Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1914-12-17

The indications are that the slogans, Grown in Mtssigsppt-Nade in
Mississippi will have a prominent place on the school program throughout
Mississippi during Thanksgiving week, when all of the schools of the state
will give a specific place in connection with a study of things grown and
and citizens in ar effort to get better acquainted with community resources,
farm products, garden and orchard possibilities, forest trees and flowers. and
all kinds of animal and vegetable life so varied, valuable and attractive
This movement on the part of the schools is in harmony with sound edu-
part of the individual toward the inanimate and animate things with which
he lives and works forms the natural and safe foundations for the develop
ment of a wellproporHoned physical and spiritual character. 1t changes the
monotony of common things into objects of beauty and harmonious variety;
it turns Heless drudgery into a pleasant task and transforms the human
machine into an intelligent selfvllng member of society
The purpose of the school, from the states viewpoint, is to get a maxi
mum product in efficient citizenship from the community where i. IS located.
The measure of efficiency in citizenship is the skill and spirit with which the
citizen contributes his part to the economic, social and spiritual well being
of all the people. The purpose Of. the school from the local community view
Joint is to organize the community social life, to inspire it with national,
state and local ideas, to increase its prosperity end to bring the whole com
munity into possession of the benefits Of modern invention and the most
recent achievements in science and art. To do this the school must lead
first to a knowledge of the world around it and with this knowledge as a basis
it can interpret and assimiate world EVENTS The best in history and Htera-
ture can be made attractive and the highest cultural value brought out through
relating them properly to the experiences and activities of the community,
This movement is another step toward a properly balanced course Of
study, in that it seeks to join together the 'Practcal' and the cultural in
education. 1t means to put life into books and ideals into common life activi
ties. 1t will help the school in its effort to become a vital factor in commu-
nifty development, instead Of standing as a recruiting station for the pro-
LESSONS and cities, calling from the country neighbohood its brightest young
men and women to become leaders in other places for other people
This movement brings teacher, pupil patron and chizen-al the forces
of the community-togetherC o. a common basis, and fixes common aims and
purposes for the common good. Thus the school expands into a community
institution and loses its identity Is simply a "bookhouse.' The school fur
nishes Intellectual content to the home and farm activities and in return e.
ceives cordial support from all neighborhOod agencies.
This movement stands for equality Of opportunity, a more profitable sys
tenn of farming and such intimate knowledge of Mississippi and her posi-
tirties as o result in an intelligent cooperation on the part of all the people
in an effort to save Mississippi to Mssissippians.
State Superintendent of Education.