EDUCATIONAL GFZGIAL
Mputh Carolina,Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
VoLXXV. Ho. 25.
RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 25, 1910.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
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The School the Hope of the South.
r 'RAVELING this week across a considerable section of our
Progressive Farmer end Gazette territory, we could but
dream of the time when all our Southern country shall be
come as fair as the rural districts of France and England as we
saw them two years ago when our muddy roads
shall give way to beautiful highways; when our
old fields shall be redeemed to life and useful-
when our half-cultivated patches shall be
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converted into broad and fertile fit Ids ; when
herds of cattle and flocks of sheep shall dot. our
hillsides; when a gully shall be reckoned a dis-;
grace and a fire-ruined wood a crime .; when
cabins and ugly cottages shall be replaced by
homes made beautiful by' loving care,- however,
humble they may be; and when a thickly-settled
and well trained population shall not only relieve
country life of that isolation which has
most retarded its development, but shall
give needed support for all the conven
iences of twentieth-century rural life
rural telephones, water-works, the town
ship high school with its public library
and lyceum course: the school a center
of intellectual and the church of spirit
ual activity, each giving symmetry and
beauty to a community life which finds
its material basis in a high degree
of efficiency on the part of the
average man. v
Even as ; the painter: when he
goes to his canvas, sees with his
mind's eye some beautiful vision
which he is to work out, even so
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all of us should have before us as
we go about our daily tasks this
vision of the South that is to be,
and the part, however insignifi
cant, that we may have in helping.
Us fulfillment We should all of
m like to live to see it with our own
eyes, as Moses yearned to see the
promised Canaan to which he led
his people. But whether we shall
ee with the physical eye or, only
in our dream, it is enough that we
nay have a hand in bringing it
about, enough that we may worti
intelligently and unselfishly to has
ten the coming of this better day.
And the one way is by giving th e
child a chance. That boy of yours,
that boy of ycur neighbor's, who
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already has the basis of all character in that he is learning to work',
that boy who "warms his feet cold mornings in the place where the
cows lay the night before" he is the hope of the South. That girl
of yours, that girl of your neighbor's, whose mind and spirit will
some day give tone and color to everything in a
homeshe is the hope of the South. And only
through the school they can be developed.
The boy and girl in the towns are getting good
schooling ; the farm boy and girl in the North and , 5
West are "getting good schooling: Shall it be,
i then, that among alt our twentieth-century Ameri-,
can youth the Southern farm boy and girl alone
shall enter life's race handicapped by shackles
of ignorance ?' "
; It must not be so. The best investment the
South could make in 1910 would be to double its .
school taxes and double the patronage
of our high schools and colleges. Only
by providing the best of facilities can
we attract to the South that tide of im
migration which we need to increase our
percentage of white population and to
relieve rural life of isolation ; and only
by educating all our people can we ever
work out our dream of a South the beauty
of whose rural and urban life, the intellU
gence and efficiency of whose
people, shatt make it indeed the
foremost and- the fairest section
of America. -
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'1 f: ij r(; Qyoiteiy Notth Canlina Department of Edncatta ?
'?'; ;V;;': THE OLD AMD THE NEW ;;-:'f ' ' '"f
nr U a itrlklnc example of What coMoHdation of rural K&oob and the local tax
waife eUU hundreds of each echool houses ai thoee shown m the two opper jpte
tures. soittertd about over the 8outh school houses without any facilities stsll lorrood
work and without pupils enough to permit of the ear ployment of a rood teacher, nhere
two or meat such schools can be combined and an tp-to date botldina r with modern
equipment prorided and a rood teacher tmployed. Is It not work well worth whUe to do M
Erery person who helps In making luch a chauge has a rteht to be proud of his
work; and so one can tell what difference the better surrouxdinsjs will make in the Ures
of the boys and xirls who attend the school. '.
EDUCATIONAL FEATURES OF
u-ir THIS ISSUE.
A, B07s Most Important Prob-
lem . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . 522
A Nqw Kind of Text-Books Need
ed 526
A Year's Progress in Virginia. . 535
College Training for the Oonn-
rjr Girt . ... ... '. ...... . . 525
llow. the Home Can Help the
. School) . . . ... ... . . ....... 524
Improyement of the Schools as .
' a Help to $500 More a Year . . 510 .
Practical Training for Busy
. Housekeepers w 534
Progress in North Carolina. ... 520
The , Educational . Demands of
i Our Tfme . .' . ',' ... . 520
The Southern Fanner's Needless , . ",
'.'; Burdens .'. . . '.'.I... . . . . ' : 518
What ;Each of Us Can Bp to .".
'.V Help ;...V...t ... 620
What Some Communities Haye
Bone ................523--523
What the South Can Learn From , .
New, England ....... . . . . . 527