Category: History - American
In the mountains of Kentucky there has been buried a treasure of citizenship richer far than all its vast fields of coal, its oil, its timber or mineral wealth. Here lives a people so individual that authors have chosen them as their theme and artists as their subjects to inte...
In the spring of 1917 the War came and the illiterates faced new problems. Illiterate boys were swept, along with others, into the army. Hitherto they had been barred from army...
14. CHAPTER XIV THE NEED OF MOONLIGHT SCHOOLSThere was a time in the dark ages when learning first began to lift its head, that the proud knight boasted that he could not read or write--mere priest-craft much beneath him....
13. CHAPTER XIII THE PURPOSE OF THE MOONLIGHT SCHOOLSIn all the decades prior to the one ushered in by 1910, there was not a state, county, city or school district which had as its purpose the absolute removal of illiteracy. When...
12. CHAPTER XII THE ILLITERACY CRUSADE SPREADS FROM STATE TO STATEThe crusade against illiteracy had extended rapidly to other states. Moonlight schools were organized in the fall of 1913 in Bradley County, Tennessee, to teach the mountaineers...
11. CHAPTER XI MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS IN RECONSTRUCTION DAYSSoldiers returned from France talking education, urging a better school system, and a provision for everybody, young and old, to improve themselves. It was the burden of almost...
8. CHAPTER VIII THE MOVEMENT EXTENDS TO THE WHOLE STATE OF KENTUCKYTwenty-five other counties in the State were, by this time, having moonlight schools, and whether it was in a Bluegrass County among the tenant class, in the Purchase among the...
9. CHAPTER IX THE FIRST TEXT-BOOKS FOR ADULT ILLITERATESAttractive and easy texts and school supplies for adults which would enable them to learn quickly and would stimulate them to further endeavor was a manifest need. The little ne...
7. CHAPTER VII TO WIPE OUT ILLITERACY THE TEACHER’S GOALTo wipe illiteracy out of the county was the goal set for the following year. First, the school trustees were induced to take a census of the illiterates. When this was complete...
4. CHAPTER IV PIONEER METHODS IN DEALING WITH ILLITERATESThis was the first lesson. It consisted of simple words, much repetition and a content that related to the activity of the reader, all of which, in a first lesson are essential....
1. CHAPTER I THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THE MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS TO THE WORLDIn the mountains of Kentucky there has been buried a treasure of citizenship richer far than all its vast fields of coal, its oil, its timber or mineral wealth. Here lives a peo...
6. CHAPTER VI THE RESULTS OF THE SECOND SESSIONThe second session surpassed the first in every particular. We enrolled 1,600 students, and taught 350 to read and write. A man aged eighty-seven entered and put to shame the re...
3. CHAPTER III SURPRISES OF THE FIRST SESSIONThe opening of the day schools to them was first considered, but the day schools were already crowded with children, and anyway, illiterates, more than any other class, are chai...
15. CHAPTER XV THE CALL OF THE ILLITERATESPlato said, “I believe that every immortal soul is the offspring of a divine thought, of a divine purpose, and that God has in His mind a picture like unto which He would have e...
2. CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF THE MOONLIGHT SCHOOLSStrange impressions have prevailed in regard to the moonlight schools. Some have imagined them to be schools where children study and play and scamper on the green, like fairies...
5. CHAPTER V A MOONLIGHT SCHOOL INSTITUTEPrior to the opening of the second session, a moonlight school institute was held--the first institute for night school teachers in America, if not in the world. The methods of...