The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-04

l~ectual, physical, and moral training.
1t is not the natural the
climate, the soils, and the minerals /;
it is not even the race, much as these
things count in production but it is
education which above everything
else determines the wealth-earning
power of a people.
The population of Massachusetts,
is 2,6O5, 346 of Tennessee is 1920, GIG.
They have the same number of chill
dren to educate. The enrolment
and the average daily attendance on
their public schools in 1898-99 were
As follows:
Average
EnrOllm't. dly at'dance
Massach'etts All, 977 $50, 317
Tennessee. 499,S45 352, 734
Massachusetts taught school 1873
days in the year and her enrolled
pupils attended an average of 1875
days. Tennessee taught school only
50 days and her enrolled pupils at
tended only CTS days. The average
Tennessee child is absent 26.2 days
IN the SO days of the school session.
Massachusetts expended for all
purposes of her public schools in
~1S9S-99, $13, $50, S38, which was $38.-
90 per pupil in average daily attend
ance and $5.O7 per capita of her
population. Tennessee extended for
her public schools in the same year,
$l,62S, 313, which is $4.62 per pupil
in average daily attendance and only
So cents per capita of population.
The average expenditure for all the
States Of the Union is $19 per pupil
IN average daily attendance and 81. 81
per capita of the population of the
entire country.
The power of education in produc-
ton may be presented again in this
concrete way From the statistics
above it is seen that Massachusetts
spent in 1S9S-99, $12, POI, 525 more
upon her public schools than Ten
nessee. But see what a return she
gets. Each n of the 2.SO6, 346 citi-
zens of NJ Observation-Disclosures women
and infants-has, as we have said,
a productive capacity of $3.50 a year,
against $17O a year for the average
~inhabitant of the whole United
States and SIG a year for the aver
age inhabitant of Tennessee. The
inhabitants of Massachusetts has
thus an excess of $50 a year over the
average inhabitant of the United
States and $144 d year over the aver
age i~nhabitant of Tennessee. This
means that the people of Massachu-
sets earned last year 1852, 487, 40
more than the same number of aver
age people of the United States and
$4O3, 6 1924 more than the same
Der of people in Tennessee. Twelve
million dollars invested in superior
education yield 400 millions a year
If the people of Tennessee would
compete in production with the peO-
pie of other States and of the world
and they must do so whether they
will or not-they must educate all
their children not only their white
children, but their black; and they
must educate them all, not poorly
for u few months in the year and a
few months in their lives, but thor
0ughIy through a long series of years.
IF history teaches US anything it is
the solidarity of all mankind, that
no man liveth unto himself, and
no man dieth unto himself" but
that we are each his "brOther's
Eeeper."
Our great resources in Tennessee,
climate, soils and minerals, T use
less in the hands of an unframed
people. Moreover, if we do not edu-
cate our own people to use these
resources INTEL. gently, the trained
men of other States will come in and
do so, and make our native people
the hewers of wood and the draw
srs Of water in their Industries.
Some persons seem to think that
she marvellous energy and common
.r-N "a SNA PCOPAC IN SOAAOAOHO
Guarantee Cf their success in the bat
lie If life. But common n and
even unmeasured energy do not win
IN these days without education. We
must give our people knowledge and
training OF they will surely *ail in
the hot eampetitiOn of the twentieth
centUT VIII we not realize that
u best sources are our own chill
dren n ..at highest duty is to
educate a.am for the greatest use
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