The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-30
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Il. IL. AULL, EDITOR.
A WORD IN REPLY.


Rock Hill 1t requires IL word from
us. We have been nnablc to get ia
anything on account Of the pressure Of
local matters in our columns for the
past two issues.
We agree most heartily with what
Prof. Wallace says about the imports
ance Of the teacher fitting himself for
the work he has to do. No one can
make success of anything WHO be-
comes entirely satisfied with himself
and his attainments. This is especial
ly true of the teacher who deals with
the youth Of the State. Tnr truchcr
should be as hard II student as any
pupil he has in the room He siIuulu
never undertake to teach Il lesson with
which he is not entirely familiar. .ir
should continue to study as long as he
teaches. We endorse, We say, muSt
heartily this position.
AS to our being II friend To popular
education We are willing to stand on
our record in that matter. We have
stood by and encouraged our public
schools on every occasion when the OPP
portunity presented itself and sumr-
times we have made the opportunity to
speak for them. We have wanted to
see good school in every community,
town aDd county, that WAS kept open
for the full school year Of nine or ten
months. We have opposed building
1,;
to build and continued rAprnsc 10 run
when the common schools were lam
gushing for want Of adequate funds to
run them. We are top heavy now. 1t
costs the State about $3.50 II year to Cd
ucatc boys at our State colleges who
are able us rule to educate them
selves while we struggle and try to raise
$3 per capita for the education of the
great mass Of the children of the S.a:u
in the common schools and from the
very nature of things will never hr
able to go to college. The very same
argument used for the expenditure Of
these large sums for higher insLtu-
tions is the one Prof. Wallace resorts
to. We are surprised at the way hr
does it. lf it were politician or Il
dcmagOguc we would not be surprised.
He ridicules the idea Of rNprnsr when
it is only Il pitiful $1,000 that is to br
used. lie says: "Nou think the -, itjU
appropriated for the summer school.
would do more good il put into the
public school fund. Thut amount wuut
un the public schools Of the Stusr JUS:
about one day. People will differ
about these things. You may bc righl
in that opinion and | wrong" Tina,
Is fine bit of sarcasm. meant to hold
our position up TO the public in II
ridiculous light. Yes, people will diff
fer. 1t was not SO much the amount we
had in mind for we did not know what
IL was. With the short school term we
have, one day is a big thing. 1t would
give 2oo,ooo children one more day at
school. and some of this number miuh,
get something in that one day whereas
we doubt if any teacher who goes to
Rock Hill will get anything he could
profession. 5uv that is the same ole
argument used for making any ar-
pro .atiru 90 600 will only run the
schools DAYS while If Appropriated
Will support the college for the whole
year or il will only be ten or fifteen
cents To each Individual and SO ON un
TIL we are spending about half us much
Tor higher education us we spend or
oil the public schools in the State.
Yes, we are Il friend to popular cducu-
tion and we realize that the greatest
need of the common schools today j.
more money. II We had that we woulG
have the teachers and good ones.
But to get buck to the direct qucs
tlon. We repeat tha: the uvcray,
teacher OF our common schools cunno
afford TO go to this summer norma
even at the small cost and live tn,
whole year out Of the salary received
But apart from that will the benefit dc
rived equal even the paltry cxpenditur,
of $1,000.
oShool We presume Is 10 lufnlSl
methods Of instruction and presume
that the teachers have the lilcrur
training. We may be wrong but thu
Is onr understanding. Take the facult
to conduct this normal school an,
three-fifths Of them will talk on some
thing apart from the methods of teach
ing and we doubt If the other two.iifth
ever had any experience in primary 0
common school teaching and we fee
sure that Mrs. Fair of our own Gradr,
School could teach any one of them i,
the methods of teaching children
They are all educated men and Der
fectly competent in their department
but they are college professors and
there is one thing the average collcp
professor does not know it is how L
teach in our county schools. Whcl
we made our first criticism we did no
know who would constitute the facult,
Of this normal school but we suppose,
they would be college professors. The,
are educated men and their lecture
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