The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-05

tn It pecuniary necessity drove them to the
change. IL tkes more study TO make sue
cessful teacher than to become qualified for al
most any other sh Il coss besides
this ten or twelve years of iaborous toll coupled
with the consumption Of all tne youthful time e,
supply the necessary books, and 70 attend insti-
tuies. Il costs many q heavy sigh OF sadness 10
ed neigh borhood. Many good people know moth
ing at all about the costof true enciency In tne
Pr9iessSn a yseS % a1o was heard
To make this remark tFoTty dollars month
is big pay for teaching q school; can ai deia
lar day. He will work whole day too' ana
I never hear him complain Of his wages The
ana ki s,ays OF M naGo q. tSas Now this
teachers have made the same mistake; when
they have decided TO leave the neid or mannai
labor Tor the field OF pedagogy: Forty aoiiaIs
teaches only 10 secure himself against labor.
such teacher Is not worth ten dollars month.
Bat the Of sooye in
Rush County had never stopped 70 think OF the
total lack or paraIlelism In the two cases. L
cost hts man nothing TO prepare for DIS
work. 2 His man could put in all the
days In the week and all the weeks in the year
while the teacher works but hve days In the
week and at most only forty weeks In tne year.
At dollar day hals-witted man VINO never hr
and twelve dollars IN a year. At twodollars day.
the teacher who has spent Thousand aoliars ~, IN
cash and dozen years in labor In preparing Tor
teaching as life work, can make, In our coun-
ty, where the average length OF the school year
sixty dollars. The teacher board bill, which the
dollar man never has TO pay Is SllS 20: Otner ex,
penses, such as for clothing and books, VIII
lake the rest of his money, and, II he be In
clined TO extravaganza his year g WORK VIII
BRING HIM OUT IN DEBT.
awell.~ SAYS the complainer, "the teacher has
ls2 days left, and he is welcome to make as
much as he can at any other employment But
note! Seventy -six of these days are his school,
Saturdays and he Is employing these in making
out reports and attending the township institu-
tutes, for all which he receives no pay.
Twenty-Five Of them, more, are required for
hs s bs be sn1 he Sne and
remaining days upon such employment AS may
chan TO fall In his way, what will IL amount
and viii go as far as 1t can toward making him
a poorer teacher. Some times man attempts
tine II Is painful to think of the results OF the
experiment. Bare floors, cheap and scant fur
niture shabby clothing and .,S coarse d bis
foolish attempt. do not like to speak OF It;
but have noted this popularity when have
visited the villages: the school teacher lives In
the littlest house in the place; his wJodpile is
the smallest; his Is the dullest; his garden Is
iogest He has less time for SELF help than the
preacher has. His wife cannot take in washing
and sewing because she must SUPP ort the dig
village, 10 must be rememoered, the school
teacher is somebody. And many O good
The good farmer of ie5 acres OF rich soil says,
{" never received 81 a day in my life, and
can't understand how that school teacher stays
farmer who plies his vocation properly on 100
acres Of land makes more dollars in a day than
the village teacher makes In week; he re;
meat. The difference is, the teachers all is
his daily pay in dollars, willis, whilst the
better Than when bought with money
"But.,' says one, "if he cannot Idake living at
loves his calling; s-.a ne hopes and prays and
looks through IFS binding tears for the people
to, some day, appreciate the situation aud pay
him for his work. So he has looked and hoped
through all the years gone by; but the gray
haired veteran teacher is as poor as the begin
shall fan him to sleep, the handful OF
earth under which lis mortality mold
Nox p % Es this body is ready to ASK
"wHAT CAN BE DONE
the circumstances" 1t is not difficult to
euess what will be done. We shall &c
on hiring few true teachers whose souls are in
the work, and who cling to it because they love
! IL too well to leave, and great many boys and
girls who teach while they await the train
Ior other fields. We shall hire young mer
who desire little cash for the enlarg
ing of law libraries and the defrayiol
OF expenses In medical coiIeges ana ladle'
| wheel of fate which has seemed to revolv,
too slowly. This is what we must do for a time
because reasonable salaries in teaching hav,
never yet been dreamed of by the dear people
There looms up, however, the star OF hope. In
the remote distance we behold bright and prom
ising indications. Already the people are clam
oring Tor good teachers In hundred districts
In some localities they 70 prefer to ., ado &c
trustees, and thus secure the material the,
think they need. In only very few district
This the trustees can do. They can so CAREFUL,
, manage this matter, that the excellences of tn,
good teachers will shine over the dark and be
nighted regions, and In q few months the or,
3 will go up FOR skilled labor. In no other bust
ness Is there so little difference made between
commo labor and skilled labor There is
5 grievous mistake abroad which 1t is time Il
!. cease making. 1t is the idea that in the city
better talent is necessary TO the teacher than IL
the country. This impression that second an
3 third rate teachers will do In the countr.
; is full of harmful fallscy; The country is tn
! age, more to know, and more to teach In tn
) country. Teachers in the city have hut singl
{ grades to manage. while in the country eac
teacher has charge of whole school. And b.
the way, several of our best teachers prefer
: Ing for the city work are few, and craving con
: stantly fewer. In proportion to the1engthen
I: ing OF our school terms, aud the growtl
e give way. Rates of boarding are lower; dres
and caste are less expensive: and the school
are more easily controlled. Besides, a teacher ii
the )untry fills larger sphere than she can II
the city, where independence OF thought Is S
greatly below par Inc d,ncI Is IN me pres
, is assured of only fve mon hs employment
) cannot afford to be professional In all on
kansas. the people are IN advanc
and Wisconsin the sessions In the counir
schools range from eight to ten months, an
2 even in far away California, the first thin
towards colonizing place with families is &
build school house. And by school house the
2 mean an edIfice 10 teach school in. Our indians
2 ideas might be startled by hint of five thou
sand dollars for a country school house, and 81,
. hundred a year for a country teacher But Iha
that Is the way they talk some Of our sister state
: where the school fund lacks two million dollar
of the size OF ours But that is "a thing OF the f
ture with u.s. And let us hope that through tn
. fundamentally OF this Board the future ma,
4 not be loo far AWAY.