Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-06-04

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announcement has been made by the Sec
retary of the Board of Education, J.S.Ad-
ans, Esq, that the Teachers Institute for
the County of Rutland W II be held at
Wallingford, oa Tuesday I and Wednesday,
June 9th and 10th The Institute will
continue in session during the two days,
with lecture on Monday evening preced-
ing and ON Tuesday evening.
We deem it due to the Secretary and to
the people that attention should be called,
through your paper, to the Importance Of
encouraging and sustaining by our inhu-
ence, these gatherings OF the teachers of
our county, and thereby aiding to elevate
the standard of public teaching and to
give higher tone to the public sentiment
on the subject of education.
Within the last ten years Vermont has
inaugnrated system of advancing the
cause of common schools, and by this
means adding to the permanent interest
and prosperity of the Commonwealth
The Board of Education, composed of
seven of the citizens of the State, promi-
nent for their zeal and knowledge of the
practical workings Of our common schools,
together with the labors of its earnest Sec
retary, are accomplishing great work in
stirring up the public mind and infusing
enthusiasm into labors of those who teach.
II now becomes the people TO second
these faithful labors, by an attendance up
on public educational gatherings, that
they may see and hear for themselves -
that they may feel the great interest they
have in these nursuries of the public well
fare
The apathy of che people is not only
manifest at home, but is demonstrated to
the letter by those whom they select to
represent them in the public councils Of
the State men ''most noted for wisdom
and virtue" who, on their arrival at the
State Capital, put on can armor OF BRASS"
as it were, TO oppose every effort for the
advancement Of the eause,of public edu-
cation in the State.
We hope that every man VINO has rep
resented this county, or expects to repre-
sent it in either branch of the Legislature,
will not fail to be present at this session of
the Teachers Institute. We firmly be-
lieve such viii there learn lessons Of value
to themselves as servants of the people,
as well as gain knowledge OF the rela-
tive duties they owe to the State, their fell
low citizens, their families and especially
their children, and that they may act
promptly, and intelligently on the subject :
pertaining to the best interests Of the peo-
pie, the foundation of all our prosperity,
the Common Schools of Vermont.
To the teachers of the county we would
earnestly appeal, one and all to come out
to this Institute. You know very little of
the true value of your profession, Of the
right methods of instruction, until you
have enjoyed the benefits of the Teachers
Institute. "The time spent by teachers
IN attending the Institute of the county
where they teach, is, by law, considered
TO be spent in the service OF their schools,
and so is not in any sense lost.o We hope
to see Il large gathering of earnest, faith
| ful teachers at Wallingford, that it may
be made profitable and pleasant to all.
knowing the lberality and public spir-
il which have ever characterized the peo-
pie Of the pleasant village of Wallingford,
we feel confident in saying that their nos.
pitality and everything to m-,.e voar stay
among '"o'n pieas'-, =, and agreeable, will
oe mose ccr'dlally rendered.
Teachers and friends of education, let
US rally AID be second to none in tho
state = 81 the cordial and general encour-
age nent which we will give to the lnsti-
ute. The Secretary Of the Board Of Ed
ucation, in his last annual report to the
Legislature says Of an Institute held in
Rutland county last year :--"There were
from one hundred and seventy-6ve to two
hundred teachers present, and large con-
course of citizens" "Every teacher in
the town of Rutland was present" "This,
probably the largest Teachers Institute
that was ever held in the State, was char
acterlzed by earnest and thoughtful at
tention, and closed with expressions of
great good feeling and satisfaction Let
US not be lacking in the material and in
terest to make the Institute at Walling-
| ford equally successful