i:^66 Rural School Leaflet 



THE RURAL SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY 



The program needed to unite rural school and 

 farm community is then, first, to enrich the course 

 of study by adding nature-study and agriculture, 

 and about these coordinating the conventional 

 school subjects; second, to encourage the cooper- 

 ation of the pupils, especially for the improvement 

 of the school and its surroundings; third, to bring 

 together for discussion and acquaintance the 

 teachers and the patrons of the school ; fourth, so 

 far as possible to make the schoolhouse a meet- 

 ing-place for the community, for young people 

 as well as for older people, where music, art, 

 social culture, literature, study of farming and, in 

 fact, anything that has to do with rural education, 

 may be fostered ; and fifth, to expect the teacher 

 to have a knowledge of the industrial and gen- 

 eral social conditions of agriculture, especially 

 those of the community in which her lot is cast. 

 Chapters in Rural Progress 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield 



