Horace Kephart: The great need of our mountaineers today is trained leaders of their own. The future of Appalachia lies mostly in the hand of those resolute native boys and girls who win the education fitting them for such leadership. Here is where the nation at large is summoned by a solemn duty (RALEIGH - are you listening) ? - The schools needed here are not ordinary graded schools. They should be vocational schools that will turn out good farmers, good mechanics, good housewives. Meantime let a model farm be established in every mountain county showing how to get the most out of the mountain land. Such object lessons would speedily work an economic revolution. it is an economic problem, fundamentally, that the mountaineer has to face: Horace Kephart (1862 - 1931)
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:37:10 +0000
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