Excerpt from The Training of Teachers for the Rural Schools The normal schools and colleges of the several states cannot meet the demands of the urban schools for supervision_ and for special and grade teachers. Agricultural colleges are offering courses for those who wish to specialize in the teaching of farm and home economics and the extension work, as carried on in our own state, is arousing public sentiment in favor of better rural schools. 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.