Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-02-24

In every department Of labor there
is a market value for the services
Of the most skillful, and he who
will not pay il must subject his ma
serial and appliances to the rude
hands Of those who will be left af-
ter others have had their choice
DO not let a good teacher leave you
rs soon as he is qualified for success
full service, because another will go
through the same training at a low
er salary.
But the pccuniary is not the on
ly reward of the teacher, and is not
all that is requisite to secure the
services Of the best. There must
be higher appreciation of these
labors-more of sympathy and CO.
operation. How many of you,
parents, have been into the schools
where the most strenuous efforts are
inside for the welfare Of your chill
dren--where they are now receiv-
ing deep ard abiding impressions I
Why, you would hardly let calf
or a sheep pass week without
more OF your personal attention than
You have bestowed on your child
for a year past. Both teacher and
pupil need your presence and your
sympaihies in the school room
They also need your assistance
without in Home Preparation for
School.
Fifteen minutes each day given
90 each pupil at home, would great
~ enhance the value of all our ed
ucaiional privileges. Let them
read aloud from the newspaper, or
detail the information they have ac-
quircd, or apply the principles to
familiar examples, and all their ac-
QUESTIONS will be far better under
sieod and more firmly retained.
Irejoice 10 hear so much that is
encouraging with reference to your
schools m Norwich. Ii is a most
hopeful token, that you teachers
hare their regular meetings for mu-
tnal Improvement While abroad
sometimes saw hundreds of teach
ess gathered for similar purposes
sometimes for musical entertain
menss o. the exhibition Of drawings /:
drawings Of all grades, from the
rides: sketch Of the tyro, to the
haished work Of the artist. Ia
France were exhibited patterns of
these beautiful fabrics which con-
trthate ~ much 10 the wealth of the
nation. 81 Lyons, for example,
wers exhibited patterns Of the rib
hssus ior winch that city is famed.
pablic schools can be made SUI
p~fiof 60 any others. They have
laberent capabilities and advantages
81 the highest importance. When
Gov Barbour, Of Virginia, visited
the Pablic High School of one of
ear cities he remarked, "The
dress. the manner, and the entire APP
FsAFancc II these boys to whom
these medals have been distributed,
Is very hne suppose they are taxi
es from your FIRST families" Eyes"
said the teacher, they are so that
hoy who received the second medal
- the son II a former President of
the United States. The one who
received the first is the son
% wood-sawyer.n Fifteen years
Afterwards, | found similar state Of
things IA the same school. Offorty-
fve present, the parents were engag-
ed "a more than thirty different oc-
cupations. On one seat, was the
sou Of manufacturer worth half a
million on the next, was the son
OF a foreigner engaged in sweeping
the streets.
Your public schools may be rails.
ed TO such position that the Ex-
President or the millionaire may be
attracted TO a residence among you,
by tier superior advantages.
G. A. J..