Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-07
Agricultural.
From the Cleveland Herald.
SCHOOL TEACHERS.

MR.. Harris-Furnishing the seventy
thousand American schools with woi,
qualified teachers is, perhaps. the moot
important ana the most difficult subject
connected with the Intellectual and NOR.
a. character, and Of course with the liner.
ties OF our republic. AS long as talents
IKE every other article of commerce will
md the best market, men of high intellec.
tual and moral attainments cannot he -.
tanned IN schools at twenty-five dollars .
month. while other professions offer sonr
times the salary, with one-half The ,.bor
anu oTuogery, and twice the respectable
y. NO matter how many teachers sem.
mares are established or how richly en-
uomeo' ana now great the number or the
guailncatlons OF teachers--they can never
DC retained IN common schools mill thsu
are pad. and until the profession of teach
ing stands as high in public estimation as
mat OF law, or medicine, or DIVINITY -
= must also be recollected on this sub.
lech IKE every other in system of ma.
slonai education, that more than three.
,ouftns OF the subjects of education are to
% tafmers and farmers wives. Conse.
quently, that system which is best fitted
to.Promote the farming interests. is hest
n.1eu ior the interest of our Republic. In
view OF that fact, no one can doubt but .
PFactical and scientific farmer NAV ha
Deter qualified to educate farmers. thar
n -. mere scholar. however highly accom-
pllsned; This opinion is entirely corrob.
Tra1ea oy facts, as many farmers, whom I
nase known to pursue teaching as a win
yer profession; for d course of wears. have
made Tar better teachers than are ever
l0una IN students of college, or in medic
ai' law, or divinity students. who nsa
teaching as kind Of cats-paw profess;on
20 and them into another. which offsrs
larger emolument and higher respectable
ny. While our schools are furnished
Iron. rom the students mentioned, it is evident
sna' 1ney must suffer all the embarrass-
ments, losses and other evils which can
not iail to arise from inexperienced labor
ers ana not inexperience merely. bur
those making no calculations and takinr
skill. "
Let young farmers adont teacb;nr a.
lneir profession during the winter. for
course OF years. and these two hither I'm
Surmountable obstacles the want of saia
RES ana experience. will, in measure !,
least, be removed. The farmer could e
ford to teach in his own district At tb;r.,,
/. dollars month, for four months IL q YEA
better than one who depended entirely mn
on teaching for the support of a fam;Iv
could for fifty dollars; as with the aid ~
a laborer whom he might hire for ten
dollars month, or perhaps by the assist.
ance OF his sons without hired labor he
might attend to all the winter business Of
his farm in addition to his services in the
school.
II q evident that young farmer, who
al sixteen or eighteen years of age, should
commence shaping his course for the bu-
s'ness OF teaching as profession. thouoh
Il might De but for the winter. would a.,
under very different motives. and cons 81
quently make greater and higher efIor,s
than kind Of interloper, who had esc os
ed from another profession iust giI orpr
enough. and devoling just hours enouas
TO secure a few dollars to help him on -
his more respectable calling. The for.
mer would be upon the alert 10 learn the |
best modes Of teaching, to ascertain what