The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-02-16
Our Educational System

then the ear; after That the full corn in ~
ear. Christ. Impatience at its newn 'ue
and consequent crudeness, the miseduco4!"sS
of the negro along with the white. has aol
is causing most of the unrest in the n,,bl0
mind about our school system And 80
we take heart of necessity and raking auo
the rubbish OF past efforts dig deep and ~
lay our foundations on solid rock this cavT
ling is going to continue. The advocates -
full system OF education must lool ~
difficulties square in the face and like tbo
old Israelites rebuilding Jerusalem muso
keep their weapons with them, and also kooo
untempered mortar and faulty rocks ont ~
the walls. First, we must look to a school
to prepare our teachers, a school in wbioh
nothing but postgraduate work shall ha
done. EndoW the state university with tnn
million two per cent perpetual state bonds
Cut off all classes below the senior at fret
In ten years cut off that. Utilize any ia.
nominational school that will make a stand
ard of grade A of the college course. Those
below grade utilize as preparatory IN
grade A. Cut out the congressional district
college. In lieu of them let there be in the
rural counties and in the smaller counties
a senatorial district high school at the most
central point in the district Make it tn
teach handicraft in all of its branches. Keen
tab on the primary grades of each pupil,
and at IL for the girl and IA for the bow
teach that trade for which these tabular re-
ports show each one most adapted. To do
this and to attract the best talent at these
district schools build teachers dormitories
let them remain on the ground and require
the pupils from the country to remain un
der the direct supervision of the teachers
giving the teachers the same authority
over them that captain in the army has
over his men. Concentrate the country
schools by using vehicles to bring the pupils
over three miles from the school to it and
11,ar
every country school, at the lead of every
district school and at the head Of every
denominatiOnal school a competent male
teacher.
Now some reasons for these suggestions.
All education must be bottomed on religion
In the earlier years this will be best acquired
at home, therefore no pupil under II for
the girls and IA for the boys should go to
any school removing them from the parents
roof And no girl under 20 and no boy I'M
der % is normally fit to be removed from
religious surroundings. This will be best
conserved in the school controlled by the
denomination of which the parent is an ad-
herent hence after passing through the
district school such as are fit for higher
training-for there will be some unft-will
be best controlled and educated in a school
whose dominant note is religion. Take all
the schools out of politics by making BY
constitutional enactment an endowment
fund of one hundred million two per cent
bonds for school purposes This would com
Eel the Legislature to appropriate money for
this interest and would remove from politics
appropriations for school purposes. Cut out
local boards of trustees. Let each county,
each senatorial district and the trustees of
the State University employ the teachers,
the chairman of the board of trustees Of
that institution to preside over each college
board of trustees, this chairman of each
:, H.
lege at the head of several senatorial dis
tricts to preside over each senatorial district
school whose pupils come to that college,
the chairman Of the senatorial district nam
ing the trustee to preside over the county
BOARD of trustees subject to each senatorial
school, the governor to name as now, sub
ject to confirmation by the state senate, the
trustees OF the university and a minority of
the board of any UNCONVENTIONAL college ac-
cepting the state as part of it's contributory-
controlling force, the trustees of the senate
rial schools to be named by the judges of
the superior courts and the county board OF
education OF each county to constitute the
trustees for all the schools in the county,
and all trustees of all schools to be named
for life, or during good behavior, and only
to be removed by observation-disclosures nam
ed by the governor by Impeachment before
three superior court judges, and those be-
low by impeachment before the superior
court Judge having Jurisdiction in the place
where they are situated. This is given as
basis for working out the school system
l do not claim it is perfect, but do claim
it as original and as furnishing a workable
basis on which to build a permanent school
policy that will conserve and serve to unite
what ought not to be divided, the denomina-
tional and state school systems into one uni
form system in which each can do good
work and in which rivalry for the sake OF
petty advantage will be taken out, and I'M
der which the children of the state will in
their time have vouched to their children
the best that the state can furnish them in
their several avocations A. P. RIVES.