The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-15
IN, F. D. WINSTON
n THE GRADUATES
bung Women of The East
Carolina Teachers Training
School Hear Address

announcement Oh the East CarOilna
eachers' Training School. which was
e,tyered by District Attorney Francis
y winston. formerly Lieutenant Gov
Arn,r. was a gem. 1t was an address
bf practical value, phrased in those
erms Of eloquence for which Cover
hor Winston is famed. The advice in |
M could not fail to be Of service to the |
Young women of the institution as |
thcy go over the State as teachers in |
itS schools.
Among other things Governor Win
ston said:
Il made my first speech in favor of
better schools in North Carolina when
was a freshman in the University in
ISIS had then and still have a
clear vision Of two forces in our State.
one il our homes and the other is our
4 rural schools. The homes Of North
A Carolina are our domestic col
LEGS In them there is per-
Il pctusl commencement And our grad
| uates there of both sexes come to the
Il manhood and wOmanhOOd of North
Il Carolina grounded in the eternal vir-
| tucs of truth and honesty. and indus
| try Characteristic of our homogeneous
population. May the doors of these
colleges never close. nor the number
Of graduates lessen.
Ine Otner VISION was 10 see the
rural free schools of the State become
TIA. social. literary. business and ar;
centre OF the community.
The safety of North Carolina does
not depend SO much upon who is Gov
eruor or who. holds the public offices
OF the State. as it does upon how high
In Intelligence and i'm virtue is the
average of our citizenship.
We will not get the best benefits
Of our rural schools until we fully
realize that they are not for the mere
purpose Of giving employment to
teachers, but that their every purpose
is to train the child to the life he or
She must live.
The school which looks to the
community for every thing fails of its
purpose. We have the ideal condition
when the community looks confident
y to the school to furnish everything
IL needs.
Greater intelligence in our schools
means less money spent in jails and
IN Enforcing the criminal law.
Most people do not want to know
how to do thing; but they do wan
the teacher is to make folks do things
mo community amounts to any
thing until it is thoroughly aroused
The test Of whether community ha
been aroused is when you find tina
the Indifferent members of the com
munity have become different: i
makes no difference in what direc
tion. just so they become different.
The school grows no faster thar
the community and goes no taste
than the community. Both are dea'
alike. or both are alive alike.
"A Superior court judge tries man
persons and things besides criminals
On the bench 1 soon found tnat ther
was a want Of thOroughness in teach
ing the fundamentals in our rura
schools. / could see that reading wa
neglected by the want OF narrative i
the evidence given in; that geOgraph
was neglected by the failure of wit
neSses to properly locate objects /
lines Of lands; that arithmetic wa
neglected by the want Of exactness
distances and numbers. These defect
are more noticeable in persons unde
forty years of age.
Every rural school should fit tn
life of the community in which 1T
located and prepare our youth for tf
work they will mainly follow. l W.
amazed the other day to read the Iii
OF words given out at a county con
mencement to be spelled by II
scholars. The county is purely agr
cultural and at best ninety per Gel
or the people live on farms TT
words given out had no relation
farn life. 1 read the list hoping
find few words that the spelle
would use in after life as they bu
the homes and titled the soil OF tn
splendid agricultural county. Instes
read the following: Craunch. Coup
Cretonne. Quassia, Badinage, Beet
oven. SobriQuet, Pleiades, COgna
frlcaSsee. Hypotenuse, Archimedt
Catamaran and Terpsichore. 1 re-
~ vain for Jersey, Kline. Swine. Mir
gen. Glover Implement. Baste. Sc
'hdrn. Griddle and the hundreds
"ther words having to do with o
agricultural and domestic life.
The only three words in the l
ukely to be Of service in the life
Tue larger per cent of those spelle
were Petit-jury. Erysipelas and Hy
ocriSy
The main idea of this admiral
address was that the teacher must
the directing force of the cOmmuni