Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-06

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1853


noon Of each day There will be lee
ture delivered on the evening preceeding,l
and on the first day of the institute, upon
some subject connected with the cause
and progress of education.
The two days time used by any teacher
in this county in attending this institute
is by law regarded as SO much time spent
in the duties of their position as teachers
in the public schools, and their time will
be paid for by the districts in which they
teach, the same as though they were
actually performing the duties of the
school-room. The new ideas upon the
subject Of teaching that will be gained,
and the discussions upon educational top
les, at this institute, will be profitable
and interesting to the teacher, and will
also create those reflections upon tho sub
ject that will lead to higher apprecia-
ton of the teachers profession, and to
stronger efforts to make the teachers Ia
bors productive of greater results.
At this Institute all proposed reforms in
cur school system, and the defects of the
present educational policy of the State,
with full discussion of any proposed
method of remedying existing defects
will be freely canvassed. Secretary Ran
kin is an able and fearless advocate of pro-
gress, and will be ready to illustrate from
his own experience and observation, the
advantages of our present school policy
and to point out and discuss the respec-
tive merits of the different methods of
imparting instruction.in our public insti-
tutions of learning. 1t is impossible for an
intelligent person to hear the Secretary of
our Board of Education in his addresses
to teachers at these institutes, without be-
ing convinced that the service he is en-
gagged in is one of the highest Importance
to the State and to the people, and that
his labors must be beneficial to our educa-
tional interests. And we believe if the
friends of education throughout the coun-
ty will unite with the Secretary and the
teachers OF the county in the exercises at
East Wallingford the coming week, it
will be manifest that those exercises must
be productive of permanent increase
of usefulness in our public schools
This institute will be of special adj
vantage to teachers as affording them not
only pleasant intercourse and profitable
exchange of thought, but also an oppor-
tunity to provide themselves with State
certificates. An examination will be
held during the second day of the insti-
tute, of such teachers as desire these GER
tfcates.
The law provides that at each teach
ers' institute holden in any county, there
shall be holden under the direction of the
Board of Education, by the Secretary of
the Board and two or more practical
teachers, to be appointed by the Board
from the county in which the institute is
held, an examination of all such persons
as shall present themselves for such ex-
animation. The examination embraces
two courses of study, and the person who
passes an examination in the first course
will receive a certificate for five years,
and in both courses u certificate for fif-
teen years.
These certificates are sufficient creden-
tials for the exercise of the teachers avo-
cation anywhere in the State, and BIO
yond the caprice of any Town Superin-
tendent, being revokable only by the
Board Of Education, on good cause shown,
undey the regulations of the Board. 1t
is generally understood among school dis
tricts that when they employ teacher
holding an institute certificate, they have
obtained teacher of undoubted qualif-
cations, that has been tested by public
examination before one Of the highest
educational tribunals in the state.
The time is fast approaching when
under the law as it now stands all teach
ers will be obliged TO obtain these Insti
tute or State certificates. On the 10Th
day of November, A. ID. 1871, all power
of Town Superintcndents to grant certif-
Gates to teachers is revoked, and only the
persons who obtain those granted under
the direction of the board of education
will be authorized To teach in the schools
Of this State. Under the law it now
stands, and the public sentiment on the
subject, we are decidedly of opinion that
she school teachers that consult their own
interest and convenience, will take this
opportunity to arm themselves with al
State certificate
We hope the Importance of this Insti-
tute will be- felt throughout the county,
and that the occasion will be made one OF
profit to teachers and will excite an in
terest in our common schools among the
people, which is now so sadly needed to-
bring our system to that high standard to
which its trainers aimed. Our system of
education is not perfect, but it is in theory
the contamination of what experience and
intelligence has approved as the best sys-
TEN known. The people can make it in
practice what tits in theory
The MINISTER TO ENGLAND 1t has
been reliably ascertained that the instruc-
tions of this government to Minister Mot
ley do not suggest any mode of adjusting
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