Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-10-12
Education In Mississippi


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every child is blessed with instruc
tion and every man is clothed with
citizenship; where popular severe gn
ty rests securely on the firm basis OF
popular education.
Not a great while ago was our
State back in oblivion on the arena
of education among the states of this
vast union. How is it to-day? The
answer comes in silent tones of gran
deur and beauty: High Schools and
colleges are dotting our state from
Alabama on the east to the Nigh
ty Mississippi on the west; from
| Tennessseee on the north to the
peaceful waters of the Cuff on the
south: now modern school buildings,
with proper furniture and apparatus;
college and University bred men and
women to FIJI the teachers chair, with
talent and executive ability to mas
ter the important work Of the teach
err, leading US to exclaim that our
beloved state is marching to the front
with her glorious banner, anPcalling
to her noble sons and fair daughters
TO come and drink of the fount tain of
knowledge that flows by and within
the reach of all who make an honest
effort for it.
! YOUNG PEOPLE, Listen! Let me
hold up to you the beauty and glori-
Gus possibilities Of the youth which
you are endowed Do you realize
what peerless privilege it is to be
young2 Youth is admitted by all to
be the most fascinating period of life,
with its freshness, its enthusiasm
ana confidence, frankly 'spc n ling to
every act of kindness and opening
the heart to every overture of love.
1t has been said, Youth is the time
when we own the world and the full
ness thereof. Youth, like Napoleon,
sees the world and proceeds to con
quer it. Youth sees the mountains
and dares to beat them down; chasms
and dares to bridge them Youth
here at the beginning OF the TWEEN
tieth century has all history and all
lands for its demesne, though it may
live in a mansion or dwell in cot
tage. Youth, for whom Shakespeare
wrote, FOX whom Newton and Kepler
and Edison solved the mysteries of
the world, and for whom the TWEEN
tieth century is preparing to open it's
golden g ltcs of promise.
H. L. Whitfield, our State Supt.
deserves much credit for his indomi
table energy and pluck to steer tho
Educational ship of advancement in
to the harbor of success and prosper
Eity. BY ENERGY, I mean application
attention, activity, perseverance, and
urtiring industry in that business OF
pursuit whatever it may be. which is
undertaken. The many first class
County Superintendent who are ur
and doing for the best interest OF
their Co show that education is fan
! from being dormant in our honored
state. The people are truly realizing
just anybody can each the young
idea how to shoot, but we need men
! and woman of true force of character,
who meet, defy and bear down Ill OPP
position, whose mental fibre is com
posed of those higher instincts that
make the t. ue teacher, thus having
an heritage, for the educated offer
from the unedurated: AS the liv-
ing differ from the dead.
The greatest good that can come
into the life of a human being through
the process of education is the per-
sonal richness and beauty. 'Educa-
ton is not to make us seem to be
greater to the world, but that the
world and all life and all eternity
may seem greater and richer and
more beautiful to us. Ignorance
is no longer a vacuam void of knowI-
edge; it is q plenum of errors; bring
ing unhappiness to the individual and
danger to the state -
Education should no Ion ger be look
ed upon as drudgery and unknown
mystery to be worked out by the few
only, but in clear light of mastery
to all those who put Their shoulders
to the wheel and with a determina-
to attain the jewel that awaits those
who strive faithfully
1t is true all can t be done in a year
yet with the application, mastery of
subjects may be made in due time,
remembering it is not so much the
quality as quantity which trains the
faculties of the mind for the intellect
ual growth.
The social development OF the last
half century shows a steady growth
in the recognition of the public
schools as one of the most important
institutions of modern society. Of
course education does not consist
merely in textbook knowledge, but
with it the high ennobling and ex-
alting ideas, and low, for the student
as we'll as deep interest in the work.
At present, fellow teachers, our
best teaching should be English. Give
a boy or girl good English course,
and you give them the true founda-
ton for permanent Education. We