The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-14
Mr.. GLENN'S SPEECH
EIoquentW on Education
Before Joint Session of
General Assembly.

When Hon. G.. r. Glenn was invited
to address the Joint Session of the Gen
eral Assembly yesterday, he began by
congratulating North Carolina upon the
splencld progress she was making in the
Industrial world. But, said he. the most
marked progress the grand old State was
making, that which was attracting the
attention of the whole country. if not
the envy OF portions of it. more than man
utactures, commercial or agricultural ad-
vancement, was the wonderful educa-
tional work being done, under the lead
ership of such magnificent executives as
the Governor and Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, with the earnest co-oper-
alton of all leaders of public sentiment
The speaker dwelt much upon the idea
that education had been found to be tho
science, not only of knowing things. but
also of doing things.
Along this line he said in part:
1--WE are teaching our children today
that a boy or girl is educated when they
are educated as many of you here were
educated. | know personally very few
of you gentlemen here today but | will
venture to say that the best education
you have received is that which has come
to you in the hard and strenuous years
waan you have been studying things and
folks. SO our educational systems to-
day and our educational creeds today are
taking our children away from the old
education of the monastery. We are
training the child's brain, and the child S
hand through the child's brain. This is
the kind of training that is to be the
power of the future
Here Dr. Glenn recalled one of Vance's
stories: A stranger visiting the South
in the interest of negro education met
an old gray-haired colored man and ask
ed him: How is it, Uncle, that you
seem to have lost the sway that you
Cnce held?" The old darkey replied
Boss, don you know you cyan keep
igno'unce on top O. 'telligence?"
THE kind of intelligence you need
went on the speaker, lis the kind that
will man your own forces
DR.. Glenn then spoke of the great
forces of nature that were just begin
ming to be used, and the knowledge
necessary to be able to use them. He
described some of the wonders of liquid
air and the Roentgen Ray, telling several
very amusing stories.
He continued: 1.-THE kind of education
you must have is the kind your Superin-
tendent Joyner is insisting upon, and
your Governor is insisting upon.
THE richest mine you have is not your
gold mine, not anything that is in your
hillsides or the veins of your mountains.
The richest deposit you have is in the
lives of your boys and girls. If you will
continue to produce great men in North
Carolina, you must continue to lay up
stores to draw from in the lives of your
boys, and while you are doing that, do
not bother about Sambo. Just go on and
educate your boys and girls. and do not.
as your Governor says to you, let any
white boy lack an education because you
are afraid of the black boy.
My judgment is that the colored man
will only be a danger to us when we
leave him to be educated by outside
philanthropists. You need not be afraid
of the negro boy 1t will take him a
thousand years to get where your boy is.
If we give our boys the habit of get
ting busy when they are young. they
will continue to want to be busy as they
grow up"
DIR. Glenn closed very happily by com
plimenting the body he was addressing.
saying it almost made him think he was
addressing an audience in Georgia. they
all looked so bright, brainy, capable and
handsome.
i want YOU" said he, ito nelp this
great brainy superintendent of yours,
and you have got one of the very brain
lest of the whole South (applause), to do
his work for the children of the State.
Hold up his hands, | beg of you