Successful teaching in rural schools by Pittman Marvin Summers 1882-

Author:Pittman, Marvin Summers, 1882- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Rural schools
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE

here fifty years ago. Just compare it with any residence in the district and you will see how much our schoolhouses

AN ATTRACTIVE RESIDENCE IN THE DISTRICT

are behind our residences. I think if either should be behind, it should be the residence. Fewer children would be affected by it.

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"More than that, with our schools situated as they are, too much of the helping-teacher's time is spent on the road going from school to school. Mr. Moore spends more time by far on the road than he does in the schools. This is a waste of time.' It is the time that he spends in the schools that counts.

" I see that you all know already what I am going to say, and you are right; the geography class of the school which I have the honor to attend, known as GEM No. 4, is for consolidation of schools. We do not want it for just our school, but we believe that we should have it for all schools. It is not fair to the children, the teachers or .the taxpayers to have these little one-room schools. The teachers are worked to death by the amount that they have to do and they leave just as soon as they can. I don't blame them. The children cannot get the inspiration and help that they need. There cannot be much social life in so small a school. There cannot be any sort of clubs for the boys and girls for there are too few to have a club. With these little schools, I cannot see that there can be anything but more of the same kind of thing that we have had, unless it be something worse."

It was amusing and inspiring to hear that yoxmgster talk. It was no speech that he had memorized. It was something that was in his heart and he had the facts in his mind.

"Now, I have a map here," he continued. "This map shows how the schools of our Demonstration Helping-Teacher Zone and those that are located right near it could be consolidated into four schools instead of twenty as they now are.

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SUCCESSFUL TEACHING IN RURAL SCHOOLS

*'You are all more or less familiar with these little old buildings that we have. Here are four of them. Anyone who lives in this end of Gem County, knows our wealth, sees our fine houses, barns, and so forth, must feel ashamed to realize that these are our schoolhouses.

*'If we could displace these poor buildings with one like one of these consolidated schools, the picture of which I

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