| Show uplifting the rural school the rural who school u is being jerked into the sublimated atmosphere of the tender uplift the object is to do away with the little red schoolhouses that litter most of the country districts not necessarily in this vicinity but in a good many any other vicinities the eruption in favor of super education proceeds from naoh ington and is personally conducted by dr P P claxton CJ axton commissioner of education according to the doctor most of the country schools in the country are still many laps behind the city schools and in the these particulars funds length of terms equipment buildings buil dines administration end and supervision courses of study teaching efficiency and salaries paid and then he springs this belt buster an ambitions people will go where education can be had bad for their children there el la no a sense selin in talking of the charms of country life and the independence and dig anity of producing from the wll soil if the school at command la is no more modern than a wooden plow 11 even so brother claxton the country kids who escape to the city see seem to get along most of the big men and women in the big cities came from the country the trouble with mr Clax tons re reasoning amil is a that he thinks education in the rural sections cornea comes ex clu lu from the schoolhouse it the average kid in the country receives a better belter education in some particulars than the average 1 city I ty kid and this education con atts of an appreciation of some of the verities verifies veri ties of life that city children by their surroundings and environments ments are apt never to experience not only that but there are lota late of t things with which a caa kid becomes familiar familar that has a tendency to un on derm dermine ne the efficient education of of the cities there is a a lot of stand up and knot knock it down power behind the inept out of joint education acquired in the pow country that could be supplied to the all powerful and invin invincible ciple school plants in the cities only part of a kids education is receivable in the schools |
