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and at the latter, the well known Normal and Agricultural Institute. These Normal classes are of the utmost importance to the future educational interests of the state. The demand for properly qualified colored teachers far outruns the supply, [[crossed-out]] either [[/crossed-out]] both from our own schools and from the north. Many of these demands cannot be met at all, and many will be supplied with teachers of very inferior qualifications. The present and future necessities of the school system of the state, therefore, alike demand that the more advanced schools by whatever name known, or wherever located, should be made as efficient as possible in the preparation of teaching.

[[crossed-out]] State Action. [[/crossed-out]]
The long delay in the political reconstruction of this state still leaves the schools dependent upon foreign aid.

Probably there is not another suthern state in which the ruling class have such poor opinion, not only of public free schools, as a means of education,

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