The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-02

SAID Daus one Salu no cHduSe, TOUR were
in doubt but hopeful, fortynine thought
| the system good. In this way pupils
| leaving Che common schools could enter
the teaching profession and gradually
work to the top.
In addition to this DR.. Wiley sent out
circulars to the various County Super
intendents urging them TO encourage
| women to teach There were few of
! them in the profession; in some counties
none. In his opinion, females for GER
tain classes make the best teachers
They are more patient, more easily win
the affections of the young, and are more
likely to mold to virtuous and refined
sentiment the plastic nature of child
hood" AS a result of this system Dr.
Wiley proudly asserts that those now en-
| terng the teachers profession sought
places in the public schools in preference
to conducting private schools, while
/ formerly the reverse had been the case.
! His reports best show the results of his
plan. In the iftyseven counties report
ing in 1855, 1859 teachers We're licensed
In 1856 there were 1000 teachers con-
stantly under the urgency of the annual
examinations. The report for 1857 shows
that i'll seventy-six counties 1855 teach
women. Not fifty were teaching without
license, while formerly not one in forty
lad license hree-fourths of them now
taught geography and grammar which
fifteen years before were taught by less
than one fifth the teachers. In 1858
seventy-one counties showed 1894 teach
ers licensed, 205 being women; in 1859
eighty-one counties reported 1,S43 licen-
4 If Xrr inh tn N
| in 1860, eighty-one counties reported o.
1914 teachers licensed, 315 of whom were
women Dr. Wiley says: "The increas-
! ing number of female teachers not only
gives promise of an ultimate supply of
i,lahorers for all our schools. but is a sure
augury Of their greater efficiency" The
schools thus became self-feeding and
another serious problem was solved.
But it was not enough simply to supply
the demand for teachers; it was equally
essential that a constant pressure be
brought to bear on them for improve
ment. Besides the plan already out
lined for this purpose, DR.. Wiley con-
ceived and put into execution three other
/ far reaching schemes The establish
r,ent of Teachers Library Association
! III each school district; the publication of
the North Carolina School Journal, and
the organization of the Educational As
ISOLATION of North Carolina.
The Teachers Library Association
/, consisted OF an arrangement by which
q small sum should be appropriated to
each school district to be the foundation
of the library. The chairman was TO
/ have control ard be the librarian
Teachers could pay small fee for the
privilege of membership and this fact was
to be stated on their certificate. DR..
Wiley's idea was that as these associa-
tions increased in consequence they would
form meeting places for the teachers to
assemble and discuss the affairs Of edu-
! ton and where addresses by the SUI
perintendent and others could be deliv-
cred to the teachers. Furthermore the
teachers would thus have something to
distinguish them as class common
/ bend of union. Ii is needless to say that
the Libraries were TO consist OF books
relating to educational matters, for he
constantly urges upon the teachers the
necessity Of studying their profession
and himself set the example. Let this
sentence of his sink deeply into the
minds of all teachers. Scatter judi
ciously over the State good copies of any
good work on education and 1t will Great e
a revolution"
The Superintendent constantly felt the
reed of an organ of communication be-
tween the head of the system and its
different parts For this purpose he
turned over in his mind plans for the
establishment of an educational journal.
The first number appeared in September.
! 1856. under the name North Carolina
I Common School Journal" 1t was TO be
published quarterly at Greensboro and
establishment of an educational journal.
! was to serve as an organ OF commupica-
ton between the Superintendent and the
officers and teachers OF the schools and
to give the teachers a means of eXchang-
ing ideas on educational subjects. The
most noticeable feature about the publ
cation was that Or. Wiley, for obvious
! reasons, attached greater Importance to
getting the Journal into the hands of the
school officials than into those of the
teachers. Thirty five hundred copies of
each number were TO be sent out to the
officials of the common schools without
cost to them or to the State. The ex-
penses were borne by the publishing
houses A. $. Barnes & Co. and &. c.
Merriam, whose books had been adopted
by the schools and whose advertisements
alone appear in the Journal. They pub
lished two issues and then declined to
have anything further to do with it. But
the exertions of the Superintendent con-
tinued the publication two years and
then it was forced to suspend, DR.. Wiley
losing several hundred dollars by the
enterprise. In the meantime, however,
the Educational Association of North
Carolina had been organized by Or.
Wiley and he found it necessary to have
! an official organ of communication. The
Journal was adopted; it's name changed to
1.-THE North Carolina Journal OF Educa-
ton" and Dr. Wiley was made editor-in-
chief. assisted by fourteen subordinates
and ]. d. Campbell. of Greensboro, as
resident and managing editor
Though the list OF subscribers was
small and it's financial difficulties great
the Journal took and kept high place
among its contemporaries. That it lasted
as long as it did was due 10 the limitless
zeal and labors of Calvin II. Wiley
Though half Of its exchanges had been
forced by the pressure of war to sus.
pend publication, and though the diff
Guilty in getting paper was great, yet thu
Journal continued through the year 1868
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