The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-12-19
Salaries of Teachers.

We are glad to see that the Teach
ers' Association at its anniversary at
Port Deposit, took up subject, in
which not only the teachers them
selves, but the people as well are
equally interested-we mean an in
crease in the salaries OF the teachers
of the public schools of the county.
The erroneous notion has pre-
vailed quite long enough, that
woman can afford to work for less
wages than man, although we have
vet to meet the man or woman intel
ligent enough to demonstrate, why
for the same work done, or for the
identical service rendered, a woman
is not entitled to the same compen-
sation as her brother workman A
generation past has witnessed a
marked revolution in public senti-
| ment relative to the qualification OF
public teachers, particularly those in
primary schools. Experience and
intelligent observation have shown,
that for the young, women are the
superiors of men as successful in
structors. The sympathetic patience,
needed for the successful instruction
of children, is inherent in the nature
of women. and is really more
essentialrequirement in their teacher,
than mere intellectual ability or
educational requirement. 1t can
be summed up In single word
tact. Women possess it in a higher
measure than men, and hence, use
it with more success, in challenging
the attention, exciting the ambition
and gaining the unconscious con-
sent of the young to learn. Learning
is a matter of labor with the child as
we'll as the teacher, but which in the
case of the latter, tact may lessen and
render more endurable.
Teaching then is a matter of labor,
and should be with a successful
teacher a matter OF love as well. No
teacher can succeed, either man or
woman, who dlslikes the occupation.
He or she must be in a sense en-
RAPPORT with their work. Obser-
walton has shown the most intelli-
gent educators of our day, that as a
rule, women possess in higher
measure the aggregate qualifications,
for successful teaching of the young.
Hence, they in large measure have
driven men out of the ranks of
primary teaching, and teaching has
become with women more matter
of settled occupation.
Now if she does the work quite as
well, not to say better than men,
why shouldn't she be equally as
we'll paid?
She is not.
But she ought to be, by every
rule of equity and reason.
We can safely assert that as a
class, female as we'll as male teachers
receive a less adequate compen-
sarion, than any other class OF
skilled laborers, and that to where
intelligence, patience and tact go to
make up an intellectual equipment,
so essential in the avocation of a
teacher.
We are sure there is not a mother
In Cecil county, who when she re-
fleets how much of the labor and |
anxiety incident to the care and
education of her children, is taken off
her shoulders, and put upon their
teacher in the public school, will not
become an earnest advocate of what
they modestly ask, fair pay for
honest service faithfully rendered.
We hope to see public interest
awakened on this subject in Cecil |
county. The property owners and |
tax payers of Cecil county are not
as rule mean people. They are
able to pay for the service rendered |
their children, and it only needs that
their attention shall be called through
the proper official channels, to
secure their approval, of just in
crease in the salaries of the teachers
of the county, both male and female.
THE renewed agitation for the re-
moval of the remains OF General
Grant to Washington distresses Mrs.
Grant very much. To a reporter of
the Evening World she said re
Gently that she had buried her hus-
band in New York because she
wanted him near her rRut I cop