The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-07
al school that deserves the warmest

cal school that deserves tho warmest
encouragement and support.
1 was at Newport News the other
day and visited there the ship yard
and the largest dry docks. in the woriu.
At the close of the day | saw q vast
army Of leborers leaving work and my
friend who was acting as my chaperone
remarked that many of them received
as much as SO o day for their labor.
Are any Southern men or ex-Confed-
crates among these we'll paid work
men?"I inquired.
mo-" said my friend, "they are
Northern men and foreigners who
have become highly skilled mechanics
In the great schools in the North and
abroad. The poor ex-Confederate was
receiving his dollar n day, the same as
the negro"
What a lesson What a lesson!
But we must begin at the beginning
and the teacher must be prepared for
his work. The training OF teachers Is
al urgent need. In the normal the
student learns to teach, to communi-
cate his knowledge in the manner best
adapted to mental development. A
years technical training Is Of inesti-
mable value to the teacher and enables
him to accomplish vastly more than
would be possible without it, It's i'm
portance Is not to be underestimate.
Teaching those who are to teach in
wolves a history Of education, of educa-
! tional methods and Of the practical ap-
plication of education. The true prin-
oiples of teaching are founded on the
are hence educational psychology.
The processes Of growth from the CON
crete to the abstract, the specific to
the general, the known to the UNI
known, the thought to the clear ex-
pression-these should not be dead
rules. but should enter thoroughly into
the teachers work and be applied
habitually and unconsciously to every
act Of teaching.
Georgia has one normal school-at
Milledgeville. 7 was recently there
and would advise every member OF
this House to visit it as u solemn duty.
1t is q great and wonderful success.
1t is the salvation of the children. Oh
the criminal waste OF years The
years lost pouring over lessons without
method, without system, no plan, nc
inspiration You ought to give this
normal school every aid and encourage.
ment, and one of the first thugs that
you should do is to provide for co-edu.
cation. Why not educate the young
men us we'll as the young women
InSFe Is no reason unueF heaven why
it should not be done.
And here let me say that tho very
worst thing that l have heard of my
old mother, Georgia, is that you com
pei your tie achers to wait for months
for the poor pittance they earn. This
is an outrage that for very shame
should be corrected. Let the teachers
be paid we'll, but above all let them be
paid promptly I!
am growing old. In my boyhoo(
days 1 havo ridden over the site of this
beautiful city when the old Whitehall
tavern was the only building here.
remember when it took me five day,
to ride from my home in Alabama tc
school at Athens, Ga. Now | make the
trip in six hours. Everything ha,
changed and science has brought thu
ends of tho earth into neighborhcHd
But still education is the dominan
factor of civilization, and the forces G
nature are harnessed as servitors tt
man only through the operation of thu
developed intellect.
In conclusion the speaker made
powerful and eloquent appeal to the
patriotism of his hearers, and urged
them to spare nothing in the develop
mont of the rising generation. He
payed a splendid tribute to Governor
Northern as the great school Governor
of the South, and finally closed amids'
a burst of warm and hearty applause