The news & observer., 1900-12-29
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
A Subject Handled by DR.. Winston
With Consummate Skill.
DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH JUST BEGUN
The One Thing Lacking in This Favored Sec
ton Industrial Training and Skill. Our
Educational System Needs to
be Greatly Changed.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va, Dec. 2S.-The Executive
Committee of the Southern Educational
Association met this morning, no general
sessions of the Association being held
until tonight. and were addressed by
United States Commissioner of Education
Harris on the Relations of Universities
and Colleges to Public Schools, and Pro-
fessor Woodward of South Carolina Col
lege, on Drawbacks to Educational Or
ganization. These addresses we're dis
cussed by the members.
MR. WOODARD'S ADDRESS.
President Woodard spoke as follows;
Systematic organization of educational
work is prime necessity. The realization
OF this in the South is slow mainly due
to the Indifference of the various
branches of the would be system to need
ed correlation, and to the lack of ae-
knowledged leadership.
There is little connection among the
schools from lowest to highest. The sec
ondary schools are independent petty re-
pubics of letters with no acknowledged
no accepted direction Of any common head
The colleges are almost hostile rivals.
All are apparently melted by the COM
mercial spirit to take the field for palpa-
BILE results to surpass in numbers, equip
ment, notoriety. There is too little emua-
tion in good works. too much striving for
material results: too little co-rivalry in
scholarship and culture, too much indus
trial fon
seeking after palpable gains. to the neg
lect of the unseen eternal things, Hence
the temptation. too little resisted to ac-
commodate standards TO popular fancy.
Each school and college tries to be self
sufficient All are in the graduating. di-
ploma giving business. Swarms of "A.
BIS" buzz forth yearly from the univer-
stiles colleges, collegiate Institutes; al
most high schools, to fatten on the body
polite, instead of providing for it,
The resulting false estimates and ideals
encourage pretension. superfciality. char
latanism. There is disorganization instead
of organization. There is prevalent ndif-
ference to liberal studies, a sort OF mod
ern scorn of culture that scouts its re-
gime The Industrial awakening Is a dam
gerous prosperity that menaces revered
traditions. threatens established institu-
tons, and ignores the highest aspira-
tons
The report of the Organization Com
mittee appointed two years ago on the
reorganization Of the association was
continued until next meeting year
hence
Some routine business was ther trans
acted and the committee adjourned.
The afternoon was consumed IL the
meetings of departments.
In the department of higher education.
Professor Addison Hogue, of Washington
and Lee University, spoke on THE Grea-
est Need of Southern Education" Prof
Harrison Randolph, of the College Of
Charleston, S. c., on THE Private Col
lege and Public School" and Chancellor
Kirkland, Of Vanderbilt on "The State in
Education"
In the department of normal schools
Prof. p p. Claxton, of the State Normal
and Industrial College OF North Carolina
spoke on THE Function of the Normal
School,"
Some Of the departments did not hold
meetings.
When, tonight, the session con-
vened in general session. the
largest crowd yet assembled was
present. Professor G.. T. Winston, of the
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College, spoke on Industrial Educa-
tion ~ the South" And DR.. Paul Bar
ringer, Of the University of Virginia, on
Education of the Negro in the SOUTH
PRESIDENT WINsTON's ADDRESS.
President Winston referred to education
and machinery as the two great forces of
modern life. and said the South for one
hundred years maintained an industrial
system that rendered the full employ
ment of the5e forces impossible. The
long sectional contest that eliminated in
the Civil War was neither political. So
cial nor legal. but, at bottom, Industrial,
a struggle between the educated Yankee
mechanic astride the steam engine and
the educated Southern planter carrying
on his shoulders the ignorant negro slave.
Had the South possessed equal resources
and skill, he said, the boys in gray under
Lee and Jackson would have been irwin
cible not only by the North, but by the
world. He continued in part as follows:
THE building up Of the South since her
overthrow in war; the revival of old in
dustries and the establishment OF new,
the accumulation of wealth, and the null
tiplication Of schools, colleges and uni-
versities are the admiration and the won
der OF the world. But there is nothing
Wondarful abouf n Tho paonIo WIN tyarp