The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-03


Gators. During the same period 81
Life Certificates were issued to white
itachers and not one was issued to
the Negro. Can not, and viii not.
our normal schools and colleges
change this condition?
There is Entirely Too Little Atten-
ton Given to College Education
in Alabama for the Negro.
In making this statement | am
Aot unmindful of the fact that it is
4 little unpopu ar to speak out for
the higher education of the Negro.
Neither am l unconscious of the fact
hat we must educate the masses of
the Negro in the fundamental prin-
Aples OF a common-school course; de-
We on their instinct of truth and ius-
tlce, implanted in their hearts by
the Almighty, and give them such in
dustrial efficiency that will make
them such factor in our industrial
problems, that they cannot be can
celled without serious detriment to
the labor situation of our common
country. If We do this for the mass
es we must have considerable num-
Der of high grade leaders, such as
our high grade institutions are capa-
BE of producing.
During the past year there were
2.641 students in all the college de-
partments Of all the white colleges
public, private and denominatonal
lin A ALBANIA, while in all the college
departments of all the Negro col eyes
N the state there were only 66 stu
dents, and three-fourths of these were
in enc college-Talladega. In other
words, there was one pupil in col ege
70 every 147 of the white schoo popu-
lation, and only one student in COL
lege to every 1889 of the Negro
school population.
We can no more get along without
the college than can the white race.
We must have leaders and teachers
of high ideal and liberal education,
for without such our secondary and
normal schools can not do the best
work.
If we hope to succeed in America
a considerable number of our boys
and girls must be trained in the arts,
sciences and professions. A one
sided education is a dangerous thing
Tor any people. The Negro needs a
full rounded education Schools of
every branch and every character are
needed to make him a full rounded
man."
The race that neg ects the college
destroys the high school and with
the passing of the high school, there
can be no very great number of
real first class elementary schools to
impart primary education to the
common masses of the common PEG
pie"
The great majority of our schools
are taught in churches and society
halls. Worse than poor are the
: most of our rural schoo' houses In
many of our towns and cities the
same vretched conditions obtain. DR.
: billiard, of the Jeanes Fund, after rlak
ing extensive visits in parts of the
South, including our own state,
writes: with rare exceptions
found wretched conditions in the way
of school houses and school equip
ments." In most of our cities the
! Negro school houses are badly over
crowded Nothing more needs to be
said regarding the general condition
Of Negro school houses in Alabama;
| for y>>u my fellow teachers face the
, situation daily and you know too vel
the wretched conditions which OBJ
, tain.
The facts and figures given in this
discourse speak for themselves. What
now can we do towards enlarging
our educational forces? Can we moi
inaugurate some movement for the
rescue of our children from the ter
rible state of ignorance toward which
they are steadily and rapidly march
ing?
1t is evident that much needs tc
be done if the education of our chill
dren is to be given anything of the
; impetus already given to the educa
ton of the children of the white race
in Alabama. A noted educator has
we'll said 1--WE must strive to win
our boys and girls from ignorance as
we are striving to win them from
hell. We must build school houses
for them as we'll as churches. We
must support the teachers as well as
the ministers-co-worker together in
tho Hn n Il ir AiNrfralt
imposed duty to do both"
How shall we change the status OF
Negro education in Alabama?
I. BY Improving Our Methods.
The surest way" says Superinten
dent j. H. Philips, for teachers
principals and superintendent to i'm
prove their methods is to improve
themselves" This proposition needs
no argument is self-evident
q BY Urging Legislation for the I'm,
provement of Our Schools.
ASK, and it shall be given you,
says the Master. We ask for en-
tirely too little. We need a strong
committee to put our case before the
members of the Legislature. County
High Schools having been given the
whites, surely we can get few Dis
trict High Schools, if we ask for
them in the right way.
3. BY Helpful Observation-Disclosures