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other localities that may most need them; and 

 they are one step further removed from the 

 people. So far as they tend to vitalize, by 

 their example, the whole native school system, 

 in so far will their effectiveness be beyond dis- 

 pute ; and this of itself will be worth all they 

 cost. They will be pioneers. The real and 

 lasting progress, however, is to be made 

 by those localities that first completely redi- 

 rect the existing schools in the interest of all 

 the people. 



The redirecting of the rural school. 



Having now considered some of the new 

 external influences that are likely to modify 

 the common schools, I may explain what I 

 mean by the redirection of the schools them- 

 selves. All effective education should (i) 

 develop out of experience ; (2) this experience 

 should have relation to vocation or to the 

 pupil's part in life; and (3) every school 

 should be the natural expression of its com- 

 munity. If these statements are accepted, then 

 it will be seen that the mere addition of a sub- 



