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3. While you recognize the special
| needs of rural children do not overI look the fact that many of thefse jt children will attend colleges and
| universities and some of them will | become city adults. Their education | should prepare them both to live as - enlightened country men and women and, if they choose, to live comfort| ably with their city cousins. 4. Build the best school building your community can afford but don’t I spend so much on the building that | you must hire a poor teacher or let I a good teacher get along on an inI
adequate salary. If you must choose, a good teacher in a poor building can r do more for your children than a ■ poor teacher in the best of buildings. ; But if your school building is too< bad the good teacher will probably avoid your school. 5. After ytou have invested many thousands of -dollars in - a building don’t make the mistake of trying to . save the few extra dollars it will take to !buy some essential equipment. Even a one-room school should have a good small library including encyclopedia and dictionaries, a good globe and wall maps, a projector and some carefully selected scientific equipment including a small microscope. ~ - -6r Sec that- your school has good* lighting in the classroom?. A few dollars spenfron tights may save many more dollar's in bills frojn the oculist or optometrist. And good heating and ventilation may save in d-octor’9 bills later. s 7. After you have hired good teachers, give them a fair, chance to develop a good school. They should listen to the opinions of the parents and be influenced by them; but they can’t please them all, and the'school board and the reasonable citizens
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