LET OPPORTUNITY
BE EQUAL
A Square Deal For the Country
Boy and Girl In the Schools
Of the State—Consolidated '
School.-! the Only Chance.
"Equality of opportunitv" is
the genera! t tpi*' f>>r todav in tie
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attention to "A s juare deal fir
the country bov and tiirl.
The essential distinction that
exist 1-etween country schools
and city schools ought not to
exist. The principle was long i
since accepted in words, that the
education of the whole child
population is the common task i
and the common responsibility of l
the entire adult population.
Education ought to be utilitar
ian and therefore it ought to be
adapted to environment and
probable prospective environ
ment. But language and mathe
matics and the rudiments of
Science are the common instru
ments employed in teaching and
learning everything beyond them
that is to be taught and learned,
and regardless of whatever
special direction education is
eventually to take, there is much
common ground that must be
gone over by all the elementar>
schools- And whatever is taugt t
should be taught as well to one
set of children in one place as to
any other set of children in any
place; teaching should be of a
uniform quality and equipment
should be of a uniform quality.
In North Carolina, for the
time being at least, the county ;
might very well be made the!
absolute unit, and the whole j
problem of public education ir,
the county the responsibility of,
one bo ly of men and women. J
with on? head for the entire
system, and all work measured
by one standard. A few years ago
this was not feasible on account
t physical conditions. Sparse!
population :n some districts, bad j
r ads: it was not possible to col- >
lect the children of great part of!
rhe territory except in small
groups. With full range of school'
ages and instruction in all grades
required in each of these small j
groups, to have provided the
rieht sort of housing, the right j
sort of equipment, and the right,
sort of teaching skill to meet the |
needs of all, would have been of \
prohibitive cost.
Now in many if not most of
the counties, by the use of motor
transportation over good roads it
is entirely feasible to group the
children just about as the school
authorities may wish, instead of
as they must be grouped. A few
years Bgo the con vie* who built
and repaired roads we scatter
ei about ov thp c«. f v in
camps: now the re house in a
central prison anu -nt out o 'v
to wherever work is. . he don.
Conditions in this r -t)fct are
improving constantly ano rabidly,
already much has been accom
plished in Guilford and other'
counties in the way of getting]
the children together in such
large groups that it is economical
to build handsome, comfortable
achoolhouses, arranged and
equipped aa schoolhouses ought
t J be, and to employ • variety of
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teaching talent.
Why, in a county so situated,
should the system of differentia
tion that has been due to restric
tive conditions be continued, now
hat those conditions have been
( r.quered? The ideal which all
thoughtful citizens of the county
interested in a real democracy of
(opportunity believe is attainable
is that each child in the county,
everywhere, shall have as good
school advantagea as any other
ehild anywhere in the country.
This is the ideal of democracy
that shine* forth more and mora
THE DANBURY REPORTER.
as practicable, as attainable. 1
That all men are born equal
is rhetoric, has always been
rhetoric, taken literally. But that
all men have in common certain
inalienable rights, and that
among them is the right to an
equal chance of development of
whatever native endowments
they have, is accepted as a wholly
reasonable proposition.
Those who hold that this high
ideal of democracy is attainable
should therefore, consider all
mean* by which that attainment
may be moat directly accomplish*
ed. It may indeed be possible
for the various communities,
rural and urban, working each
as a unit eventually to reach the
highest level in attainment, and
to abolish the gross inequalities
that now exist as between groups
of children: but the question that
demands consideration now is,
is that the best way, the most
direct way?
Should not the wisest counsel,
the ablest executive, administra
tive and pedagogical talent of
the entire county be equally at
the service of all parts of thf
eountyY If not, why not?
Prominent Couple Wed
On Danbury Route 1
Dan bury, Route 1. Dec. 14. —A
(pjiet wedding wa9 solemnized at
Mrs. R. L. Hartman's November
HO at o'clock when her
daughter. Mi9s Juriah Alma Hart
man, became the bride of Mr.
Sam Andy Amo9,of Sandy Ridge,
N. C.
The vows were taken in the
parlor room which was beauti
fully decorated with ferns.
The bride was attired 'in a
becoming gowa o£-eenton cr.
with grey accessories.
Immediately after the cere
mony which was performed by
Rev. Bud Joyce, congratulations
were extended, after which all
marched to the dining room
where a delicious Thanksgiving
dinner was served.
Miss Hartman is a very popular
young lady, and has been a
teacher in the public schools of
the county for several years.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. S. Amos and ia an
excelMt young fanttir of Stoke*
cunty.