Excerpt from What Is the Relation of Academic Preparation, Experience, Intelligence, Achievement, and Sex of Rural Teachers in Mississippi to Their Pay?: George Peabody College for Teachers Contributions to Education, Number Ten The inequality of educational opportunity in the United States is nowhere more in evidence than in the contrast be tween that afforded the urban child and that afforded the rural child. The concentration of wealth in corporate bod ies makes the taxes levied in cities for the support of edu cation in large part indirect. In the rural community the school tax is direct. The farmer is not willing to pay high costs for schools unless he can see a direct value being re turned. The teacher stands to him as a representative of what education can do for his boys and girls. Hence, the quality of rural education depends far more upon the qual ity of the teacher than does urban education. In general, the quality of any product is in proportion to the amount paid for it. This may be said to be true in regard to the rural teacher. If his salary is low, is his quality also low? In fixing his salary, what traits is society consciously and unconsciously seeking? We know and can measure some of these traits; others are known, but as yet unmeasured; still others are both unknown and unmeasured. When the traits that affect the pay of the rural teacher have been ascertained, it will be possible to find the effect of each. With the effect known, the proper treatment may be applied that will result in a general improvement of rural salaries. It is in the hope of making a beginning along this line that this study was undertaken. 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.