The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-29


student not only for the active du-
ties of life, but if properly pursued
to give a thorough preparation for
entrance into the regular classes of
our State University, where he may
receive well rounded education
free of charge
Just here we will remark that it
is strange that every county court
does not see fit to so supplement the
public school fund that every child !
within the county may have the OPP
portunity Of attending school at
least five or six months during each |
year. The public schools are no
longer an experiment, they HAVE
COME TO STAY, and l will add, 10
bless the children of Tennessee. Ed
ucation is necessity, owe must
educate, or we must PERISH and at
no previous time in our history as a
nation has this truth been SO plain
to the people of the South, yea, to
the entire country.
The demands of to-day call for a
thorough, practical education, for
every boy and every girl who would
make success in life.
The increase of machinery calls
for educated workmen to operate
same. Many articles formerly pro-
duced by the hand are now the
products of machinery.
Mind and not muscle shall master
the Universe about us. As the de-
mand for manual labor grows less
and less, the tax on intelligence
steadily increases. The boy, OF the
girl, who remains uneducated must
of necessity become newer of wood
and drawer of water for those who
are more favored by fortune. If we
wish our children to become intelli
gent and independent citizens we
must educate them. Fathers and
mothers who fail to acknowledge
this great debt they owe their chill
dren are guilty of fearful SIN in
the sight of heaven and should be
regarded as criminals in the eyes of
every true patriot.
If we must educate, the public
schools as they bring an education
within the reach of the poorest,
must be sustained if all other inter-
ests suffer Friends, if we fail in
every undertaking except this, let
US not deprive our children of such
/ glorious heritage. DR.. Dabney,
| the Chancellor of the University of
| Tennessee, shows conclusively by
statistics that education increases
the producing capacity of the citi-
| zenship from one hundred to two
, hundred per cent. Education, by
creating a kind of discomfort with
our present condition becomes a
great factor for progress. Educa-
ton is thus in itself good thing.
The public school is the only avail
able means of bringing this within
reach of the laboring man.
The public school is to the far
mer the most beneficial institution
in existence. In sparsely settled
communities and where the children
are largely used to labor for a part
of the year, private schools can not
be sustained.
think the public school terms
should be so arranged as to benefit
the farmer, not only from the above
considerations but for the addition
al reason that with the farming class
rests, largely, the prosperity of our
country.
Doubtless the employment OF in
l competent teachers has lessened the
good that might have been the re-
suit of the public school system,
and this fact has given just ground
of complaint; still each Legislature
seeks, by just and rigid Legislation,
to guard well the door to the pro-
fession of teaching. This is right,