Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330308691
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Book Synopsis North Carolina Journal of Education, 1897 by : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Download or read book North Carolina Journal of Education, 1897 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from North Carolina Journal of Education, 1897 The people of Memphis are making great preparations for the meeting of the Southern Educational Association, December 27, 28, and 29. They are determined to make it one of the greatest and most pleasant meetings ever held in that city. The officers and committees of the Association are going forward with the preparations of their part of the work, and everything will be in readiness for a more successful meeting than any the Association has yet held. With an increase of 84 per cent. in the school population and an increase of only 2 1/2 per cent, in school attendance, how long will it take North Carolina to wipe out the large percentage of illiteracy with which it is now cursed? A year's subscription to the North Carolina Journal of EDUCATION will be given for the best solution of this problem. How Strong is a State? In a vision Nebuchadnezzar beheld a great image. This image was mighty, his brightness was excellent, his aspect terrible; his head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron, and part of clay. And when the feet that were of iron and clay were smitten they brake in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them. And so will it ever be -until clay is no longer mixed with iron in the feet. The glory and splendor and wealth of statues and nations may be in the brass and silver and fine gold of other parts of the body, but their strength is in the feet; and their glory and splendor and wealth are as naught in the day of trial, if the feet break by reason of the clay that is in them. No state is stronger that than the strength of intelligence and virtue in the lowest stratum of its citizenship; and especially is this true of the democratic state. School committees and communities sometimes seem to be possessed of an insane desire to change teachers merely for the sake of changing. The teacher's actions are frequently governed by the same spirit. They go from one place to another simply for the sake of change and because they have taught at the old place a year or two or three. It is hard to understand why a teacher who has any faith in his own purposes or confidence in his own ability should not wish to be his own successor from year to year, build upon his own foundation and reap the fruit of his own sowing. We believe the best teachers never desire to change their place except for better pay, better opportunity for self-improvement, opportunity for broader work, or some equally worthy object. They are the shiftless ones who are always shifting and never rising; committees should beware of them. When a community has once secured a good teacher it should keep him as long as possible. Be he Democrat, Republican or Populist; Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Friend, or any one of the more than thirty religious sects in our state; related by blood or marriage to any or all of the people in the community, or to none of them, - none of these things should ever be thought of in employing a new teacher or in keeping an old one. They are all personal matters and should never be considered by committeemen acting in their official capacity. Neither should parents expect or desire their children to be taught by teachers of their own political, religious or family faith. In most cases it is probably better they should not be so taught. They will likely be sufficiently narrow, prejudiced and conceited without such teaching. The only questions to be asked by committeemen or community are, Are you a moral, upright, manly man, or womanly woman? Can you teach? Whatsoever question is more than this probably cometh of evil. By all means avoid changing except ...
