st degree commendable. The
community need is first ascertained. The school work is then organized
in response to this community need. If, perchance, the first effort
meets with little success, additional effort is continued until some
measure of success is assured. The school authorities are not afraid to
change their opinions or their system. They are not even afraid to fail
on a given experiment. The one thing of which they are afraid is failure
to provide for the educational needs of the community.

XI A People Coming to Its Own

The first great battle in the educational awakening of the South has
been won. The people realize the necessity for an intelligently active
population.

The second battle is well under way. The people of the South are shaping
the schools to meet the peculiar educational needs which the economic
and social problems of the South present.

A rallying-cry is ringing through the Southern States,--"The schools for
the people; the people for the schools; and a higher standard of
education and of life for the community."

The South is in line for the New Education. School officials are
working. Superintendent Daniel writes,--"Everyone connected with the
system has been too intent on doing his work well and in establishing
and maintaining the ideals of the system to be disturbed by petty
difficulties. The teachers," he adds, "have appeared to feel that it was
rather a privilege than a burden to participate in making the Columbus
system efficient through the preparation of her children for life."[29]
The public is asking for a correlation of school with life, and the
schools are educating the South through the children.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 24: Now State Superintendent. See an article
"'Corn-Club' Smith," P. C. Macfarlane, Collier's Weekly, May 17,
1913, p. 19.]

[Footnote 25: United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Plant Industry, Results of Boys' Demonstration Work in Corn Clubs
in 1911, Washington, May, 1912, p. 4.]

[Footnote 26: Op. cit., pp. 5-6.]

[Footnote 27: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant
Industry, Girls' Demonstration Work, Washington, January, 1913,
pp. 1-2.]

[Footnote 28: For a full statement of the work of the Columbus
Schools see "Industrial Education in Columbus,["] Ga., R. B.
Daniel, U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin 535, Government
Printing Office, 1913. Also, The Annual Report of the Colu