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Appalachian Values/American Values

Appalachian Values/American Values Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1979, pp. 49-57 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1979.0040 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442019/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Values/ American Values CONCLUSION PARTV by Jim Wayne Miller IX. DICK ANDJANE IN THE MOUNTAINS: REASSESSING THE ROLE OF SCHOOLS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION Things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. —Emerson, "The American Scholar" The foregoing analysis has implications for education in the Appalachian region. I suggest that in the Appalachian region today the greatest needs of students and the greatest capabilities of schools happily coincide. Students need to know their own culture—regionally and nationally. Schools teach culture better than anything else. Appalachians have been deprived of their history by a complicated set of circum- stances. The schools can help restore a sense of the region's history to the people of the region. And in so doing, the schools will not be engaged in any narrow, pro- vincial or blinkered enterprise. In 1912 when Mother Jones was trying to exhort coal miners to action on their own behalf, instead of trusting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Appalachian Values/American Values

Appalachian Review , Volume 7 (1) – Jan 8, 2014

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Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1979, pp. 49-57 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1979.0040 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442019/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Values/ American Values CONCLUSION PARTV by Jim Wayne Miller IX. DICK ANDJANE IN THE MOUNTAINS: REASSESSING THE ROLE OF SCHOOLS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION Things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. —Emerson, "The American Scholar" The foregoing analysis has implications for education in the Appalachian region. I suggest that in the Appalachian region today the greatest needs of students and the greatest capabilities of schools happily coincide. Students need to know their own culture—regionally and nationally. Schools teach culture better than anything else. Appalachians have been deprived of their history by a complicated set of circum- stances. The schools can help restore a sense of the region's history to the people of the region. And in so doing, the schools will not be engaged in any narrow, pro- vincial or blinkered enterprise. In 1912 when Mother Jones was trying to exhort coal miners to action on their own behalf, instead of trusting

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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