The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 20, 1910, Page TWO, Image 2
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* THE EFFECT ON EDUCATION (
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Address Delivered by Prof. Henr
* City Schools Before the (
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Fellow Teachers: I am. glad of the
opportunity to meet you this morn
ing, and to speak to you for a short
time upon one of the most intensely
interesting, and at the same time one
of the most vitally important assets to
the great work of educaion. By in
fluence of the fireside is meant the in
fluence of parents -upon children. The
origin of schools was to aid, but not
supplant the influence of the firesida;
and if either had to be abolished the
State could more easily see the schools
vg. A work, then, of such a kindred
nature to the work we are engaged in
may properly recti i- or attention.
In spite of the acute interest that
education has received for the last
20 years; in spite of the increased fa
cilities of our public schools, involv
ing the expenditure of hundreds of
thousands of dollars; in spize of the
efforts of teachers to specialize in their
chosen work; in spite of all the work
that our State summer and normal
schools are doing, we are squarely up
against the criticism that our public
schools are not turning out boys and
girls with superior training to that
received in the old-fashioned school
house when this State was prostrate
throu.gh the misfortunes of war. It is
said even that our methods are not
improved upon. One writer recently
said in one of the leading newspapers
of this State that: "It matters not
what kind of books are adopted or
by whom they are adopted, just so they
are uniform and are used by compet
ent teachers. The old blue-back spel
ler, Maury's geography, Smith's gram
mar, Robinson's practical arithmetic,
and other books used at the same time
that these were, were used by hun
dreds of people, and handed down year
after year to their younger brothers
and sisters until actually worn out
by use. These books were in the
hands of teachers who understood the
art -of imparting knowledge and
grinding into the pupils the power of
application of fundamental principles,
and it is ,to -many of these, who have
been turned out from the old schools,
*to whom we look up to as shining
lights in every phase of life." A
-splendid rhetorical tribute to the older
system of education, and a very im
*plied cutting insinuation of the pres
ent system of education. The older
method is sufficiently described by the
writer's own phrase of "-grinding
into the pupils the power of applica
tion," and no other description is here
necessary. We have grown beyond
the grinding period, and have reverted
to the more common sense Socratic
method of developing from within in
stead of trying to pour into from with
out. Serving their generation the best
they could with their limited prepara
tion and their 'still more limited facili
fies, I still believe no class of profes
sional men have receiv'ed more un
stinted praise for what they attempted
*to do than the Old time school master.
The old school master who satisfied
his patrons,-though 'he was known to
frequently nod in the school room,
and occasionally steal a little nap, and
in whose school the throwing of pa
per wads against the loft, the fixing
of pins and tacks to benches to stick
unsuspecting pupils, being snow-ball
ed away from' the school house at
times, and yet who was withal a man
isolated from other members of his
profession, a little tyranical in his dis
cipline, 'and believing that the rod was
the solution of all school problems,
such a master would be utterly at a
loss to know how to get results in a
*modern school room, and under the
peculiar environment the modern
school teacher is forced to work. It
is useless to argue that the old time
school master of a half century and
more ago, using his same books and
methods would .escape the shafts of
the most severe criticism today; for
he would not. Oliver Goldsmith points
'out both his faults and his virtues in
'a few well balanced lines,
"A man severe he was, and stern to
'view;
I knew him well, and -every truant
knew:
Well had the boding tremblers learned
to trace
The day's disasters in his -morning
face;
Full well they laughed with counter
feited glee
At all his jokes, for many -a joke had
he;
Full well the busy whisper circling
round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he
frowned."
It is a fact, -however, that cannot
be gainsaid that some of our best and
brainiest men attended no other
school than the little one room build
ing presided over by a school master
'hose jWn eGtucation was much limit
ed. and w'b> at the same time had to
ge th arough possibly Caesar and
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OF THE
FLUENCE OF THE FIRESIDE. *
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Lee Dean, Superintendent of the *
,ounty Teachers Association. *
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Virgil, and the advanced mathematics,
as well as the higher studies in Eng
lish. I believe and I am going to try
to point out'the fact that the splendid
results of the older system was not
primarily due to superior instructors,
and that the lack of desired results
today is not wholly due to inferior
teachers. I believe that the scientific
study that the art of teaching has re
ceived has improved the art of teach
ing, and certainly our facilities, while
not all we need, are better than ever
before. I believe, furthermore, that
the teachers, taken as a class, are
both competent and sincere and loyal
to -the work they are engaged in.
The underlying cause of the success
of the older schools, and the manl
failures of the later schools is not far
to seek. The passing away of the old
time school master and his little one
room school building is not so much
to be lamented as the passing away
of the influcnce under which the in
struction was given. In all that is be
ing written and said about our public
schools today the one thing that most
needs to be emphasized is being en
tirely over looked. That common in
terest of the school and the fireside,
that loyalty to and confidence in each
other have widened with the progress
of our schools and the prosperity of
our country. Our public schools to
day find themselves standing almost,
alone,-with their strongest prop, the
influence of the fireside, gone. The
loyalty which the old time school
master had from his patrons made his
work an easy task. His pupils were
so taught at home to reverence and
respect him that today, in the face of
a marvelous growth in education, they
point with pride even to his faults, and
to the school books of the long ago,
and would enthusiastically incorpor
ate them all alike in our public
schools today.
"The village all declared how mueh he
knew:
'Twas certain he could write, and ci
phler too;
Lands he could measure, terms and
tides presage,
And even the -story ran that he could
gauge:
In arguing, too, the parson owned his
skill,
For, even though vanquished, he could
argue still;
While. words of learned length and
thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged
a.round;
And still they gazed, and still the
wonder grew,
That one small h'ead could carry all he
knew."
Give the school masters of today,
with their more advanced training
and their superior facilities, that rec
ognition of their worth and that en
thusiastic support, and what could
they not accomplish!
I believe the statement that the
home and the school do not hold the
same close relationship today that
they did a half century ago runs no
risk of being successfully contradiot
ed, and it will be useless to enumerate
arguments. Thte time can best be
spent studying the history of this
separation and trying to offer a reme
dy; for more than trained teachers,
more than handsome buildings lavish
ly furnished does the child need the
influence and inspiration which can
be had only at the fireside; and when
he has this 'his success in school and
in life is an assured fact.
The 'history of tthis separaJtion is
(Continued on page six).
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