The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-17
Deet Session of Teachers
Assembly.
continued from Page Two.)

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...r+ Of more money; and fourth, in
..,.a on the part of parents
r~.scnt worthy State S~upcrintend-
in line on the subject of consolida-
~ school districts as we'll as upon
..nar subjects that pertain to our
....attonal progress.
.-,. need of consolidation has been
.n7 felt and now we have the work
...sa1idation going on in many of the
...n-fes of the State.
~..rotf0n my own county, CataWba,
. hncalse | think the County Board
rf-r9tion here is the first one to have
... .,,.~l@o to take up the whole county
,-..n and locate the schools of the en-
.... county with reference to the terri
...-- and not with reference to the num-
. efx-v-fVc pupils. Our boards and
..- law makers have laid too much
.-.s- On the number sixty-iye in the
.l.- in many instances.
First get the territory of the entire
..-rtv so that it is at least four miles
between any two of the school houses,
unless on account Of natural difficulties,
-s.H as streams, this cannot be done:
nr- let us see to it that the difficulties
.-, real and not imaginary as they often
We cannot make any number of child
rn a basis for the size Of the districts,
hut we must make a number of miles
ou. basis fer establishing districts.
There are many other counties in which
consolidation Of districts is being made
aal i'm those counties where nothing is
,., bofn gdone the question is being dis
ors~od.
WE arc going to do away with the
small districts; we are going to build
better houses, and we are going to tax
ourselves for the education of our child
rem and our ~neighbCrs' children.
Build BETTER SCHOOL HOUSES.
The third of the series was a paper bv
Miss aura Kirby, president of Women's
State Association for Building Better
school Houses. whose views as to the
best stops to be taken were set forth as
follows:
Ii is cur desire that every man, woman
au1 child interested in the DEVELOPMENT
al the future citizens of North Carolina
may have an opportunity to do some
work for this cause. There is to be no
tae for the women, except the promise
o.. service and the desire to help lift the
Srata from the depths of ignorance and
poverty to its proper place of knowledge
and wealth.
IN Attractive school life and plav
grounds will do more than the most profit
atIo crops 10 keep the boys on the farm.
Generally speaking there is nothing
about q rural school house calculated to
cultivate a taste for the beautiful in art
or i'm nature. Surely few teachers realize
The eject this school life has on the life
of tho little r1 UpQ6 farTOpr how whn
comes 10 them to learn of higher and
1"al"r things which exist for some, but
from which he is excluded.
In selecting pictures for the school
room care should be taken to have the
Very best pictures that Will aid in the
cultivation of a love of nature, that will
H.a:Ajnate history, literature and geog-
ta"5E. Pictures exert a constant and
powerful though silent influence on chill
dF'n. The play ground should be clean
and shady. Almost any father would set
out a tree or two, while another would
clear away the brush, and so on until the
Oil school grounds would be scarcely
recognizod.
Here will be the opportunity for the
teacher to prepare, with the children.
amoscmcnts for the home people.
1.-THE mother who tolls at homo from sun
rise TO sunset viii have at least one
chance to leave the farm for a little
Will" and forget the burdens of her I'M
t~F"AiiuI, mOnOtOnous life. Perhaps a
de" of these mothers might be saved
rom ruined health and the insane asy-
lIas IL more opportunities be given them
LOT Il Tow hours recreation at the school.
ihe Central Association is anxious to
A9In whenever and however it can.
ffoSTamms for literary and social en-
|El"lnments will be suggested, thus
4aHIng the school a social enter for the
community.
around every public school house
"|'1o even four CT five women are in
l.8oted in the Improvement of the school
A'-sn or grounds, we want to form local
aasociations.
There is no fee for active membership
and W" Will be glad to have all join us
NIL" are willing to give service in this
work.
'IIEIt SUBJECTS DISCUSSED.
Township Teachers Meetings. was
thcme Of Prof. NJ. c.. S. Noble. of
'' state University, who showed their
value and the best means to be used in
N'AilS them great aids to education.
'+o'. w. C., Allen, superintendent of the
schools Of Waynesville, made an in
.t-sttng address on the subject of The
Aag OF History He presented some
1l IDEAS as to the matter and man
". amt mis- remarks showed that he had
VI careful study OF the subject.
tHE PRESS AND EDUCATION.
''" closing address of the exercises CT
~ morning was delivered by Mr.. jose
L.'' Daniels, editor of the News and
.E.E. whose theme was 9TH Press in
educational Awakening" 1t was an
iUll Of suggestivencss and from
and fclicitous introduce
PASSED to an able discussion of the
.h. newspapers had taken and
.' cake in the educational movement.
'"3fcss began with IA account OF
'"|jihg around" of the carly
""aatcr, and to this he added the
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