. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. takesrank as one of the few colleges of the country doing efficientwork along this line, and from this work it is confidentlyexpected that the rural school teachers will be teachers ofgreater ability in the near future, that they will know howto plan the work for the day and for the year, that they willknow how to use their time to the best advantage, that theywill be better prepared and trained, that they will, in short,be better teachers. The importance of the training of teachers cannot beoverestimated and this should be thorough
. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. takesrank as one of the few colleges of the country doing efficientwork along this line, and from this work it is confidentlyexpected that the rural school teachers will be teachers ofgreater ability in the near future, that they will know howto plan the work for the day and for the year, that they willknow how to use their time to the best advantage, that theywill be better prepared and trained, that they will, in short,be better teachers. The importance of the training of teachers cannot beoverestimated and this should be thoroughly impressed uponthe minds of everyone who is looking to the teaching profes-sion as a life work. It is even more important that teachersin the rural schools should be impressed with this fact thanthe teachers of the village or city schools, for the teachersof such systems of school are under the eye of a competentsuperintendent, while the rural teachers in a great majorityof cases in our state are allowed to work without super- 14 Ohio University Bulletin*. Ohio University Bulletin 15 vision or guidance of any kind. In many cases these teach-ers have a great deal of natural ability but fail because theydo not know how to do the work in the school room andthey have no one to show them. Without training andwithout supervision, the rural teacher is more liable to failthan to succeed. The department eslublished at Ohio University is de-signed primarily to help just such teachers and start them ontheir way properly, and to assist those who have alreadystarted but feel the need of training. This school is inmany ways unicjue. A great manv normal colleges haveestablished rural training schools on their campus—thatis, a rural training school in town—but here we have atraining school in the country, where country children arein attendance, country environments are found, and every-thing that goes to make up an ideal rural school. Yet thisschool is in easy reach of the college, bein
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