Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15
schools md colleges grow closer TO- TO

schools md colleges grow oloser: TO-
gether. ;E - IN.
There are some who think that if
the colleges are crippled or abolished
the public school system will be I'M
proved. If the State should abolish
Clemson, the South Carolina College
the Citadel, Winthrop and the negro
college at Ora,lgoburg, and should
apply all the money TO the supper;
of the public schools, the public
schools would be lengthoned three
weeks and four days. The trouble
lies, not with expenditures OF col.
leges, but elsewhere. An examina-
tion of statistics shows that South
Carolina is given less por capita and
per pupil than any other State in
the Union, and to our shame it must
be added that we have the highest
percentage of illiteracy, with tho one
exception of Louisiana. We shall
have better schools when we are
ready to pay for them.
EXISTING COLLEGES.
I would not see a single existing
college crippled or abolished. They
are mutually helpful and there is
room for all. In South Carolina
there are 10000 white children in
the public schools. In all tho white
colleges, State and denominational
male and female, there are 1850
students. About three per cent Of
the public school students are at
tending tho institutions of higher
learning. Tho fact that such 8
small percentage of our boys and
girls are attending college puts edu.
Gated mon and women at premium
There is no place in tho Union in
which higher education yields such
handsome and prompt dividends.
CLASSICAL AND INDUSTRIAL EDucA.
Having made my position plain, ]
will now 60 q step further to say
that the pressing need to-day is de-
velopmont along chronological, in
dustrial, and manual lines. In 1873.
England woke up to find that Cor
many was competing with incrcas
ing success for the foreign trade o
the world. A commission was ap
pointed to ascertain the cause. Thi
commission reported that it wa
owing to tho splendid technologica
schools of Germany and that he
artisans were able to produce better
goods at less cost than the English
Since then England has spent enor
nous sums of money preparing he
sons to compete with the skill o
other lands. The continent is thor
oughly awake to the needs of th'
industrial education. Tho littl,
kingdom of Saxony, one-fourth thu
size of the State of South Carolina
has three technical schools. Th,
kingdom appropriates 5000 0rO pc
annum for their maintenance, ant
this amount is literally supplemented
by the cities, Berlin alone give
$4,000.
| DEFINITION.
Let us get clear idea of what i
meant by industrial education.
Trade education is the preparing
of craftsmen for pratical work in th'
particular trade.
Technical education is the teach
ing of the sciences in their practica
application to the material interests
of man.
Manual training is instruction il
tt @ use of tools as part of com
plete educational discipline.
"A commercial college is a trad,
school.
The Sd agricultural and mcchani
cal colleges of the United State ar
technical schools.
The Drexel Institute, of Philadcl
phia, is in the main, manual labor
school.
All may be grouped under the on
heading Of industrial schools.
The main object in each is t.
apply science to the material inter
ests Of man. Tho object is to com
bine knowing and doing; to toacl
common sense in systematic man
ner. 1t would not have us take les
interest in the past, but more in tn
living, throbbing present. It woul
not have us know less about tn
acqueducts Of Rome, but more abou
tho water supply of South Caroline
HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT.
The statements sound familia
enough at present, but in 172
Thomas Hollis was ridiculed in schol
arly circles because he persisted i
founding profcssorship Of physica