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 . lubs, parent conferences,and community meetings areusually all unknown. Who caresto go to a dingy, dilapidated build-ing to spend an afternoon or eve-ning? And how much redirectedteaching is likely to be done by ateacher who is compelled to hearfrom twenty to twenty-five recita-tions in one day? Still anotherdefect of the one-teacher systemlies in the fact that though teach-ing, like all other professions, isnow characterized by the highestspec
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 . lubs, parent conferences,and community meetings areusually all unknown. Who caresto go to a dingy, dilapidated build-ing to spend an afternoon or eve-ning? And how much redirectedteaching is likely to be done by ateacher who is compelled to hearfrom twenty to twenty-five recita-tions in one day? Still anotherdefect of the one-teacher systemlies in the fact that though teach-ing, like all other professions, isnow characterized by the highestspecialization, one teacher is ex-pected to handle equally well allages of children from six to twenty. These several defects are serious and numerousenough, it would seem, to condemn any educational Country School System of the Future. The coun-try school system of the future must remedy the weaknessesof the existing system just emphasized. This means, briefly,that it must be a system typical of our present complex sociallife. In other words, it must be a several-teacher or gradedsystem, which will make possible a division of labor among. An Expensive Estab-lishment Teacher and pupils. Cost percapita $125 a year 146 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL teachers, permitting some degree of specialization, and there-fore better professional service. By referring to the country school system of the future asa graded system it is not meant that it shall be a rigid, over-organized machine, imitating the errors of large city inefficiency is to be preferred to this. The end desiredis a division of labor among teachers, not overdone gradingand the copying of urban models. But the one does not neces-sarily imply the other. And this the country school systemof the future, as here conceived, will clearly verify. To procure such a system, it is only necessary for farmersto adjust themselves to their environment, eliminate distanceby transportation, gather their childr
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