Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Educational
How Schools Help a Nsiahborhood.


his letter. People are moving about
in North Carolina good deal now,
aud the prime object sought is good
chools--adyautages for the children.
Ever notice how the value of prop
erty jumps around a good school
Take the Wingate section. Before
the school was begun there farm
lands could be bought easily and at
no big figures. Ira b. Mullis, an
intelligent young farmer of that sec-
tion, told us Saturday that the de-
mand for farm lands in reach of the
school couldn't be supplied, while in
the village, we were told by man
who lives there, property is about as
high as it is in Monroe. When
people move it is for the purpose of
bettering themselves, and the man
whose ear is attuned to the new con-
ditions doesn't consider himself bet
tered by move that doesn't carry
him within reach of a good school.
= Monroe IN. C) Journal.
If the crowns ofsall the Kingdoms
of Europe were laid down at my
feet in exchange for my books and
my love of reading, l would spurn
them all.-Fenelon.
If it is the duty of the State to
see that its citizens know how to
read, it is certainly no less its duty
to see that they are trained to do
the right kind of reading; otherwise
the ability to read may be harmful
rather than beneficial, both to the
Individual and to the State.--Sher-
man Williams.
A good book is the. precious life
blood of a master spirit embalmed
aud treasured up on purpose to life
beyond life.-Milton.
A taste for books is the pleasure
and glory of my life. l would not
xchange it for the glory of the
In6ies.-Gibbon.
Any rural teacher can have rural
school library, if she only Wills to
have one. Get the children inter-
ested first of all. The children's in
terest will secure the interests of the
parents. After this is secured a
public entertainment will help.
Then talk to the parents and ask for
more money.-Southern Education.
The rural school library need not
have very many books. 1t is per-
haps best that it should be small.
The teacher should be thoroughly
familiar with each book.
Education.
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The rural school library is the
means by which to get books, to
keep them, and to get books read
Southern education.
The difference between an edu-
clted man and an uneducated man
"is that the educated man feels more,
sees more, wants more, is interested
in greater variety of things" Mere
technical arithmetic, technical gram
mar, technical drawing, and most of
the geography and history taught in
onr public schools cannot really edu-
cate the children; these can only
supply the tools of knowledge.
Real education comes to the chill
dren by means of reading good
books and by association with
teachers who are themselves edu-
Education.
Children must be directed and
trained in regard to their reading.
They can no more be trusted to get
their own knowledge of and taste
for literature unaided than they can
get their scientific and mathemati-
cal training in the same way.
Training pupils 10 read and love
good literature is by far the most
important work done in school. 1t
is the one thing the school does that
continues to contribute TO ones edu-
cation so long as he lives. We should
never forget that it is not the ability
to read, but the use made of that
ability, that contributes to the
destiny of tho child.-Sherman Will
liams.
Arizona gives $50 year to the
school library of every school district
which has 100 children of school age.
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Massachusetts, gives $15 for rural
school library to each rural school
that raises $15.
Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Caro-
Ina, Tennessee and Virginia have no
rural school library laws.
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