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Editorial
September 18, 1913
The Mena Weekly Star
Mena, Polk County, Arkansas
What is this article about?
Editorial from the Arkansas Gazette highlights the importance of rural school teachers in Arkansas, who provide foundational education to children in small communities, and calls for equal recognition and support for these underpaid educators alongside university professors.
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The Country School Teacher.
The schools are beginning their work in Arkansas now. The universities and colleges and big prep schools are opening with a flourish that echoes in the newspapers. This is good. But those of us who are for more schools and better schools and who talk the necessity of more money for schools in Arkansas should keep in mind always the schools whose openings are unheralded and whose teachers are unknown, but whose work is felt each day in the life of Arkansas.
About this time of the year teachers are calling the children into the little schoolhouses at the forks of the creek and are giving them those rudiments of education which form a sound foundation for the school work that is to come to them later and which saves from darkness those pupils who will never attend a college and who must content themselves with only a year or two of school work before beginning the long, hard struggle for a living.
Let us exalt our teachers, but let us not fail to exalt the hard working, underpaid country teachers, as well as the university professor.—Arkansas Gazette.
The schools are beginning their work in Arkansas now. The universities and colleges and big prep schools are opening with a flourish that echoes in the newspapers. This is good. But those of us who are for more schools and better schools and who talk the necessity of more money for schools in Arkansas should keep in mind always the schools whose openings are unheralded and whose teachers are unknown, but whose work is felt each day in the life of Arkansas.
About this time of the year teachers are calling the children into the little schoolhouses at the forks of the creek and are giving them those rudiments of education which form a sound foundation for the school work that is to come to them later and which saves from darkness those pupils who will never attend a college and who must content themselves with only a year or two of school work before beginning the long, hard struggle for a living.
Let us exalt our teachers, but let us not fail to exalt the hard working, underpaid country teachers, as well as the university professor.—Arkansas Gazette.
What sub-type of article is it?
Education
What keywords are associated?
Country Schools
Rural Teachers
Education In Arkansas
School Funding
Teacher Recognition
What entities or persons were involved?
Country Teachers
University Professor
Arkansas Gazette
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Importance Of Country School Teachers In Arkansas
Stance / Tone
Supportive Exhortation For Recognizing Rural Educators
Key Figures
Country Teachers
University Professor
Arkansas Gazette
Key Arguments
Rural Schools Provide Essential Foundational Education For Children Who May Not Attend Higher Education.
Country Teachers' Work Impacts Daily Life In Arkansas Despite Being Unheralded.
Advocates For More Funding And Better Schools, Including Rural Ones.
Urges Equal Exaltation Of Hardworking, Underpaid Country Teachers Alongside Professors.