The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-10-18
uenefits of bis Educational work.

benefits of his educational work.
Our acquaintance with Professor
Brown and his educational work amply
j~ustifies the conclusion that the extent
and value of his work in each community
where he has taught can only be pro-
~portionately measured and valued by the
time he labored in each.
Our personal acquaintance with him
began in 1879, when he became one of
the faculty of Judson College. The Col
lege building was only partially com
pleted when the institution. first opened,
and the name and person of w. A. G..
Brown were two of its prime factors"
His high educational qualifications, rep
utation as a teacher and educator gave
the college an extensive reputation and
character from the very beginning of it's
work. 1t was his patience and thorough
ness, tact and ability, natural and ac-
quired, by his years of experience, and
his influence in the territory occupied by
the college, that filled its rolls with
names and crowded its halls with stu
dents from all over this territory. The
number of students and interest in the
institution increased each year,-the
students of one session returning the
next, bringing with them their friends.
Attention. 'Thoroughness," and
Learning Things by Doing Them" were
the notices of his work. He never
taught or practiced Nigh Cuts" but
by drill and thorough demonstration
taught every lesson perfectly. 1t was
his untiring efforts, aided by his CO.
teachers and the students, that made
Judson College one of the best schools of
the State, an honor to the teachers and
the pride of all who attended same.
But for Henderson County, alone, it
was in the capacity of County Superin-
tendent that Professor Brown rendered
his greatest service. Being it's first
Superintendent of Education, he was first
to organize the public school teachers of
the county into a body, first to conduct
Institutes for the assistance and instruc-
ton of the teachers, and first to establish
uniformity of school books and methods
of teaching. He completely reformed the
schools of the county; visited the schools,
counseled with the teachers and patrons;
made addresses in every school-house
and breathed a new life into the whole
school work. What he was to the stu
dents in the classroom he was to the
teachers of the county. He advised
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books" of doing sums to get the an
swer," and instilled and enforced the
idea of using books as helps, "as tools to
help the student in obtaining useful
knowledge, and in developing, broaden
ing and enriching the mind. He ever
counseled against teachers trying to teach
what they did not know or understand,
and against carelessness in teaching even
the simplest matters, and contended
st%renuously that teachers should study
carefully the business of teaching.
No teacher, student or child ever went
to him for advice or information and
went away without it, or some valuable
suggestion concerning same. And it is
the unanimous verdict of the people of
the county that at no time in the his
tory of it's public schools were they bet
ter attended, better taught or better
supervised, or better and more lasting re-
suits obtained, than when they were I'M
der the supervision of Professor Brown.
Yet, he has ever been and is a modest man,
and has practiced this special virtue in
every vocation of life. He has been, Ind
is a cultured Christian gentleman. He