The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-09-11
EVERYTHING IN READINESS
FOR BEGINNING WORK
OF SESSION.
STRONG FACULTY
Indications Point To Good Year
In Educational Life of CO.
lumbus.-ChiIdren On
Tip-TOe To Start.


The public schools of Columbus
among the strongest educational in
stitutions of the South, will oper
their doors tomorrow for the begin
ming of another year of splendid
work
Superintendent Ellis and his able
corps of assistant teachers have ev'
erything in readiness for the school
opening, and it is freely predicted
that the session of 1921-1922 will
prove to be the best in the history OF
Columbus.
Inasmuch as communities and
states are judged by their schools, it
is well for the people to pause and
consider what education means and
how the educational institutions of
the land fit and prepare the young
to take their places on the battlefield
of life equipped to efficiently and eff
fecively fight for progress and the
betterment of the race.
The measure of a civilization is
found in the life and welfare of its
common people. No civilization can
be enduring that does not strive to
uplift all of the elements of society.
Hisory is strewn with the wrecks OF
governments, institutions and sys-
TENS that have stood for class inter-
ests and special privileges. The early
cultures of Greece and Rome, mag
nificent as they were. meant only the
advancement Of the few, and the con-
seduent debasement of the many, and
went down to destruction and decay as
en- inevitable consequence. The adj
vance the world has made since the
days of Aristotle has been valiantly-
fought struggle against the forces of
reaction, an advance that could only
be made possible by the quickening,
surging spirit Of democracy. This was
the divinely- INSPIRED spark that kept
alive the hope and buoyed humanity
UP through the oppression and misery
of the dark ages, illuminating, howev-
er dimly, its tedious journey to the
heights, and which finds its apothe-
osis today in our splendid public
schools.
To our mind the public school is |
more than a mere convenient educa- !
tional institution-it has deeper
significance than that. At once the
most complete and best example OF
democracy in action-it is a symbol /
ism of the future, a concrete express
sion of the growth and tendency OF
the times, and sufficient and con- /
elusive answer to all who question
the ability of the people to demo-
cratically control and manage their
own affairs, and to competently solve
the problems that confront them by
the rational and logical use of their
own power for their own good.
The vital need of our time is un-
uuestionably the conservative and et-
ficient utilization of the ability and
energy of our boys and girls-and
our educational methods and ideals
must conform to, indeed must mould
and shape that end, or fail in their
true purpose.
The high school is the university
for the great mass of our youth, and
there must be no curtailment in the
cultural advantages that its curricu-
lum at present affords. Here must
be found the vehicle which may give
stimulus to the inquiring mind in all
the general fields of knowledge.
knowledge is power" and the boys
and girls, young men and young wom-
en- of our community must be made
powerful by the requirement OF
knowledge in our. public schools.
Many of them will go to college and
university. thereby climbing to still
greater heights, but to those who are
financially unable TO take a higher
course the local high school must
offer q broad and comprehensive
foundation upon which the ambitious
seeker after knowledge may erect
superstructure in his spare moments
and hours.
Superintendent Ellis has ann0unc-
ed the following faculties for the
three schools: IA
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