Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 47

what the measure of attainment is not the result brought defeasible, but
the old obstacles in to reach him/it.

There is a lot of illiteracy among the oldest people, but through the
Schools of mission and the instructive system and improved of the states,
to children comparatively few you/he/she is now missing the opportunity of some
elementary education. The training received in the school of district
it is often very thin and the term of the job of some months very also
shortly.

Through the many months when the schools are closed the young people,
you/he/she is thrown on their his/her own resources. They is without stimulating and
profit out of affairs, and the deterioration is the inevitable result.

It is interesting to note that in September, 1914, the state of Kentucky
legislature named a Committee on Illiteracy. The Committee has
launched an instructive country with the look-word "Illiteracy
eliminated in 1920."

A number of is Southern you/he/she has recently made serious efforts to
reduces the percentage of illiteracy inside their confinements.

The history of that that was brought defeasible in a country for the elimination
of illiteracy in the County of Rowan, one of the mountain turned back more
counties in Kentucky, are picturesque and instructive.

During the months in autumn of 1911, 1912, 1913, under the enthusiastic one
command of the Provincial Superintendent and a body of fifty
volunteer and teachers not remunerated, practically every man the woman and
child in the county was taught to read and to write. A special
characteristic of this country was the equity holding of schools of clear of moon,
doing possible the presence of the oldest people.

Almost all the fifty teachers that gave this splendid service
it was graduated of a Mission School, the Normal Morehead Scuola,
what under the administration of the Board of the Christian Women is
of Missions.

Profit and praiseworthy as such methods it is, they cannot provision
the place of a Mission School that gives to regulate instructive and
industrial training. These are qualified to bring particularly to