Excerpt from Educational Survey of Carroll County Georgia, 1919 (Submitted by M. L. Duggan, Rural School Agent for Georgia, on May 8, 1918.) To the Carroll County Board of Education, and Citizens of the County: At the request of your county Board of Education I was delegated by the State Department of Education to make a careful survey of the schools of the county and make recommendations to the county Board, especially with reference to school districts. I first discussed the situation fully with the county Board of Education, and afterwards with the Grand Jury for the Spring Term of Superior Court. The Grand Jury, after due consideration, unanimously passed the following resolution: "Believing that there are too many little schools in our county for many of them ever to become strong, and in order that better and stronger schools can be built so as to adequately educate All The Children of the county, we would heartily endorse the movement on the part of our county Board of Education (with the aid of the State Department of Education) to re-district the county, and we earnestly urge upon them the importance of making these school districts of such size as the law contemplates - a minimum of sixteen square miles - in order that stronger and better schools can be built upon broader foundations. We urge that in doing this the Board shall keep in view the future and permanent best interests of All sections of our county, and not be influenced by any seeming temporary individual or local interests to create small or irregular shaped districts, even though some localities may suffer temporarily in the interest of the permanent good for the whole county." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Educational Survey of Walker County, Georgia The biggest public problem confronting Walker county, undoubtedly, is the proper education of the children future citizens of the county. No other compares with it in present importance or projects itself so far into the future. In proportion as people are more im portant than property will their training mean more than any' possible development of the material resources of the county. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. But more serious thought and business-like planning and liberal financial support has been given to the development of the material interests of Walker county than to the con struction of an efficient public school system, as evidenced by the greater progress accomplished, court house and jail, public road system, agriculture, etc., etc. As compared to these we would call attention to the photographs and de tailed descriptions of the school houses and school equip ments of the rural schools given in this report. A good public road system makes a good public school system possible, and neither can be had with-out both lib eral financial support and strong central expert administra tion. Local initiative or administration never accomplishes either. Administration and supervision should always come from the same source as the support, and in the same pro portion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.