The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-22


will run to waste. Within the last four
centuries the people of Spain have own
ed as much silver and gold as all the
other nations of Europe put together;
yet, at the present time, poor indeed is
the people who have less than they.
The nation which has produced more of
the raw material and manufactured
from it more fine linen than all contem-
porary nations, is today the most rag
ged and squalid in Christendom.
Horace Mann.
''The blind see, the deaf hear, the
lame walk, is the best illustration of
this subject by the master hand. No
page of history will ever shine so bright
that this diamond will not lend it's
ldster.
All are blind to that which they can
not see, deaf to what they cannot hear,
and lame to all they cannot attain.
The lily comes to the pink of perfec-
ton by using for its growth every drop
of dew, every breath of air and every
shaft of light that comes. 1t is an ex-
ample of success in it's line. The splen-
dor and glory of Solomon could not
match it. There is as much life in
dark, tangled, chaotic jungle as there
is in modern city. The life in the
jungle is blind, deaf, lame; in the city
it sees, hears, moves. The same in
kind, but different in degree.
Seeing, hearing, walking, is life
''more abundantly" Death is the cut
ting of every wire that communicates
with the central office of life. One dim
eye, dull ear, lame foot, are just so
many wires down. When they are all
down, the clod folls with a dull thud
upon the coffin lid.
True education is the work of true
educators. They teach how to make
it life to live'-not how to turn stones
into bread. Colleges and universities
may crumble into dust, but such men
shall live forever.
''These shall resist the empire. of decay,
When time is DER, and worlds have
passed away.
Cold in the dust the perisheds heart
may lie,
But that which warmed it once can
never de-
There are in Kentucky today
thousand schools without teachers;
there are thousands of schools being
taught by unframed teachers; and there
are hundreds of thousands of children
growing up in ignorance and vice with
out attending any school whatever.
The crying need of our state today is
sufficient corps of Normallya Trained
teachers. At present, almost any per-
son of good moral character and a GER
tifcate may be put in charge of the
training of the children, although he
wonld not be considered competent to
train a bird-dog or a colt. To train
these valuable animals requires special
training and practical knowledge of
their nature and characteristics, as well
as of the methods best adapted to their
development and draining. Without
this knowledge upon the part of the
trainer, a valuable dog or colt may be
ruined Of course the same thing may
happen to the child in the hands of an
unframed teacher, but it must be re-
membered that there is vast differ
ence between fine English Pointer or
a Thoroughbred Kentucky Roadster
and mere child(?)
How long will the pride of Ken
tuckians remain dormant in the matter
of Education? How long will we allow
the mass of our growing citizens to re-
main deaf, dumb and blind to the best
there is in life? How long will we
withhold the best educational advan-
tages from the country people, just be-
cause trained teachers cost more than
unframed teachers?
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