Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Faculty/Staff Personal Papers WKU Archives Records 1950 UA37/44 Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore Gordon Wilson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/fac_staff_papers Part of the Folklore Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Linguistic Anthropology Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Oral History Commons, and the Social History Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty/Staff Personal Papers by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ORIGINALS TIDBITS OF KENTUCKY FOLKLORE by Gordon Wilson Vol. V Nos, 750 - 899 Missing: #800, 801,802,805,806, 832,857,858 ,Tid Bits Article 750 ADUL1'S AND CHILDREN Right now there is a growing tend,,ncy to g£t more and more folklore into text books for children; a very good idea, of course, but I cannot help being a little concerned with the likelihood that this !'lay make adults think that folklore is so!'le thing purely childish, I am certainly in favor of having folk idea~ taught and ex plained to children of all ages, We need to have our backgrounds made more clear; too long we have talked about our lengendary past with more warmth than sense, If it is good for children to be taught basie phases of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and is equally good for them to know the b0lids of their ancestors. Many of the traditional things that children know anyway c.:tn thus be dignified by having them made a serious part of their education, Properly taught, folklore can thus become of as great moment as any part of the curriculum.