The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-17
NORTH CAROLINA
AGAIN IS FIRST
Educationa! Methods Su-
0crior to Those North
OUTSIDERS VIEW
tor to the State from Boston
.,fyes in the Educational Review
an Account of Finding HOW
North Carolina is Leader
in Educational Work.
i'm Educational WOi

in Educational Work.
In tLe December number Of the Id /.
irrational Review of New YORK. euleeo
bv Nicholas Murray Butler. Miss Car
me Matthew's. of Boston, Mass, VINO
..- z-isited North Carolina and inFesu-
ned conditions here has the follow
AL. to say of the schools and the
.ioOl system of North Carolina:
Il is so little the custom to turn 70
south for an object lesson In cd
.I9uaI practice that the mere sug-
ION that one should do 50 comes
.ue with something of a sense Oh |
Yet 1t is exactly to South
state and to the rural portion or
literate Southern State. the west
.aIf of North Carolina. that one
turn If one would find IN actual
Use educational methods superior
,se of the present ment nortn.
yr,aI ways at least has Western
Carolina already touched ed
mai ideals
st she has not allowed sectarlaa-
to become an issue. Nv
hes it is true the Presbyteria
the Episcopal have their mlsslo-
their schools planted thickiy
lin mountain counties OF the sta
he State with unusual foreS!Si
tiberality works side by side. han
and with these denomination
..ools recognizing their worth d
s.5lial settlement for the surrounI-
lg country, and works so quietly,
.a@,fuiiy SO alphabetically, that tnet
. no such thing as clashiaE, no sue
raipc as sectarian issue 1t is a curl-
GuS experience for d Norfhefntr -
listen 10 Il state superintendent OF
! ybiic instruction counseling his teac =
$, tie ru1a. teachers Of buncompe =
.8lntH 10 naaxe q Trinity OF --------
e.. h,...s, the church, ti4e s'hoal -
.ir,lt f5I2estess of the mother. q ilign-
st pf the preachef, nls p ~, .e1i
ts3-heI' ana more tu' - 49, -
tie pEe2eoehce slNeii--taie ,al., 49, ~.
~ 'a1fcn next ~ H-itoo' 80. [i
ta.'S experience - NM "l4''
--iD@. Wohdefcd "iesiti' iIae
II t.l@ &a'fe oi ca Ila OF eIoll '.iih
s'l.i' ii"ah core f'''ce ilol,H' ilol III aes "a. "a.
IA nced eNef ma" necoiile 'iie -
IL - Wa Us L"G1N.
I'll J. ta o'i'ia ha; aiisI''t
g.. late beihG 'ot az az
- r.. i toSS2tlc ~ etet
-. -.~--f- beIe'li II aiizd t.e'I !
)" -l>c = :f-.lt q ;t~'i'i t.l'i5
'ii - islst ts, WIS., ..11ie,a c1tla !
G- ~ . 'lShiE faht! dilAed
e.t, , t.t is E-:us n1aimi@ea' q
..tt t. nt. !h ar -9'lhi Is SetuieG'
. %, s e#'e" tt> , I'M IN eXperlntei'a-
,I3H - :. .'..' ta. fcl greater economy
-, = N'.l' .s.Je-fi"2 Ee>omeS fact.
.2i'o. So lu,t in her Sraded
i. Iocl' n, onl~ unique opportunity,
nj an eN broadening possiblhts
~ 2DC bUtf iaG. unoer one heau, one
1 incinaE@nip. one administration, she
r"n give to tiae child each grade OF
l. stfuctiOr, ~ n the primary through
the hi@h. with = certainty of perfec-
ti1n as 20 continuity and correlation
OF scrVic" ard studies, utterly unat-
t"inablc in Northern schools. with
L elf dis li-l~iiT@ diNlslonS OF grammar
a'd hlgA
ourtn, in rural schoolhOuse build
ing, North Carolina is leading, archi-
tecturaIly. No Northern State can
show such admirably designed rura,
schools SO ideal hygienically, 50
pleasing in line and refinement, such
models of perfection in every way, as
Western North Carolina One Won
dcrs how such a result was ever OBJ
tanned in the midst of the madly on
rushing current of educational reform
which consolidates districts, sweeps
away old schoolhouses, replaces them
With new. all in the twinkling of an
eve! For three years public rural
echoolhouses have been built at the
without break or stop That this
can be done. and done artistically,
With a minimum of waste and no
graft. is possible only because Of the
minute organization of every educa-
tional interest, together with the CEN
tralization of all educational admins
tration-two reforms to which North
Carolina is committed heart and soul
Surely the display on the part of a
State, ranked illiterate. of such
rare business sense. coupled with such
rare common sense, is indicative of a
coming leadership for that State, ed
ucationalIyp
The Honorable j. Y Joyner, State
Superintendent of Public instruction