Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-12-14
HERALD.
DSDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1865.
chooIs and Teachers.

Nhootr s"e
syery side we hear complaints OF
,srioration and inadequacy of our
schools; that they are not what
hight to be; that teachers are not
qualified as they formerly We're,
he schools require, in order TO ac-
sh what is desired of them. tits
kuOn with many parents who are
to the public schools, whether
eght, in conscientious discharge
<rptal duty, TO send their children
|schoOs so lily managed as many Of
cCnmon or public schools unques-
6sbly now are.
th an old saying, that il anything
rorh doing, it is worth doing we'll.
voul Ia seem that this ought to be true
kchools if Of anything, and that we
ht to have schools as good as they
b made by the best men among us,
it should require small addi-
y outlay,
@ suggestions of economy in all
ule concerns lead even the poorer
ii to buy the best goods and the
Implements of handicraft, and why
abiC and school officers should it be
elt that economy requires con-
course Yet is it not notorious
th men who are often chosen to
irister the important concerns of
ndon in our public schools, deem it
VI policy or economy to employ the
areSt teachers, and cheat their chill
that they may sope q te,o htHiags Of
E0f course we cannot expect reform in
e things only as we can create a
e enlightened and liberal public
III We must have discussion and
|atiOn Of the subject in our public
hk.
Ehf report of the Secretary Of the
Ia Of Education must be more liber-
and widely disseminated by the
Mature. Thousands In our State do
how that there is such a thing as a
W Of Education among Us for only
III dozen reports" are seen or read
M Of our towns.
n Secretary in his last report
k-and he has reason, no doubt, to
k--that the public mind Is not sufii-
By prepared to sustain a Normal
O in our State, and if teachers
" graduate from such Il school in
state, they would be drawn away
e superior inducements to their yo-
p in other States. Now why should
Mate of things continue 2 We are all
= interested as a community in hav-
p good schools as it is possible to
We ought not to be apathetic and
n on this subject. We should make
ehCe of teacher the great chief of
fhe most important vocation among
! oung men and women would not
Hegard teaching as only a Temporal
PORT or inferior function,to be made
evient to something else, and aban-
for some other calling which is
Gned to be more creditable and per
lent, though not a whit more remu-
Ave or useful.
late Hon. Horace Mann, than
10 man has done more TO improve
public schools of America, is said
ne regarded with constant gratif-
y the superior work of those teach
Nho had qualified themselves thro'
discipline Of the Normal Schools.
Anly any one who has witnessed
dtference between a school well con-
y and a school badly conducted,
4 that the difference is vast, and
Y not be suffered. 1t is not to be
ed that our system of town super
will secure either good teachers
bd schools.
Us county superintendents and
ps they will be sufficiently indie
ut to refuse or revoke a certificate
1t is not deserved.
must we expect too much of
rs where parents and committees
u or refuse to do their duties.
we raise the standard of school
ction and discipline, that of home
e should likewise advance and
rt the rules and aims of the teach.
work of the school, if well and
LILY understood, is not, or should
simply and only to impart so
knowledge of Arithmetic, or Ge-
Ay Or Grammar, but including this
Old also be to cultivate prompt,
habits, refined and elevated
correct and systematic methods
tp1N OF generous and growing
~ That is most inadequate
'''u OF education which regards
,I'y storing Of the memory. 1t
0o viewed and treated alike In
1uoh school and the college as
ousa and complete discipline or
VI the various faculties of the
'A,s become the general concep-