The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12
James H. Garfield, President of Ohio

| JdlneS II. CdnllelQ, HreSlCenI OIL oIilO
University:
| Any college or university of any high
standing would not for moment think
of returning to its classes as instructors
its more immediate graduates. Colleges
and universities insist that their grad
yates must get out into the outer world,
must learn something of the method
and thought of other instructors, must
gain that breadth of outlook, largeness
or horizon, that comes from a change
of environment, and from the attempt,
at least, to accommodate oneself to
new conditions.
stream turned in upon itself be-
comes stagnant. All real inspiration
! comes from that which is higher. 1t is
no more safe for higher institutions of
learning to breed in and in with them
selves than it is for farmers to breed in
and in with their stock; we all know
what this process means eventually.
If this be true-and L take it to be
one of the most settled and unques-
toned truths in educational policy-it
is certainly equally true, if not more
true, in the policy of the high schools.
There is not as wide difference between
the graduate of college and his prep
aration for his work, and the elemen-
tary work to which he would be en-
| trusted, as there is between the gradu-
ton for her work, and the work to
which she would be assigned. 1t is
very natural desire, and in many ways
perfectly proper ambition on the part
! of graduates OF high schools, to receive
recognition at home. There is nothing
evil in the desire of parents to retain
them at home, nor in the desire of
school officials to recognize in this way
the excellence of the work of the schools
over which they are presiding. but
! there can be no real question that this
class of appointments WeakenS, rather
/ than strengthens the schools. OF course,
I it is entirely possible that careless Sc
lection may bring from the outside
! those who are weaker than those who
have graduated from your own schools;
/ but this is simply a question of care
| less selection, and is not the necessary
result of the employment of those from
/ the outside. All other things being
equal, believe in giving usual recogni-
ton to the graduates of a home school,
/ but to make all other things entirely
! equal. it seems TO me absolutely neces-
sary that such graduates shall have
| time and opportunity for maturing and
| for further study, and especially for
! experience, and | am very sure that
the best educational sense of this coun
! try concurs in the opinion that this
time ought to be spent otherwhere, and
not under the same local and home in
! fuences that have thus far marked the
educational work of the high school
pupil.
David Starr Jordan. President Leland
Stanford, Jr., University:
! There is no question that to limit the
! teaching force in city exclusively to
/ those educated in that locality is to
work great evil in the schools. No sys-
| TEN of schools can be progressive in
! which provision is not made for proper
competition and for the introduction of
outside talent, and with it new ideas.
George a. Gates, President Iowa Col
lege:
! l can conceive of few things more
| fatal to the best educational interests
/ of a city, community, commonwealth,
/ or even section, than that teachers
| should be selected on a basis of geo
graphical considerations. The question
of where they live is as irrelevant as is
the matter of the color of their eyes.