Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19
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he was atarid, We required about the
same qualifications in q teacher that
we demand of policeman. 1t was
absurd, he said. We need compe-
tent teachers, but we can't expect to
employ competent teachers and keep
them at salaries of cooks. We want
men and women whose education and
force of character fit them to be the
models for every child.
Looking out into the audience he
said he saw there the faces of men
Interested in education in other sec
tions of Oconee. They ought to go
to their homes, redouble their ef-
forts along educational lines in or
der to keep their citizens from NOV
ing to Seneca to take advantage of
Seneca's new and better facilities.
"And them he said. you people of
Seneca must push further forward
and compel them to move to Seneca
in spite Of the redoubled efforts of
your competing neighbors." Now is
never time to stand still. He made
an eloquent appeal for the high
school. 1t is a farce and a shame to
send pupils from graded school to
what ought to be done in the two
years Of high school work, at home,
where the pupil can remain under
the parental roof and under parental
care. Home is the place for school
boys and girls; colleges are for
young men and young women who
have completed the graded and high
school, and are preparing to enter
sides, 1t is waste of money. You
send four high school pupils to col
legc, and 1t costs you $1,000 a scs-
sion; $1,000 will run your whole
high school department at home.
and your boys anc girls have the
advantage of home life and home
training at the time when they need
1t. We are generous before we are
J''N' " ~ 'i' Npu "lllllS 10 pay
1000 to send three or four high
school children to college for a year.
when YOU pay your teachers, some
times unwillingly, $50 or $40 !;
month to wear out their lives trying
to teach fifty or sixty pupils? We
expect our policemen to have sufii-
cicnt Judgment not to tackle more
than he can handle, yIt We pay our
teachers $50 a month and expect
them, day after da!', to teach and
control fifty or sixty OF our ungov-
crnabIcS.
Prof. Hand closed with an earnest
appeal to the people OF Seneca to
stand by their school. 1t rests with
YOU people," he said. you people OF
Sencca-'thc brave tribe of Upper
Caroiln" to make this school what
it ought to bc-a glowing. glorious
succcss-'hc foUntain-hcad and
well-spring of knowledge, the basis
Of intelligent citizenship and Chris
tian integrity"
Prof. Hands address contained
much of worth, much good advice
and sound counsel, and il would
have been we'll had every citizen Of
Oconcc heard him. This brief and
imperfect summary of some of his
thoughts does him an injustice.
What he said. however. to the peo-
pie Of Seneca is applicable to the
people Of every town and every, sec
tton OF OcOncc. and it is our hope
that at some time all of our people
may have an opportunity to hear
him. chat he may lend inspiration TO
q general forward movement in edu-
'ational matters.
At the close OF Prof. Hands ad-
dress Prof. J. T.. Sanders, principal
OF tn" Seneca schools, introduced as
the last speaker
Prof. ID. Wistcr Daniel,
of Clemson College, who held his
audience in rapt attention for an all
too brief period. He opened his re-
marks with the statement that while
he had much to say, still he must Of
necessity he brief and to the point
He agreed with all Prof. Hand had
said. They wcr" the doctors attend
ing this case, and they agreed in
their diagnosis and in the remedy
There was no cause for a parley-
the case was a plain one. Some