The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-09-14
TO UpLrFr NEGRO RACE.
Education Committee Declares All
Work Ennobling.


OF unusual interest not only to those con-
cerned in educational questions, but to all VINO
have studied the race problem in Maryland
and especially its educational and social phases,
is the recent report of the committee OF the
State Board of Education on the Proper Edu
cation of Negro Youth in Maryland" The
committee is composed of Mr.. Glenn II.
Worthington, chairman Mr.. Rufus K. Wood,
of Sparrow's Point, and Col. ". S. Powell,of
Ellicott City.
The committee was appointed to consider the
question of the education of colored youth IN
all its phases and to report to the Board It's con.
illusions, The report was made at the last
meeting and after setting forth the views on
the subject obtained from Booker i. WASH
ington and other persons interested IN the
education Of the negro, recommends that IN
the absence of facilities and equipments for IN
dustrial education in the negro schools OF the
State that the State Superintendent, in CO.
operation with the county superintendent, py
printed instructions and at teachers Institutes,
impress upon colored teachers the Importance
of education in useful and practical things In
order to fit the members OF the c0l0red race
for such duties as experience shows they are
adapted to perform successfully. The report
continues: -,
'iLet the colored teachers teach their pupils;
THAT mere book learning will avail them
little in the battle of life;
"That all labor is honorable;
''That agriculture is great industry ana
that farm labor is most useful and worthy
employment;
"That domestic service is indispensable in
every household and that its performance
faithfully. honestly and efficiently is not only
commendable, but contributes to the sum OF
human happiness;
THAT as they expect to dwell perplAnehtly
in close neighborhood to theiE Ehlte brethren
they should strive to gain the good will and
respect to their white brethren;
THAT they must not depend upon mere
statue law to make them better or more re-
spected citizens, but that they must work out
their own advancement;
THAT the honest acquisition OF property Is
an indication of progress
THAT thrift will add to their own self.re-
spect and gain the respect of others;
"That moral development and the spirit OF
hard work are Indispensable, for in the practice
of these lies their surest means OF prosperity
and happiness"
Then the report proceeds to say: "Your
committee realize that these precepts are not
new and that they are applicable alike to all
races and conditions Of men, but they are per-
suaded that the environment of the colored
youth is such as to demand that these precepts
be given special attention in our public schools.
By the steady incubation OF these precepts
wholesome transition may gradually bebrougnt
about IN the views OF the cOlOreu psOpie
garding the problems Of life. very little OBJ
servation will prove to them that success "a
achieved more surely by steady, honest and
sober industry than in any other way"
The report admits that the teachers in the
colored schools are not all in sympathy with
such doctrines and recommends the establish
ment of a colored normal school in the country
where colored teachers may be trained to incul-
cate right precepts. Thus gradually, the
masses would be reached and the future give
promise of the races dwelling here in peace
and harmony and with mutual respect, kind
illness and good will"
The report of the committee was unanimous
" adopted by the full Board and the State
Superintendent was authorized to have pre-
pared number of pamphlets containing the
report and such other recommendations and
suggestions to colored school teachers as he
deemed advisable and to distribute the same
among the colored school teachers throughout
the State.