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Title: New Ideals in Rural Schools

Author: George Herbert Betts

Release Date: April 24, 2007 [EBook #21213]

Language: English

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Riverside Educational Monographs

EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALLO

PROFESSOR OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

NEW IDEALS IN RURAL SCHOOLS

BY

GEORGE HERBERT BETTS, PH. D.

PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
CORNELL COLLEGE, IOWA

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COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY GEORGE HERBERT BETTS

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CONTENTS

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION v

PREFACE ix

I. THE RURAL SCHOOL AND ITS PROBLEM 1

II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE RURAL SCHOOL 25

III. THE CURRICULUM OF THE RURAL SCHOOL 57

IV. THE TEACHING OF THE RURAL SCHOOL 92

OUTLINE 121

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

In presenting a second monograph on the rural school problem in this
series we register our sense of the importance of rural education. Too
long have the rural schools suffered from neglect. Both the local
communities and the State have overlooked the needs of the rural school
system. At the present hour there is an earnest awakening of interest in
rural life and its institutions. Already there is a small but certain
movement of people toward the country and the vocation of agriculture. A
period of agricultural prosperity, the reaction of men and women against
the artificialities of city life, the development of farming through the
application of science, and numerous other factors have made country
life more congenial and hav