Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-28
STATE SUMNER SCHOOL.
Work Well Under Way---An 0cones Teacher
Writes Interestingly OF the Work.


Clemson College, June 24.-The State
Summer School for teachers is getting
we'll under way at Clemson College, the
home Jf John G. Calhoun, and the most
loved spot of all Carolina. Here araong
the birds aud trees and grasses and brac-
ing mountain airis a most desirable place
for this college of teachers, who have as
sembled from every section of our State,
to exchange plan and method, and to
equip themselves for the greater respon-
sibilities of the greater demands of the
wave of educational progress that is
sweeping over our country from one end
to the other. Education is now olassi-
fed as a science whose principles can be
taught and studied as any other.
The purpose of our State in establish
ing this school is to bring the teacher in
touch with the best intelleots of our
country and to provide teachers of un-
questioned ability to teach teachers how
toiteach. AS such, teaching becomes a
laudable profession, and in the near fu-
ture we hope to see it securely safe
guarded by keeping out any save the best.
The professions of medicine, law, dentis-
try and others protect themselves in this
way, and why should not the teaching
profession be allowed to say who should
enter and who should not, whose action
would be authoritative and final.
DR.. McIver, president of the Southern
Educational Board, also President
Of the Normal and Industrial Col
iege for Women, of Greensboro, N. c.,
gave very strong lecture Friday evening
on the "Teacher as Citizen" DR..
Evans. of the Augusta Graded Schools, is
delivering series OF lectures on Rome,
the Netherlands and other countries of
the old world.
1t would be well for our people to take
time to come here and see just what our
State is doing for her teachers.
Over four hundred teachers are here.
Quite number from Oconee have regis
tered. The ladies are very much in the
majority, there being some $50. The
college authorities are sparing no pains
in providing for the comfort and conven-
fence of the teachers. Teacher and pupils
alike mingle in the dormitories, at the
table and frequently on the grounds may
be seen a professor in the midst of a
groupe of earnest pupils talking about
the great work that lies before them. A
large number of our teachers visited the
Old Stone church to-day.
The grounds, buildings, fruits and
everything have been turned over to the
teachers, happy and unique family.
Every variety conceivable may be found
here, whether of size or sort, age or ex-
periencc. Lean, lank and lazy, grave
and gay, stern and staid, lenient and low.
ing all have a generous share. AS to
noses, everything from the extreme Ro
man type with all the gradations OF
sharps and flats terminating in the more
generous Dutch type. Surely out of this
interesting family of the teaching profes
sion, one can find ones choice and in
choosing be perplexed with at least &
bakers dozen.
The general impression made is thai
the teachers have come here for earnest
honest work The Impulse received here
will be carried into every county of oul
State. bringing new life and better
equipped teachers into the school room
which will eventually result in better
and purer citizenship.
Such is the work of the .eacher-a bene.
factor of the human race is he and as
such he will be blessed not by the present
generation but by the ono coming after
NJ, G. B.