The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-03

NtN t/tc tcHCNcFS Ill I'LL proper CilOIIS
to iWproce themselves iM MMcirprotcS-
sion.
He shall encourage the formation
of associations of teachers for mus
tual improvement, shall attend such
meetings and givo advice and in
struction ir regard to their conduct
and management. Ho shall deliver
u public lecture to tho people Of
each school district each year, for
the purpose of clevnting the stands
ard Of education and increasing pub
lie interest in tho schools. He
shall control tho curriculum in each
school, and shall note tho condition
of the school houses.
He shall prepare annual reports,
giving u complete settlement of the
condition of schools in his county,
and making any suggestions he may
conceive to be conducive to cduca
tional interests. He shall serve as
the medium Of communication be-
tween the State superintendent and
tho school authorities in each
county
Tic shall examine teachers, and
decide us to th">r competency.
liz shall a;$o regulate tho dis
burscments Of school funls by
countcrsigning all school warrants
on the treasury. He shall appoint
district trustees, and supply all off
clals with blanks, &c.
1t will be seen that the county
school commissioners position is
ono of grave responsibility. Upon
his shoulders rests the entire cduca-
tional system Of n county. And no
system can even approximate suc>
cess without the direct super
vision of some competent person.
Especially is some guiding hand
needed now to reduce. order out of
chaos. With the schools running
smoothly, it might be argued that
NJ general sl,perintendcncc is ne
ccssary, though even in Now York
al experiment made before the war
to abolish the Office Of county
superintendent utterly failed. We
hlyo no knowledge of any State in
the Union whero tho system is sue
cossful, that has not county supcr~
intcndents. The experience of 9th T.
ers should DO Il guide to us.
In South Carolina the schools arc
il q desperately bad way. The
people know nothing Of tho system
tie teachers are not up to the times
tho officials have been incompetent
OF corrupt. Is there in the system
any latent vitality that will of itself
slough off impurities and crystal;zc
into II whole Such hope is vain
When that which should be n well
disciplined army has become u dc,
moralizcd mob, without order
without discipline, without
life, is it made effective by abolr
lshlnS tho office of general, by filling
tho colonolcics and captancies with
civilians a. nothing per month, and
by suffering any one assuming tc
act lis sergeant or corporal to muster
his squad i'll any way or with any
weapons no may see fit Such q
proposition would consign it's maker
to the lrmatic asylum
Yet this is q precisely analogous
case Here is an army of children
who should DC marching all in line
against the strongholds of ignorance
They are scattered and struggling
everywhere. Their officers have
been recrcant to their trust. Those
wlo would have served faithfully
have been starved and compelled to
labor elsewhere. The army is dc
stroycd. not because it h,,l bad Off
GERS, but because 1T had none. Those
who so called themselves, were i'm
posters.
1t is propose to remedy the de
fects How ? BY repeating in
another form the evils that existed
before. Instead of worthless Off
GERS, the army is to have mono at all.