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? Continued from Page One ENDTEACHING CAREER WITH FAITH IN YOUTH there are so many uulside in terests at the school itsell; of course a boy who plays lojtball us hard as he can all afternoon is too tiled to study in the j evening", she said sympathetic ally. And of course he finds it hard to "pass his work". Finally the teacher of 194;, I is faced with the present-day I educational psychology ? -'the idea that nothing must ever be done that might discourage the child. This results In a growing tendency to make teachers let children pass because of what failure might do to tneir emo- ! tRinul natures," Worst Tiling Possible She expressed the opinion that hardly twu-thirds o f to day's high ' school children do passing work, but that most of the otner third ate given imi?- ] mg grades for reasons of "psy chology"- As a result, "we are doing the worst thing possible lor the child letting him find, that he can get by' without doing what he knows is ex pected of him". At bottom, the youth of to day is no better, and no worse, than the young people who grew up at the turn of ihe century, Miss Jones feels; most of the differences are on the surface. "Today's child is more alert and better Unarmed ne should be, with the greater lacilities. He is more independent. And he is much more open and frank about things"; but wheth er his general attitude is es sentially more wholesome Is a ditticuli question to answer, sht remarked, adding that young people of today are far less serious-minded, a snanovviiCv*. that shows up particularly in their attitude toward marriage. Home Discipline Gone In that connection, she com mented on the home handicap of much of today s youth. Home discipline, she said, is largely a thing of the past. This is uue, in part, to mothers' working outside their homes, but even more to broken homes. "I can not say enough about the ei lect of divorce on children", she said, witn a trace of sadness in her voice, and she cued in stance alter instance in her own experience with children. After a hall-century's exper- ; ience as an educator, Miss Jones : thinks that; "Education should equip a j person to think, to use good judgment, to distinguish right' from wrong; to be an all-round good citizen -and being a good citizen implies the ability to earn a good living, and to ouild a good nome; and to be aDie to live peacefully wun hu. neighbors. ah educated person knows wh.U' he wants, auu ?iiy IK wants it." 'Uiiin; I' >ur Job' In the light of that defini tion, she feels that "we are I doing a poor j jb of leucluuu today." Parenthetically, she remarked thai she agrees with the view that teachers' salary raises should be based upo.i improve* ment, in the quality ot teaching. "Thm, of course, is the idea oi Governor Cherry's merit systen. which in theory is good, but which in practice is impossible oi execution." tion." Because of the misapplication of psychology, and because ol other factors, the difterence be tween the scholastic standards of 1899 and those of 1948 are more apparent than real. "To day we nave higher standards that generally aren't lived up to. And on the whole, todays teaching is much less thorough, while among many studeius there is a spirit that it is all right to do anything to 'get by'." All of the fault, of course, does, not lie with me teacners. Hampered By Red Tape "Teachers today are seriously hampered by the enormou., amount of red tape and the great number of seemingly un necessary reports. A better or ganized set-up would enable them to give all, not just a part, of their time and energy to teaching. "The weakest part of our whole educational system is our failure to provide anything for those who do not like to study, or for the many who haven't the native mental ability. "I don't believe in making education compulsory througi age 16", she added emphatical ly, ''unless we have sumeuuu? to offer" every type of child. "But there is no reason, jus. because a child isn't doo.v minded, why we shouldn't teach him to earn a living; all o? u make better citizens if we ai\ conscious of our ability to make our own way." Vocational train ing, she believes, is the answei to many of the problems oi to day's mass education. That, however, isn't the whole answer, "the school's job is to enaoi. every child to develop his tal ATHLTTES FC&T iYC HOW TO STOP IT MAKE 5 MSNUTt TEST Get TE-OL at any druj* store. Apply this POWERFUL PENETRATING funfci cide FULL STRENGTH. Roaches MORE Germs to KILL the Itch. Get NEW foot comfort or your 35c back. Today at MACON THEATRE Matinee 3:15 ? Night 7:30 - 9:30 Friday, July 9 James Dunn In "THAT BRENNAN GIRL" Saturday, July 10 ? Double Feature Prog, ram Hcpilonj* Cassidy In "RUSTLERS VALLEY' Also 'FIGHTING MAD" Owl Shew at 10:30 ? Out at 12:00 O'Clock Leo Gorcey In "BOWERY BUCKAROOS" Sunday, Monday, July 11, 12 Treasure of sierraMameI WAUER ON Tuesday, July 13 THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BOYS On Stage in Person Matinee and Night Al?o Lyn Roberts In "Lightnin' In the Forest" Wednesday and THurtday, July 14 and IS SHIRLEY TEMPLE ?"?l FRANCHOT TONE- GUY MADISON! lloneijntooit 1 A whuam niGHtiT ncrwt W COftMNA MUKA ? OtANT MJTCHKi ? I ? I ?HIIW?Jil??lKi?? enta, whatever they may be". Cites Progress Miss Jones, who began teach ing the year belore uie election of Aycocx. North Carolina's "ed ucation governor", sees me many weaknesses ia today & schools, but she is not blind Uf the vast pto^icoS that li^s oeci. made. There has been great Lnpro .e- 1 mem in buildings; and, "tuougn you sometimes lind good teacn- j lng in poor builcuags, anu vice versa, therfe is a close ie- ; lationship between good bulla- j .ngs and good schools". There is no comparison in the equipment ; and ?equipment ?dds a lot to the fullness 01 the job a teacher c?a do", and slit specilically cited tne value oi school libraries". "And today's teachers are far better trained for their job." Things Most Needed Turning to the future, Miss Jones was asked what, if she were given dictatorial power in North Carolina, she would do about education. She