ool Curriculum=

1. The modern demand for a broader education 57

2. The meagerness of the rural school curriculum 58

3. The rural child requires full elementary and high
school course 60

4. Disadvantages of sending rural child to town school 60

5. Necessary reorganization in rural school offering
broadened curriculum 62

6. General nature of the new curriculum 62

=The Rural Elementary School Curriculum=

1. Relation of the curriculum to social standards
and ideals 64

2. The mother tongue 65

_a._ Necessity for its mastery 65

_b._ Learning the mechanics of the language 66

_c._ Developing the art of expression, oral and
written 67

_d._ Creation of love for reading 67

_e._ Formal grammar out of place in the elementary
school 68

3. Number 69

_a._ The prominent place occupied by arithmetic 69

_b._ Importance of development of the number concept 69

_c._ An undue proportion of time devoted to arithmetic 70

_d._ Desirable changes in the teaching of arithmetic 71

4. History and civics 71

_a._ The right and duty of every person to know
the history and government of his country 72

_b._ History not to deal chiefly with war and
politics, but to emphasize the social and industrial side 72

_c._ The library of historical books 73

_d._ Functional versus analytical civics 73

5. Geography and nature study 74

_a._ Advantage of the rural school in this field 74

_b._ The social basis of geography 75

_c._ Application of geography and nature study
to the farm 75

6. Hygiene and health 76

_a._ Criticis