Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-08-03
TRUE END Of EDUCATION.
ADDRESS OF r. T. JAYNEs, ESQ, BEFORE
THE COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
THE TRACHER'S NOBLE WORK.
Habit OF Right Thinking More Than n Thou.
sand Thoughts s-Every Man His Own
Proper Giit---The Best Of Life Out OF
Struggle--Greatness OF fAngo. .
Saxon - Power to Think
and Civilization p.
Published by Request.]

dress before the Oconce County
Teachers Institute, and, at the re-
quest of several teachers, a copy has
been furnished for publication. Mr..
Jaynes spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is
great thing to live to-day. This is
a great world in which to live. The
close of tho nineteenth century finds
life-civilized and christianized
lifc-worth the living. This is a
great age, the age in which mind
rules matter. 1t is an age of thought;
of threc-fold education-the educa-
tion of the head, the heart, the hand.
| am glad that I have the privilege
Of speaking few words of cncour-
agcment to tho representative teach
crs OF Oconee county while engaged
in the work of the Summer Institute.
And | beg to assure you in the out
set that the citizens cf Walhalla
highly appreciate your presence, and
wish you God-speed in yonr noble
work ; for the life of every true
teacher is one OF toll, of self-deninl.
of self-sacrifice for the good of
humanity. You literally spend ard
are spent in a labor Of love. The
true teacher magnifes his calling,
and this you do in no small degree
by attending this Summer School,
which is designed especially to per-
feet the teacher in the art of tepch-
ing. This year is going to mark an
epoch in the history nf education in
South Carolina. 1t is the first year
that the Teachers Institute has run
four weeks, and attending this ses.
sion is no holiday affair. The teach
ers themselves are going to school
once more, and they are going to
fine teachers, too, in Walhalla. I
hazard nothing in saying that the
teachers attending this Institute for
the past four weeks are proud of
their teachers proud to be pupils
again, and well they may be, for
we have been fortunate in having
assigned to us two of the ablest cdu-
Gators from two of the foremost
Southern States, Alabama and South
Carolina. Professors McNeill and
Hughes, you will pardon me, but l
feel that l ought, here and now, in
this public manner, to thank you
sincerely for your labors, to thank
you in the name of the teachers of
Oconee county, to thank you in the
name of the bright-eycd boys and
girls III every nook and corner of our
county who shall attend sch,ul dur
ing the coming year, and be reached
and helped by you through the teach
ers whom you have taught and
helped. Oh how the life of L. wor-
thy teacher multiplics and perpetu-
atcs itself. This, sometimes think,
is the greatest compensation, the
summum bonum, that our teachers
receive. In dollars and cents they
are poorly paid at best. Were
money their chief object, their Wis
dom in choosing calling would most
assuredly be discounted by the world.
But the soul that longs to be a bless
ing to its kind, to dispcl the dark
cloud Of ignorance, to rcnd the veil
of superstition, to enlighten and ele-
vate humanity, finds in the school
room full scope for the exercise of
all its God-given powers. Hard by
the side of the consccratcd ministers
stand the faithful teachers of our
land, and, next to religion, the
most inestimablc of earthly bless
ings is education.
HIGHEST TYPE OF MAN.
Were we to depict the highest
style OF man we would describe him
as being educated, refined and pious.
"Certainly," says Bacon, "It is heaven
on earth to have a mans mind move
in charity, rest in Providence and
turn upon the poles OF truth" A
mind fired with ardor in the pursuit
of learning, trained to acquire it and
able to enjoy it, this is the most pre-
cious of the goodly pearls, and
second in value only to the como of
great price" And although all
things of earth teach us "what
shadows we are and what shadows
We pursue" yet there is no earthly
blessing that will so outliye the vics-
STUDIES Of fortune and tho lapse of
years as a cultivated mind and lite
rary tasto. Wealth may take to
itself wir Il fly away ; friends
may fall on the sht and on the left
old age may creep on with stealthy
step; but amid life's wrecks and
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