Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-28

Let US hasten to put ourselves
abreast of the other cities of Geor-
gia in this respect. Let the qualifca-
tons required of an applicant be first
a diploma from a high grade college
or normal school, and give the pref
erence to the latter. The state of
Georgia supports two excellent nor
NAL schools where young men and
young women, at a moderate cost, can
prepare themselves for this work I
would like to have the members of this
board go with me to Atlanta Thurs
day and let them see the eagerness
with which superintendent of the
various first class systems will be
hunting for trained teachers to fill
vacancies during the coming year. The
GeOrg a Educational Association has
become a veritable clearing house
Understand, l do not advocate the ex-
clusion Of local applicants for posi-
tons in our schools, but I do mean
to say that the fact of their being
local should not outweigh all quest ions
of training and experience in out
siders, and only in this way can you
safeguard the best interests of our
ch ldren.
Educational Centre For City.
We shall soon have completed one
of the most convenient and best equip
ped High School buildings to be found
in Georgia. In this building will be
an auditorium capable of seating eight
hundred people. This will add not on
ly TO the efficiency of the High School
work, but It will give us a place where
We may assemble all of our pupils
from time to time I believe that this
building should become the centre of
the educational life of our city. 1t
should be used to bring about a bet
ter understanding between the citizen
ship of our city, on the one hand, and
those having the educational interests
n charge on the other 1t should be
a gathering place where one may come
in contact with the other During the
coming year events of an educational
character should be arranged by the
board and teachers which would at
tract the attention of the public, bring
them toge- her, and give them a better
ms ght into what is being done and
the objects we are Amino to attain
We hear so much these DAYS of dissat-
AesASANIAOAA WITH Jul SEuO0iS. not 00lN
here in Americas, but all over the land
There is tendency to compare them
win those of the past, to tie dispar-
agement of those of the present.
am free to say that in my opinion the
world has never seen better schools
than we have today. In point OF
equipment, in the efficiency and train
ing Of the teacher force, in skillful
supervision and in the interest. zeal
and knowledge displayed by our school
boards, the present has never been
surpassed. Where then is the defectq
To Much Outside Distraction.
In he first place, never in the his
tory of the world have the children
mad SO many distractions to take them
from their studies as at present. Ey-
cry minute of a boys or girls time
out of-school is taken up with things
Whlcb are of far more interest to them
than the dreary round of school work.
The school work has become a matter
Of secondary importance to them. The
boys and girls of today have things
TO amuse them which in our widest
dreams never came to US in our child
hood.
8SdAH, the preach between tEie home
and the school is ever widening. There
IS get ng to be but little co-opera-
lon between these two great factors
n the development Of child life. In |
ne good old days, when the days |
york was done, we gathered around
la firesi fe ana our parents saw that i
We prepafe7 our lessons for the com |
ing d3y. Now business so absorbs /
the a tention of the heads of families |
that those duties which once they
assumed are more and more shifted
to the school, and they know but lit /
tie about the work of their children
IN the schools. Almost any n ght, you
may see dozens of schoolboys loiter-
ing on the streets until a late hour,
and at some places of amusement you
can almost call the roll Of the High
School | believe fhn ffyaa IL fast an