Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-30


~ In the Western States, and that Of this As
sociation Hon. VIM. SLADE, late Governor of
Vermont, had been appointed General Agent.
The objects are two-foid: LIST. To explore the
more destitute portions of the country, ascer-
tain their wants in regard to we'll qualified
Teachers, sand secure appropriate arrangements
for their reception and employment. I'd. To
find competent teachers, and obtain, through
the liberahty of the friends of Education the
means of preparing and sending them to places
which may be provided, and sustaining the a
gencies necessary to carry forward the whole
movement.
Mr.. Slade having spent six months IN vsi-
ting portions OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan, has issued Circu-
lar sro the Friends of Popular Education in the
United States presenting the results of his Ia
bors thus far, and explaining mere fully the
plan of future operations. Our limits will not
allow us to publish this Circular in full but
we shall take great pleasure in presenting its
most subst antidl facts.
1t appears that Mr.. Slade met with very
fattering reception at the West and had an
opportunity to address the Legislatures of Ohio,
Illinois and Iowa. The Central Committee
under whose suspices Mr.. s. began his labors,
was mere informal body, and having been
found, from the smallness of its numbers and
the character OF its organization, to be made
auate to the efficient prosecution of the scheme
it had undertaken, has been superseded by an
Association of more permanent character,
whose functions are distinctly defined in a writ
ten Constitution. The new Association will
have sent of its operations at Cleveland, where
the member rs of its Executive Committee reside.
Ex-Gov. Jeremiah Morrow is the President,
and among the Vice Presidents we notice the
names of Hon. John Mclean and Bishop Nc
Ilvaine. Auxiliary Societies have been or
ganised at Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee,
and measures are to be taken to form others at
prominent points in the West.
For the purpose of beginning TO supply the
demand for Teachers, nearly forty ladies have
been assembled at Albany, New York, where
they are in a course of a months preparatory
training, embracing the following particulars:
LIST. Visiting the Normal School, and its
model or experimental school daily, to witness
the method of instruction here. .
3D. A course of lectures by Mr.. Page, the
Principal of the Normal School-giyen gratu-
itously-on the details of teaching the primary
branches.
3D.. A course of lectures on History, with
reference to its influence on the present char
acter and condition Of mankind.
,4th. A course of instruction on Physiology,
with special reference to the preservation of the
health of teachers.
5th. A course Of instructions in Calisthen-
les.
9th. Instructions. on the best mode of teach
ing Composition, with exercises.
7th. Lectures by Miss Beecher, in reference
to the peculiarities of Western Society and
modes of organizing and conducting different
schools in different places; and embracing va
Il H. ~ ,,,c,
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 arrangements to secure
such preparation, gratuitously, to every wo-
man 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 Sc
lection of teachers; nor will it. in the practical
execution of its trusts, be thus limited. Yet it
is fully persuaded that, in the peculiar qualifi-
cations needed for the successful instruction
and government of children of both sexes, up
to a very advanced period, if not throughout the
entire course, of common school instruction,
women are decidedly superior to men-especi-
ally in the moral training which, beside its i'm
portance in the matter of school government,
of a proper education. The comparative abun-
dance of female teachers, and the economy of
EMPLOYING them, furnishes a strong additional
reason for looking, as the Board do, mainly to
that source for supply of the teachers to be
employed under its patronage.
II is intended to secure, as far as practicable,
in the teachers to be employed, the publications
of competent knowledge, aptness to teach. pa
tience, good sense, and Christian benevolence.
Most of the women who shall be employed
will probably be in condition to require pc
cuniary aid to enable them to reach their places
of teaching. This aid it is intened to furnish
when necessary: and tor this purpose, an ap-
peal is made to the lberality of the friends OF
education throughout the country. The gifts
which that lberality may prompt-and 1t Is
hoped they will be neither few or small-may
be transmitted either TO the undersigned, or 10
Thos. w. Olcott, Esq. of Albany, n. .,Treas-
urer of the Board.
Should the persons to whom aid may be thus
extended, become able to refund the amount
of which ability they will be left to be the sole
iidges-it will be received, without Interest, to
be again used in extending like aid to 9TH
ers.
One hundred dollars, it has been estimated,
would be sufficient to defray the expense of the
short preparatory training, and the sending to
her place of destination of each teacher, inclu-
ding the expense of the agencies necessary to
give vitality and energy to the general move
ment. Should large number OF teachers be
sent, as the expense of agencies might not be
thereby propertionaly increased, sum less
than the above would probably secure the pre-
paration and location of a teacher.
Applications of ladies' desiring to be employ
cd az teachers, and applications for female
teachers. may be made, until otherwise directed
to Miss CATHARINE f. BEECHER, at Albany,
n ~, until the first of June next, and alter that
ti6se at Brattleboro, Vermont.
II is the intention of the Board to furnish fe-
msle teachers for all grades ofschools that may
be desired.
Applications from ladies' desiring to teach.
should state the age, resideIce, and religious
denomination Of the applicant, and be accom-
panied by a statement from some reliable
source, in reference to the qualifications stated
above as intended to be secured in teachers, to-