Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-17

Below we give the circular of the committee
appointed to superintend the organization of a
Teachers Institute in this county. We trust
the meeting for this purpose, to be held the
22nd, will be attended by every person engaged
or intending to engage in the business of teach
ing. The cause of popular education must be
attended to if we would hope for the security of
our government, or the continuance even, in
the breasts of the people, of those principles of
freedom in which it is found.
WASHTENAW COUNTY EDUCATION
AL SOCIETY.
COMMITTEES ROOM, Ann Arbor, Feb. 10, AT.
The undersigned were appointed Commit
tee by the Washtenaw County Educational So
ciety "to make arrangements for, and to super
intend the organization Of a Teachers Insti-
tute;' and have, with the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, fixed on Monday the 22d of
March next, at IL o'clock in the forenoon as the
time when, and the Court House in the village
where, a Teachers Institute for said county
will be organized, to continue during the week,
and close on Saturday the 9th of March. The
Superintendent of Public Instruction and seve-
raj fother gentlemen acquainted with school
teaching, will be present during the whole and
communicate much valuable information on the
most efficient and useful systems of imparting
instruction to scholars, on good government,
and the preservation of order in Schools. The
general principles of the several branches
taught in common schools, will be developed and
rendered interesting and attractive, by pain
and familiar conversational remarks. One or
more lectures will be delivered every evening
upon mental, moral and physical education and
other kindred topics. The morning and after
noon exercises will be confined chiefly to i'm
provement in the practical business of teaching.
Teachers will have opportunities to state any diff
fculties or obstacles they encounter in teach
ing, and the best efforts of the Institute will be
exerted to remove them. The committee hope
too, that many of the teachers will aid in i'm
parting useful information on the best modes of
teaching, as proved by their own experience
The teachers and friends of education residing
out of the village will be furnished with board
ing and lodging by citizens of Ann Arbor with
out charge while the meetings of the Institute
continue. The committee will spare no pains
to render the meetings pleasant and profitable,
and they hope the friends of Education in the
several School Districts throughout the county
will furnish conveyances for teachers, and espe-
cially for the ladies. We therefore, in behalf
of the Educational Society of the County of
| w ashtenaw, invite the male and female teach
ers now engaged as such, and all who intend
to become teachers, and the friends of educa-
ton throughout the county to attend at the
time and place above specified, when we trust
| by the combined efforts of teachers and friends,
the cause of universal education will receive
an impulse which will be felt in every depart
ment of society, and which will excite to lau-
dable emulation throughout the State. Teach
ers whose schools are now in operation, will
we are sure, find no difficulty in obtaining the
consent of their patrons to suspend Their
schools for week by engaging to make up the
time at the end of their terms, and we hope ever
without this, for no individual is without an in
terest IN this important subject, in the intelli
| gence and happiness of its citizens consists the
safety and perpetuity ofour Republic, land where
is the person who will say he feels no interest
| in these? Not in Washtenaw, we trusti Is not
an intelligent population more likely to feel right
and act wisely than an ignorant one1 and W no
wonld not ..rather be right than be PRESIDENT
| Under our form of Government, where the peo
| pie rule and every citizen is sovereign, the
cause Unpopular education must be emphaticallv
the cause of the people. May we not then hope
| that every man, woman and child will exert
what influence they possess in behalf of this
cause: and if they do, its ultimate triumph is
certain, as its influence must be Wholesome and
propi tious. Those who receive or see this cir
cular will please exert themselves to bring about
| general attendance, especially of both sexes
DONALD MCINTYRE,
ANDREW TENBROOK,
WILLIAM s. CURTIS, Committee
HENRY x. HEWITT,
WILLIAM r. PERRY,
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