Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-01-10


rational view Of the matter and which should
like to see inserted in your paper. WP.
TO WHOM IT NAY CONCERN ASp THEY ARE
VERY MANY.
In the bill submitted hy the board of education
TO the late legislature OF Vermont, establishing
ne and only one Normal School n the STATE. II
IS seen that the proposed salary OF principal is
.wo thousand dollars. let Us >uppu,e this teacher
n one year is engaged forty weeks. five DAYS
y week. and xix hours in II day, he will be in
ehO0l twelve hundred and sixty hours His edu-
cation ana books may be- cost him fifteen hundred
II two thousand dollars. which Is his cap itnl To
he employed In teaching, and he will be able 10
ny by a. annual profit twelve hundred dollars or
more.
IL is not presumed that every person, if edu
ated, could Keep guod suhool, set 10 may he
-aely assumed, that there ure hundreds. If not
thousands Of farmers in the State, who, had thew
when young, decided to acquire nm education.
might have been abundantly qualified To he prin-
opal OF such schnul as this but realizing that
somebody must cultivate the soil or all the people
would mmish, they, like whole .souled fellows.
concluded a. cast IN their bot with those whose
WORK Is tle basis OF the wealth and prosperity Of
iur country.
The lnrner, to carry on business to any adj
vantage, needt capital Consisting of farm stock
md utenss) nf nj least six thousand dollars he
must Work three hundred and thirteen DAYS
we've hours in II day, and five hours on each
sabbath in the neediul care of stock which makes
'ver iour thousand hours that be laburs in one
ear he also pays taxes many times larger than
The teacher does. II with economy and indus
Try, he brings round the year with a clear profit
Il one hundred dollars. he will have done better
Than Farmers average.
Now when this lArmer seeks to educate his
children, what propriety or justice or equity is
there IN his paying tins teacher such nrice as
Viii enable the teacher who works but twelve
hundred nnd sixty hours in u year, to lay by AS
piuht twelve hundred dollars OF more, while the
armer who luhurs three times as many hours
ma whose capital j. three times ~ much can law
by only one hundred dollars Is such m arrange.
ment republican Is 1t right? Is it not eyre
slously wrong We would by no means depre-
tiale the value OF good teachers, for We highly
esteem them but what is wanted. is, tht ia
larmer who Is the grand feeder OF the whole.
should have some clanco IN iar diyi,un of ths
Wouucts OF MS lahur. In twenty years the teach
er % annual profit invested at Six DER eent com
pouhd interest would amount To over rty-Elur
thousand dollars, while the mrmcr's pruGt invest.
90 III the same way would amount 10 less than
thirty hundred. There is no pond reas'n
why the teacher should be thus favored he ill.,
the good iarmer or good mechanic, silnplv - acts
wen hls part, IN the sphere he occupies, as
they DO IN theirs. Ought tins terribly untigbt-
eous inequality TO he permitted 10 exist
That those who have tie MANAGEMENT or o,u
state and educational affairs will use their best
ehdeaVors TO set tins matter right, is the very
earnest wish OF W
VERY MANY.