The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04
THE SENTIMENT FOR EDUCATION
It's Growth in North Carolina. The Work of the
Younger Men and the
Women.

have been asking themselves very pert
inent questions and they have found
precious kernel of truth and have re-
ceNed an inspiration, and like other men
and women who have learned the truth,
they are. spreading it broadcast and
preaching the gospel of public educa-
tiCn.
Who are these searchers after the
true causes which have retarded our
growth and progress. and who, having
found it, are proclaiming it? While they
come from all classes, vet they are prin-
cipally the Younger men and women.
More poor boys and girls have attended
our schools and colleges through saCri-
fees during the last twenty years than
ever before in our history. AT our Uui-
versity and our colleges merit has been
the test of recognition and not station in
life. The boys or girls who are trained
and purified in the crucible of self sacri--
flee are deeply appreciative of the bless
ings which have come to them and in
their contentment and happiness they
have seized hold of this doctrine of pub
lie education and are anxious that the
benefits which they have received shall
become universal No selfish calculat-
ing person believes in public education
These are the kind who put obstacles
in the way of local taxation and vir-
tuously contend that every man ought
to educate his own children.
Again We have been blessed in having
at the head of and among the faculty of
many Of our institutions men and wo-
men who believe iD this doctrine of pub
lie education and have impressed it upon
the student body. Some of them require
that such students as are the benefici-
aries of bounty must teach for a number
of years in the public schools These
instructors have recognized the relations
between the public schools and their in
situations. They know that when public
schools supported by taxation are es-
tabIished over the State that more child
rem will come to them, that new build
ings must be built and faculties increased,
in fact that additional higher institu-
tiCns of learning must be established
The most interesting statement / heard
at the recent commencement of the Nor
NAL and Industrial College at Green's
boro was by DR.. McIyer. when he re-
ferred to 1.-The intimate relations be-
tween that college and the other public
schools in North Carolina" These
young men and women are going out
among the people and they are sounding
the call to duty. They are teaching in
the public schools, these trained teach
ers are, and they are insisting on better
school houses, longer terms, more money.
inere ased taxation, and at the same time
they are training the boys and girls
with such equipment as they have. And
some of the most useful and efficient Of
these apostles of light are the conse-
Grated young women who have received
this new inspiration
Will this movement increase and
grow? | think it will. Wherever the
people have taxed themselves and estab-
lished these public schools, selected COM
petent committees with wise manage
ment and employed trained teachers re-
CARELESS of their denomination or sec
ton, and have continued such schools
for several years, there they have come
to stay. You can 70 more abolish them
than you can the institution of trial by
jury. They are both institutions of the
people. The towns are making fairly
good progress. In fact. the town which
today has failed to establish public
schools advertises it's own slothfulness
and is suffering from dry rot. 1t is to
the rural communities of the State that
We must carry the message.
There are many volunteers but the
harvest is ripe and we need more. The
man or woman seeking the very acme
of self-content and happiness which
comes from doing good, who would do
genuine service to the State. should
join hands with this splendid company
who have enlisted for the regeneration
of the State There shall be no step
backward, their faces are to the front
and our arch enemy ignorance. narrow
ness and selfishness are on the retreat
JOHN II. SMALL.
May 80. 1902