The need for teachers is great. One or two years at a normal school earns a graduate the right to teach in a one-room rural public school. Indeed the way of the school teacher is rough and steep and beset with thorns. But among the thorns are the roses, and if we look, we will surely find them. End of WWI spurs need for advanced education.
Schools begin producing secondary education teachers.
1931 Teacher certification laws enacted requiring higher education. We had no running water or electricity. The children would bring potatoes for lunch and we'd bake them on the stove. I played the piano. I was the art teacher.