The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-26
TEACHERS FOR ARGENTINA
Where the Public School System Re
sembles Ours.

Argentine is looking to the United
States for school teachers Long ago
she learned here how to face the prob
lem Of public education Her schools
are founded on American ideas; her
system is built after American plans
Many of her foremost educators are ma
tIves Of the United States. and, like
Oliver OF old. she wants -more. Sh@
mas al present IN the United states 4
special commissioner, who IS securing
the country for just the sort Of teach
erS she needs She has had here foT
nearly three years Dr. Jose B. Zubiaur.
one OF her own great educa tional au-
Jh0rlJ1es- primarily studying Uncle
Sans school methods, though inciden-
tally serving as a delegate to the Pan
American exposition She IS supporting
mere and in Canada some sixty students
II special schools, who she hopes VIII
one day come home prepared To help
her in the great work Of public edu-
cation. And she is about TO establish
travelling scholarships in pedagogy.
whereby goodly number Of teachers
may travel and learn what other teach
ers are doing. notably the teachers OF
the United States. This viii BE- the
easier in that. being in the southern
hemisphere. Argentine reverses OR
seasons. and her teachers can. during
their summer vacations. visit the scenes
OF our greatest educational activity at
the period of their greatest educa ti0aaI
act-ViE<-
James H F1tzsimmons. the speeial
commissioner already referred to- wants
particularly teachers and professors for
normal schools He is now IN the vest
looking for them More than anything
Else ne wants Two men as professors OF
pedagogy and experimental psychology,
and he is empowered TO offer them sal
ares OF $500 month in gold Also ne
wants several normal school PRINCIPALS
at salary OF $50 a month. OF neces-
SHY they must be college gradua tes-
and naturally a working knowledge of
the Spanish language is required It Is
a splendid opening for any one who has
Wearied of the daily grind and yeaEns
Tor change. always provided he can i'll
the requirements
But a word in his ear. Let him not
go down there with any idea that it IS
one Of those unprogressive Latin Amer
lean countries that ne is going to. where
they are probably a quarter OF q CEN
fury behind the times For If as has
been asserted, d nations progress Is to
be judged by its conception Of the
state 8 educational duties toward its cit
liens. then is Argentine. the southern
most country Of the great American
continent. the most progressive nation
not merely of South America, but Of
the Western Hemisphere, If not Of the
world She has learned educational
methods from Uncle sam but she has
outstripped aim in many directions He
believes IN the main in free public edu-
cation. with Imitations-free primary
and even secondary. education But he
has not yet reached the stage Of free
university education Argentine has
Uncle sam holds the cup of knowledge
to the lips of the thirsty and says in
his own vernaculars Have one on me-
"a good big onet" But he does not
necessarily undertake 20 quench the
thirst completely Argentine does. Ii
the sum Of human knowledge at the
present stage Of the worlds progress
can do it--Brooklyn Eagle.