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Rural School Leaflet 



GENERAL EXHIBIT FOR FARMERS* WEEK, FEBRUARY, 1916 



The Editors 



WTiat is the purpose of the exhibition of school and home work in agri- 

 culture and nature study at Cornell during Farmers' Week? At this 

 time a brief statement of the chief reasons for holding this exhibition are 

 given in the belief that, with realization of its purpose, rural teachers will 



give the enterprise their earnest 

 support. 



Country life teaching is com- 

 ]jaratively new in the rural 

 schools of the vState. If this 

 work, recognized now by aU 

 educators as essential in the 

 training of boys and girls in 

 the country-, is to receive the 

 necessary attention that will 

 promote its success, yotmg and 

 old in country districts must 

 recognize its dignity and im- 

 ])ortancc as a part of educa- 

 tion. When farm and home 

 projects under school direction 

 are considered important for 

 presentation at all gatherings 

 of rural folk, such as fairs, 

 grange meetings, farmers' 

 meetings, county teachers' 

 associations, and the like, the 

 persons who have not under- 

 stood this new educational 

 movement will be helped to 

 see its importance. A school 

 exhibition provides one means 

 for concrete teaching, and 



Fart of the general exhibit of school work. Farmers' 

 Week, February, iQij. Tree mounts in fore- 

 ground, poultry feather mounts in background 



great interest has been shown in the one held at Cornell during Farmers' 

 Week. At this time the College of Agriculture is visited by rural superin- 

 tendents, grangers, trustees and teachers of rural schools, a number of 

 philanthropic workers in rural districts, and many country boys and girls; 

 all of these persons take back to the country districts new knowledge of 

 this educational work that is to teach children in terms of their en\'i- 

 ronment, and to more closely unite school and home interests. 



Another reason for considering the exhibit at Cornell important is the 



