Educational Survey Of Rabun Co PDF Download

Excerpt from Educational Survey of Rabun County Georgia, 1914 We have always needed closer supervision in our rural school work. The regular institute conductors have all they can do to look after the task specifically committed to their care. Whenever possible they visit schools but it can be readily seen that a supervisor, with the responsibility of giving five days' training to the teachers of fifty counties, will have very little time during the year for the actual inspection of school conditions. Impressed with this need of ours for a trained expert to make an actual diagnosis of conditions in each county and prescribe proper remedies for the educational authorities, I secured the promise of funds for the salary and expenses of such an official from the General Education Board last summer. By reason of his long experience as County Superintendent and State Supervisor and because of his undoubted success in improving rural conditions, Mr. M. L. Duggan is especially suited for this work. He has accordingly been appointed Rural School Agent and as rapidly as possible will make educational "surveys" of the various counties. Experience has shown that counties and even wealthy cities are sensitive about work of this type. So true is this, that large educational systems have been known to fight such surveys and to prevent the publication of the reports after completion. While this sensitiveness may be natural, it is not right to hide from view conditions which are based upon the expenditure of public funds, even though humiliatingly small. There was nothing of this reluctance on the part of the brave little county in which this first survey was made. It is the first mountain county in Georgia to add to the state fund by local taxation and this of itself indicates its progressive character. Much of its land is composed of mountains and, though they are beautiful with the purple haze that always lies above the Blue Ridge, one would naturally not expect to find much per capita wealth among these hills. They are willing to face conditions frankly, however, intend to improve them, and such a spirit insures progress and development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.