The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-24
GOOD TEACHERS
MOST VITAL PART
or SCHOOL SYSTEM SAYS AM.
BAssADoR BRYCE AT EDucA-
TioNAL CONFERENCE.
Compliments Southern People On
Provisions For Lducation OF
Negroes--tiow They Man
age Schools in England.

| Memphis, April Ambassador
Bryce spoke this evening to the
Southern Educational conference
discussing methods OF education in
this country as compared with those
len vogue in England. He said In
Ipart:
| II Is a pleasure to the returning
visitor to note how strong has become
! the interest in the progress of edu-
ication Ia this part of your country.
| You are So convinced of the worth of
those services, however, that need
net stop to descant upon them What
| desire to do tonight is to so straight
to practical topics and supply such
facts or give such counsel as my study
OF English education problems. contin
uod during forty years, places at my
disposal
After we had established element
| airy schools all over the country we
tried for some years to get on without
| compulsory school attendance laws.
But we found them indispensable.
We have found great advantages In
having the elementary schools sup.
ported partly by local taxation and
partly by state grant Supervision by
the central authority is of great value
In cities where school committee cor
trolls a considerable number OF ele
mentary schools, II has been our prac
tice for the committee To appoint for
each school small number OF per.
sons, men aud women. whom we call
managers, The hangers are usually
the best citizens In the neighborhood
rhey form friendly semi-official link
between the school aud the parents
and the local community.
We have found It matter Of sill
prcme Importance TO esablish n proper
connection between the elementary
schools IN which children remain TIL
pbcse syeaFH Of age ION an avaragel
and the secondary. schools what ypu
call high schools where children re-
main till Is or rs so that the best
pupils Cf the former may be passed on
to the latter and pursue their studies
there. II Is specially needed in rural
districts. where high schools are com,
paratively few. The boy who shows
ability Is sent forward to the most
available high school and II his apr
ents can't afford to support him, he is |
helped To remain for two or three years |
nf COL
good school system Is to secure good |
teachers-on him or her depends the |
advance of the scholars their intel |
Iectual life, their moral tone. Good |
teaching consists in much more than
showing children how to spell aud
write and do sums, or in hearing them |
repeat the names of the states aud
the dates in your history The real |
aim is TO quicken the intelligence Of |
The pupil. make him love knowledge |
and wish to 90 on acquiring it, To do
this the teacher must himself love
and posses much more Of
Il than the mere routine of school |
work demands.
These educational conclusions |
lrawn from cur English experience |
seem to be applicable generally | !
suppose what you desire to have in
the south is broadly as follows:
l. You desire that the laboring
man Of the country, by whom its mau
nal work. skilled and unskilled viii
1e done should be not only Industrious
)ut intelligent.
2. You want those who are to be
he leaders in the development of your 4
esources, the employers in city and
country. merchants. engineers and