1.  Three years’ experience in teaching, one year of which shall have been in Georgia, and the possession of a first-grade license.

or

2.  A diploma from a reputable college or normal school.

or

3.  Five years’ experience in actual school supervision.

or

4.  An approved examination before the State Board of Education as to qualifications.

It is his duty to examine on a day advertised for that purpose all applicants for licenses to teach, and to grade such applicants according to the instructions of the State Superintendent of Schools.  He is a medium between the State Superintendent of Schools and all subordinate school officers, and acts as the agent of the County Board of Education in purchasing school furniture, apparatus, and all educational requisites.

Besides partly supporting the public schools, the State supports other institutions for higher learning.  These institutions, though situated in different parts of the State, are collectively known as the University of Georgia, which has its seat at Athens.  The head of all these institutions is styled the Chancellor, but each has its President and separate board of trustees.  The trustees are appointed by the Governor for various terms.

The University of Georgia consists of the college at Athens and the following branches:  The Georgia Normal and Industrial College, State Normal School, South Georgia State Normal School, State College of Agriculture, North Georgia Agricultural College, Medical College, Technological School, and Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youths.

The educational system of Georgia is being constantly improved by voluntary local taxation supplementing the State funds.  Every child in Georgia is entitled to receive a thorough education, suited to the station in life to which he can reasonably aspire.  This much should be demanded.  Nothing less should be accepted as sufficient.  May the time soon come when the people of Georgia will realize that money spent to develop the minds and characters of their children is the best investment to be made for them in time and eternity.

ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS.—­At the expense of the whole people, the
State of Georgia maintains the following eleemosynary institutions: 
Georgia Academy for the Blind, Macon; Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave
Spring; the Soldiers’ Home of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia State
Sanitarium for the Insane, Milledgeville; Georgia State Tuberculosis
Sanitarium, Alto; and the Georgia Training School for Girls.