The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-04-28
Teachers Institute.

EE Our County Superintendent, MI
RoszELL. requests us to give notice that
Teachers Institute will be held at the
Court House in this place, during the
second week in May, the first session com
mencing at o'clock, p. NJ, on Monday,
the 9th. Lectures will be given each
day, and an interesting time may be an
ticipated. All teachers are invited to be
present.
We are glad to see this movement
consummated, and expect that great ad-
vantages to our educational interests will
result therefrom. 1t will be, to some
extent. public exhibition Of the capac-
tiles of our teachers, and will enable us
to form an approximate estimate of their
value. Knowing this, teachers will ex-
ert themselves, in order that they may
stand fairly in the Institute, because just
in proportion to the popular idea of their
merits will be the demand for their SER
vices, and just in that proportion will
their salary be increased or diminished
They will thus be led TO think and to
study, of course with benefit to them
selves and to their pupils. The compar-
ison of views, at the meetings of the In
stitute, regarding the systems of teaching,
and tie kinds Of studies, must likewise be
OF benefit, by attracting teachers minds
TO many things which would otherwise es-
cape them while the lectures upon the
theory and practice Of their profession,
alwaysa concomitant of these Institutes,
will instil into their minds many ideas
new and practical, to the mutual advan-
tage of teacher and scholar. These re-
suits, we believe, cannot fail TO obtain,
If proper interest is manifested by the
members of the Institute, and it seems to
us that the people of every school-dis-
trict should exact that interest from their
teachers. They should insist upon ey
cry teacher attending the meetings of the
Institute, where such attendance is pos
sible, under the penalty of non employ
ment if they fail to comply, because they
have right 10 demand that their teach
ers shall use every exertion to fit them
selves for their labors. Let them, then,
urge upon their teachers the duty of at
tending the sessions Of the Institute, and
of contributing, as far as possible, to its
exercises if they do this, they cannot
fail. unless their teachers prove uncom-
monty stupid, of reaping a benefit for
their children and for themselves.
IL is matter, too, it seems to us, that
our own citizens should take some inter-
est in. Many teachers in the county,
doubtless, would like to be present at
these sessions, who yet feel unable to
pay for weeks boarding at our hotels.
Will not enough OF our citizens interest
themselves in this matter, To provide all
necessary accommodations for the teach |
ers free of charge? They never hesitate
to DO SO when members of other societies
meet here. and why not in this case p
Certainly there is no cause superior in
importance to that of Education, and
none that better repays efforts for its ad
vancement. We think, with proper lib
crafty on the part of the citizens Of In
dependence, that good attendance and
a pleasant and instructive time may be !
had at the sessions of the Institute, and
we hope .hs requisite lberalay will not
be wanting.