Excerpt from Industrial Education in the South
Sir: The accompanying monograph, prepared at the request of the Bureau of Education by the Rev. A.D. Mayo, relates to the subject of industrial education in the South. For the past eight years Dr. Mayo has been engaged in a ministry of education through all the Southern States. With no official relations, and with the sole end in view of observing educational affairs in the South, together with all forms of service and labor found to be practical in the communities visited, with the most hearty co-operation of the leading educators and public men everywhere, and the most kindly reception by teachers and pupils, his opportunities of studying the situation have probably not been surpassed.
The great interest in the subject of the industrial education of both races through the school systems of the South, the extent to which this form of instruction has already been carried, the means available for its further development, and the practical ways of engrafting it upon the present school life of that region, have all been the subject of careful observation and anxious inquiry from the beginning of the ministry of Dr. Mayo.
The present monograph is not a discussion of scholastic methods, or an attempt to give a premature opinion on many important points now under advisement by the foremost teachers and educational authorities of the country. The author has assumed the more useful task of setting before the Southern people the reasons for the growing interest in industrial education through the whole country, and the special needs of this type of educational work in the development of the great resources and the organization of the labor system of the Southern States, with a brief account of the principal institutions that have already undertaken the work.
An important part of this essay is concerned with the consideration of the present condition of the educational facilities in the country districts, where a large majority of the children and youth of the South are living.
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