The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-05-07
Of Kentucky In Their Ex-
CeIlent Work.
ADVANCE GUARD OF PROGRESS
They Are Shaping the Des.
tiny Of Kentucky and
the Nation.
HAVE CAUGHT CPLIFT SPIRIT

The Louisville Herald. in COM
menting on the meeting of the Ken
lucky Educational Association in
that city last week, says;
1t is impossible not to be tremen-
dously impressed by the spirit of
the great educational convention
which so wholly dominates Louis
Vile to-day. A success beyond the
highest hopes of those who have
labored for it, the proof is to be
seen in its thronged sessions of a
revival that means incalculable
good for Kentucky.
Here are age and experience join
ing hands with youth and enthu-
siasm in a crusade for the liberat-
ing of the minds of our people.
There is in the face of these men
and women the evidence of an ex-
allied spirit that has caught the Wis.,
ion of education as an opportunity
for service. They have discovered
in themselves a potency for great
achievements that is not exceeded
by any other class or vocation in
the whole realm of human activity.
Stand as spectator at some
point of vantage in the big audi
torium and look over the assem-
blage OF 1000 men and women,
and let your thought mediate up
on the fact that these earnest, eager
people are the force that is mould
ing the life of tomorrow. In their
little rural schools. under great
handicaps and amid many discour-
agements, poorly paid and too
lightly esteemed, they are shaping
the destiny of Kentucky and the
Nation. AS they do their work, so
will the generation that assumes
the task of citizenship in a few
more years be fitted for it's respon-
sibilities. How can We estimate
them too highly? How can we set
too high store upon their service?
II is well that both they and We
should get this vision. They must
have it in order to approximate the
ideal possibilities of their opportu-
nifty; they must have il in order to
sustain them when the work be-
comes burdensome and the result
seems meager and disappointing.
And We must have it so that we
may rightly appreciate their labor
and give to them the support they
merit
A convention such as We are now
experiencing will bring this inspi-
ration to thousands. That is chief
among it's values. 1t helps to lift
the whole cause of education out
of the perfunctory into the heroic;
it helps to make 1t appear. as 1t
should appear, warfare against
ignorance, prejudice and supersti-
ton. the three grim giants that bar
the way of progress.
These men and women are SOL
diers of the common good. They
are enlisted in campaign that
wins greater victories than those
which are gained by batteries and
battleships. There is no reform
yet to be won that must not find
its root in this foundation move
ment. Nothing we attempt has In
it any element of permanency ex-
cept as ii is built upon an enlight-
ed understanding. To-day progress
follows the printing press. Men
and women must not only be able
to read. they must have their APP
petite stimulated for knowledge.
They must be taught to read wise
ly and widely, to read and to assim-
ilate and to apply. And all this is
part of the new educational move
ment. a movement that is increas-
ingly seeking to relate education
more closely to life and its prob
lens.
Those who are fighting the bat
ties OF good citizenship. of nopular
government, of social justice and
equal suffrage. must salute the
teaching ranks with Difference and
grateful acknowledgment. These
Young men and young women who
throng our streets and gather In
one OF our beautiful temples. who
come to us from the mountains and
the Bluegrass. the Purchase and