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 . building which, at least, can be what few countryschools are now—clean, well-lighted, well-heated, and properlyventilated. A school of this kind, moreover, owing to itssize, dignity, and attractiveness, can exert a social influenceimpossible to the little one-room school set off by itself incomparative isolation. The consolidated school may becomean influential neighborhood center for lectures, talks, concerts,literary programs, and similar gat
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 . building which, at least, can be what few countryschools are now—clean, well-lighted, well-heated, and properlyventilated. A school of this kind, moreover, owing to itssize, dignity, and attractiveness, can exert a social influenceimpossible to the little one-room school set off by itself incomparative isolation. The consolidated school may becomean influential neighborhood center for lectures, talks, concerts,literary programs, and similar gatherings. The nature of thesystem also provides the one-in-a-class child companionableassociates, increases the general interest and enthusiasm of THE COUNTRY SCHOOL AS AN AGENCY 147 the school through increased numbers, and through the min-gHng of the children, soon overcomes the social bans andbarriers of the small neighborhood, in the broader interestsof the larger community. Educationally, the graded system makes possible for thechildren of farmers all the advantages now enjoyed by themost favored city children. No other method of providing. School Float, Harlem Consolidated School The consolidated school can exert a social influence impossible to the little one-room school the country boy and girl equal opportunity has ever beendevised. Three or four teachers doing, the work formerlyattempted by one can naturally do greater justice both tothemselves and to the children under their charge. Redirected 148 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL teaching and a vitalized course of study can then become areahty. This, and the ultimate fulfilment of such a coursethrough a good high school, makes the graded or consolidatedsystem the only adequate solution of the country schoolproblem. Consolidation the Fundamental Need of Country country school, let it be repeated, is the most direct andimmediate point of attack upon the unfavorable conditions ofcountry life. Increasing
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