future. It means in the first place a 132 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL road which will be serviceable at all times and in all seasons,and for this there is but one solution—hard surfaced , they will be expensive, but they must come. The new-road must be beautiful, also, with green sward and statelytrees, for beauty ministers to as real a need as utility. To thesequalities of serviceableness and beauty the road of the futuremust add permanence. It must meet all the requirements nowbeing placed upon it. It must especially be beyond the rav-. The Road of the Future Macadamized, and serviceable at all seasons of the year ages of the automobile, for the automobile is here to stay andto become the general servant of all the people. The farmer,who but yesterday stood by the side of the road holding, hishorses heads and heaping vengeance upon the motorist, ridestoday in an automobile himself and enjoys its convenience asmuch as others. Presently he will send his children in oneover thoroughly serviceable roads to the farm school of thefuture. Then will the new country life be full upon us. CHAPTER VII THE COUNTRY SCHOOL AS AN AGENCY IN THESOLUTION OF THE FARM PROBLEM^ Function of the Country School Defined. Some of thepossibilities of the farm home, the country church, the Grange,the farmers institute, and of roads, as agencies for countryHfe progress, have been set forth in prece
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