The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-12-07
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NECRO'S HOPE
PROF. SUTTON OF THE UNlVER.
SITY OF TEXAS TELLS HOW IN.
STRUCTlON SHOULD BE GIVEN.

| Houston, Tex, Dec. j.-The south
ern negro and his educational prob
lens were dealt with recently in
paper prepared by Prof w. S. Sutton
of the University of Texas and geat
by him at the convention of the South
ern Educational association.
Professor Sutton reviewed the edu
cation of the negro in this country
which began, he said, prior to the rev
olutionary war, when the mistress
taught the slave children, down to the
interruption of the Civil War and tn,
subsequent organization of the Freed
mems bureau which he declared was
a failure as far as education was con
cerned and in conclusion told of the
present-day activity in giving the ne.
gro his chance.
Talking on the subject of intelligent
handling of the subject, Professor Sut-
ton quoted Booker T. Washington
whom he called one of the really
great leaders of his race" by saying
Men have tried to use with these
simple people just freed from slavery
and with no past, no inherited tradi-
tions of understanding, the same
methods of education which they have
used in New England"
Continuing, Professor Sutton said:
While the Freedmen's bureau
schools could not be regarded as eff.
ficient, yet there is evidence that its
work emphasized the necessity for
elementary education for negroes.
1T is in the higher institutions such
as Fiske University, Howard Univer
sty and Hampton Institute, the found
ing of which was encouraged by the
bureau and later institutions founded
since 1870 that the southern negro
finds opportunity to fit himself for
genuine service.
Opportunities Same for All
When the white people of the
southern states regained their liberty
after reconstruction and took cnarge
of their own state governments, they
at once began the stupendous task of
providing for a system of free public
schools and to their credit be it said
opportunities for free education were
extended TO whites and blacks alike
Concerning educational advantages
supplied to the negro. competent wit
nesses living north as well as south
are agreed that in all the history of
the world there has been no higher
manifestation of Justice and lberality
by "A superior to an inferior race than
the south has shown in its efforts to
improve the intellectual condition of
the negro population"
Under the head some principles on
the program for negro education,
Professor Sutton stated the following
points, on which he explained at
length:
I'm the negro are to be found the
essential elements of human nature
and, therefore, he can be educated
Education. being process of con
scious evolution. the negro himself
must by his own active efforts. reach
higher levels of intelligence and char
acter.
The professional education of
teachers as an Indispensable agency
for the elevation of the negro schools
can be accomplished only by profes-
sional experts having adequate oppor-
tunity for the discharge of their func- |
tons.
The compulsory education of the |
negro is demanded on both education-
al and political grounds.
THE education of the southern ne
gro should be marked by the continu- |
Gus manifestation of the spirit of CO. |
operation on the part of all who are |
concerned in the welfare of the
nation