The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-05-07
Pnblic Education.

article and applies to every county in
the State, viz:
ct is surprising in this. the begin
ming Of the twentieth century, that it
is necessary even to suggest to the
people not vitality interested that it
pays in actual dollars and cents to tax
themselves to educate the children
growing up about them. The policy
has been so long tried and has brought
such large and benefcent results that
those who have had to bear the heav-
lest tax burdens in education are the
ones most willing to continue to do so.
even to the extent Of enlarging the
children's opportunities year by year.
Our Legislatures have been wise and
liberal, as liberal as they should have
been, hence we have a respectable per
capita, but the fault lies in the unwill-
ingness Of the individual school dis
tricts to supplement this appropriation
by the STATE. 1t is the deliberate judg-
ment of those having the matter at
heart that we can have a sudden and
effective uplft by prompt attention to
this derellction of duty. It has re-
suited more from ignorance and indif
ference than actual unwiIlingness, and
all that the people have needed has
been to have their attention directed
to It's Importance. 1t is a fault of
human nature that the more help you
give one the more that one will re-
quire, and the large State appropria-
tion has SPOILED the individual dis
tricts. We will have to help ourselves
more than heretofore and as soon as
we begin to have our efforts followed
by the results as sure to follow, the
unwillingness to keep the district
school in good running order will dis
appear.
Boyle county should have, and will
have a neat comfortable schooI house
why not a brick or stone one-in every
district, we'll paid teacher and two
full sessions of twenty weeks each.
Does the large landowner, always an
employer of labor, think his neighbor-
hood is not repaid in actual dollars and
cents by a number one school in his
district? Can he offer any more entic-
ing inducements to an intelligent, self
respecting tenant to cooperate with
him in the cultivation of his farm than
that a model school is at his door?
Does not mind. frightened by edu-
cational training respond with more
eagerness and readiness to the splendid
opportunities that farm life now offers,
than one allowed to lie fallow and IN
trained? What, too of the develop
ment of the sense of reliability and re-
sponsibility? we heard a farmer say
that the educated demand more wages.
Precisely so-they are worth more, and
in the contest between ignorant and
educated who is in doubt about the ou--
come? We do not have in mind that
character of education that is finished
scholarship, but the education that is
an investment. that brings results in !
aidly duties more ntelIigently and
easily done, that puts in the boys
mind that kind of capacity that calcU-
lates, that observes, that analyses the
soils and finds their needs for certain |
deinate results. This kind of prac-
teal training Of the mind is due every
child born and reared in Boyle county. |
and in order to pass on down to our
successors trained men Of business,
men who vote intelligently. men and
women who honor the home and digni- |
fly labor, we must put the means at
their disposal in order that they may
train themselves. To deny the child |
r n this opportunity is to withhold from
them right, and whether they will ]
revere our memories or look regret |
fully back upon US depends largely
upon what we do for them in the way
Of educational advantages.
Education has an economic, a none
tary value, and there is no heritage we
can leave to our children of such in
trinsic worth as a disciplined mind |
Let US then not grudgingIy and with a !
too free criticism withhold our votes
from this important movement, but let
US put every school in Boyle county on
level with any in the land. There is
nothing too good Cor the Boyle county
boys and girls of the next generation. |
Support is withheld from the present
law because it has some defects. There
are objections, serious ones, and at