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:hurch was open at the time. I was educated in religion in ill of the churches.”
Early Education "It’s remarkable - the old schools, the original schools ivhere our grandfathers and fathers went to school. They had teachers who were graduates of William and Mary or the University of Virginia and they’d come to these small towns to teach. We couldn't pay them any money. They stayed at somebody's house year-round and taught during the winter months. The school term was shorter: October to March. They were well-versed in Greek and Latin and math of all descriptions. It really was wonderful - the education people got in those days. And they had to walk miles - five miles, some as much as ten miles - to school and they thought nothinjg of it.
“‘They had 50-60 children. One thing they had - they had helpers (children in upper grades) who would teach the younger children while they taught the older ones.
“Education here ranged from full illiteracy to real learning. In 1933 the survey showed 132 females were illiterate: 3,970 were literate. Forty-nine percent could read and write at 5th grade level or below and thirteen percent could read above that level.
“By Virginia law, an illiterate person who had less than $250.00 in property did not have to pay tax. Some of the mountain people were so illiterate that when they were moved off Skyline Drive some were coming for the first time to Sperryville schools. 1 got most of the new children in the fourth grade. There was a boy much taller than 1 was - 1 was 20 and he 15 - in my class.”
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