EDUCATIONAL MATTERS
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we should have a higrh school com
plete in all its appointments, giving:
courses as varied and complete as the
best schools in any section of our
country.
If our county papers will kindly al
low us space, we shall have more to
say on the subject of consolidation.
We shall be glad to hear from any
of our citizens on this, or any other
phase of our educational work. We
shall be glad if Prof. Platt will write
again, going more into details.
An Educational Dream That
Came True
By Etta Spier
Did you ever have a dream which
repeated itself so often that you al
most anticipated the coming events
when you were experiencing this oft
recurring dream? Very many ac
knowledged this still unexplained
phenomona that belongs to our other
self, that submerged personality the
psychologists call the sub-conscious
self. But it is given to few to actual
ly have their oft repeated dream come
true and they themselves to partici
pate in and experience events so oft
felt and done in dream-land. This
great experience was my privilege on
a recent visit to the Wilson County
Schools in North Carolina. After
years of dreaming of what rural edu
cational conditions should be, here
they were in reality. This story of
the Wilson County Consolidation of
its rural schools is a thrilling one!
In 1917 there were in this countj'
fifty-one rural schools, only six of
which could boast of as many as three
teachers and the largest number of
which, were one-teacher schools. Of
course these small unit schools were
housed in the usual box-car, cross
lighted poorly heated, unventilated
wretched wooden buildings such
schools usually occupy, no better and
perhaps no worse than the largest
number of North Carolina children
are now attending.
Today these fifty-one schools have
been consolidated into sixteen schools.
In place of the miserable inodequate
wooden structures they are housed in
modern brick structures.
Out in the open country seven miles
from the nearest town one finds Gard
ner’s schools. A modern brick build
ing constructed according to the best
approved plans of school architecture.
There are in these buildings steam
heat, running water, drinking foun
tains, indoor toilets and sewerage, and
electric lights. Can you estimate
what the effect of such surroundings
will wield upon the lives of these
country boys and girls ? Can you
fathom what will be the effect upon
their ideals and standards of conduct ?
Gathered together in this school were
four hundred and fifty of the finest
boys and girls to be seen anywhere
in this democracy of ours. Yes, this
number of children lived out in this
country school district and were as
sembled each morning and transport
ed to school by means of automobile
trucks. Every day there are fifteen
precious loads of potential man and
womanhood brought to school and re
turned to their homes each afternoon.
Where did they all come from ? Well,
that’s a problem still puzzling the
county superintendent and committee
men, for when the seven schools were
consolidated to form this school, the
five one-teacher schools and two-
teacher schools could not possibly
count over two hundred and fifty chil
dren. Girls and boys who had stop
ped school because “they were four
teen and didn’t have to go,” others
who were indifferent and had only
come intermittently now attended
regularly. It’s human nature to want
to be a part of a big ^ccessful thing,
so everybody, parents and children,
want to belong to this successful
school.
Here always on time, rain or shine,
these four hundred or more children,
well protected from the rain and out
of the mud assembled with dry feet
and warm and comfortable. They
worked together, studied and played
together, for each school has ample
play ground and organized and super
vised play.
So importcint does the county super
intendent consider play as a part of
the child’s education, that there is a
County Supervisor of Physical Educa
tion. It is in such consolidated schools
the future citizens of Wilson county
are learning to work and live to
gether. Co-operation is becoming a
habit and state of mind as well as
ideal. By contact with others these
folks are learning how to live with
others and at the same time given op
portunity to reach their highest state
of self-realization.
But the full story of Gardner’s
school is not yet told. Connected with
this brick building, by cement walks,
are the teachers’ cottage and garage.
The garage is large enough to hold
school trucks. A mechanician is em
ployed whose entire time is given to
caring for these fifteen auto trucks.
The teachers’^ cottage is a modern
two story building equipped with ev
ery possible convenience and comfort.
This building has been fully furnish
ed; living room, bed rooms, dining
room, kitchen. Even the bed furnish
ings, table linens, dishes, cutlery and
cooking utensils were included in this
complete and “model home.” This
home the county of Wilson gives to its
teachers, plus the salary fixed by the
state salary schedule. Will yc^ please
remember that Gardner’s is only one
of sixteen such schools that Wilson
county, N. C. will 'possess when its
entire building program is complete.
This also means that every boy and
girl in the county will be within
reach of a high school education. Now
do you wonder that I say my dream
of rural education has come true ?
Yes, and the reality is here, in our
very midst, within the borders of our
Old North State.
Meeting of Teachers’ Association
Meeting of County Teachers’ As
sociation in school auditorium, Car
thage, Saturday, March 11th, at 10
a. m. Important matters to be con
sidered; all teachers are requested to
be present.
In the modern family, if the chil
dren need any new shoes at the same
time the car needs new tires, you
know which gets them, don’t you?
Money goes a little farther now,
but is still unable to go as far as
next pay-day.
Still another thing that makes us
opposed to wide-open immigration
laws is that too many come over here
with the idea that they can get rich
without working.
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Said John to Bess, as they wa|
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These little lichens, curleyj
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The minute snow has gone
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