Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-21
know you to be deserving OF much
more than has come from my pen.

KNOW you 10 DC deserving or Iuucu
more than has come from my pen.
Of the young ladies employed for
one term Miss G. a. Collins Of Coven-
try did most patient and persistent
small
Miss Ida Hitchcock of Barton, in
district No. z, has taught very sue
cessful school. The district was wise
to extend the term. Here was mani
fest a good degree OF enthusiasm.
There is a wide variation in the intel
iectuality Of the scholars, which made
the work of the teacher arduous, but
union in love and respect for the
teacher has made the term productive
of grand results.
Some Of the districts which former
ly contained many pupils have at
present but very few. The best
teachers are sadly circumscribed and
dwarfed in one of these schools, where
the number of children is from five to
ten. In such a school it is almost i'm
possible to inspire scholars with sthe
necessary degree of interest to carry
them forward to a definite purpose
To make schools yield the most favor
able results they ought to be graded;
it gives stimulus which nothing else
can supply. The matter Of discipline
is largely dependent upon the amount
of interest teacher is able to create.
OF ic, oft hi Ia
when there is a great diversity intel
lectually This diversity creates a
great number of classes, and much
time is wasted in routine prelimina
tied in time, and in no school in town
IS there proper amount of time Civ
en- to individual classes. The world
at present is urgent in demands for
specialists. None of us are created
physically or intellectually alike. Some
teachers could do grand work in math
ematics; some in other departments.
Grading among teachers is Of as much
Importance as among scholars. The
work in the primary departments is
the most exacting and arduous. Here
you need teachers of ample expert
ence, who are large hearted, students
of the peculiarities Of childh God, MAX
ing of children constant study, apt
to draw out in many ways; taking
it pleasure. We all owe much to
the rising generation. God may have
prospered some of our citizens so that
they can patronize large and efficient
something to your neighbor; commu-
nifty is largely what you make it; you
can not show your love of the neigh
Dor in manner that will be more be-
portunities to children of poor parent
age. / have tried to mark some of
the crying needs Of our schools. I
think that the money expended in
town ought to give you a far higher
percentage in results. 1 have noted
some of the deficiencies in our schools,
but the most important one is the too
frequent changing OF teachers. If
you are securing favorable results in
your schools with teacher, you ought
to let no small matter induce you to
change. There have been more dis
asters brought about in this way than
perhaps any other. A good teacher
should be secured for a number of
terms, and in no other
way can you get just equivalent for
your money. The ''penny wise and
pound foolish" plan ought never to
weigh in a matter of such vital import
ance as the education of your chill
dren. My work has been done as one
who sincerely desires your best inter
ests. Respectfully submitted,
w. G. JOHNSON,
Toaon Satpt. Of Schools,
Irasburgh, w., Feb. 20, 1892.