Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-04-06

Master MaFrur - CAM -. Mass. has taught
school fer hfty four 1as-s ysArs. forty three ~
which have h-en a. s--ir- - The Harvard school
n that city This TRADE % Dr wsndte Of Cincin-
NATL led the lscho Bard % s-si n. reverend zen
ilemen to AVAoanoy uhich wil la, one nisht-IouT'
ndi q Bduolti0H. RaruA n
1t is not desirable that every teacher
should teach the same school fortv-three
years. No great harm can come from the
very small joke perpetrated by the Cincin-
natl School Board on their critic. But the
honors conferred on Mr.. Magoon by his
fel!ow-cilizens. and the instructive feelings
of contempt for the School Board of Gin
cinnati consequent upon reading the notice
of their election of the reverend doctor to
position which was not a position. may
be taken as pointings toward an eternal
fitness.
Two hours of midday warmth in Febru-
AIRY, though granted each day of the month,
scarcely diminish our snow hanks; but the
effect of fifty.six consecutive hours of like
temperature is great. Humanity must adj
Just itself to its surroundings that it may
give or receive much good. For such
adjustment time is required. Human
warmth brought to bear upon hnman ma
ture requires time to affect usefully that
nature.
The choice of school officers for the year
has already been made through our state.
The choice of teachers has been partly
made for portion of the year. Few sug-
gestions now possible to be carried out this
year are more important than this: Retain
the good teacher of last year If practicable,
and by all means retain through the year
he g cd teacher once employed. That a
lheme so old and duty so clear need now
to be discussed is not creditable to men.
Had Colby and Spaulding been trans
ferred from school to school thrice or twice
81, yoar, small would have been their fame
few would have felt their power. For q
high school, an academy or college, a
period of frequent change Of administra-
lion is never period of prosperity To
the truth of this statement let Washington
county and her thirteen sisters testify.
likewise for the common schools period
of frequent change of teachers is never
period of prosperity. For proof compare
periods and districts in which permanency
and frequency of change are conLrasted.
Jealousy for their rights is commendable
in people, but a policy which accom-
plishes only II continued preparation of
wrong upon the people is foolish, however
it may he named. A frequent change of
law makers and of the head of executive
departments may be safe and necessary,
Tor those officers are so placed as to deter
mine the policy of the government, and
EASILY in some sense to become the masters
of the people; but the teachers are ser
wants, and will be better servants, if fur
nished with opportunity and inducements
% do their best work. A change of teach
FRS is often worse than any teacher. 1t
lakes away opportunity and inducement
moth.
A boy once planted some beans and dug
hem up daily to see how they grew. The
beans managed to sprout, but could not gel
rooted, and soon died. Had he changed
he surrounding soil each day the result
would have been the same. That boy has
many imitators among the school districts
of Vermont,