es; Full life or
a full purse; Organization; The inseparables.

CHAPTER XI. RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISION 127

Important; Supervision standardizes; Supervision can be overdone;
Needed in rural schools; No supervision in some states; Nominal
supervision; Some supervision; An impossible task; The problem not
tackled; City supervision; The purpose of supervision; What is
needed; The term; Assistants; The schools examined; Keep down red
tape; Help the social centers; Conclusion.

CHAPTER XII. LEADERSHIP AND COOPERATION 139

The real leader; Teaching _vs._ telling; Enlisting the cooperation
of pupils; Placing responsibility; How people remain children; On
the farm; Renters; The owner; The teacher as a leader;
Self-activity and self-government; Taking laws upon one's self; An
educational column; All along the educational line.

CHAPTER XIII. THE FARMER AND HIS HOME 152

Farming in the past; Old conceit and prejudice; Leveling down;
Premises indicative; Conveniences by labor-saving devices; Eggs in
several baskets; The best is the cheapest; Good work; Good seed and
trees; A good caretaker; Family cooperation; An ideal life.

CHAPTER XIV. THE RURAL RENAISSANCE 160

Darkest before the dawn; The awakening; The agricultural colleges;
Conventions; Other awakening agencies; The farmer in politics; The
National Commission; Mixed farming; Now before the country;
Educational extension; Library extension work; Some froth; Thought
and attitude.

CHAPTER XV. A GOOD PLACE AFTER ALL 169

Not pessimistic; Fewer hours of labor than formerly; The mental
factor growing; The bright side of old-time country life; The
larger environment; Games; Inventiveness in rural life; Activity
rather than passivity; Child labor; The finest life on earth.

RURAL LIFE AND THE RURAL SCHOOL

CHAPTER I

RURAL LIFE

It is only within the past decade that rural life and the rural school
have been recognized as genuine problems for the consideration of the
American people. Not many years ago, a president of the United States,
acting upon his own initiative, appointed a Rural School Commission to
investigate country life and to suggest a solution for some of its
problems. That Commission itself and