The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-04-15
EDUCATION

''lWl' b'ElhhlhH ui Teaching Pud pHUrH
ti"u iu th" United states. but the br
ginning "i practical .rEool lrgi. i.lntiui
was nu doubt 'hr statute enacted by IA,
general court ul Mrssnrhusoii, iu IGt7
THIS STATUTE ordered that every ioyr
10 thc Jurisdiction having dffy house
holder, should employ q trnrhr wh,
should teach nll such children %. rr
sorted q" him iu write and roaa. also
that every town with one hundred hnu.
Iull"ts should ,"t up grammar school
'lr master ui whirh should b., able 'u
instruct Youth -" that thry wuum Lr
itt,d for the university %. g.. Harvard
college. The cost nf maintaining th,.,
,rh"ol, was 10 be- paid hy the uarrut.
"f the children - educated ~ hy 'hr
inhabitants general. hy Wa %, .ul,
ply ~ ~" majority ~ those that pr
l"f"d the prud"uiial, "i 'h" town
might dire \ rcunlt, Nu. imposed
upon the wns that should neglect 'o
pcrrorm u . duty
1 From tlu humblr beginning. nf which
Massachusetts Is Justly proud. ha. been
built up ~" ,plou'id system ui ."h"ul.
colleges aud universities, which H.. our
Inud today aud whirh nr, 'hr Lursi uf
I'yrlN American ritiIru.
llucntinu 1T ~" Youth na, become
%" slogan of America, and. while We
nav" u.s. yet IL" national ,rhool ,ystcm
every stat" ard t"rriior, within the
hound. IT ~" lri'rd states hu. vur rd
ont some plan whereby rh" cog, uf tts
educational machinery ruu smoothly aud
10 70 minimum los. of the cu"rp, applied.
While, e. stated. S." have no unt,ur
nl ,Nst"m "f education iu thi. country.
,iill th" general y"'"rum"nt hu, pro
,Id"d g,u"rnusly for tine maintenance
"i public srh""ls ,umo uf the mu.t val
uHl lr lards IN the country belonging
iu that fund The spirit manifested m
'ho word. ui the fumuu, ordinance IT
~ 'ihHt school, aud tine means ui
education shall hr forever "uruuru .rd 90
of this glnrIou. rrruhlir of uur, The
sons "f the poor can pmck the frut
from the tree uf know ledge ~ uuhiudrr.
"d q, can ~" sous uf milliuuaircs lI
th" field uf learning they meet "u roiu
mon ground aud uu institution 80 lu.
tor. the ,pirlt ur democracy q, doe,
hr public .rh""l.
While ~" PROGRESS "f "durrtiuu iu
''r luitcd state, bn, been steadily u
wand and upward. NJ no tim" hr, II u,
ull" '" prominent @ position 900 hr
mind. uf men aud women %, 100 'hr
Ut'srl', The farmer &, awakening tu
the realization that Nj, huy. are "i more
Importance than hi. crops aud. too. that
ih"s" same crop, are the better rur
scientific planting hy the rollrg" bred
Coy Railroad cumroulr- are rrpui lsg
fu"it men - pass rNnw untIurs ..ui,, !
demand certain educational ul"lihrn
fl"u~ ter they know the trained hnuu
viii act with the create. pruGrirnr, 10
here . q trained nraiu hn.h or o.
The practical machlui,t hla, |
smith, carpenter. or other artisan I, |
insi becoming . thing of the pas lu'
Dol, place is being taken hy no.. m
- brains who makes hi, knowledge ui |
Nipn", mathematics supply NJ" o'I ''ru'
Iud uN method. thereby rcoi pmi1inp |
imo oui material. rwo thing, nf ,n,'
Importance IN tn, npr at r"u,rr Of Juu
aud economics
In an this onward march the women |
Of \n"riro have formed uo inruuspiru |
nus part ot the pror"sNou. Nu'ul lr cN |
nmplr' ave Nh Eila Fngp Young, tHa,
wonderful woman superintendent IT the
rriN s"h""l- at Chicago, aud Mis-, Mar
= hu Berry, the founder of The Berry
Srhool IN th" mountains of Grurgiu
university rrofcssor ~ addressing |
% convention ut educator, ~ rItt,hurr |
Kan. said in part, | would bring the |
boy into contact with men, Nn Numuu |
uo matter how good ~ how vi,r She
NAY h", can ever understand the temp |
la'i"u,, the problems, ia" trrdcuclc, aud |
thr inclination at the adulrsrcut ho, |
rh" formation If hi, ideas are mu,ru |
line, aud We should bring him up against |
mHlr teachers good men who can sym |
Inthllr with him and direct him rarI
more Iutrlligcu'ly than can women.
Perhaps he hrlicvc, 1t aud perhaps
nc does not, bat whether he doe, or
locs not, he must concrdc that the wa |
men of this great land have done yer, |
icrtual work a. instructors of the
adolesrcut hoy, Numbers of ~ viii |
continue I" believe that the very hest |
teacher that hoy can have Is his |
mother aud the next best his tracl rr |
IN the public schools This. Of coursc,
is an old fashioned opinion aud it would |
not carry weight it II were not for the
fact that the biographies Of the men
who have made this nation great leave
No room ~ doubt the statement
On" of the branches of the general |
Federation of Women : clubs il that
Of education, The platform of that ,lc
parlmrut rrnds ~ follows
AIM' That all children in the TINT |
I'd States Sha have equal educational |
PRINCIPLES - Strong aud well