Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-12-13
llCistCIlorrous RtoOiun.
.. sjaOsssity fo- Normal Schools.

bea sj1oessity FOR Normal Schools.
We arr bu' expressing the feeling of every
man IN the Sttte who has been engaged for six
maalls in the Office of School Trustee or
School Visitor, when we make an urgent ap-
peal to the Legislature to provide. without
further delay, means for educating and train.
ing Teachers for tic immense system Of
Schools now so firmly established throughout
Ohio Compared with many parts ofthe State
we have an omense advantage in High
Schools, which annually reinforce our ranks
with numerous young men and women having
at least some scholarship upon which the basis
Of teaching may rest. But need we furnish ar
gument to prove that it requires sOmcLhing far
beyond mere scholarship 10 constitute Teach
er. He may be ever so learned, and vet dess
tiIute ofal faculty Of mparllpg his knowledge
to others and infasng them with the love and
understanding oft by which alone It can be
made prevail. We are apt to forget the fable
Of the wolf who vent to school to lealn to SPELL
but whatever letters we're told him he could
never, make any thing Of them bu. lamb. The
Teacher must know how to prepare the mind
TO QTeceiye bis lessons To leach is science
and arr no less arduols than that Of the
orator to pursuade, and comes no more by ma.
ture than any other formative or creative art. -
And though 1t lies at the base Of all culture
and happiness, individual or naoral. ,here is
paIhsps no office in life which ia left so much TO
mere chance / would rotbe proper here to
eu'age upon this topic, but 10 hi, matter. the
SAFE Of Ohio is very far behind every State or
country which makes any prctru,on to e1uca.
tional advancement Ibis will h. made plain
by a few facts, TIE p1pullinl If tn" Safe
exceeds 2,o00, 600. Its number Of fouh. of
e School age is estimated u 8lS 4DS 0 o'fwhom
. 1heatgrage number Of 362 5l4 reported
q 81 be in daily attendance in 10 800 school
. hou es with l9 Ola teachers. For the support
oftli' system last year, lbr state expended
ST 68f Gq4 Sc But with ali bis the State
r5has not once pruyid = whrr. hrr S;ho,l off.
GERS ore to go fl the mrIa >p'jag nnl living
principle ST IAc vast AL .",'ly absic "A
leachvr They. are Iefllo pick II up whrr-
ever he may hr found and mn, f. qnr"tly
make mu'h of 'bd,c ehom eher 'a'r$, more
. NIs' and pro,ilnr can atf"i 10 rar.
.r. How is it wph ahrr,? Sl,u, p,'Ling Of
arur s.',rS2Ucs bog ~hali ~, compare with
EIr"P'an -c'H'''''S "'mr''m"S -'yIed DE
mi -hf? fhr 4 'l' kingdom OF Wurembug,
with On rhr, orr,hs of oar population, sls
aa'o, lhhe Not,nrl Colleges for lhe FREE rdu.
Ion and main,rnauce .of teachers. Lile
is 'al.n al>o has ,h,,; Hoover tx and Saxouv
- h;Sa,r. wheh are III rrIi.l Ohio in pop
o Ls.ir4fre. a,+-e.., ~,z ,y ,na with the
....a.l .'.. thirteen of
riaei ha. frhgae A nnous.-
y al Frnce ninety-twol
ut III, SAL ap ar,l OHIO does not train
te oh,rh "a h y ocheols. Il.
(Nrn.. C j +. of L1s highest order, tho .
. rou{ai .qttppeI with every proper appurten.
ancy, would not cost one per cent, of the an.
u,lfund which the State now dlsburses for
school purposes, Ii would therefore be very
moderate, to say that the State ought to. have
+. at least three such institutions. of the largest
u scale, to replensh and sustain the force Of I5.
+ 600 teachers, by educating worthy and comre-
tent pupils out Of our Public Schools, freely
and without charle e. as teachers. sN
"a nlan has been cootemolaied and nearly
perfected for organizing Normal Glass in our
b High Schools 1t is also understood that
movements are on foot among the Teachers OF
the State for establishing private Institutions.
But these, like allother partial projects, halt
g and falter in presence of the magni ude of The