The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-07-08

arms again.
school,
Cd The principal directs and sup
cruises the work of his two assist
ants, work with them through pri-
vate conferences, we'll planned and
regularly conducted teachers meet
ings.
CD The principal gives two years
of high-school instruction. BY means
of text books, bulletins and school
demonstration farms, the boys are
given regular and practical instruct
ion in selecting and testing the seed
planted in the community, in mixing
the fertilizer used, in proper prepar-
alton of the seed bed, proper cultiva-
ton of crops grown, and better
methods of housing and marketing
the crops grown.
CO The first assistant by means
of text books and bulletins gives the
girls regular instruction in cooking
and sewing, in home-making and
housekeeping. And by means of the
demonstration school farm are given
practical instruction in home-garden-
ing, canning, and marketing the pro-
ducts raised.
(4) The second assistant organ
ICES the larger boys and girls of the
school, the young men and the young
women of the community, into a
school music club, directs and super
vises their work, and aids them in
preparing musical and other enter
tainments to be given in the auditor
ium of their school every five or six
weeks during the school term.
(5) Next the auditorium. This is
the common meeting place of all the
people of the community. Here
neighborhood spelling matches are
held, illustrated lectures and address
es; here the women of this large
, community meet to plan improve
ments in school house and grounds;
here the farmers union or the junior
order meet to discuss ways and
means of making theirs the finest
school and the most desirable COM
munity possible.
Meaning and Value of Such a School.
1t does not mean that the pupils
will study less the three RS but more,
because now by means Of their school
demonstration farm they are having
an opportunity for an immediate and
practical application of many OF the
things they are learning in school.
(2) With eight to ten pupils in
each class instead of one to three.
there is plenty of opportunity for
friendly rivalry and competition
whether in their daily classes. spell
ing matches, declamations and de-
bates, or in their games upon the
school ground.
CD Working together in class
room and school demonstration farm,
playing together upon the school
ground they are learning the valua-
BILE lesson of pulling together. of
team work. and of cooperation.
(4 Through these neighborhood
spelling matches. debates, declama-
tions, public addresses. musical en-
tertainments. athletic contests. coun-
try life is coming to be more attrac-
tive and more worth while to the
boys and girls.
(5) Through the carefully plan
ned and successfully directed work in
agriculture. in cooking, sewing. home
making and housekeeping, the boys
and girls are coming to have more
intelligent notion of the possibilities
and opportunities in the soil and cli-
mate, in the forests and streams. in
the crops that can be grown there. in
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the birds that sing and the flowers
that bloom, for making successful
living ard loving a useful happy life
right there in their own neighbor-
hood.
co And that kind of school Will
become vitalized community centre
in which all the forces of the commu-
nifty working for its highest well-be-
ing will be unified. Out from this
central school will go radiating in
fluence reaching unto the utmost
parts of the community. kindling and
organizing it into one strong, pro-
gressive and effective educational
until. c. Brogden, n. c., super
visor of education.