thought for a while before listing the things she thinks would do most to improve the schools: '?First, I would try to put a good teacher?one really alive in every school room; but to do that, of course, would be superhuman. "I would require every teacher to take a sabbatical (one in seven) year for study, with a fair financial provision made for it. "I would try to put some thing in the way of subject matter into every school that would touch every child. "I would build better build ings, and put better equipment into them. , I "Yes, and I think I would op erate the schools 12 montns in i the year, with a two-week vaca tlon period between each quar ter. Then a child could attend scnooi timer three quarters each year, or lour Children ui uk. cities, with nothing to uu. snouid be m school the yeai around". Started Career Here Miss Jones began her teach ing career here, in what is now me rranKUii terrace, ui uie lali of 1899. The other member u. the schools laculty wtu tn?. late M." D. Billings. It was iu& lirst year as a teacher, too. Except for a few brief in terludes, she has been teacn uig ever since. And even in Uu. interludes,, with Hie exception of a year? 1912-13- of stuuy ai Columbia university, she uiu eu ucational work. In 1917, for example, she in auguratea tne "moonngnt scnoor adult education program in Buncombe county, fane spent the summer before that organ izing canning ciuds in Macon County, the beginning of home demonstration work here. For about three years? 1919-21? she was engaged in Y. W. C. A. work. Many of .the earlier years ol her teaching she spent in hei native Macon County. From 1906 to 1908 she and lutoo Margaret Bulgin (now Mrs. W. B. McGuire) were co-principais of the first state high scn^jl in Franklin. Offered the then magnificent salar^ of $75 a month, Miss Jones next went to the Higdonville High school, which she served as principal lor three years. In Raleigh 25 Years For the past 25 years she has taught at the Hugh Morson High school in Raleigh. During thut period, she worked under four different principals and leur dnferent city superinten dents, all of whom she praised as "very fine men, among my very best friends". While in Raleigh she servec one term as president of tht local chapter of the Classroon Teachers association; two term, as president of the Kaleigh unit of the North Carolina Educa ganlzatlon she has been a mem tion association, of which or ber (or some 40 years; and at the time of her retirement was. serving on a committee of the National Education association She was also a member of the board of stewards of the Eden ton street Methodist church in Raleigh when she retired. She is a charter member of the Raleigh chapter ol Delta Kappa Gamma, national teachers' so ciety. She specialized in mathe matics, and recently she wa.? elected to membership in a na tional mathematics society. In Raleigh Miss Jones often found herself teaching what she smilingly refers to as hei "grandchildren" the children of former pupils. And during two world wars she went through the anxieties of mothers with sons In service many times multiplied; because more than 200 of her "boys" saw servicc in World War 1, and ft relatively larger number in World War 2 W'uuld Choose Same Career young enough to be her chil dren And no wonder! Because all through the years her chief Interest has been youth, and most of her contacts have been with young people; and from her pupils some 6,000 of them - she has absorbed the attitudes of youth. At home again, she looks for ward with keen anticipation to doing all the things lueie hasn't been time for belore. And when she looks oack across the years, she finds them good. If she had it to do over Lgai(i. ' she says without hesitation, she would choose the same career. .Why? "Just because I live teaching. 1 love to see children grow, and to feel I have had a small part in' helping them to tecoma bigger men and women. Teach ing why, it is the most s^ul sutlstylug thing anyone can do!" Forty-seven states are now cn oi>eraUiiK In the National Poul try Improvement Plan. WOODWORK SHOP ? ? * Window Frames Screens ? Cabinets and other similar work ? ? ? I am still contracting for House Building Rogers Woodwork Shop R. D. Rogsrs, Prop. Phone 262 Laying By Corn In Macon County With A Jeep The photograph above shows Woodrow Teague and his trusty Jeep plowing corn ? two middles at a time ? at Prentiss, He plowed the entire 13-acre field, part of which is shown in the picture, in six hours, with time out for lunch. Mr. Teague cultivated three times with his Jeep plow. The field wa<; never touched with a hoe. And when this picture was made, as he was laying it by, there wasn't a weed in the field. The corn was about 30 inches high for this last plowing, and as the Jeep passed over it, the norn bent, and then straight ened up so that you'd never know the Jeep had touched it. Not a stalk was broken, except an occasional one at the end of a row HERE'S HOW A JEEP SAVES TIME Mr. Teague said it would take him about four 10-hour days to plow this 13-arre field with a horse. That would be twelve 10-hour days for three plowings. Total man-hours, using a horse 120 Using the Jeep, Mr. Teague plowed the entire field one time in six hours. The three plowings took him about 18 hours. Total man-hours, using a Jeep 18 Man-hours saved 102 * * * There was * money saving, tool You, Too, Will Save Time and Money with a JEEP WOODROW TF.AGUE says:? "One of the nicest things about this Jeep plowing arrangement is the hy draulic lift. When I get to the end of the raw, or when I want to go home to dinner, I just lift up the plow and take off on the Jeep. ''I bought the Jeep in the fall of 1946, and by harvest time in '47 it had -more than paid for itself in work I had done for myself and my neighbor!. "I use it to plow, saw wood, fill silos, operate hammermiUs, haul everything from cattle to sand, log, and ride to church in. O, yes, and to pull my neigh bors out of the mud!" FOR INFORMATION OR A DEMONSTRATION, SEE MACON WILLYS COMPANY Phone 265 Franklin, N. C.
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