The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-05-20
REPORT OF COUNTY SUPERIN-
TENT OF SCHOOLS.

In the list below given will be foun
the names of persons who received cert
ticates at the series of examinations fo
the spring of 1886. The grade of th
certificate is Indicated in terms and tn
relative standing in each class is shown
by the order of mention.
FIRST GRADE Valid throughout tn,
county and for a period of t,oo gears,
A. g. Dassler.
| SECOND GRADE Valid Throughout
the county and for a period of one gear.
Addie Prochaska, G.. NJ. Norrissey,
T. W. Hogan.
THIRD GRADE Valid throughout the
county and for a period OF one year:
AUera9e above rs per cent.
James Carrigan, Louis Kahlenberg,
Annie Maggie, Mary 7. Hayes, Joseph
Peppard, Mary Noonaa, Anna Kellner.
B. j. Hayes, j. G. Naser, F. Westgate.
E. S. Grove, Nellie O'Connor, Louis
Jsrman, J. E. Meany.
-Auera9e ADORE 70 and less than rs per
| cent.
Verona O'Grady, Thrsna Johnston,
Frank j. Stangel, John Pospisiel, julia
Hayes, Maggie Morrisey, Henry Wer
necke, Felix Walsh, Joseph B. Rick,
Alice 9. Kennedy, Joseph Pospisiel,
Charlotte Hecker.
AUerdge less than 20 per cent. and equal
to or greater than 65 per cent.
Maggie Pinter, Hannah McCarty,
Bridget Morris, Herman Schlundt, Will
lie Brennan. P. L. Hewitt, Sarah Walsh,
J. IL. McKeough, Edmond G. Burt,
Casper Ploekleman, Katie Egan, Willie
Koch, Thomas ]. Morris, Alice Garnett,
j. '. Erickson, A. f. Elmegreen, Mary
Short, I. j. Walsh.
AUerage less than 65 per cent. and equal
to or greater than SO per cent.
Lewis e. Meixner, Kate Kirwan, JOS
eph Guidinger, Bridget O'Dea, Otto
Guidinger, j. f. Magee, Lucy Biegel,
Joseph Morrisey. Victor E. Rock, John
Kelley, Martha j. Stephenson, Clara
Noble, Belle Chisholm, Ella Scott, Fan
ME Boughton, Minnie Goedgen, Julia
Dubetsky, Arthur Zander, Blanche Stu
pecky, Rosalind Pospisiel, Patrick Gu.
hin, Spencer A. J. Lovedale, Julia Dens.
man, Hattie Q. 5ymes.
LIMITED THIRD GRADE,-LSmited to
a particular tom and for q period less
than one gear;
Mary Egan, J. N. Rock, Isadore Han
son, Oscar Stockmeyer, Erred Beehmer,
Timothy Burke, Maggie O'Brien, LIZ
nina Falge, Michael Miller, Joseph
Seidl, Mamie Brennan, Ida Eggers, Mag
gle L. Madigan, J. d. Burns, Katie
Taugher, Mary @. O'Brien, Lizzie Mea-
ney, Maggie Mullens, Charles E. Healey,
Julia McKeough, Tina DAIMLER, Maggie
A. Hayes, Josie Thompson, John Lough-
lin.
One hundred thirty five applicants
presented themselves for examination at
the series just closed. Of that number,
six sought certificates of the higher
grades. A number whose names appear
in the above list as having received Ger
tificates, were SO young that it was
thought advisable to withhold their GER
tihcates for the present. 1t has been
found lmpracticaole to discontinue the
Issuance OF limited certificates at this
time, though that purpose was formed at
the close OF the last fall series of examin
atoms, and announced in the last report
from this office. Progress is necessarily
slow and is often hindered by school
boards performing their official duty in
supine and perfunctory manner. There
ls practically but little announcement,
III business sense, for teachers who do
not aspire beyond the lower grade of
schools, to become familiar with the
principles of teaching, because the added
qualification is no assistance in securing
Il school or an increase of wages. Toe
often the assumption governs that the
school exists only to give employment to
some person, entirely disregarding the
fact which should receive chief consider
ation,-the educational interests of the
children. Thus the school board is
obstructive, demanding no special fitness,
requiring no professional skill. The
teacher is measurably justified in limiting
his effort so that it will not be far in
advance of the appreciation it receives.
For some time the effort has been to
make the work of teaching conform to
well recognized principles. The ability
shown at an examination to earn a Ger.
tifioate is nothing more than an attesta-
ton of degree of intelligence sufficient
to understand these principles. Teachers
find 1t difficult to attend professional
schools, as physicians do, to acquire the
knowledge having special reference to
the work in which they intend to engage.
To provide tolerable substitute, teach
ers' Institutes and meetings have been
organized. But in majority of cases
school boards entirely ignore these agen-
cles for giving professional training, and
the consequence is. that boys and girls
pass from the pupils stage per sattat0a
to the teachers position.
Teaching, in its legitimate sense re-
quires % a knowledge of the subjects
taught; GU knowledge of the develop
ment of the mind; 90 a knowledge of the
fitness of certain branches to certain
stages of development. Many of the
younger teachers begin work with the
idea, and not few continue in the
belief, that to hear Rotations and to
preserve order constitute the sum total
of teachers duties. Teaching COM
formally with this idea is a waste. 1t
secures no mental growth; it develops no
enercr. Ii imnlants 70 r,,,r,,oua m.