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The Augusta INews-Keview, February 1, lvjo -
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“What Happened To Our Educators?”
i wonder what Booker T. Washington and Mary McLeod
Bethune would think of our modern day educators. The desire to
teach seems to have been lost in petty political games for power.
It seems to be more of what can be gotten out of our school
system instead of what can be put into it.
The Teaching Profession has never been the highest paid, but
more people are taking it up and spending the rest of their lives
complaining instead of teaching. It is almost inconceivable of the
number of individuals allowed to enter this profession every year
who are not qualified, passing on ignorance generation after
generation.
What qualifies one to teach? I would think one who has the
ability to deal with various situations as they arise, one who has
an awareness of the changes around him daily, who has strong
convictions in what he has chosen to do and upholds them, and
most of all, loves learning for the sake of learning and not the
paycheck at the end of the month.
We have more Masters Degrees floating around our Black
schools, but you’d never know it. If the knowledge acquired in
the achievement of this degree is not used, the years spent in
attaining it is like water over the dam.
Black educators have a greater task than do White educators.
We have more to do with and less to work with. If we began
today, it would be another sixteen years before we were able to
see a marked improvement in our college graduates. I consider
that an excellent long term investment. One five year old child
sixteen years from now would have something to be proud of and
something to identify with - himself - can you deal with that?
I’d like to share with you one of Plato’s dialogues entitled
“Laws.” This excerpt is between an Athenian stranger and
Cleinias, a Cretan.
Athenian - Well, then if I tell you what are my notions of
education, will you consider whether they satisfy you?
Cleinias - Let us hear.
Athenian - According to my view, anyone who would be good
at anything must practice that thing from his youth upwards,
both in sport and earnest, in its several branches; for example, he
who is to be a good builder, should play at building children’s
houses; he who is to be a good husbandman, at tilling the ground;
and those who have the care of their education should provide
them when young with mimic tools. They should learn
beforehand the knowledge which they will afterwards require for
their art. For example, the future carpenter should learn to
measure or apply the line in play; and the future warrior should
learn riding, or some other exercise, for amusement, and the
teacher should endeavour to direct the children’s inclinations and
pleasures, by the help of amusements, to their final aim in life.
The most important part of education is right training in the
nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be guided to the
love of that sort of excellence in which when he grows up to
manhood he will have to be perfected. Do you agree with me thus
far?
Cleinias - Certainly.
Miss Norman - Cont. from P. 1
album was a finalround
nominee in the Montreux
International Record Award
competition. a Mahler
-Schubert recital has been
released by Phillips, too, and a
Wagner-Schubert-Poulenc disk
on Odeon. Inevitably, the
pressures are building up.
People want me to sing
‘Nabucco’ and the other big
Verdi things but I say no. I’ve
done Aida a dozen times now,
but no more for a while. Verdi
is more difficult for my voice
than the sustained tones of
Wagner. I could get away with
singing Sieglinde twice a week,
maybe, but Aido no. First of
all, it’s typecasting. People
look at me and say, Aida. But
more important, I want to sing
what’s comfortable for my
voice. Some people even
encourage me to turn
mezzo-soprano. But that’s
crazy. That’s a whole different
sound. I’m going to do a lot of
Mozart now and a lot of
recitals because I don’t want to
wreck anything. If I had to
guess, I’d say that maybe in 15
years, I’ll be singing more
Wagner than anything else. I
like that kind of sustained
tone. Strauss will come, too.
By the time I’m 35, I’d like to
do the Marschalin. But Wagner
- well, I can’t wait to sing
Isolde. Let me live so long.”
Yes, Jessye Norman is
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making it -- in fact, is already
an international somebody,
regardless of what may happen
in her New York recital or
thereafter. But she is entirely
aware of whose shoulder she is
standing on. “If it hadn’t been
for people such as Jackie
Robinson, Marian Anderson
and Mattiwilda Dobbs I’m sure
it would be as hard for me now
as it was for them in the
thirties. Look, I can’t imagine
what my reaction would be,
knowing me, if I went into a
first-class motel with a
reservation and they said ‘Oh,
we’re sorry, you can’t sleep
here.’ I’d throw a few things.
I’m sure I wouldnt turn the
other cheek and go out to
some fleabag to stay. I’m not
sure I could have stood all that
- what Todd Duncan and the
other lived through.”
