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BOOKS OF THE DAY. THE RURAL SCHOOL. A book which deserves the attention of all who are interested in primary education, especially in the education of children ill the country districts, is "Tho Rural School in Australasia, Its Theory and Practice, with an exposition of some Modern Ideals and Principles," by John Smyth, M.A., Ph.D., Principal of the Teachers' College, Melbourne (George Robertson and Co.). More than naif the primary 6ohools' in the States of Australia and of Now Zealand are Rural Sohools. Of schools with only one teacher, schools whero children of all ages and of all classes are under one directing mind, there were in June, 1913, 1249 in Viotoria, 1847 in New South Wales, '860 in Queensland, and 1360 in New Zealand. Schools which are in euch numbers, surely, contends Dr. Smyth, deserve 6pecial_ attention. The rural school, he says, is often the only house in the back-blocks other than those belonging to the settlers' homes. In such districts it represents the higher spiritual life ana stands for the unity of the State which all serve. _ And yet up to the appearance of Dr. Smyth's work no book dealing adequately with the scope and detail of country school work in these States had been pub-' lished. Dr. Smyth divides his work into three sections, entitled respectively "The Child, and Modern Watchwords of Education"; "The Time-table as the Central Problem of the Rural School," and "The Teaching and Management of the Rural School." The subject of rural school work is gone into in great detail, and the treatment is throughout of an essentially practical and useful character. Several illustrations and diagrams enhance the. interest aid value of the text.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 4
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285BOOKS & AUTHORS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2441, 21 April 1915, Page 4
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