A RURAL SCHOOL THAT IS EQUIPPED WITH "CITY" CONVENIENCES
A Rural School That Is Equipped With "City" Conveniences HOW a small one-teacher school in the country may have all the conveniences popularly supposed to be the exclusive privilege of the city is...
...Even so late as 1862 a copy of "Canterbury Tales," valued, it is said, at ?500, was used to light the fire in a London church...
...Candidates for rural-school certificates attend it at least once a day and observe her work, and after two years of training in the normal school they receive practice work in the school...
...After the death of Pierese there was found in his apartments a huge chest filled with letters from the most eminent scholars of the time...
...They do not always copy all the details, but the attic arrangement and the sanitary equipment are generally duplicated...
...Why are you so interested...
...The basement contains the heating plant, a combination of hot water and hot air, described as very economical in use...
...In 1802 a servant of Warburton used several dramas of Chapman, Greene, and Massinger to clean shoes and light fires...
...Every morning a transportation wagon brings in 34 country children from a distance of five miles...
...Teachers who have gone out from experience in this model rural school are 500 per cent better teachers," says Mr...
...and a dark room for developing photographs...
...Furthermore, the cost is said to be within the means of a comparatively small community...
...1. The whistling of the hired man...
...a bulb room for the outdoor garden...
...During the French Revolution an exceedingly valuable copy of "The Golden Legend" was used to light a librarian's fire...
...I never miss 'em...
...Jones—Well, once a year I like to look at a bunch of 'em I don't have to dodge.—Judge...
...In the country about Kirksville many similar schools have been built...
...Buildings modeled on the Kirksville school have been erected in Mississippi and Nebraska...
...The Kirksville school is conspicuous for its utilization of every available inch of space...
...Let us have more of these sounds...
...The classroom itself occupies most of the floor...
...But the best indication of the value of such a school is the way its leading features have been copied...
...The stereopticon in the wall of the classroom emphasizes still further the fact that this school is built for general community use as well as for ordinary school purposes...
...The main floor of the building, besides containing the class-room proper, has a small community library, separate from the school library, emphasizing the purpose of the rural school as a community center...
...An expert rural teacher is in charge and the school she conducts is an observation school...
...6. The chug-chug of the gasoline engine...
...Signs of Farmers' Prosperity IN A RECENT ISSUE of Farm and Fireside appears the following statement by a rural carrier, as to what he considers the five indications of a farmer's prosperity...
...No town children are allowed to attend, because it is distinctly a rural school...
...Lost Treasures MANY of the great treasures of the world's literature have totally disappeared...
...Foght...
...while Carlyle's first manuscript of the "French Revolution," which he lent to his friend, John Stuart Mill, to read, was accidentally destroyed by fire while in the batter's possession and Carlyle heroically started the work all over again, although he stated that the second effort was not a patch on the first...
...the fuel room...
...A septic-tank sewer system is maintained at small expense...
...A Rural School That Is Equipped With "City" Conveniences HOW a small one-teacher school in the country may have all the conveniences popularly supposed to be the exclusive privilege of the city is demonstrated in the model rural school at Kirksville, Mo., according to H. W. Foght, specialist in rural education for the United States Bureau of Education...
...Admiring in Safety Smith—Have you taken in the auto show...
...His niece, instead of complying with repeated requests to have them published, used them for fuel, In order to diminish the expense of firewood.—London Nation...
...The collection was of immense literary and historical value...
...Smith—You don't own a car...
...and when all are removed to one side, as many as 200 people can be accommodated, thus making it possible to use the room for community gatherings...
...3. The contented grunting of hogs, 4. The cuckling of hens...
...The desks and seats in it are both adjustable and movable, with individual platforms...
...The pupils are real rural material...
...Every effort has been made to have the model rural school at Kirksville approximate actual rural conditions...
...Although located on the campus at the Kirksville Normal School, it is detached from the other buildings...
...It is only a one-story building, slightly wider than the typical Missouri country school, but the attic and basement are both put to valuable use...
...The machinery of the school plant consists of an ordinary pneumatic pressure tank, operated by a gasoline engine...
...2. The droning hum of the cream-separator...
...Indoor toilets and shower baths, drinking fountains, and a modern heating plant, are shown to be possible in the country school, however remote from the city...
...Jones—Sure...
...The attic is employed for manual training and domestic science, and there is an excellent herbarium...
Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 9
