The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-14
WORKMAN IN HIS
NEW FIELD OF WORK

In order to fulfill one OF the re-
quirements OF the standard high
schools nine months term-the
Miami high school will begin work
Monday, Sept 14th, two weeks be-
fore the opening of the graded
schools, and for two weeks the high
school students will have a taste of ,
what they are to enjoy in a build I
ing of their own, while the new prin- !
cipal will have an excellent o2por-
tunity to make personal friends of as
fine lot of boys and girls as is
found anywhere in the world
Coming from a town where he has
for eleven years, Mr.. Workman will
undoubtedly miss familiar faces and
loyal helpers, but he will find boys
and girls eager to fall in line for
progressive, earnest school work and
co-workers ready to do their share in
the development of his plans for
making the schools of Miami the best
in the state.
The new principal may have diff
ficulty in breaking up the habit of
referring to him and to the men
teachers in the high school as ''pro-
fessor," characteristic of the vii
| lage school that is always hard FOR
up-to-date school men to handle.
often boys and girls come from
homes where titles are always given
| indiscriminately from the colonel"
applied to well-to-do farmers and
real estate dealers, and the major"
applied to any man who wore uni
form in a war, to Judge" prefxed
to the name of any man who ever ran
for the Office of justice of the peacei
| And the public school man is often
very helpless in the matter. He
knows that professors" in educa-
tional work are only found In col
Ieges. He knows that in city public
schools they are not called 'profes-
sor,' and that one of the marks of
a village school are those provincial
isms in the talk about school
work, which is often very harmful.
And in Miami there is great deal
of the right sort of talk needed in
assisting Mr.. Workman to raise the
high school to the standard that 1T
should attain. In the first place, the
curriculum provided for the school
is number one. 1T covers a course of
study-severaf courses of study
4 s,1fo nod i'm
the best secondary schools OF the
country The books used are up-to-
date, the equipment in the school is
high grade, and in the new building
will be greatly enlarged, and this
wear the instructors of them
have had training that should make
them highly efficient. All of which
is a basis for the right sort of talk. y
Having a state certificate and col
Iege degrees that indicate broad
knowledge, and tfrese supported by
successful experience of many years,
the new principal is qualified to
make the high school one to be
thoroughly proud of, and one that
will i'm the course of a few years
serve as an academy to which every
; Young person in the community can
lIook forward to attending, with real
eagerness. And, with the help of the
people of Miami, Mr.. Workman can
surely accomplish it.
: One thing, though, is certain. He
] will need the encouragement and the
cooperation of the parents or the
$ boys and girls, and Of the public IN
2 general. Miami should have the
: finest high school work in the state
e and the finest graded school work III
:, tn state-she should provide the
best equipment, the best support anc
the best boys and girls, and we be
lieve that Mr. Workman and his CO
workers can assume their duties mex
, Monday, and two weeks from mex
n Monday, feeling that they are to b.
o appreciated and assisted most hear
f tily.-Miami Metropolis.
The Star can conscientiously rec
4 ommend the Miami newspapers to as
J. sist Mr.. workman in every way pos
% sible. He is not a seeker for notoriety
q but is very glad to have the help o
n the newspapers in the many ways i
V which they can assist in schoc
,ol work. During the years he spent l
70 Ocala the relations of the Star an
n Mr.. Workman were pleasant an
ar useful. He helped the Star in man
n WAYS. and he says that it helped hin