The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-11

rough as superintendent o. I - -
struction. up t. this good hour there
has always been an earnest effort on
the art Of public officials to improve
the public schools. This movement
received its greatest impetus in the
political revolution Of 1895 and 1900.
pledge that paramount TO every other
consideration. should be the education
of all the children Of the State and to
the carrying out Of this pledge he de-
voted most of the time Of his admins
tration, going wherever invited to
the gospel Of education and to
advocate local tax for public schools.
fulfilling his campaign pledge that
came to be known throughout the
whole country as The Educational
Governor Of the south The progress
thus made has been continued under
the administrations Of Governor Glenn
and Governor Kitchin and North Car
the record of building a new school
house for every day in~the year.
The result Of his steady progress
in the State has been that the school
term has been heightened, the people
have seen that they must pay better
salaries for teachers and there IS a
spirit of education that has increased
q hundred old in the last decade. All
over the State, from every hamlet,
village. town and rural district comes
the demand for efficient teachers to
man the public schools. The harvest
truly is great, but in comparison with
the demand, the ahorers are few.
The great need Of the State today
is good teachers. we'll trained, and
there is a growing spirit that the State
has neglected this branch Of its edu-
c%ational duty. h could hardly have
been otherwise. The paramount duty
was to arouse the people to the need
ev to increase the salaries and with
this increase has come an increase III
the numbe of capable and efficient
teachers, but it has not kept pace with
the demand for them. All OF our
schools and colleges and academies
and high sch ools are turning their at
tent;on to training teachers, but with
all hat has been done. those in the
harvest field still call loudly for labor
ers and much of the crop is not har-
vested in the best way because Of the
lack Of trained teachers.
Although the State is waking up,
much more is to be done. For years
tho state has maintained AT Green's
boro a magnificent State Normal and
Industrial College which has furnish
ed hundreds of the best teachers in
the State. Latterly, It has erected N
Eastern North Carolina a Teachers
Training School at GreenNille which
is doing a great work, and 1t is aiding
C~ullowhee and the Appalachian Train
ing school which are sending teach
ers into the public schools we'll train
ed. In Greensboro all the teachers
who are thus trained are women and
most of them that are trained III
Greenville are women The chief need
is for well trained women teachers
for now. as always, the great duty Of
training youth will devolv upon wo-
men rather than upon men. :
The State could make no better in
veStment than to double and treble
its appropriations~t to all these instl-
tutions 50 that the demand for labor
ers n the educational field would be
fully met. There is also a denan
tor more we'll trained male teachers.
soon the Greenville School Will be
given over entirely to women tor.
whatever h theories that may prevail
about c~o-education, experience has
shown hat the people Of North
Carolina prefer separate schools Tor
the sexes and as Josh Billings says:
There is no use arSui3 Ign a fact.
Therefore the State University has
doubled its faculty in its teachers