The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-24
fHJLTURAI EDUCATION.

rUITURAII EDUCATION.
IA Hooker Criticizes Plan for
Ing Agriculture and Makes
lions.
(kinstOn Free Press.)
re read with some interest the
on the teaching Of agriculture
4 perintendent j. Y. JOyner ana
in the Gao ina Union FARMER
4cfal organ of the FARMERS
Now of course, for the boy
HI of North Carolina to receive
Seatest benefit for the money
should be, and Of course is, the
zia1sid era ions: and for each to re-
heir proportional part of the
appropriated for school pur-
should be the next considera-
As to the public schools, / don't
the high schools should be
limited to the detriment Of the
ION schools. The common school
cen, and will ever be, the main
IN the education OF the vast
ag of men and women that till the
SOperate the factories, that furnish
human energy for the many and
I'd industries that make us pros
SAs people, Therefore the common
bis should receive the States first
deratiOn, whether it be teaching
Eulture or whether it be teaching
fish.
IS understand the plan Of Mr..
%aer for teaching agriculture IS
<erned somewhat after our present
Dol law and this: Ask the State &c
4ropriate funds to be used in those
mites that raise a like amount. and
IN that ten or twenty schools would
Sufficient for the State at the pres
II time, owing to the lack Of prop
~ trained teachers, ETC., which I
mt think right for the reason tha,
Ewould eliminate those counties that
eOuld not have an agricultural high
khool from receiving their proportion
part in the appropriation by tie
late. It is taxation without compen-
N on. For instance, why should
3strict No. / be taxed to maintain :,
Ehool in district No. 3? AS I under
Sand the school law that is what is
eing done now. The fifty thousand
pillars appropriated by thenState for
be aid and maintenance Of District
1igh Schools is favoritism for one
ection against another. The districts
hat are unable to raise the sum re-
Luired to enable them to get help from
he State are usually the ones tn, t
ICED it most. Yet they have to pay
heir part Of this fifty thousand dol
ars and get no benefit therefrCr1.
md the plan outlined by Mr.. Joyrar
he 100 ching of agriculture seems
O be similar to the one for the dis
riot high schools. I don't question
he wisdom Of the Legislature or the
bility of Mr.. Joyner as an educator,
ut the common or free school, is the
Of oil Y1o fnp of
gricuIture. Let the State appropriate
s large an amount as possible and
i've each and every district its pro-
Crtional part.
For the children that would be the
east accessible to the county agricul-
ural schools are ones that needs this
articular class Of training mos.
all to see why the teaching Of agli-
ulture should not be made simple as
ell as beneficial. The more compli-
ated it is made the farther it gets
way from the poorer class Of chi,.
rem, not only that it would largely
Eliminate the free school teachers, as
We know her today, and against that
arnestly protest She is a part ard
arcel Of us, and to train her in a most
tic ent manner, and lengthen the
ERIN Of the common schools, make
he main equipment and efficiency as
ear perfect as possible, should be our
i'm. And again, there are very few
rec school houses in our State but
hat have a small piece Of land near
hem that could be rented, and often
ines the owners Of such lands would
e glad to furnish the land to the
,hooI free Of cost. And il there is
to be made farming, and
cost agricultural writer's think there
,, 1t might be made revenue instead
f an expense. With textbooks tell
ng us Of the requirements of plants
nd animals. Of the different kinds Of
GODS essential to the best growth and
development Of the human family, I
hink we might expect much good to
'e accomplished at a very reasonable
ost.
However I do not claim the plan to
'e perfect, but whatever mistakes
hat might occur would be less extern
i've Cnes. and could be more easily
lighted than to have more extensive