Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-10

Tor term of two years, or TO serve for
the same length of time as an assistant In
the actual work of teaching Then for
Doth classes there is smother rigid exsmi-
nation, and then, that ordeal passed with
credit, they are turned out upon the land
as certifcsted teachers. Previously to all
THIS, however, most of them have served
tonr years In the capacity of pupil tesch-
ers, and, with only a small pitIauce in sal-
ary, have had to work hard in the school
all day, and occupy themselves at night In
preparing for their annual examinations.
Inus the normal process by which an Eng
hsh school teacher is manufactured in
wolves a preparatory course of training,
beyond the usual school period, of some
thing like six full years
In approaching the question of salary
we are fain to let others speak rather than
ourselves. The last parliament was peti-
TONED for select COMMITTEES to INQUIRE
into the need for a approximation fund
tor these English pedagogues. Such q
committee was appointed and has made its
report. Naturally the question of wages
came within its perview, and what it
says upon this subject is, in substance,
that at their present rate of pay il is ut
terly impossible for teachers as q class to
do anything but exc out q bare subsis-
tence. They can lay by nothing for old
sge or for the ordinary emergencies of
active life. Therefore, says this report,
to save them from beggsry and the work
house, the state, as it commissions thsm
ought to provide come p-nsiun scheme
for their benefit. 1t is quite expected
that before many years some scheme of
this kind will be formulated into law.
Strange TO say, what the teachers them
selves ask is that system shall be Gre
ated under which, after all, most of the
cost of their supersnnuation sharl come
out OF their own pockets. Most of them,
they think, might at least contribute If
teen dollars a year to such q fund, and
If at the end the government would dis
burse to then what had been laid by,
with the addition of FIVE dollars or 90
per annum for every year OF active ser
vice they had render d, they seem to
think that, as things go over here, the
time of old age and disability would find
them in fairly good condition.
What their situation lie at present they
shsll tell us in their own words. We
may surely accspt as a proper representa-
tive of these teachers the president of
their national union, and this gentleman,
Mr.. ]. III. Yoxall, of Sh+ field, in q COM
prehensive and able address. delivered at
their last annual meeting in April of this
year, said in reference TO EnelaDd's ele-
mentsry school teachers: THY are the
only body of teachers in the country
specially trained and Taught to teach.
Their moral and economic vslpe 10 the
country can hardly be over estimated.
They each receive on the average about
twenty nine shillings per week, or sew
enty five pounds per year Uhr-e hundred
and seventy five dollars Charity and
the poor law are practically the only
provision for them in the days when all
the weary wheels eiand STILL There are
a, 4l5 of them certifca'-d, boiling the
states guarantee of cOml.l-ie Efficiency to
teach." Then he gives the subjnined ia
bic. The only change we havs made in
it is the substitution Of ibe value in dol
lars for the amount Giv-n in pounds. 1t
will be noted that Mr.. Yoxali's state
ment If the number of certiEcated teach
ers is lower than ours. This is because
We have had the advantage of the edacs-
tionsl returns just published, whereas in
April last, when this table YVES made. the
latest figures available were those of the
years btfore.
SALARIES OF cEKTIFIcGTED TEACHERS IN TEr
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND AND