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principal OF the school is a teacher of
griculture,
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Now. as the ordinary teacher doesn't
know much about that science, it is
necessary, first, to teach the teacher.
So the demonstration farm agent is
called into willing cooperation. and
the state school of agriculture helps.
club, and each has his club acre at
home and his plot in the school demon
stration farm. Each girl joins the can
ming club or the chicken club, and in
this way home life and school life are
intimately related, and 1t is demon
strated daily that an education has as
much to do with growing corn or SELL
/ ing eggs as 1t has to do with grammar
or the rule of three. And at the same
time this principal takes charge of the
more bookish studies of the advanced
pupils.
The second teacher, a woman, has
charge of the canning clubs and the
poultry clubs, of the instruction in do
nestle science, and, together with the
principal, teaches her charges not only
how to can tomatoes. but how to
sell them; not only how to grow
chickens but how to market eggs.
The other teacher, also woman, has
charge of the younger children, and
will attempt as rapidly may be to
give her little ones the Introduction to
true education that comes from re-
lating activities to the business Of
learning-her feet being guided by the
lamp lighted at Rock Hill.
Eventually this school would grow
until 1t would become a county center.
The principal of this school would su-
pervise the two-room and one-room
schools throughout the county and
would unity the spirit, and, therefore,
oppose the diffusion of effort that has
brought the present system of rural
schools to grief
This will lead, it is the lively hope
of those who are determined to bring
the rural
Central School schools in
May Be Hub of 0thers.up to the
highest possible efficiency, to the es-
tablishment in every county Of an
which would itself train the older
pupils from all sections of the county
and at the same time supervise and
direct all the minor schools.
1t may seem long way off, but
plans are already made for such a
school. 1t will have, according to the
present outline, no less than eight
teachers. and would demand an equip
ment OF no less than eight buildings.
The principal would be a teacher of
plant life-for agriculture is the basis
of all rural life Farming, forestry,
fruit culture and gardening would be
in his province. One associate would
teach animal 1ife-live stock, dairying,
poultry, insects. bee culture, etc.
Another would teach human life-phys-
iology, hygiene. sanitation, nutrition
and food values, and psychology.
Another would teach human industry.
beginning with drawing and handwork
in the carpenter shop and working up
through the metals to farm manufac-
lures. thence naturally to industrial
and social history of the world in gen.
eral and of Europe and America In
particular.
One associate would devote her ener-
gies to instruction in the household
arts, drawing. sewing, weaving. bas-
kerry and music. The teacher of chem
istry would give instruction in mathe-
MATES. in physics and in cooking. The
teacher of language would teach the
use of speech and letters in such
way as to make Of every pupil
book lover. And. of course, there
would be the children's teacher who
would give the little ones a natural
and normal introduction to this prac-
tical system of education. 1t is on
her work, as demonstrated at Rock
Hill. that the whole superstructure is
reared.
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the children's house. and 1t would be
model home, +!
Children's House it's rooms devot-