Excerpt from Country Life and the Country School: A Study of the Agencies of Rural Progress and of the Social Relationship of the School, to the Country CommunityThe fundamental line of thought here maintained unfolds as follows: First, that the chief relief for the present undesirable condi tions of country life is to be realized through the cooperative endeavor of farmers and the upbuilding of local country communities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.