Just under the left eye Miss
Norman bears a scar, the result
of a backyard fall, onto a sharp
stone at the age of 4 (It took
22 stitches, if you can imagine
that) If she has other scars -
psychic ones - from growing
up as a black artist in America,
they do not show. She has
been one of the lucky ones.
And is anything but bitter.
But, for now, if you want to
reach her,you’d best writer her
at home in Berlin, care of the
Deutsche Oper.
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NEW ORLEANS POLITICS
STACKED AGAINST
BLACKS
New Orleans, La., - Terming
a city council district plan in
the city as stacked against
blacks, the U.S. Justice
Department advised the
council to try again. This left
councilmen with the option of
appealing the Justice
Department ruling or
redrawing the district to
correct the attempt at
gerrymandering.
The district lines for the
seven-member council “was
not fair as far as the racial
makup was concerned,” said a
Justice Department
spokesman. In an old story,
New Orleans has nearly 50
percent black population but
no representation on the
council.
BILL RUSSELL HEADS
TEAM
Chicago, 111., - Former player
now coach Bill Russell in the
National Basketball
Association has been elected
first vice chairman of
Operation PUSH -- People
United to Save Humanity.
Other new directors of the civil
rights group are Betty Shabazz,
widow of Malcolm X, and
Rachel Robinson, widow of
baseball great Jackie Robinson,
former head of PUSH.
“OH SAY...” Nixon Sees
Annapolis, Md. -- Soul
Singer Ethel Ennis has a fan --
President Nixon. While some
did not like the soulful style
she introduced as the inaugural
rendition of the national
anthem, the President, she said,
definitely did.
“The President told me he
like it. I think he was sincere. I
know it was different, but I
didn’t do it for that reason. I
added a few notes to make it
more meaningful ... to give it a
little warmth,” she explained.
DETROIT POLICE RECRUIT
BLACKS
Detroit, Mich. - Recruiting
outside the city will be tried to
reach the goal of a 45 percent
black police force in Detroit by
the year 1980. The city’s
population is about 50 percent
black but the police force is 85
percent white.
FORECAST: BELT-
-TIGHTENING IN AID TO
EDUCATION
New Orleans, La. - A gloomy
forecast of Federal cuts in aid
to education is predicted by
Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr., U.S.
Assistant Secretary for
Education. Marland’s remarks
came in an address to the 34th
convention of the Louisiana
School Boards Association.
The President’s budget,
Marland said, reflects “some
drastic belt-tightening in
education appropriations as
well as in other sources such as
highways and transportations.”
BUSIN’ IS BACK IN U.S.
SENATE
Washington, D.C. - Alabama
Sen. James B. Allen tossed in a
proposed constitutional
amendment to prevent busing
of school children for racial
purposes as one of his first acts
of the 93rd Congress. Joining
him were Senators Sam Erving
(D-N.C); Henry M. (Scoop)
Jackson (D-Wash.); John
Stennis (D-Miss.); Herman
Talmadge (D-Ga.); Jesse Helms
(R-N.C.); Bill Brock and
Howard Baker, both Tennessee
Republicans; James L. Buckley
(R-N.Y.); Bill Scott (R-Va.);
Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.); and
John Tower (R-Tex.)
BOBBY SEALE WANTS A
SLUSH FUND
Oakland, Calif. -- Black
Panther Chairman Bobby Seale
announced for mayor and
immediately called for a “slush
fund” to provide jobs for
minorities. Seale, 35,
predicting a “landslide
victory,” said “people have a
right to a job” and that this
would be the central theme in
his campaign.
BILL WOULD GIVE
CLEMENTE MEDAL
Washington, D.C. - Creation
of a commemorative gold
medal in honor of baseball star
Roberto Clemente, who died in
a tragic plane crash, was urged
by hometown Congressman
William S. Moorhead in
Pittsburgh, Pa. Clemente, an
all-star outfielder, died when a
cargo plane loaded with
supplies to earthquake victims
in Guatemala crashed into the
Atlantic Ocean off Puerto
Rico.
CLEAVER ILL IN ALGERIA
Algiers -- (NBNS) - Black
Panther sources here report
that Eldridge Cleaver has not
departed for the United States,
as previously reported, but has
been hospitalized by illness.
Cleaver is expected to return
to the United States to renew
his fight for militant action
against black oppression.
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