St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-29

own home ladies for these positions,
and are endeavoring to provide them
ready to meet the demand. Of the 100
required yearly about half is made
necessary by the natural increase and
the remainder by the death, removal
and marriage of those already employed
Through the training school we expect
qualified, through ability, experience
and familiarity, to take hold of the
work.
THE TRAINING SCHOOL
was inaugurated last fall by Supt.
Bradley, but has been in active opera
ton only some four months. When the
handsome addition to the Madison
school, on Fifteenth street and Fifth
avenue south, was completed, the train
Ing school was given quarters there, but
it is the expectation to permanently
locate it in the new Washington build
ing, on Eighth avenue and Sixth street
south. The Importance to the city
school system, OF this new branch, can
scarcely be oyerestimated. Through its
successful operation number of teach
ers will be turned out each year, with
advanced ideas of the duties and re-
sponsibilitieS of educators, with the
latest knowledge of improved methods
and with perfect familiarity with the
system in use in the Minneapolis
schools. When the training school is in
regular operation, High school diplo-
will be necessary to admission, and it
will be really Il finishing school for the
graduates of that institution, but at
present the doorway of admission was
widened for the reason that the grad
uating classes of the High school did
not furnish sufficient number each
year to supply the capacity of the train
ing school. 1t is expected that hereaf-
ter the senior High school class, each
year, will run to the neighbOrhOOd of
which will keep the training school
fiourishing.
There are at present twenty-three
members of the training school class,
many of whom are alumni of the High
school. The school is under charge of
Miss EvarS, who is believed to be singu-
larly qualified for what is pre-eminently
a difficult and responsible position.
These two dozen young ladies struck a
GLOBE reporter as utterly unlike the
precOnceived idea of embryo school
marms. None of them wore eyeglasses
OF cOrk-screW curlS; many were pretty;
all were attractive, and none wore the
resigned look commonly attributed to
girls who cOldly look forward to a life
of toll and sacrifice in maiden medita-
contrary, bevy of smiling and cheer
full young women, who could win their
way to the hearts of future citi-
zens and inspire them in their
pursuit of knowledge by love,
rather than compel them through
fear. The daily routine of the training
school is short. but interesting. 1t is
practical, rather than theoretical, and
consists of few books and much actual
experience. Not only are classes from
the Madison school placed under the
care OF these coming educators, but they
are sent out to various schools to tenn
porarily fill the places of regular teach
ers who are indisposed or from any
cause absent. When their year of prac-
tice and probation is ended, these young
equipped to step in as regular teachers
upon duties for which they are not only
entirely qualified. by knowledge and eX-
perience, but with which they are also
fully acquainted. The training school
for teachers is an admirable institution
OF school system conceded to be the
best in the land.
ANOTHER INVOCATION
in our school methods is the introduce
ton OF object teaching, such as is in
vogue in kindergartens. Supt. Bradley
is also responsible for this, and it is be-
lieved the idea not only amuses as well
as instructs the younger pupils, but it
brings facts home to their minds, and
impresses them beyond the possibilities
of any other method. For example:
The writer saw class of children, av-
eraging seven or eight years, put
through lesson in numbers. The class
stood about low table, while the
teacher developed the numbers and g.
A box full of small objects was placed
upon the table, and each pupil in
structed to select eight similar objects.
The girls Immediately counted out
dolls or clothes pins, while the boys,
tastes ran toward marbles, blocks and
balls. ''What is the half of eight,
Willie?" Willie did not know, so he
was told to separate his blocks into two
parts, and was at once enabled to chirp