ABSTRACT
The village school in Scotland has often been highly-praised, and the praise given was very often a deserved one. The sexes had more chance to mix in a country school, and the discipline was usually not as severe as that obtaining in town schools, where large numbers made strict discipline necessary. A school, however, must not be judged by its bright lads and lassies. Most of the pupils in a village school leave school at about fourteen and go on the land or the railway. The rural school should bring them into touch with painting and hand-craft and music and dancing: it should give them self-expression in acting and singing: it should teach modern history and economics and such science as will be interesting in later life. The relationship between the sexes at a village school is usually a healthy one, and the morality of a Scots village is founded on this relationship.
