The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17

is poor largely because our ablest {
ana pest trained men are likely to go
the business Of getting money
not by creating more wealth but bv
the wealth others are
creating. We need more creators OF
wealth.
This. then, is the first and funda-
mental thing in Notwithstanding.
We must recognize that civilization is
achievement and that achievement is
only another name for work; govern
ment n society and the schools. and
the church must honor workers and
ostracise~ shirkers, and we must see
mat work is directed into really pro-
ductiye and creative channels.
"Train Every Worker"
But this alone Is not enough. It
is the high duty of the State to open
the door OF opportunity for every
child born within its borders, to train
every worker. The poe, Gray saw
long g hat England had her mute
inglorius Millions, her Hampdens and
he Cromwells sleeping m forgotten
graves simply because knowledge to
their eyes her ample a & had ne'er !
unrolled," and because a Chill penury |
a blighted their genius; but it was |
generations before the vision Of the |
poet became also h vision of the
lawmaker. Well may DR.. A1phonso
Smith remark that he never goes into
a North Carolina cemetery without
thinking Of hi possibilities for lead
ership in art, literature, science, edu-
cation, craftsmanship and economic
progress that have been lost forever
to the State and to the nation"
The great need now is to develop
a system of education that will carry
inspiration n richness and color
into the daily tasks Of the great
masses Of our people. Nor need we
L h0 hiCfy 1rh0A hxy fh0Cn ryk - nov %Ao&
in training for work and for efficiency
the schools will become less useful in
building character or in developing
genuine culture. There is just as
much culture and misunderstanding
in Tearing how to calculate a fertili-
ger formula as there is in learning
how to calculate latitude and lOngi-
tude, just as much culture in learn
ing the food values Of the various
: vegetables as there is in learning to
parse French sentences, just as much
culture in learning how to fight the
. bacterial invaders of ones own body
) today as in learning how some en-
! peror repealed martial invaders two
, thousand years ago The dea that
! character and culture cannot be found
, in anything that has to do with sweat
8 and horny hands, with the hiss q
/ steam, h smok Of factories. and
! the smell of plowed ground-this is
q L Oil AAAC IAAAANS LIN AOPS
a and perfumed dandies of royal court:
: that we ave no more use for in NORTH
h Carolina than we have for powdered
+ queues, gold s~nuffboxes, and velve
knee-breeches.
Error In School System.
The trouble is, as DR.. Henry F
Cope says, that our public school
g children ready for college, whereas
d less than l percent Of the pupil
l. reach college and less than 3 percen
the high school," Many a town.
it should examine the teaching in it
ID higher grades, would discover as di
Newton, Mass, last a that Of ever
dollar expended one-third went fo
foreign languages
IS, For Latin .......... 10 Genus.
IS, For French .......... II cents.
as For German. .......... Genus.
eS For Greek ........... l cent
- SO cents in every dollar for foreig
es languages, while a half cent in eac
lie anical drawing-the only thing OF q
RS industrial character for boys-an
ed less tina half q cent for domest
science for girls. n all this d
nd spite the fact pointed out by u
nd Cope that the so-called language ST
it's dents "'only get language drill fro
ur the classics: they do not get the ella
IL sizes; they get tedious mental gym
ne nastics." And this opinion is abun
nd antly reinforced by that emine
ats scholar and student Viscount Bry
te. who in his new volume, uniVersi
ire n HISTORICAL Addresses, uecT1eS u
excessive emphasis on languages Al
nj says:
nd more than a half of the boys
ing schools and IN :.
lekes who may be taught Latin, a.
fve-sixths Of those who may
taught Greek. Will not get lar enoul
ion to enjoy the literature anu s.ve -
permanent hold on their minds"
ina We must make over our whole ed
nto cationnl system. Education, accoI
ali ing to a fine definition I once n
tow from Governor MAnn u sHslnla,
training Tor the mastery =. ensaae
ara train for work. therefOr-fOr &C