Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-29
TEACHER VS.. PROFESSOR.
Geo. Daniel and Professor Settle on
the Teachers Institute,
To the Editor of the Ledger.

To the Editor of the Ledger.
Professor Settle seems to think tina
it would be quite a slam on the Mr.
Teacher, who wrote the article of las
week unfolding the teachers right.
and condemning the gross injustics
played upon them during the las
term and let the people know where
TO find that teacher. He is not hare
TO find will have the gentleman tc
know and when he wishes me he has
only to call, and as for the name | car
relieve the Professor of the task OF
giving it, as it is one that | do not
think il a dishonor to wear-one that
| am not ashamed of and ono that | do
not believe that / disgrace even if !
cannot work problems in percentage
or speak English. The name ia Dan
lei. | will admit that l do not know
as much about percentage as some
people, and since the gentleman
wishes to carry the inference with his
few remarks that ] have a very small
store of brains and that what / have
are very poorly developed, l wish also
to admit hat my education is very
limited indeed when compared with
that of P%estalozzi, Plato, Aristotle,
Bacon and others, but when placed by
the side of the Professors | do not
know but what it is fully as good as
his.
/ also wish to say that four years
ago ! received a certificate from Prof.
'Torreyson (whom L believe to be and
to have been too much of a gentleman
to have granted the same without my
having deserved it, and since that
time for about three and one-half
years | have made grades and have
them yet if he wishes to see them,
from 20 to 100 and more from so to 100
taan from 20 to so in thirty eight ex-
aminations and seventeen different
subjects, in an institution OF learning
that | doubt if he can enter without
being conditioned. He spoke of my
having gotten a third grade certificate.
l had rather have a third grade certi-
ticate and know that l deserved it
than to have n pull for a first. He al
SO said that we had fractions, etc, in
the institute. That | do not deny, but
| said that On examinations he did not
give the subjects mi last week and
he does not deny the same. We did
good work i'll those subjects was the
reason | suppose that he did not give
them.
also wish TO call attention to the
problems he gave and show the out
rageous mistakes | made in the IN
The second | will grant him is a slight
mistake, but in the first / only omitted
the figure & in the problem. 1t should
be six pounds cost 81 cents instead of
one. This, as anyone can see that has
any eason at all, is only an overnight
instead of a mistake, for anyone with
half sense would know that if a pound
cost IA cents it did not cost 81 cents. |
missed another in the same way by
overlooking the decimal point that it
is a wonder he did not put it in. If
n of the pets had made this enor.
nous mistake, of which he made such
a bugaboo, | suppose it would have
been overlooked, but as it was ] sup
pose he marked the example 0. The
work was rocky this time, people, and
| wish you all to know it.
The Professor is a perfect gentle
man, but as a Commissioner we have
had better. "Posing." l don't know
what that means, but L suppose it is
about percentage, as l cannot pose. l
am glad to say also that 1 am not the
only teacher that is dissatisfied, even
if | am the second that has spoken of
the same, for from what l have spok-
Ell with l would Judge that at least
two-thirds were, as I have not as yet
found a one that was satisfied.
GEO. DANIEL.