Rural life and education; a study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem (1922) (14761985804)

Identifier: rurallifeeducati00cubb (find matches)
Title: Rural life and education; a study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Subjects: Sociology, Rural Rural schools -- United States
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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d manufacturing now began. At thebeginning of the period there were no railways, andall transportation was by pack-train, horse and wagon,or canal-boat. By 1850 the steam roads offered con-tinuous rail travel from North Carolina to Mainealong the coast, had reached into the heart of thecotton belt of the South, to Buffalo on Lake Erie, andfrom the western end of Lake Erie to Cincinnati andChicago. By 1860 the steam railways had been builtwest into Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas, and thirtythousand miles of rails were carrying agriculturalproducts from the interior, and manufactured pro-ducts from the seaboard cities back to the interior.Cotton was king in the South, corn and winter wheatin the North, and commerce and manufacturing in theEast. The telegraph had been perfected in 1844, andfifty thousand miles of wire were carrying messages by1860. Edge tools were now made in this country. Theplatform scale and the sewing-machine were cominginto use. Kerosene lamps were in their beginning.
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18 RURAL LIFE AND EDUCATION Improved cookstoves were beginning to be used, andfriction matches superseded the flint. The coal meas-ures west of the Alleghanies had been opened, andanthracite in the East had been put to use. The greatwork of steam had begun, and the chimneys of factor-ies were rising over the land. Home and school. A little more leisure had comeinto the home as well, and the school of books began,in part, to supersede the school of practical experiencefor the children. Farmhouses and barns were betterbuilt, homes were made more attractive, farms werebetter tilled and more valuable, gravel roads began tosupersede the corduroy, and rural life generally beganto reflect the changes and improvements in themethods of living. Numerous little towns, the nucleiof future cities, were springing up all through theupper Mississippi Valley, as they had done a genera-tion earlier in the Middle Atlantic States. Notwith-standing these changes, though, rural life was stillsimple, and tr