Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-14

DRSDAY, AUGUST ID, 1879.
roots, to build house without foundation.
And so far as tho edu6atfons of tho masses
was concerned, it was faii6ro. .i
In tho progressapf. time, ssy5f6rty years
ago, the idea of dpnominatondf education
began to tako hold Of tho mi6ds of tho
people. 1t was likosan inspiration. With
wonderful rapidity and power it took hold
Of popular feeling, aud tho resutt sswas3 tho
establishment, within, ID very short period,
of Erskine C Colicgc, founded ina1844; Of
Furman WAersity, lin, I8AA44;;sof Wotford
College, i'd isfS = ewbsrry Gollsgs, in
18-; aud latefho Adger] College in 1878
The Presbytcrians had joined with hstheir
flicnds in Georgia in the5support,o of Ogle-
thorpe University SO that oyery denomi-
nation in tho State had its college, except
The Episcopalans, and tho South Carolina
College was, s,,in some s9fs,sl,n9dof their
control To these institGtiona sfor young
men have been added GoneSsSf for young
ladies, Y Columbia, at Yogkyillc, at I.au-
rcus, at atGrcchyile, dtsWilliamston, at Reid
vile, ataWalhalla, and the last, bat not
least, at Duo West So that South Caro-
lima assfosaay thirteen chartered colleges
III 4lye operation within her borders, all
of f@Aich, sScapt Charleston College, arc in
a radius Of l25 miles from Columbia 1t
isquestioncd whether any otter portion Of
America eau say as much. Besides these
thirteen colleges, tho most of which arc in
ao,ivo operation, there arc some schools Of
good grade. Tho State now appropriates
fro,n thrco to four hundred thousand dollars
annually for FREQ schools.
We need then, larger appropriation
for common schools, or authority to make
the common schools dependent in part,
upon private support, 80 as to afford to
tcuchcrs better pny, and thus to secure and
retain the best tcnchers Cheap teachers
do cheap tcachlng, aud chelp teaching is
litNc better than no teachinS. The popular
mind Oh this subject needs to be educated.
l. wo would get good work in the school
room we must give good pay.
Second; Wc need moro schools Of IL
higher grade Academies, scmnaries,
where not only the principles of primary
education can be obtained, but where a
knowledge of the arts and sciences can be
secured, at least SO far MS the duties of
practical life require. Many boys and
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gia!c cducation let them have the opportu-.
| nity 10 oDtain at their own doors such all
education az will fit them for following
honorably and successfully the common
pursuits Of life.
Third: AS good teachers arc required,
normal schools schools whose special busi.
ness it is to teach teachers how to teach,
are tho great want in the Statc. A man
cannot teach who has not himself been
taught, but every educated man cannot
teach, any moro than every man who under
stands music can sing. Teaching is both q
science and an art, and wo may possess the
ono and lack the other. Teaching is now
recognized as ono Of the learned professions
and it ought not to be entered without
thorough preparation, such preparation as
can be obtained only il normal schools.
And yet, South Carolina has not out of
Charleston, single normal school for the
whites. We need them, and VIC need them
greatly.
| When the common schools shall have an
adequate support, and the standard in them
sufficiently elevated; when incompetent
tcnchcrs, aud those that teach simply for
the pay, shall have been banishci from the
State, or madc to retire to the walks of
private life, and competent, we'll educated
well taught teachers shall occupy the tripod;
when tho good o.d-timed academies, that
stood half way between tho primary school
and tho college, like that at Wellington,
under the celebrated DR.. Waddill, or Mt.
Bethel in Newbcrry, or Ebcnczer, in York,
or Mt. Zion, ut Winnsboro' whom schools
Ii!o them shall again take their places; and
when, to supply all these schools With fully
equipped teachers, We have at least one
normal school in every county; aud when
all our colleges, male and female, shall be
full Of pupils, then South Carolina shall
awake from her long slumber; then the
clouds that have SO long hing like pail
about her, shall fec away, and the san of
her prosperity shall come forth in its glory.
Then ignorance and crime shall, as ashamed,
hido their heads, aad intelligence and mo.
lIality shall distinguish our people, aud
South Carolina shall take hor place as a star
Of tie first magnitude in the galaxy of
qStates. God speed tho day.
| from the N. Y. Journal Of Commerce,
August (.
Tho Outlook for Cotton.
SOME SpEoULATIoNs as Tos Tue PROBABLE
COURSE Nos HPR1cEs
| The tables OF tho Chronicle, comaaripp