The Board has realized, however, that the development of negro schools is dependent upon the economic and educational progress of the whites, and has contributed most to white schools or to objects of a nature intended to benefit the whole population.
All testimony points to the conclusion that there is now real enthusiasm for education among the Southern whites.

The school terms are being extended, often by means of local taxes levied in addition to the minimum fixed by the State; the quality of the teaching is improving; and popular interest is growing.

In many sections, the school is developing into a real community center.

Good buildings are replacing the shacks formerly so common.

North Carolina is proud of the fact that for more than fourteen years an average of more than one new school a day has been built from plans approved by the educational department.