The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1901-01-01
EDUCATORS OF THE
SOUTH IN SESSION
President Fulton Delivers a
F0rceful Address.
WHITE MAN AND NEGRO
Identical Methods of Education For
Them Wrong.
FOR GREAT SOUTHERN CENTRAL COLLEGE
Colleges Should Not Attempt the Work OF Pre-
paratory Schools. Dabney Reads Paper
on Scientific and Technical Edu-
caticn in ihe South.
caticn in ihe South.
(By the Associated Press. J


Richmond, Va, Dec. 27.-The tenth an
nual convention of the Southern Educa-
tional Association met here this morning,
the attendance being very good. The body
was called to order by j. l.. Hill, Chair
man of the local Committee of Arrange
ments, and an invocation was made by
Rev. Carey e Morgan, of this city
Addresses OF welcome were delivered
by Governor j. Hoge Tyler, Mayor Rich
ard NJ. Taylor, and City School Superin-
tendent Fox, and responses were made by
Superintendent Wooten of Paris, Texas;
Il. G. Glen, State Commissioner of Edu-
cation, Atlanta, Ga, and Superintendent
OF Public Institutions J. G. Calhoun, of
Louisiana. Mr.. Hill then surrendered the
gaVel to President r. B. Fulton, Chancel-
Tor of the University Of Mississippi. who
thereupon took charge of the convention
ana delivered his annual address,
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT FULTON.
Il. B. Fulton, Chancellor of the Univer-
slty OF Mississippi, in his annual address
as president of the association discussed
the facilities for education given by the
oodtn 10 the Whlte and c0lOred races
ana said in each State they had divided
with the colored race the funds raised
by taxes paid almost entirely by white
men and had given equal educational ia
clllties at the public expense. He asked
whether it had proven that the studies
which train 10 acuteness the anglo-Saxo
mlnd were the best to sharpen. the Mon
golian the African intellect Had
not blind sentiment been aiming TO give
AngIC-SaXon minds to the negro race in
stead OF offering tnat DEVELOPMENT and
traQnlng which would best meet the DOS
SlolIltleS or that race. Millions of dol
lars had been spent annually for thirty
nFe years in the Southern States for
the education of the negro race. Had
there been an adequate return in advance
ment shown? 1t was, he added, the duty
OF the Intelligent educators of the South
20 study and discuss these problems in
all fullness and with impartial interest
ana TO determine in form and kind and
methoc the education and training that
should be afforded to the negro race
Continuing President Fulton said in
part:
There are two important particulars
in which coming changes Will certainly
modify the policies and the work of our
schools of higher rank In the first
place, those institutions which as are to
De called colleges or universities must see
that vastly more is lost than is gained
when their rolls are swelled by the names
or immature students In Dreparatorv
classes, and when the funds and energies
OIL the institutions are spent in work that
properly belongs to elementary or second |
ary schools. In the second place insti-
tutions intended to give specially scien |
tlilc or technical training Will learn that |
their best work is not done when they |
attempt to be all things to all men-to |
work upon material that should be in the |
grammar schools as we'll as that which is |
more advanced-to give classical or lit
erary culture as we'll as technical studies
to prepare fer ultimate entrance into the
profession OF teaching as well as for the
management OF industrial enterprises.
Technical education in the South in
the institutions already established and
ln those which may be established will
not achleVe for indiv duals nor for the
community, the highest and fullest results
until such education shall be made TO con-
form more fully with the law which the |
of all the past shows to be
the governing principle in educational ad-
vancement.
The greatest educational need Of The !
south today is at least one institution
pre- -eminently fitted By its material
equipment, its means of support, and it's
environment to command and hold with
out challenge the position of leader in
.echnical training among the institutions
about it. No one Of the State institutions
an claim this position for our section.
10 afford the material appliances for such
IN institution as we need 81 600 coo is n
minimum sum. To maintain its work as
t should be, an endowment of not less
han $1,000, 900 would be required Ore in
titution with ample equipment, properly
coated and organized could easily be
made to exert guiding and helpful infu-
nee upon all manual and technical train
ng in all schools in the South.
Can there not be found somewhere
hat union OF wealth. material with
wealth CT noble liberality which shall pro
-ide in the first years of the coming
entury for this most pressing need of
ducation in the South"
President Charles W. Dabney, of the
University OF Tennessee, read paper