CHAPTER VI
Education for Country Life
| How Efficient Rural Citizenship Is Developed | |
| I. | Weaknesses in Rural Education |
| The urbanized country school. | |
| Inferior school equipment and meager support. | |
| Weakness of the district system. | |
| Other problems of the country school. | |
| II. | Modern Plans for School Improvement |
| Arguments for and against consolidation. | |
| Advantages of purely rural centralization. | |
| A thoroughly modern country school. | |
| A rural high school course of study. | |
| Elementary agriculture and school gardens. | |
| III. | Allies of the School in Rural Education |
| School Improvement Leagues. | |
| Rural libraries and literature. | |
| Farmers’ institutes and government cooperation. | |
| Agricultural colleges and their extension work. | |
CHAPTER VI
EDUCATION FOR COUNTRY LIFE
HOW EFFICIENT RURAL CITIZENSHIP IS DEVELOPED
I. Weaknesses in Rural Education.