Download or read book Community Studies for Rural High Schools (Classic Reprint) written by L. L. Friend and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Community Studies for Rural High Schools No course of instruction in the public schools is complete that does not give the learner a closer and more definite knowledge and understanding of his immediate environment. This is a truth that we have in the past largely overlooked in planning courses of study for our schools, particularly for our high schools. Languages and peoples that are dead and activities and institutions that are remote in time or distance are interesting and valuable and have a proper place in our high school programs; but their place should be a subordinate one. So strong, however, are the cords with which tradition has bound most of us that we have continued to act on the assumption that no education can be acceptable or in good repute that does not include a large share of these dead and remote things and that the study of "the life that now is" and the conditions and circumstances that immediately surround us cannot have a legitimate place in school instruction. The result of this is that the high schools are turning out many boys and girls who know something of Latin and German, something of the civilization of Greece and Rome, and something of geometry, but who know little or nothing about the community in which they live; they know nothing of its history, nothing of its traditions, nothing of its industries, nothing of its institutions, and nothing of its possibilties for the future. The life that goes on about them, with its needs, its failures, and its suggestions, makes no appeal to them, because they do not understand its significance. Our rural communities in West Virginia have greatly suffered in the past because the majority of their young people who have gone to high school and to college, have not returned to them to give them the benefit of their training and their increased ability. They have gone into the towns and cities of the state and into the towns and cities of other states, to seek opportunities there and to use there the ability that they have developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.