Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-10-24
Vermont Education.
GET A GOOD TEACHER.

VEL n nOOD iISAOIisN
Published under the sanction of the State
Teachers Committee.
In public address, some years ago, the Rev.
Charles Brooks remarked that 90 he dearest thing
on Gods cath is cheap schoolmastcr" This
fact needs TO he rem mbered and repeated. 1t
needs to be remembered this year, at the school
meeting, when the cry of" hard times" will be
heard, At d men will be tempted to offer less
wages and to put up with poorer school Than
usual There is no mistake about il, good ar
tcle commands money, be it good cheese or
good OK, be it power Of hand in the mechanics
shop, or power Of brain in the counting room,
at the bar or in the schoolhouse. If you want
good teacher you must down with the dust
DO not tell me that good teachers are not TO be
had they are to be had il you will pay for them,
at least one for your district. The demand will
soon create a supply. Good teachers who have
given up the business can be drawn into it again.
So too can Others of frs, rate ability and educa-
ton, for a compensation that will make the husi-
ness respectable not less in their eyes than in
Tue eyes OF lue parents anu ScnOldIs.
DO no, put up with somebody that will do
tolcrably well, seeing thai your school is small
and there are not many large scholars Do not
take Dea. Browns son, or daughter, or wife's
cousin because they will work cheapy, and can
board at home, or take woman teacher when
you ought to have a man, unless you want to
keep your ,choul small. and to keep out the
| large scholars Dea. Browns relatives may do
well someWh here else they may teach geography
and arithmetic well enough in your district, but
their influence on the character of the scholars
and Of the district, will not compare with that
they may exert elsewhere, or another Of no bet
ter ability may exert in Your district. 1t is mol,
enough that YOUR scholars learn something. read
better and 90 through the arithmetic. The more
important part OF the teachers influence is upon
their habits and character in refining their tastes,
inducing respect and regard for education itself
and for all that is good and worthy in a word
in the impulses for good that silently 90 out IN
all directions from the really good teacher, who
at once commands the respect and love of hi.
pupils. How many Of our hes, and greatest mer
and women. refer the frs, qnckening impulse
toward all they afterwards became, to :he wore
or smile or example of sucl, teacher. As q
general rule, a comparative stranger will have
the ADVANTAGE over person well known, and a
male teacher over female. And This last i
said with all due regard to the many, very many
I most esiimabe female teachers in our State
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maintain in himself calm dignity of manner
and secure a reverence for Just authority in III,
minds of the scholars, better than the female, be
cause known TO be able to enforce obcdieno,
when not chcerfuy rendered.
u Again your cheap teacher can not teach you
little children, and in the common branches a,
well as the good teacher He can go through
with certain number of exercises in dull me
chanical way, but wilhou: infusing that life ant
spirit into the scholars neediul that they ma
. learn even their A. b. C's, or TO spell Baker
t deccntly. You have hired your teacher becaus
T. he was cheap, you neither rcspec, him your
selves, nor do you expect yonr children to re
q spcct him you do not even expect your chi
i dren to learn much, and you will not be disaE
+ poin;ei, and yet this very winter is the tim
I when the right or the wrong impulse given I
e the opening mind of your child is 10 leternin
Y its character for life and to ill your heart
d coming years with JOY Or regrets for an error n
&C money or tears can ever retrieve. And all III
~ difference now is one, 1t may be of from ihre
ir 10 five or possibly ten dollars month for yol
a winters school, trhng item when compare
a, with the entire outlay for wages, board, book
," school buildings, and the precious time and o.
portunllies of your children.
In days past, when you came hope from 70,
days toll, ard that boy came bounding along
meet you, and when your eye and heart folio,
ed him, your cheek still moist with his "Goo
i, night" you secretly promised th,t you wou
spare no pains 10 make him man do not 70
=. get il now. N.G. c.