The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-03-02
DR.. MAYO'S LECTURE.
Universal Education-Does it Pay2 And
How 7-The Kind of Teachers Needed
What Education is..

| tioas of the State on the suo]ect OF
education. Monday, in company with
! Superintendent of Education Thomp-
son, he visited Newberry, and deliv-
cred lecture two hours long in Thes-
plan Hall to large and appreclatiVe
audience. The Doctor makes no ora.
torical display, and he advances no
novel ideas on the subject Of educa-
tiou; but there is charm about his
manner, and he says things 10 such a
pleasant and entertaining way that
two hours seem short to an audience.
AS evidencing the interest taken IN
universal education, he mentioned the
fact that New York City spends ST.
OU0,0 on her schools; that Rich
moud, which only few years ago
spent nothing for this purpose, now
spends $4,000 annually; that Char
lesion gives proportionately more to-
wards universal education than the
majority of cities in the country.
The lecturer undertook to show that
universal education pays; and, then,
how it pays. He insisted that the
State should assure to every child the
opportunity of an elementary education
by establishing elementary schools,
and to superior intelligence a superior
education by means Of higher schools.
Re recommends primary schools for
small children, and above that graded
school in every town. where instruction
is given in the higher branches such
as ft one for college. Upon the mat,
ter of selecting teachers he laid much
stress, and his advice should be im-
pressed upon every school board in the
country. No teacher should be em.
ployed because he or she is somebody's
sister or consin or brother or aunt or
daughter; out solely upon the ground
of fitness for the successful training Of
the mind and character of children.
Persons who are unfit for anything
else are too often employed as teach-
ers. 1t should be remembered that
schools are not for the benefit of
teachers, but for the benefit of the
children. A school where the teacher
is thoroughly fitted for his place will
train the intelligence, the moral and
religious character and the manners of
the children.
Universal education pays by making
trpe manhood and womauhood. If
children gro~ up ln ignorance they
become the prey of the demagogue.
and the safety of the State is imper-
lied. It pays by building up intelli'
genee and character in the citizen,
which is necessary to success ln life,
and is the cornerstone of the republic.
The State is like a family; if a family
be surrounded by ignorant aud vicious
neighbors there is constant danger that
the members will be brought down to
the same level And so of commu
nifty, or a State. The only safety to
the State is to begin at the bottom
and work upwards. He illustrated
this idea by house whose cellar is
sunk in the daup earth and ippreg.
mated with malaria, while the rooms
above are nicely carreted and furnish
ed. The malaria does not con6ne
itself to the cellar, but works its way
through the walls into the elegant
apartments, carrying disease and death
throughout the whole building. The
remedy is to put screws under the
foundation and to raiss up the whole
house, cellar and all, into sunshine
and healthy atmosphere.
DR.. Mayo paid high tribute to the
South, and closed with the patriotic
hope that through universal education
grand future would soon open up
for the whole country.
The lecture Monday night will no
doubt give new impetus to education
in this community.
At the close of the lecture the au-
diepce, on motion of Professor Ho!-
laud, returned thanks by rising vote
to DR.. Mayo.
Tuesday morning DR.. Mayo deliv'
cred an instructise address to the stu-
dents Of Newberry College iu the Col
Iege Chapel, on the subject of educa-
ton. Education, be claimed, consists
of three things; /, to know something,
2, to do something, and, 8, to be
somebody As to the first, to know
is not simply to remember what one
has heard ard read. There is too
much of mere book learning in all the
professions. That training is needed
which looks through books and words
to the thing itself, and studies that.
One should know how to use a book,
so that he can readily separate the
chaff from the wheat. For the want
of this knowledge of things the mass
of mankind is living in world of
mental shadows. As to the second !;
one may know a great deal and yet be
able to do nothing. The schools
should teach self-reliance and self
help The question the world asks a
Young graduate is not whether he Is
cultured, or how much he knows about
his books, but What can yoH DO !
Can you do skilled work? The men
| Rho succeed everywhere are the skilled
men. He dwels at length on the third
head, and urged the importance Of
training the young in such a way as
to develop the peculiar faculties with
which nature bad endowed them.
NoRwALK OPERA HOUSE, Aug. 23d, 1881.
In the face of immense opposition and a
liberal circulation of scanIalous hand bills,
distributed by competitive Snowman, Col
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