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Knowing Macon County Schools \ By Supt. H. Bueck Questions for this column are invited from the public. Mail tfarm to Mr. Bueck, Franklin, N. C., or to THE PRESS. I What is quality education? How do we ret It? Hie term quality in the field of education bears the same connection it has in any activity or product. It can only be measured in a relative sense. We have witnessed in Maoon ? County, in the last de cade or so. 'a marked increase in the quality of the poultry and cattle produced by our progressive fanners and the quality both of goods and ser vices offered by our mer chants. The nature of the product and the difficulty of judging makes the achievement and the measurement of quality in education far more complex. For the past half-century, we have concerned ourselves main ly with the problems of mak ing educational opportunity available to all of our children and, in the process, striving to reach a minimum uniform stan dard of excellence. In the achievement of this goal we have not done too badly. In many instances our schools compare favorably with others in the state and nation. The rapid advance of techno logy finds us In a position where minimum standards in education are dangerously in adequate for the kind of world our children will live in. There are innumerable statistical stu dies to bear this out. The ap palling number of young men who failed to qualify for the army in the last war was a warning. The number of col lege failures is a standing in dictment. The demands of in creasingly complex business and industry for better train ed students is a challenge. The problems of quality education is more universally recognized with the passing of every day. Spurred by the amazing scienti fic achievements of Russia and goaded by searchingly critical magazine and editorial com ments. by such popular publi cations as "Why Johnny Can't Read"? a lethargic public is beginning to take a serious in terest in the quality of educa tion we want for our children. Education leaders welcome this concern and interest. Many of them have been aware of deficiencies in the system for a long time. Soma leaders know, and many have learned to their sorrow, that improve ments and innovation can be made only so rapddly as the I general public will permit. National concern for quality I a education found expression In Uie pi&Uorais of both major political parties in the pledge of substantlon federal support of public schools. On the state level, the governor-elect ran on a platform of substantial in crease in the per-pupil expendi ture above the present level. The State Department of Public Instruction has express ed its concern through pro grams of research in matters of curriculum, teacher prepara tion, in-service training and consolidation. How well we, here in Macon County, will benefit from what may come to us from state and national sources will depend on a num ber of factors, a few of them briefly listed are: 1. How seriously do we want our childresn^to have the best education possible? 2. Are we willing to learn enough about our schools to offer constructive criticisms for their Improvement? 3. Are we satisfied to restrict our demands on the schools to those functions that contribute directly to quality education at the possible sacrifice of some personal convenience or inter ests? 4. Will we welcome . some home work for our children I I and Insist that this work be | I cjune? 5. Can we accept and pass on to our children the fact that there Is no easy road to learn ing, that students can expect no more from their schooling than they are willing to put into it? 6. Are we as teachers and as parents prepared to admit that there is a wide range of intel lectual ability and of aptitudes in the children who make our school population and ser iously tackle the problem of providing a program of studios | Unit, will recognize lives*: uU ferences and provide a pro gram that will challenge every child to reach his maximum in development? 7. Can we face the fact that teachers may teach, but learn ing is the responsibility of the child. The child must want to learn. Can we somehow place this goal above our pride in a report card of straight A grades? In the measure that we can answer these questions and many more of a similar nature, will we be able to provide the j HUtLuis tuucaiion that cach of r us as Individuals want for oar children. 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