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Show BLAZING T11K VK().(i TRAIL 1 One of the leading farm journals of the south is authority for the statement that in the rural high schools of North Carolina seven thousand children are studying Latin, La-tin, while only seven hundred are studying Agriculture. The significance of these figures are not grasped until we learn that of the pupils attending high school in this country not more than one per cent ever reach the college or university. When we assimilate the fact that the high schools do not and can not impart a working knowledge, of the Latin language, we begin to appreciate appreci-ate the utter foolishness of an educational ed-ucational system that forces upon children the study of a dead language lan-guage from which not one in seven thousand will ever benefit. The above figures may vary in other oth-er states we hope they do. But they serve to call forcibly to our attention at-tention a glaring fault in the school system of the United States. Any system that requires hoys and girls I who in many cases can ill af turd the time and means to attend cwrn a high school ) to waste from a quaiter to a tilth of their school life on a study that will never benefit them in life s struggle, is not a hluu-ier-- it is a CRIME. Consider again. Of the 7. hue studying Latin, there are only The si udying agriculture. These figures may also vary in other states, but still any one familiar with the school: system of this country knosvs that the proportion of our rural boys and girls who secure a competent eduea-. eduea-. mil in agriculture is lamentably small. And what is the conclusion? Why, that we are wedded in our sellouts to a fossilized, petrified and antiquated system that ordains that in order to acquire an "education" one must he lonversant with a language that is so everlastingly dead it has not been generally spoken on earth in the last thousand years. And this while the crying, burning needs of the hour are sidetracked as of minor importance. |