The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-03-24
A SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACH

A SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACH
Frs.
There is probably no class of public
servants that makes more sacrifice for
the benefit of the constituencies served
than the teachers Whenever they meet
In council their thoughts are wholly con-
cerned with questions affecting the edu-
cational welfare of the children they are
TO teach. Nothing in their proceedings
ever reflects seriously on the people
whom they serve, they seem to take upon
themselves more than their just share OF
tie responsibility; they are so charitably
disposed that they nearly always acknowl-
edge that their failure to meet with pro-
fessional advancement is due to their
own unworthinesss. They seem TO have
chosen for their motto. 1.-The fault, Dear
Brutus. is not in our stars but in our
selves, that we are underlings.o And
this very attitude has been the cause of
raising to prominence IN educational
circles many men and women who once
engaged in school work, never gagged tie
extent of their services by the recon-
pense they received. Thus it is that
educational progress has been brought
about in this state. Nominally we have
state system, but until the state inau-
gurates radical reform our advancement
and the advancement of the children we
teach must result from persevering, self
sacrificing individual effort.
But owing to the short lived character
of the profession and the slowness with
which the inexperienced necessarily move
the pulse of progress is only clearly per
ceptible near the center at which 1t orlgl-
mates. Hence the necessity of education
al leaders to stir the masses of the frater-
nifty. They are needed in the institute,
inthe superintendency, lat the head of grad
ed schools, in the local teachers meetings.
But even with them IN these places edu-
cational progress is not all that 1t should
be. and consequently new factor, the
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an important part. Such a school is de-
signed to give teachers and those intend
ing to teach an opportunity to gain aca-
demic knowledge 10 some subjects which
all need and in the higher branches where
study is too often privately prosecuted
under difficulties. 1t is designed also
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| struction which with the uninitiated, now
often assume the most abortive forms
! though certainly characterized by origin
| atty, an originality however without a
! basis in humane experience or profession
| al observation.
We understand that Supt. Patzer,
whose Jealous and intelligent attempts
to improve the educational force of the
county all teachers appreciate, proposes S,
| if properly supported, to conduct sum-
mer school in this county the coming
summer his designs are purely unself-
lsb as he assumes duty not contemplate
ed by his Office and for the performance
of which he desires no recompense. The
work is too burdensome for him alone
and he must therefore call to his assis-
| lance other persons who cannot be secur-
| ed without reasonable compensation.
For this reason the school cannot be con-
Quoted unless sufficient number of
| teachers and those desiring TO teach are
wiling to attend. The need for such a
| school exists, the demand for j. has in
several instances been made, and it is to
| be hoped that the teachers of the county
will give the movement their hearty sup
| study, III the interchange of ideas, and in
| actual contact with persons who are stu
| dents and thinkers can not result other
wise than in hberalizing the views of all
who avail themselves of the opportunity.
/ The writer of this brief article is in hearty
sympathy with every forward step taken
| by the teachers of this county and he
| hopes that the movement will be heartily
endorsed by every progressive teacher.
| As the editor of The Pilot is out of the
city and as it may be easy to surmise
who the author is, he will state that he
is interested only as teacher should be;
| he is not engaged in formulating plans
for the school nor will arrangements al
ready made permit him to become one of
those who are to assist the superintend-
ent In teaching and managing it.
| There is some thought of establishing
summer school in another part of the
county and drawing teachers from Calu-
met county. The movement was in all
probability contemplated independent of
any idea that similar plan was on foot
here and will likely be abandoned as the
most important results must come from
a school in which the county superintenc-
ent is the directing force.
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