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Show BETTER THAN BOOK LEARNING Kentucky Mountaineer Preferred aa Teacher Because He Could Lick Biggest Boy In School. The colonel had .gone up Into tbe Kentucky mcinlalns from tbe blue grass In comrand of a sawmill, and as soon as ft had mobilized his forces In that flHd he began to maneuver In the matter of Improving the people about his camp. What they Deeded most were better schools and be determined to take a band In tbe selection of a proper teacher. To this end he called In one from his own section who bad a college education, but no mountain experience. When be proposed thla blue grass nurtured young man to the mountaineer trustees trus-tees there was unanimous opposition In favor of one of their own kind, who bad been teaching the school for some time, though his education was of the most limited kind. "But," argued the colonel, "your man doesn't have the first rudiments of an education and tbe pupils might as well have no teacher at all." "He's done better than anybody else ever done, colonel." replied tbe chairman of the board. . "That may be, but none of them has been educated properly to teach. My man bas been through college and Is superior to any teacher In tbe county." coun-ty." The chairman didn't want any trouble with the colonel, nor did be want to yield his point. "Mebbe he'a Jlst what you say be Is, colonel." he said persuasively, "and It ain't fer us to doubt that be hae a powerful sight of book Tarnln', but. colonel, we' have saw him and we have saw our man. and I wanter say fer this board of trustees that your man can't lick the biggest boy In school and our'n kin, and that counts fer a heap sight more In this neck uv woods than book Tarnta'." The colonel's candidate retired to the blue grass whence he came. |
