The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-03
ACHIEVEMENTS IN
EDUCATION SOUTH
Address by DR.. Edwin
A. Alderman.
WITH POWER


summer School-ihe Prod
lens OF Education Di>
'h@>'''
a.4nc.,f,1al
l"" 9'u'H
thought and ACTIVITIES III. EdH4h =
Alderman. President Of the TIM
..~.i+,- - Virginia. ana a ma
r,..l;ro delivered
I'VE OF NoiIA
an address before the summer Sch"ot
..s, rigt, his suhiect being The
.ni.,.,.ot - omar
E'uH0"'l"ii"4
tel Of a Century II carried tie ''aN"-
ers TO the mountain . OF inspiration.
and the 9od-liEe intellect OF tn"
speaker was agIoW with the glory Of
his mighty theme.
40 question betOIe the American
people today is more vital thar. thar
81 education and Or. Alderman dis
tuSSed its various phases with power
and authority.
Few men in America are better &C
uuainted with the South than IL. Al
German. and ne referred TO hel lnstl-
,utloit@ - - nnalf nffaStinn. ~
every nafriofic Southerner in his au-
lianca
puuen Au1itorium was crowded. and
The peonle If Raleigh were as much
aaligbt4d and cd}frd bv Dr Alder
mans address as were the teachers.
mr. Aldermen * In he urine of life.
ia - - a.I,nina a,atn,. rIaoant ana
,innnant ~ sna4ch md fh4 imnresS
IN made llnan th4 hearts a. his hear
are Uirl re,nnfn forever
Or Aldermen said in part.
u know If no movement i'm modern
.ta,a a,,r,3a1 :, bfobar ,,,rn,c. ,a,-
In - 80 Stn,,,ia I1.a1 ana
tfc aIncatinpal hottla ~ the south
einca Ix-o me ,aan and women who
na n ao,,jad + fnrr-ord daearye vau
nf tbej. %faIialys Tbair fask was 70
NINA - nnhIir snirif ana Develop y
nublic drstre in an indiyidualistic IL. con-
ieryatien a~9ietnrratic enrietv snnittan
,.ar ,,e.a,t 49, nni,.t lahtc ~. )
' = w, ~ ' aaaao,at IL
: tjtntinn COSTING araat S,nns nf nonav
~ :, uta,I3 nf cEiil .,na nati.nna M.
r1nranant NAV he caiI 10 haye he~un
nthan 40 daeidad nnt ~ h. - in
enlanca president and became presi-
$40 ~ u,sbtng,nn rnIaUa an ac,
~ aio,I .nd arnobal tx ;te or,rN
dow ma ronSan1ancae
Fundamental Things Settled.
eft had nassad layond failure wher
oar brethren North and West. blessed
with social cvmnathx Of rare n1,aIitv
asked the nriyiIege of emporary CO.
it was a worthy impulse
Of theirs to offer. and a worthy i'm
rulse of ours to accent. one cannot
see to the end for there is no end in
such work. but some fundamental
things have been settled during these
and some remain unsettled. lie,
us INQUIRE briefly what these things
are and isolate them. ii we can. for
careful study:
..Jt has been settled thar the chief
of a Democratic state. is to
educate its children at the mmo
cost: all the property of the State CON
II ibuting its share for this ~
ct has been settled that he bene-
5;ts of tho schools .bau Ia onan ~
regardless Of class sect or race
the children Of tbe whita
black races shall be tauelft in SEN
arate schools.
1T has been settled as . necessitv
Of Democratic edncation that class
distinctions IN o1ncatinn shan nat
enter in the public schools 50 as to
modify the curriculum. the method or
he discipline. This means that in the
public schools, the son of u banker,
an artisan. viii study the same
subjects IN the same fashion. ana Get
the same democratic impulse.
1T has been settled that If is
and economic error Of the frs.
MAGNITUDE to neglect the education al
any Of the people: and an economic
necessity of the first magnitude to de
velop at any cost the p~rOductiye now
CT of trained intelligence
1T has been demonstrated that
" lille the public schools do not in
fringe upon religious liberty. THEN
instruction nevertheless docs NOT make
for godlesSoecc ~ ;r,alioi.,
eft has hean eattlad 49, al,natiop
is the RIGHT Of tha cbild ANA not an
act of nHh1fe hanevoianca
.'There nay ha ,ho.. ,vbo ctlI elmo
ia the ancient faar - ~, 1anaa, tnat
NAV hurk in ne aa,natinn If M
hnt tbe, lacr ~ cr,,aga -
ia that 60, - d.r,ftv 1f ~ |
lie Inference
.It 10 sattiad :. ao+.or 81 c+a+.
a. - 9 iIaitoI 80
40 scbaa1 = 1885, = a.o'tD
- no 80 - - - ~
- ~ ~ go ~
- ! ipu,ed oS 'd'h - un
: ! ~ ~ uh--Niileflcah ana IN
~ 'H
The education of the country child
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