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MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
FOR THE EMANCIPATION
OF ADULT ILLITERATES
BY
CORA WILSON STEWART
Chairman Illiteracy Commission, National Education
Association; Chairman Illiteracy Committees:
National Council of Education, and General
Federation Womens’ Clubs.
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright, 1922,
By E. P. Dutton & Company
All Rights Reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
TO THE VOLUNTEER TEACHERS IN THE MOONLIGHT
SCHOOLS, WHOSE VISION, COURAGE AND SELF-SACRIFICE
MADE IT POSSIBLE TO BLAZE THE
TRAIL FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF
THE NATION’S ILLITERATES, THIS
VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY
DEDICATED
Grateful acknowledgments are made for assistanceand helpful suggestions to the following: Mr. ErwinA. Holt, Mrs. Cornelia Steketee Hulst, Dr. J. G.Crabbe, Miss Linda Neville, General William H.Sears, Mr. Everett Dix, and Dr. Louise McDanellBrowne.
PREFACE
Many requests have come for a book tellingthe story of the moonlight schools. Teachershave expressed their need of such a book fortheir inspiration and guidance, and the generalpublic has evidenced a desire to know more ofthe dramatic story of the origin, developmentand goal of these schools.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet areguided, and that is the lamp of experience,” saidPatrick Henry. The crying need of “the lampof experience” to guide the teachers who areengaged in the fight on illiteracy impels theauthor to present the experience of years ofstrenuous campaigning against illiteracy in bookform and likewi