The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-21
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be self-respecting in South Carolina,
asserted the speaker and "in order to
be so we must busy ourselves imme-
diately with our educational system" "
Governor Cooper expressed the be-
lief that what South Carolina needs
now is systematic enlightment
First, the people must be furnished
authentic information concerning the
faults and the needs of the present
system of educating the boys and
girls of the present generation. After
the people grasp the sifnicance of
this information they must be told
what the system needs in order to
bring about the results so indispen-
sable in state that wishes to take
rank with it's sister states.
In this state, for instance, the gov
ernor pointed out, eve do not know
what it costs to educate child. We
have no official authentic figures upon
which to base our calculations. On
the contrary, California knows the
per capita cost of providing a child
in that state with an education. When
a new school is desired in a commu-
nifty in California, officials know just
what it will cost to operate the new
school when they are provided with
facts concerning the number of chill
dren who will patronize the proposed
institution
The governor declared that he does
not know how much it will cost to
bring the South Carolina educational
system up to the desired standard,
but he does know that it will be
worth the cost.
DR.. George F. Zook, specialist in
higher education, with the United
States Bureau of Education at Wash
ington, D. c., delivered an informa-
tive address on the subject of educa-
tional surveys.
What Kind of Survey?
Each state, of course, must decide
whether it needs an educational sur
vey, and then bring the survey about
through it's own efforts, he said. Sur
veys of this kind are comparatively
new in this country, DR.. Zook stated,
having first come into prominence
some ten or fifteen years ago. The
United States Bureau of Education
has felt that one of the best ways
in which education can be intelligent
ly promoted is by means of survey
he said. DR.. Zook gave his hearers the
impression that survey in one state
or possibly in one county, might not
be entirely applicable to an adjoining
state or county. Local conditions
must be known and met. A states
natural resources, it's peoples method
of earning their livelihood, it's eli
mate, in fact, many things must be
learned by those conducting the sur
vey before a report will be of any
value to those whose duty it is to en-
| ploy corrective measures to the delin-
quencies of the educational system.
DR.. Zook gave the conference infor-
nation concerning ways in which a
survey can be obtained, it's cost, the
results that may be expected, etc.
J. E. Swearingen, state superin.
tendent of education, was introduced
and diagnosed South Carolina's trou-
BILE as a failure to relieve it's educa-
ton to such an extent as to be willing
| to pay an adequate price for it. What
the state needs now is greater reve'
nue. in order to operate its educationa!
system upon a proper scale, he de-
clared. 1--WE need new constitution,
asserted Mr.. Swearingen, "and 1 be,
lieve that the people who chased the
scalawags, who fought in the civil
war and broke the Hindenburg line
are the people who will get it,
Capt. n. F. Walker, head OF the
state institution for the deaf ano
blind at Cedar Springs, was introduc,
| ed just before the noon recess.
| DR.. Robert P. Pell, president OF
Converse college, was unanimously
! given credit by the speakers today fol
having conceived the need of today's
conference and generous tribute was
paid his vision of the possibilities OF
lasting good that may accrue from
the meeting. Resolutions defining the
scope and purposes of the conference
were adopted.