Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-06

! average price of room, board, ETC., is
| but s3.25-S13o for the forty weeks. Add
| to this So for books, and all further ex-
| penditure is personal. 1t Is not desired
that over half dozen students live in
| the same house. and the boys do not
| live in the same house with lady stu
| dents. Not a few board themselves in
| their rooms. even boys cooking their
own meals; though they are encouraged
to at least get their dinners out, which
cost but Is cents. When they go out
to teach as under graduates the men
earn $40 month; and the girls from
SIS to s35 month.
Girls Earn $35 to $50 Month.
Last year, Of the ninety-two gradu-
ates, all the young women readily Sc
cured places at from $50 to 500 a month.
1t is harder for the boys to get started.
| But Whitewater boys do we'll when
Cnce under way. Among the graduates
since 1868 are ex-City Clerk w. f. An
derson of Milwaukee, Andrew I. Steele,
the head of a Memphis normal school
for colored teachers; Professor F. H.
| King of the agricultural school; Pro-
fessor G.. E. Culver of the Stevens
Point normal school; Professor r. D.
Salisbury, geologist, University of Chi
|
normal; William ]. Pollock, sixteenth
district school, Milwaukee; Superinten-
dent Leo Williams, Fond du Lac; j. H.
Derst, Black River Falls high school;
| Rev. II. H. Jacobs. athlete and Milwau-
| kee pastor. In the Sixth ward school,
| Madison, there are six graduates of
| Whitewater among the teachers.
| AS student, it is not all work. To be
| sure after Z p. m. students are ex-
| pected to be in their rooms: but there
are literary societies, one for each sex,
| to furnish social recreation with intel
| lectual quickening. There are the Chris
| tian associations. / saw the young peo-
| pie in the big assembly hall, and they
| looked like an earnest body of youth
| who were disposed to take life seriously.
| Not every one makes teacher, 1t is
needless to say. The personal element is
strong but this school brings out what
| of this quality there may be. In the
| chemical laboratory We're dozen young
| men and women at work amid the
| smoke and bad smell.
| "Will your young men be competent
| to take charge OF the laboratory and
| instruct in high SCHOOL," l asked.
Some will and some never will be-
he replied promptly.
| Some bright fellows with self-confi-
dence will study and experiment and
keep ahead of their classes and eventu-
| ally know it all.
The Rural School Problem.
| OF late years the output Of teachers
has been so great that they have been
| glad to teach not only in high and
| grade, but in country schools Some
have called this an overproduction, and
| allege that there is something incon-
1 gruous in so highly educated a young
| man or woman teaching a handful Of
l children at the crossroads; but Super
intendent Salisbury, who has been very
active in lettering the proverbially bad
| country schools of Wisconsin, argues
/ that the teacher Of whatever school
cannot have too good training. There
is one-year course for those who
would prepare for "deestrict' schools,
but only a dozen took it last year, and
the certificate carrying no legal sane
ton, 1t is not very popular Many nor
NAL graduates get places in high
schools, though state university gradu-
ates are given the preference for these
| places. An excellent training for a
teacher makes a full course at White
water or other normal, supplemented
L
yates of high schools can enter the
normal at junior year. The average
age of students entering at the White
water normal is from 10 to 20. 1t will
soon be that half of newcomers are
graduates of high schools. Indeed, at
the Milwaukee normal only such are
admitted to the course.
| The atmosphere at the Whitewater
school is pleasing. Things are clean,
bright and cheerful, and harmony OBJ
tainS The education is a thorough one.
The question is often asked what is
the distinction between high school
and normal school course?" The lat
ter. of course, instructS in the art of
teaching In addition it demands more
work of the pupil and carries him fur
Their.
In the gymnasium we>e classes of
girls, and at other times of men, being
trained by a lady teacher-skilled in
the science of physical culture Bath
rooms are at the service Of those who
have no such facilities in their boarding
houses.
Wisconsin leads in the training of
teachers by means of normal schools.
| There is q fund, based on the sales OF
state swamp lands, that yields 100000
a year, and in addition we are taxed
for the support Of these seven schools.
The taxpayers are in no mood to add
any more schools at present: and there
is a feeling In unprejuiCed circles that
the state university and normal schools
should be unified in pyramid and the
lpresent duel and occasionally antago-
Inistic system abolished But these things
are incidents. l like to think that as
interest money grows, by day and by
night so there are 5000 students in our
normal schools, with 1000 children I'M
der them as practice material-the SUI
preme object being the training Of
teachers. young men and women of
good attachments, clean record, and
lovers OF little children
| ORLANDO BURNETT
SPAIN HAS A KICK COMING.
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