“A truly-rural rural school,” said Jim.
“I can’t pronounce it,” smiled Jennie, “to say nothing of understanding it. What would your tralalooral rural school do?”
“It would be correlated with rural life,” said Jim.
“How?”
“It would get education out of the things the farmers and farmers’ wives are interested in as a part of their lives.”
“What, for instance?”
“Dairying, for instance, in this district; and soil management; and corn-growing; and farm manual training for boys; and sewing, cooking and housekeeping for the girls—and caring for babies!”
Jennie looked serious, after smothering a laugh.
“Jim,” said she, “you’re going to have a hard enough time to succeed in the Woodruff school, if you confine yourself to methods that have been tested, and found good.”
“But the old methods,” urged Jim, “have been tested and found bad. Shall I keep to them?”