ODE TO THE SAVANNAH 



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"YOU FRET THE MARGINS OF THE ENDURING SHORE 

 INTO NEW PATTERNS OF FAIR TRACERY." 



The Ideal Rural Teacher. 

 The teacher in the past, often city- 

 bred and educated, has made the yreat 

 mistake of bringing the curriculum of 

 the city schools to the country. The 

 children have unconsciously been 

 taught a contempt for country life, 

 and have gradually grown away from 

 the soil. The twentieth-century teacher 

 sent to rural schools will represent a 

 vastly different type from her prede- 

 cessor. She will teach the children 

 how to live in their rural surround- 

 ings with enjoyment as well as profit. 

 She will literally bring the farm into 

 the school. It will be the nucleus 



about which all nature studies will 

 revolve. She will not strive to 

 bring the artificial interest of the city 

 to these country children, but she will 

 develop healthful interests right in 

 their midst. — Suburban Life. 



No advance in real knowledge has 

 come from guessing, or dreaming. 1 >r 

 speculating, unless guesses or specula- 

 tions have been based on previous ex- 

 perience, and unless evidence in each 

 case is amenable to the test of action, 

 and have been submitted to it. — David 

 Starr Jordan in "The Stabilitv of 

 Truth.''' 



