The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-26
WHY so FEW GRADUATES?

One Of the startlngly impressive things 10 the
who stops consider the facts is the COM
paratiyey few pupils OF the grade schools who grad
from the high schools-to nothing OF the still
fewer number who seek higher educati n. In Gynn
county we have ore than 1000 pupils in the public
schools yet the dozen who graduate
from the high school, This is only Q the
Brunswick schools, but just much Of all the
schools in this great country of
The reason why so few, comparatively .2dua;e from
the high schools of the country has long been de
batabe question the problem still unsoved Tie
claim is the schools responsible because
the course Of study is the most practical and the
teachers are too often the knowledge they
possess with but little regard for ability to mpart it
But the principal trouble with the pupil The spirit
of Indifference and of ambition is largely univer-
sal during the high school age and compusion far
as the home is concerned is out OF the quest n
These conditions may be deporable but they exist
Boys and girls can not be made over Some che said.
the other day, he used thinkRoosevet crazy,
but thought the people crazy and that ao VI
describes the boy and girl proposition on school Ques-
ton. They with and will c-ntinue to neglect
the means of education during carefree period OF
life unless some way is found make the schools SO
attractive that they become irresistible
But what about this great throng turned out every
from the grades ana district scAooS "4'A Lo Vi
plomas and frequently nothing else TO show fer what
is commonly called education II is just possible
that the popular notion education is rslead-
ing because ii includes fragment Of humanity We
say of the lawyer who makes eloquent plea before
Jury throwing in now then few Latin phrases
that he an educated man OF the preacher h-lds
his audience spell bound, !ne-spersing orat2ry MA
Few Greek verbs 10 show familiarity with original roofs
that he has vell-so-ed mind and has something i
sao f1- cal.eze degrees The MUSICIAN who looks
and alss 10 Us about me construction Of the human
5o5v and he diseases which afltct it in terms more
5fclr 10 understand shan The ssa LANGUAGE. b@s al
-aa s-a5c!.s ii being III educated person While ne
-ear who ea- 1914 ~ . sleep ancient hst--y ana
reel Of the POEMS Of dead authors By the yard never
.5s j. zees>ar. 80 h~1= her ~-pi-1 ia OF IAe NJ.
~ -bt-k 81 these 1.or classes 4 workers edu-
Gated psople--he Law The preacher. The doctor and
s +sachsr-beca use the most them products {;
soroe COLLEGE But what abuJ The long LIST OF artisans
who toll in other fields, meeting responsibilities and
winning prizes. prizes every hand
What ts education anyway as applied 70 me great
rank and file a humanity? Education Is the Sn- wing
how "a DO il. The world Is Ions on knowledge but
short on application. 1t matters not how much man
knows o. whether his knowledge was acquired in col
lese or in the larger school of life; unless ne apples
+, he Is as HELPLESS as the engine without power.
Il is great pity thar more boys and girls do not
realize the value of school education and all OF it
they can before entering upon the business 81 NE
While Of course knowledge gained from school books
cannot make virile foreefu man CT woman out OF a
lazy and Indifferent creature the school education
better fits all who will work to work more easily more
rapidly and mere effectively.