The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . he small school is fullof possibilities for community organization if properlydirected. Her great achievement as a leader has been in her abilityto quicken the community spirit in a district where peoplewere unused to work together — where, indeed, they mostlypulled apart. From a precarious beginning the feeling ofkinship, of friendly cooperation, of general helpfulness, hasgrown until young and old alike vie with each other to seewho can do the most for the Porter communit
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . he small school is fullof possibilities for community organization if properlydirected. Her great achievement as a leader has been in her abilityto quicken the community spirit in a district where peoplewere unused to work together — where, indeed, they mostlypulled apart. From a precarious beginning the feeling ofkinship, of friendly cooperation, of general helpfulness, hasgrown until young and old alike vie with each other to seewho can do the most for the Porter community. The workhas grown to include, besides the regular school activities,a vacation school, agricultural short courses in cooperationwith the state college of agriculture, cadet work for trainingin rural leadership, and the maintenance of social and 154 THE RURAL TEACHER AND HIS WORK economic clubs, musical organizations, nature study clubs,etc., for the young people as well as for their parents. Evolution of the School. — It is well to reiterate that themany things in the school that appeal to the casual observer. Fig. i6. — Grounds of the Porter School. The orchard and experimentfarm lie at the background. are effect rather than cause in this enterprise. Once thespirit of the community was awakened, the rest became first step was to rebuild the school plant, which wasdone wholly through voluntary effort. A person who givesup his time or substance in a project of this kind, who hauls THE REDIRECTED ONE-TEACHER SCHOOL 155 sand and cement, who excavates the basement, who paintsthe schoolhouse, who constructs the fence, as was done atthe Porter School, will have a vital interest in the school. To-day the one-time ramshackle school stands recon-structed. In the new-cemented basement is a fine hot air PORTER SCHOOL DEMONSTRATION FARM. /ManureF. 1. < LimeBonefManure \jE jLime R3. No Not Inoculated J 2 3 4 W- ? F A -,N q
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