Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-28
RURAL PUnLIo SCHOOL.
Report by 'he Committee Appointed
by The Educational AssociRtfon.


WAsHISaToN, June 27,-The report
OF the c.mnittee OF tweIve on rural
schools in the United States, sppointed
at the convention OF the National
Educationsi aBsOciation in July, 1895,
has been composed and VIII be SUI.
mitted ut the next annual gathering.
1t 10 one OF the most important dccu-
ments on school education that has
appeared since the promulgstion OF
the report Of the committees OF ten on
eecDDusry education in this country
couple OF yearaa ago.
The repOr, discusses the rural school
problem In the Hsrent aspects or
school maintenance, supervision, cup.
ply of teachers AMI instruction and
discipline.
The report says that for the purpose
OF organization, maintenance, and Of
supervision, nothing should be reCog-
nized as the unit smaller than
| the township or the county. The
unit possible.
All the sub.committees favor the
| consolidation o schools which arc too
small to employ profitably the time OF
one teacher into larger schools, whom
| practicable, In order that better ins,ruc.
lion may BIZ provided than Is nov
| possible.
One Of the greatest hindrances to the
! Improvement Of the rural schools lies
In Its isolation and i,s inability to ;ur-
Dish 10 the pupil that stimuiative
| influence which comes from contact
with others OF his own nge aud
advancement. The committee, there.
| fore, recommends cyllec.ipg Lupils
| from smaller tcaOols iGto larger, and
| paying from the pubic Iunds Tor their
transportation, believing thst IN this
way better teachers can be provided,
more rational methods oil destruction
secured, and at the same time the tx
| pense OF the schools eau be materially
| leeeened. There Is tendency TO Hi
| the rural schOols with unframed, itn.
| mature teachers. The establishment
| of normal training schools, under CON-
peienL Instructors. wltb snort cguissti
| each year OF whICA snail BIS compiete
In Itself, would do much to reInel y
this evil.
The establishment of libraries, the
| presentation OF wOrs OF ech0pl.exten-
siou by lecture aud other means, the
introduction OF sucn stuiies as Will
have Tendency To connect the school
and the home, especially those having
direct bearing upon the every lay lie
OF the community, AMI the necessity OF
| applying the lava oil sanitation to the
construction OF rural school house. :,
demand Immediate attention.
The rural schools are suffering from
the want OF official ana intelligent
| supervision. la every state some
standard OF qualifications, moral and
intellectual, with some amJunt OF
actual experience, should be required
by law from those who aspire to I'LL
the office OF superintendent or super
visor of schools.
Good morals and good manners cou-
stiiute an essential part Of an educs-
tional equipment. The inculcati0u of
patriotism, OF respect for law anu or
der, OF whatever tends to MAKE a good
citizen, 10 VI as much Importance in a
email as a larger school. Regularity,
lunctuality, Obedience, Industry, sell
control, are as necessary in the country
as in the city school. Country school
teachers should call to their aid the
beautiful things in nature.
MSuch important recommendation
are made as to instruction and dit-
cipline, and the evjls OF attempting to
grade rural schools as the city school:
are graded are set cut at length.
An interesting report 10 embodied
urging negro teachers for Negro
SCHOOLS. II says the Instinct OF tue
| educational development OF the negro
must be from Within and by the racs
itseif, and not solely through extrane
Gus agencies; but the intellectual AM
moral Dependence OF the race mus
not be perpeluatec; and the responsi
bility oil tsacning 0is own race iur
nishes In centives anu means Tor rac'
elevation. The conclusion reached II
that the instinct OF race identity rem
ders impossible the realization OF al
IDEAL relation between the whits
teacher and the negro pupil.