Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-06

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3 Educational assoeiation)
book between them A remarkable
number OF the very able men OF the
nation have been educated In the
smaller institutions where greater
care Is given TO character building
than Is possible in the bigger ones.
What Teachers May DO.
Now. want TO appeal TO the teach
ers In the country and city schools 70
do their part by the pupils under their
care. Your duties extend much fur
Their than simply teaching the pre-
cribed courses of study. II is yours
to inspire TO shape, TO direct the
thoughts OF the pupils. II is yours to
induce them TO get the education that
VIII tit them for success In life. Il Is
yours to put the ambition In them
that will override all obstacles that
stand between them and a bachelors
degree and all that II may mean TO
them. II Is yours 10 eliminate the
word fair from their vocabulary.
TO drive this truth home | want TO
give you an illustration from the
work OF young man, more than
twenty-five years ago, far up In the
mountains OF east Tennessee. He
taught one term Of nine months In a
populous but isolated section Of the
country, then more than forty miles
from the nearest railroad He began
his work with the determination to
have as many of those boys as possi-
bic go to college. No person from
that section had ever graduated from
college. The result OF that one school
term was that more than twenty of
the boys went to college. in all cases
having to begin far sub-freshmen in
preparatory schools. An even dozen
OF them graduated in the years fol-
lowing, three of them from Yale.
working their ways from first to last
and the better for II; three or four
graduated from Carson college Of
which your state superintendent
Is a graduate: some three or four
from Tusculum college, from which !
hold degree and of which DR.. Jere-
miah Moore, who will speak to you to-
morrow. was president.
They Made Good.
Furthermore, most of them have
become what the world Is pleased to
term successful men. one. after la.
ing his A. b. degree and post grad
uate course in law settled IA connccti-
cut and became congress-snan-a t-large
from that state for two or three
terms: another is a physician with Il
national reputation. others are law
ycrs and doctors and preachers and
some of them now hold important
posts in the service Of the federal goV-
eminent.
Not only had no student from that
section OF the country ever taken a
college degree before that school was
taught. but no student from that com
munity who was not In that nine
months term, taught more than TWEEN
ty-five years ago, has ever taken a
college degree since.
Any teacher here can do as well as
that teacher did. In proportion TO the
number of pupils II she only will try.
All she needs to do is to put her soul
into her work to achieve results that
It will be a pleasure to remember in
after years.
therefore beg of the teachers to
impress upon their pupils the facts:
First, that New Mexico must have
higher education If she Is TO be NUM-
bered among the progressive states.
Second, that better education for
n New Mexico youth can be secured
In this state than in schools in other
states.
Third. that YOU, as teachers, can in
spire your pupils with ambition for
higher education. and that you will
not have done your duty by your pu-
pills unless YOU utilize that opportunity
for doing good.