Excerpt from The Training School Quarterly, Vol. 2: October, November, December, 1915 The rural libraries should form the basis of a better reading course. As it happens now, the reading circle course takes one direction and the rural libraries another. Some teachers are following the one and using the latter, but we have no way of measuring the efficiency of either. In fact, we have no accurate knowledge of the extent to which the libraries are used in a single county. Before children can be directed in their reading, the teachers must read. There are more than rural libraries in North Carolina, and if every teacher in the State who has access to one of these libraries knew the contents of these books, or even knew what they are about, how much material would she have at hand for increasing the life of the school! I believe that the normal schools could not do better than to give a course of read ing in the books. Of the rural libraries. I recently had the teachers Of Durham County send me a catalogue of all the books in each library. I went through each list and picked out certain books that were found in each library and made up a list of books for the teachers to read in connection with the books adopted in the reading circle list, and then gave the teachers the following sug gestions: We have heard from enough of the libraries to arrange a tentative outline for the teachers. Three groups of subjects are made: (1) biography, (2) literature, and (3) nature. In addition to the regular reading circle books. 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.