CORNELL 



IReabino^Course for jfarmere' XlXUfvee 



Published Monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture 

 AT Cornell University from November to March, and Entered at 

 Ithaca as Second-class Matter^under Act of Congress July i6, 1894. 

 L. H. Bailey, Director. 



Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor. 



SERIES VI. 



ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY, 1908 



No. 27. 



A MONTH OF EDUCATION DISCUSSION. 



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IXHACA , /*iE.W YORK 

 CalOPS^V/ALXC, ARCHITECTS. ITMWIA./N.r 



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The Cornell Rural School House. 



The New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University has 

 erected a small rural school house on its grounds, to serve as a suggestion 

 in school house architecture and to contain a rural school as a part of 

 its nature-study department. In response to many inquiries, this leaflet 

 is issued, containing brief description. 



The prevailing rural school house is a building in which pupils sit to 

 study books. It ought to be a room in which pupils do personal work 

 with both hands and mind. The essential feature of this new school 

 house, therefore, is a work-room. This room occupies one-third of the 

 floor space. Perhaps it would be better if it occupied two-thirds of the 

 floor space. If the building is large enough, however, the two kinds of 

 work could change places in this school house. 



It has been the purpose to make the main part of the building about 

 the size of the average rural school house, and then to add the work-room 

 as a wing or projection. Such a room could be added to existing school 



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