Brave Leadership.

The article focuses on how Jackson College, a state college in Mississippi, go about preparing teachers to serve in the small rural schools and the larger and very recently established consolidated schools. The author remarks that, teachers in Jackson College are concerned primarily with the stark realities of teaching in Mississippi, that is, they wanted help on ways of getting school buildings improved; of persuading the school authorities to increase the financial support of the school; of building good relations between whites and Blacks; and of relieving the distress of tenant farmers who were no longer needed as the community changed from cotton growing to cattle raising. According to the author, the teachers indulge in cheering up and encouraging the students from their respective towns. The State Department experts on buildings, credentials, curriculum and other fields come out and talk sympathetically and simply with the teachers on the problems that troubled the group, in an effort to reduce the distance between members of the State Department of Education and teachers of small schools.