The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-03-23
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ton. 1t was very noticeable that the
last meeting of the X. Z. A.. at Bowl
ing Green, even with a very small at
tendance, every educational interest in
the State was either directly or in
| directly represented. In the next
meeting, at Winchester, June 1920
no effort will be spared to have not
only every educational interest more
largely represented. but the people
themselves will be heard and the
mothers and fathers will be heard in a
cause which is essentially and prima-
rily theirs.
We can not afford to rest on our
oars at this time because we have
gotten the one month extension of the
school term or the rural school and
two splendidly equipped State Nor
nal Schools. Let these be the begin
ming of, a complete reform, the fight
for which we shall begin anew with a
solid organization and a concerted eff
fort on the part of all in the meeting
a, Winchester. and end VIGOROUSLY,
if we end at all, in the legislative halls
of the State Capitol at Frankfort
Many reforms are needed and there
are many great questions to be set
tied AS our worthy secretary so
forcefully put it in an article in the
last issue to The Southern School
Journal: THE rapidly growing public
sentiment in favor of better schools,
must be so crystalized and so clearly
presented to the minds of our legisla-
tors. that they will know that some
thing must be done"
The Trustee system must be revised
The compulsory education law needs
revision and enforcement. Provision
must be made for more revenue, for
better school houses and for better
paid teachers. These are only few
o fthe more important matters COM
ing under the general head of need
ed legislation which will be one of the
most prominent features of the pro
gram of the Winchester meeting.
These and other great questions will
be handled by their ablest advocates
OF this and other States. Accusing
the interest of the people to a recogni-
ton of their true status educational
ly as compared with other States,
cultivation of better professional
spirit on the part of all the teachers,
the need of great State University,
the relation of high schools and COL
leges, politics and the schools, prob
lens of the rural schools, are all
questions of vital Importance that will
characterize the spirit of the pro-
gram.
1t should be the aim of every edu-
Gator and of every friend of education
in Kentucky, to let the meeting at
Winchester go on record as being not
only the greatest meeting in the his
tory of the Association from the stand
point of organization, numbers and
enthusiasm. but as being the meeting
at which the greatest things for the
cause Of education in Kentucky were
done. The writer is gratified that
the outlook for such a meeting is ex-
ceedingly bright. From every corner
of the State, from men in all voca-
tiOns of life, come letters of splendid
In fact, everything
points to general awakening of the
people to a recognl..on of the deplor
able condition of Kentucky's educa-
tional interests for which there is no
excuse in this the otherwise greatest
Commonwealth among the States. 1t
has taken long time to SOW seed for
the great harvest that is surely with
the buds of another springtime. But
the sewers have been faithful and the
soil has not been barren, though it
has taken the rain and sunshine, the
and narrowing of many sea-