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Show 1 Yoang- People From Farms Enter Normal Schools. Apr roduia'ely half of the popula-:'on popula-:'on of Uie United States U rural, j v'hat per c ut of the public sell o-1 eaehers cr.nie tram rural couimun-: ities? Parents engaged in agriculture i I'urnished 65 per cent of all the 3tu-j (".ents in the five Missouri teacheis colleges according to a study made a decade ago. More recent surveys bowed that 4 0 per cent of the students stu-dents an the Louisiana State Normal College and 33 per cent of those in ihe four Michigan normal schools 'me from the farm. The average I was 2 0 per cent Drom ' farm.s for a umber of normal schools and teaoh-'.3 teaoh-'.3 colleges in the States of Colorado California, Massachusetts, Pennsyl-nnia, Pennsyl-nnia, and Connecticut. These fig-ires fig-ires do not, of course, include the o.newhat larger pe.r cent of students ho come from communities o I -nan 2,500 inhabitants. The above late indicate that rural sections are loyally sending teacher preparing in Jtitutioms (iheir proportion of recruits i Ho-.v many of tfhe rinadiuates of he hove institutions eniter sohool-i in '.irming cnmmunities? A study iido in 1 920 showed that but 6 per ent of the graduates in 17 represent-itiv0 represent-itiv0 normal schools entered irnr.l 'chools. In one State, however, 57 er -ent of the 305 graduates Inst ear entered one and two teacher rural schools. A report of the oa.r- negie Foundation for the Advancc-g Advancc-g ment of Teachin'?, stages, "rural 3 .nhcol teiching actually demands a J higher gfa.de of teaching efficiency , than any other'' t ranch of public I school will ,be found when young J people see -tine opportunities in the I ' rueal field and legislators make it' ij. ea.iiblc and wo.tth while for trained jvrmn.5 people to render their services l where mo-1 needed. |