Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-07-22

opportunity to address the Legislatures of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa The Cen
trail Committee, under whose auspices Mr..
s. began his labors, was a mere informal
body, and having been found, from the small
ness of its numbers and the character of its
organization, to be inadequate to the eff
cient prosecution of the scheme it had I'M
dertaken, has been superseded by an Asso-
citation of a more permanent character,
whose functions are distinctly defined in
written Constitution. The new Associa-
ton will have the seat of its operations at
Cleveland, where the members of the Exec
utive Committee reside Ex-Gov. JEREMIAH
MoRRow is the President, and among the
Vice Presidents we notice the names of Hon.
JOHN MCLEAN and Bishop McILvAINE.-
Auxiliary Societies have been organized at
Detroit, Chicago and Miwauki, and meas
ures are to be taken to form others at prom
nent points in the West.
For the purpose of beginning to supply the
demand for teachers, nearly forty ladies have
been assembled at Albany, n Y, where
they are in course of a months prepara-
tory training, embracing the following par
ticulars:
l. Visiting the Normal School, and its
lllOuCl OF experimental SCDOOl udh1, W VIII
ness the methods of instruction here.
q A course of lectures by Mr.. PAGE, the
Principal of the Normal School-given gra-
tuitously-on the details of teaching the pri
mary branches.
3. A course of lectures on History, with
reference to its influence on the present
character and condition of mankind.
A. A course Of instruction on Physiology,
with special reference to the preservation OF
the health of teachers.
3. A course of instruction in Calisthenics.
6. Instructions on the best mode of teach
ing Composition, with exercises.
Z. Lectures by Miss Beecher, in reference
to the peculiarties of Western Society and
modes of organizing and conducting differ
ent schools in different places; and embra-
cling various other topics of advice and in
formation.
Three other ladies' are associated with
Miss Beecher in the preparatory training.
SO important do the Board consider the
course of preparatory training referred to,
that it is their intention to make arrange
ments to secure such a preparation, gratuit-
ously, to every woman who shall be sent out
as teacher under their patronage.
The constitution of the Board, (says Mr..
Slade,) does not limit it to one sex in the
selection of teachers nor will it, in the
practical execution of its trust, be thus linn
tied Yet it is fully persuaded that, in the
r peculiar qualifications needed for the sue
cessful instruction and government of chill
dren of both sexes, up to very advanced
period, if not throughout the entire course
of common school instruction, women are
, decidedly superior to men-especially in the
moral training which, besides its Importance
in the matter of school government, consti-
tutes an essential and indispensable part of
proper education. The comparative album
dance of female teachers and the economy
of employing them, furnishes strong addi-
tional reason for looking, as the Board do,
mainly to that source for supply of the
= teachers to be employed under its patronage
1t is intended to secure, as far as practi-
: cable, in the teachers to be employed, the
;, qualifications of competent knowledge, apt
:. ness to teach, patience, sound sense, and
Christian benevolence
Most OF the women who shall be employ
! ed will probably be in condition to require
pecuniary aid to enable them to reach their
: places of teaching. This aid it is intended
: to furnish when necessary; and for this pur-
: pose, an appeal is made to the iberality of
J the friends of education throughout the
u country. The gifts which that liberality
{ may prompt-and it is hoped they will be
!. neither few nor small--may be transmitted
u either to the undersigned, or to Thomas
w. OLcUTr, Esq, of Albany, New York,
Treasurer of the Board.
Il Should the persons to whom aid may be
thus extended become able to refund the a.
y mount-of which ability they will be left to
! be the sole judges-it will be received, with
:; out interest, to be again used in extending
u like aid to others.
! One hundred dollars, it has been estima-
y ted, would be sufficient to defray the expense
l. of the short preparatory training, and the
e sending to her place of destination of each
: teacher, including the expense of the agen-
U cies necessary to give vitality and energy to
the general movement. Should large num-
Der of teachers be sent, as the expense of
! agencies might not be thereby proportional
! " increased, sum less than the above
would probably secure the preparation and
! location of a teacher.
Applications of ladies desiring to be en-
ployed as teachers, and applications for fe-
y male teachers, may be made, until otherwise
: directed, to Miss CATmARINE E. BEEcHER,
: at Albany, New York, until the first of June
% next, and after that time at Battleboro', Vt.
1t is the intention of the Board to furnish
: female teachers for all grades of schools that
may be desired.
Applications from ladies desiring to teach,
: should state the age, residence, and religious
denomination of the applicant, and be ac-
companied by statement from some relia-
# BILE source, in reference to the qualifications
+ stated above as intended to be secured in
, teachers, together with the amount of edu-
t cation, and past history, of the applicant.
, Applications for female teachers should
= state the township, and county where the
= teacher is wanted-the branches in which,
: and the number of months in the year dur
S ing which, instruction will be expected
: the rate of compensation; the family to
: which the teacher may resort, on reaching
= the place of her destination, with the expec-
: tation of finding a temporary home and
q the denomination or denominations of Chris
. tians having an organized church or church
: es in the immediate vicinity, The teachers