The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-31

son, s. G.
Will some of the pupils answer this
question? Why does ball of paper
suspended from the ceiling of q heated
room move aboutf
At the recent examination there were
about ten whites and thirty colored, and
of these not one received, a first grade
license, and the teacher who came the
nearest to getting a first grade aoas ne.
gro. It is not pleasant to us to write
these things, but facts are stubborn
things and we want the people to know
the facts. It is true that in one or two Of
the branches, History and Geography,
the questions were unfair, and we're so
regarded by. all the Board, but they we're
no more unfair for the whites than for
the negroes. they we're Questions out
side of the line of the teSt books and Of
what the teachers are required to teach
every day, but they were not outside OF
what every intelligent man and woman
in South Carolina is supposed to know,
but they we're not, strictly speaking,
questions on the branches taught. For
instance, one question was Explain the
Hampton campaign, its significance and
its results" No history yet printed
tells any thing about it, and all the
information to be had about it is from
old newspapers or from tradition. An.
other was: "How many provisional Coy
ernors has South Carolina had since
1866, and their names?" The same is
true of this as of the first question, and
in this connection we would like to call
upon the first and second grade teachers
of the County to answer this question.
What say you? Let's have your opinion.
We wish the teachers of the County
to send us their opinions on the follow
ing question. We will publish con-
sensus of their answers: "Name three
points of similarity between the State
and the National Governments" We
do this for the reason that the questions
for the semi annual examinations are
partaking more and more of the nature
of questions on Civil Government, and
those teachers who have come before
the Board have shown deficiency on
questions of this nature that is to be
regretted. Our institutions are founded
upon the popular will, and these young
boys now in the schools under the care
of the teachers need to be trained to
exercise the highest function of sover-
eighty, that Of casting ballot, and they
should have an intelligent comprehen-
sion of our system of Government
There are many things not found in the
textbooks that should be taught the
children, and this Of Civil Government
is one of the most important. An edu-
cation is lamentably incomplete that
does not qualify for the duties and
of life, and great many
points on which the pupils will need
instruction the teacher must find outside
of the common school curriculum. The
teacher should not be an automatic ma
chine, wound up like clock to pour
into the pupils for six hours day a
little reading, writing and arithmetic,
but be should be like fountain from
which they themselves may be able to,
in some measure, quench their thirst for
knowledge.
Recently teacher presented her anti.
cles to patron other school for his sig.
nature for another year. BE declined
to sign upon the ground that the public
money ought to pay for the tuition of mis-
children, four in number, for the whole
term, eight months. This man pays less
than ten dollars school tax, and yet he
expects his entire tuition for eight
months to be paid with less than ten
dollars. In other words, if he sends four
children eight months at dollar apiece
q month, it would amount to thirty two
dollars, and he expects the State to pay
the bill NTH Tess than ten doaar8l What
is the right name for this? Surely our
friend has not looked at the matter from
the right standpoint. If sll his neigh
bors thought the same way how would
they get a school? We have no hesita.
tion in saying that no good teacher can
or will attempt to teach school for juat
what public money there is in it, and to
expect teacher to teach an eight
months school for the public money
alone, is to ask her to devote portion of
her time and services to the public. The
public schools do not average one hun.
dred dollars apiece all over the County,
and an eight months school at this price
would not average more than twelve dol
lars and fifty cents per month, and this
would not board and clothe the teachers.
No, no, friends, do not try to see how
To-. you can let out the contract, nor put
your teacher on starvation wages, but be
just and liberal in your dealings with the
teacher, so that she, realizing that she is
.well-psid, may be encouraged and slim
ulated to give you value received 70,
your money. Poor pay, poor teach.
"Well, I guess I'll not sign the article
but I'll send to school if you get good
teacher" said one neighbor to another
recently when presented with an article
for q school next year. And yet tba
same man says he is interested in having
a school, interested (?) in the education
of his children How, pray? Where ii