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DAVIS: Agricultural Education in the Public Schools. EGGLESTON AND BRUÉRE: The Work of the Rural School, pages 193-223. HOWE: Wisconsin: an Experiment in Democracy, pages 140-182. Country Life, pages 200-210. FOGHT: The American Rural School, pages 254-281.
The best pupil, who might respond quickly to stimulus, tends to sink to the level of the meanest, the mental horizon, cramped at home, is hardly broadened during school hours, and the main purpose for the existence of the institution is not achieved. FISKE: The Challenge of the Country, pages 151-170. FOGHT: The American Rural School, pages 154-253.
Foght says, "While the public attention has been centered on work and plans for the improvement of the city schools a great factor for or against the public weal has been sadly neglected. This is the rural school. One-half of our entire school population attend the rural schools, which are still in the formative stage.
Foght, in 1918, revealed there a state of things which in our mind is an eye-opener in the matter under examination. Out of over 4,000 schools not more than 212 reported as availing themselves of the law on religious instruction. We leave to the reader to draw the conclusion these recent statistics suggest.
The officer in command of the advance did not charge, but stopped to skirmish and the column halted. Foght, Custer's bugler, rode up and offered to show me a way into the station from which the confederates could be taken in flank.
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