Show 1 chances in III the lie Scitt eiith li there lucre has been it grent great cli auge lu in I 1 the aspect of the tha south ant and in its sentiment two ven vinia IM or per ir hapa it would be ba more correct to maly aay that hut the change maturing for fifteen years is in moro more apparent in in it ot of comparative ruit res from rave ur or bee thoua a agitation agi gi tulion tation the iho development is is not wore marvellous marcellous marv ellous than the industrial and ami both ure u 1 1 i paralleled paralleled in in history lot let us b bagin e g in by y an illustration I 1 stood one da before an assembly of four hundred d pupils of 0 a college called a college but with a necessary preparatory department children an and d well grown young women u and n d rue men it the buildings are hue flue opa oracious cious not mot inferior to thi the lost best modern educational buildings either in in architectural appearance or in ID in tenor with scientific fia dp ap pratus pa ratus a library the appliances approved by recent ex experience fience in in teach A c log ing with duelm admirable dul lM methode melbo ds a bud m d discipline and an accomplished corps of instructors tho the were neat orderly intelligent in appear ance aaice As I 1 stood for a mom moment ant or two looking at their bright expectant faces the tha profound significance of 0 tho the spectacle and the tha situation came over me and I 1 said 1 I wonder it if you know now what you a are re doing if you real realize ize what this means here hera abu you are in in a school tho the equal of any of its grudo grade in in the I 1 land and with better belter methods of than prevailed anywhere when I 1 was a boy with the gates of all knowledge opened us its freely to you as aa to any youth in a iba tb land here in in this state labere din only ay about twenty years ago it was a misdemeanor i demeanor or punishable with fine and imprisonment to teach a colored person to read and write and I 1 am brought bore bera to see sea this fine school as aa 0 one no of the best things midge he be can show me in in the city by 4 confederate colo nel bel not in I 1 n a all I 1 I 1 history h Is tory i la 8 there t ile r 0 ian any y instance of a 4 change like this thia in it a quarter of a century conot no cot inon in one nor in two hundred years it beams incredible this is I 1 a one of the schools institutor instituted and sustained by northern friends of the south but while it exhibits the capacity of the colored people for e ed d uca tion it is ia not so BO significant in in the view we are now taking of at the tha now new south as aa the public schools echo ola indeed I 1 I 1 next to the amazing industrial industrial change in in the south nothing is is so BO striking as aa the interest and pro rohR in the matter of public schools in a all 11 the cities we visited the people were enthusiastic about their co common inu schools it was com common moll re mark 1 I suppose we have hava one of the best school in in the coun country try there is la a w wholesome hole somo rivalry to have hava the best we found everywhere the graded system and the tha newest meth method oda of teaching in in vogue in M many y of the primary rooms in be both th wilt white I 1 t and colored schools when I 1 asked it if these little children knew alb alphabet when they came to school the ill I 1 reply was not generally we pro fer they should not wo use abo new method of teaching wards 11 I 1 in many amany schools the youngest pupi hupila at were taught to read mu music to by sight analo aad to understand its notation by exercises on the black board in the classes generally the instruction in in arithmetic in reading in ILI geogre geography ibyl in ia history hi atory and in liters literature turo was wholly in in the tb a modern in ct u method in dome of thi the geog geography rabby classes wd and in in the tha lin language gaage classes I 1 wua waa reminded of IDE the drill in in the german schools in all the cities so go far as a I 1 could learn the money was equally d I 1 1 I I 1 t buted to tho the colored and to aba th fil I 1 1 a schools and the number of sch bore a just proportion ion to tho the number of the two races when the town was wan equally divided in in kopul population aaion apo number of pupils gnp Is in the schools was about the tha same as aa the number in the white schools there here was this exception though provision w wan made for EL a high to to r the graded for both co colors llois the number numbers in the colored high school de department artmous was usually very small i an and the tha reason given by colored and a white teachers teacher was that the col colored 45 r d children had bad not yet worked up to I 1 i it the colored people grofer prefer teachers lot f their own race an and I 1 they tarot ara au quite td generally employed but many of 61 t apo 0 colored schools have white toi chera i 1 and generally I 1 think thin kw with ith better betle results although J I 1 saw many aly good good colored teachers t e and one or two colored classe sunder them that compared favorably with wilb any aby while classes of the harng grade I 1 the great lac fact bow however evor la s that the system has haa become a par apor of 0 southern life is is everywhere re accepted ad aa it a necessity god and aspa usually money is Jo freely voted to sustain I 1 it but practically as an efficient ethcie ct fie factor or in civilization the system is is yet un nn developed covol coed in in the country districts I 1 can CAD 0 only 11 A peak from personal of I 1 tha 0 cities battle universal testimony was that tho common schools in the country for both whites and blacas are poor throe three johnel goho cling 5 in the year is 19 about the rulka rule and ltd that of a kand inferior sort bortt u odor faiq incompetent com patent leacher bera in boma places t the colored copla e C cam IJ in plain that ignorant le teaches achors tea chrs arici ara put ut avor them who are chosen choso lii simply on political considerations motu than one respectably respect abla colored man told me that he be would not send his chil children dien to saah schools but combined with itai a few others to got get them private in in str action the colored people BM are more doen dependent dent an on schools shaa the whites for while ilera are i vast masses ol of colored people in city had and country who have neither the money di position to sustain ho olsin in all the lie largo places the tha whites bites are able to havo have excellent private W schools auti anil do have them manoly scarcely antihero cau can tho colored tie yet have a private school without white old aid from Home somewhere where it at the cot rato ot of progress rpsa and ev ell of u tho iu of u tax paying ability it must IH bo a long lon time before tho ignorant masses white antl ani black in in the country districts over a wide area can havo have public beola m at all efficient the ig H great the iha danger to tho the state of 0 ignorance igno ranco is is more and moro more ampre bended and it is is upon abin that int of the best eat men of tho the south baso their urgent anteal appeal for rury aid from the tha federal 1 govern went ment fur for publio public schools it is 13 beon that but a state cannot soundly prosper unless its ila laborers are to some degree intelligent this 0 pinion opinion is shown in in little things 0 ono 10 of tho the great areat plan planter I 1 era of the yazoo delta told me tenth he oa 01 anoil to have no end of trouble ili in mith bib hands but now that numbers of them can tend road and cipher and explain the accounts tp ke I 1 tie be othela he h never nem has the least trouble ono one cannot Cst speak peak too highly of the private school in the south depaci ally of those for young women I 1 do not know what they were before the war probably mainly devoted to ao act he ai most of girls girla schools in in the north were now most of them are wider in range thorough in ii ill excellent ia all the mod or rn u mett mela some of them under accomplished anea ere su ul irely in in line with the boat best in ilg lue country ui bo fore leaving this general of education eda cation it is ia necessary necea iary to say lay that thai tho the adlis advisability ability of industrial inda atrial training as aa supplementary to book learning is 11 growing in in favor and tha t in some colored schools it ii in ia tried with good |