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Rural School Leaflet 



are a necessary and a convenient part of the educational equipment, but 

 if one learns from books alone, his grip on the vital facts of life is not likely 

 to be a sure one. 



TO TEACHERS IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS 

 George A. Works 

 Do not start the year with the impression that because you are in a 

 district school you can make no contribution to school progress. What 

 this year is to mean to the boys and girls of this State depends more on you 

 than on any other group of persons. Neither trustees nor district super- 

 intendents are in position to exert so great an influence on the school life 

 of the children as you are. To-day much is being said and written about 

 the improvement of the school in rural communities, but eventually it all 

 comes back to you. You are face to face wdth its problems every day. 

 What we most need to-day are not men and women in universities, colleges, 

 and normal schools, telling what should be done to redirect the rural 

 schools, but teachers in these schools demonstrating what really can be 

 done to secure effective teaching of country life subjects. You have some 

 opportunity, no one can tell you what it is, to render your pupils and 

 progress a service. Find it, live up to it, and later help your fellow teachers 

 to grow as you have grown. This does not mean that daily you are to go 

 to yonr work weighed down with a load of responsibility, but rather that 

 you are to go with enthusiasm and spirit because of the opportimity that 

 is at hand. 



The rural school presents many opportunities 



