The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1907-02-15
PRES. JOHNSON'S ADDRESS
BEFORE WOMAN'S ASSOCIATION

y.
Plea Is Made for Deeper Interest
In Their Welfare on the Part of
Colleges.
The college and rural schools are
most intimately related. They are
parts of one whole. Injury to one is
injury to both. Inefficiency in one
part seriously affects all parts. Thev
are interdependent. We sometimes
hear discussions about the claims of
lower schools as against those of
higher education, as if they were sepa-
rate and distinct and even antagonistic
This is serious and hurtiul mistake,
and the soone- we get rid. OF it entire
ly the better for the ,.&hoe cause OF
education. Herbert B. Adams, of
Johns HopkinsI university, in q mas
terly address, delivered beiote the
State HISTORIC AL society of Wisconsin
in 1891, on the higher education of the
people, shows conclusively that higher
education carhe first in the experience
OF every and aient andssevery modNn
tnaH" - JThe common schools, .
tions of t3rang from sources highe,
ca began felves, from English tradi
the foundPllege education" "Ameri.
colleges yher educational history with
Popular alton of classical schools and
growth p New England and Virginia. >
cry civil leducation is the historic out.
tries wf the higher education in ev.
versitie1zed country and those coun.
people ich have done most for uni.
BRrrea Rr have the best schools for the
cyS' b
nlervnrJ. H. Thornwcll, that gifted sor
ot South Carolina, who has left such
an impress upon his State as pulpit or.
ator and college president, in his IA.
nous letter on public instruction ir
South Carolina, written to Gov. Man.
ning i'll 1853, took similar position
and sustained it by argument and lu.
mnous citations to history.
Higher education is necessary to m.
existence OF the lower schools in fur.
nshlng them inspiration and inteIli.
gent direction and trained teachers
but on the other hand, the lowe,
l~e"o"l" are necessary to the iull growth
ana development OF higher education
Noneges can do no real college worl
without well prepared students from
the lower schools. They are tn,
foundation upon which the great col
Iege must rest They constitute tn,
base OF the pyramid of which the tru,
college or university is the apex.
The experience OF South Carolin;
s"ci education. "An act ior a.
founding and erecting OF froa III.
m Io' 'ne use OF the inhabitants Of Som,h
saa, was passed in 1z1o-tbo
u o' Tree schools for all the n.onIs
""S planted 100 years apo.-brt th
were no satisfactory resuIts r,.;I y.
century, when more a,.a., m
-. .,''' was gwen to higher education 49,,
=. ,'e,' some OF the finest product ~ ,ta
"'sner education was most ;nst-r
'"' III securing Improvement ,nd ~
'ee,''eht IN popular education 7.
''' oe moved upon from the outs;do
ON ABOVE Light is from above A.
-n'c'ent teacher for the con,a.'
must be trained in ..l,
snel a 'han the common schools Ona
"''''o. teach all that he knows H.
~ MO" a great deal more than he
,'@''p'S 10 teach. The noble wow.
no are carrying on this prc,.
' 'ol the rural schools are co,leoo
w. one OF the strongest ,ra,
,or the establishment of tbo
3" scho"i is, not that it will sunn,v a
missing link between the con,r,n: g
% ."u'S ana the college, but that if viii e.
y ''''''''e the lower schools to prcotor n n
- letter letter effort by placing before :"
,ho; Io'.''non school pupils a goal with. .,
The admonition t , aim bir, 80 til
~" ~ , our wagon tola star" is based n, n.
~ ." profound knowledge of human ta
NAV no, ,"e higher our aim though is,
,cr not attain to our idAsre -
HID "I 70 Will ,,.I;. rise No one &lcts bec HY,
plate, but no ora as the sam
sct 'e,%re hn the child any copy less ,,ns ,nS
,r. ,,', All the children will ny. 'ess "po
ugh the high school ",' not go Am,
p ~, insa al VIII be benefited by them W.T., VINO
INSPIRATION they give and - ' ~ VIII
OF their graduates ' III the er, r
ope we !, Ga, the {
to bury forever the ;d id.n may :, be Itl