Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-12-29
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS.

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS.
] The teachers discussed this subjec
when was boy They certainly
| disposed of 1t to their own satisfac
ton. and, doubtless. buried it. or else
they decided that it was too young tC
stand alone, and so quietly fed it on
matted milk until it is now ready to
travel. We are glad that 1t is here
with greater life and vigor than ever
before, for the county high school is
an. actual fact in some of the states
and is doing greater work and great.
er good than our fathers ever dreamed
of.
Texas must offer the high school
free to all her children if she wishes
10 keep abreast of educational move.
ments in other states and to prosper.
and she must get about ii at once
But there are other changes that must
be brought about before the county
high school can be made a success
The elementary school must be devel-
oped into a separate institution. Small
districts must be united until good.
live elementary schools displace small.
weak ones There must be no more
one-teacher schools. No elementary
school. should exist in which there are
fewer than three teachers-six would
be better, In most of the states the
oneteacher school is disappearing
with sufficient rapidity to proRise its
speedy extinction, and the 1ofmaI
schools of these states are no longer
training teachers for that decaying
system Small schools must be con-
solidated to make larger ones, the
children who live at a sufficient dis
lance from school must be conveyed
TO the schools in wagons employed
for that purpose: there must be. and
will be. much better school building
and better methods.
Elementary education should grow
out of and be centered around the
life and experience of the child. and
the work in school must have its ba-
sis in the industries which are essen
tial to the home and community. The
life in school must be so attractive to
the young people OF the community
as to check the restless desire to get
into the towns without having pre-
pared themselves for any useful &C.
cupation The school will. by its |
beauty and usefulness, transform the
manner of living in the community. /
In all the schools there will be man
nal training that will be of especial /
use and attractiveness to the commu-
nifty. and about one-third of the day
will be given to this training. for we
Ian ,nI has aIt afa- "a I
he child's health and growth demand
{. and that the people cannot be in
crested in education without. II. The
clement of beauty will pervade the
chools and its surroundings. and a
reasonable amount of work and the
Of accomplishing some
hing will transform school life into
joy instead Of a drudge. A num-
Ter of communities united can easily
rect good school buildings. having a
number of well-equipped
ooms, and place them in the charge
f the best teachers.
The county high school will be ;
rought about by the consolidation Of ,
number of communities having ele. ,
lentary schools into one high school |
istrict. The high school will be cen /
rally located, and children who have I
ompleted the course in the element ,
~ school will be promoted to mis- !
Ugh school, and will go on and com I
lete the work of the high school, be. !
ause they found joy and life in the !
'ork of the elementary school, and be s
luse the work of the high school is r
ttractive TO the pupils and to the pa. !
ants. c
The high school building will be
lodeled somewhat after this plan: Il
ne large assembly room. four or I
lore well equipped class rooms. n :
itchen, pantry. store room, dining h
BON, library. weaving room gymna- I
UNI. shop. music room. and principals 4
rfice. y
The industrial plan OF the element o
~ school will be continued into the r
ieh school and be greatly broadened, e
Ut the work will always be based p
pom fundamental industries. and the q
aeds of the home and the farm. Such Il
ork as cooking. sewing. spinning. {;
eaving, gardening, drawing. basket a
z. shoemaking, bristle brush making. $,
at making. blacksmithing tin work. a
x. tailoring and wood working will ID
, taught as carefully as Latin. Greek Il
other foreign languages. for which il
e farmer has a contempt n
Arithmetic will be based on the n
'oblems Of actual life: the compost "
on problem will solve itself. because