Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-28

hat occupation. Now quack, or an
,mpiric in medicine will follow the
business long enough that with fair
amount of native intelligence, he may
rain some skill in medicine. 10 be
sure the health of his early patients,
and their lives are in danger. Many
suffer in the early years of his expert
ments. But at last he gets so as to
be quite safe in his practice. Not so
with the teacher. His early expert
ence is all he gets. Ifhe does a good
thing for any one, it is by mere acci-
dent. A man may practice a trade,
but the good old custom was to eX-
pect him to serve an apprenticeship.
If he had not done so few men would
take a wheel to be mended, or piece
of leather to be cut into boots, or
door to be made to one who ''to0k up
the trude 10 his own head He who
had not served his time with a good
master. must serve a longer time III
experiments and poverty, before he
would secure the patronage OF the best
class Of customers in his nelghbof-
hood. Every intelligent man would
say, it is not my leather and timber,
and my horse-shoe5 and cloth that are
going to be spoiled III the unsklllful
hands of one who is going to learn how
to work by repeated trials. If mau
would reason the same was IN regard
to the education of their children, there
wonld be a call at once for a school
first to educate teachers. No more
experiments of this sort we now see,
would be allowed. The school houses
would be shut up and the children de-
voted to some other use than to being
experimental on, as it must he said.
they now are to a great extent. The
funds now devoted to the support OF
teachers, to practice and learn by eX-
pertinent upon the children. would be
turned to a shorter and much less dan
gerOus use.
:. The teacher would first be special
" educated with these funds; and
then the chill. zen called together anc
instructed oy okiIliul hands. This
would be shorter and cheaper anc
much safer way than IS now pra :ticed
This would raise up il class ol pro
fessional teachers. who would tlci obi
rated as well as glad to loi,ow the
business of teaching.
Such class Of competent teachers
,, there can never he, 50 long as there i:
: no place provided for the specla
training OF teachers. nor IS tGerr al
ticient remuneration paid them to al
) ford them special preparation il Their
were a place Of training within thei
: reach. But it may be said that III
l teacher like the poet, must De torn au'
l .notmadc. so it might with equal prc
tpriety be said Of any profession o
trade. Yet all this pleading does no
! make us equally wiling 20 employ
T. natural born blacksmith o. shoelu4kcl
Il in preference 70 one vino ha. .earne
l. something Of thy trade. We prcIe
: one who has 81 neutral liking ior ia
{ business, enough at least to lead bin
I to follow i; and then has added
}, his natural talent a little lcarnIn
y from the experience e. others VIII
o have practiced the trade before hin
j! With this skill from experience /
7 cannot be born, however mUch apJHc:
q he NAV haze lot il. Besides, i 10
" depend uyou natural gifts only tomas
Il teacher, there viii result only
u onesided affair. Such a man Will lii
!! one branch 0. study, as arithmetic ,
~ ~ geography, and teach these undc
" standmgly while other branches
- will teach poorly or ignore rheu.-
. This is a misfortune 20 the pupil, ha'
u " less than entire ignoraacei il iea'
Is him to think that he knows all the
IL is worth knowing. He despiscs ge
- craI culture, and becomes a 6igot.
- What provisions then can be ma,
~ =, 70 meet these pressing wants oil 81
III schools. There are tAo MANS l4r d
% legislature TO take such action as IS
- prove beneficial. One Is to chart
~ and endOw two or three schools in
~ State, so that having tuition paid al
W. books found. teachers from diffcre
us parts Of the State could afford to
'e TO these schools. This should
n'' done with the provision that teache
III so qualified should teach a given til
We in the Stare. Another method won
iui be for the county funds that are ne
divided, so as TO become practica
70 useless, to be collected and a norm
Gu school endowed so far as this will
I%Gl it, IN each county, This might
III, done probably, without expense
II lio building, as almost any Of the nun
'hG Gus academies, would he Glad 10 ha
M such department established witt
II" them. This latter is doubtless I
Gy better method and the one more i
[lN mediately useful But have no ii
Tile to present its claims now.
of
is How Brigham Youn9's Wives live
lis From Mrs. Waite's very interest