East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-15

next teachers salary. l say it's
queer thing with some, and none
want to go above the last wages paid.
Some people get the idea that
teachers are public enemy and
should be summarily dealt with;
that they can teach from four to seven
months in the year, then go at daily |
labor to earn money to buy their win
ter clothes. Some even think that |
they can teach on a diminutive sal !
any just enough to pay their board |
and washing, give their pupils a nice
treat at holidays, a fine souvenir at
the end of the term, and work around
enough to keep up their literature.
Then after he is gone call him a
failure if he has failed to cater to all
the whims of the neighborhood, or
reached the ideal in not doing what
they think proper, even if he has Ia
bored extremely hard for the proper
development of their children's in
tellectual faculties. sometimes Won
der what such people consider the
common school to be.
The Hired Man Comparison.
These same fellows, who expect so
much from the teacher would very
strenuously object to their hired man
giving his attention for an hour or
two each day to his own employment.
The employer considers that mans
time belongs to him, that he has no
right to take that which the employe
has sold for a consideration. That
/ ic htts Of 1Onlriner of q ICf-
ness matter, and it's the proper way,
too.
AS the hired man is to his en-
ployer. so, too. the teacher looks at
his position, only that in proportion
as a mans interest is in his family
so is his interest in the school
The interest of the teacher in the
school is more than that of a day la
borer in that of his employer; for the
laborers interest extends only to Civ
ing his employer an honest service
during the hours he is employed,
: while the teachers work is for eter-
: nifty.
He is working on a different kind
of raw material. He has sons and
daughters of the rich and poor, OF
+ bond and free-a heterogeneous col
lection of minds ranging from tC
1O0-and he is expected to train these
living, thinking, active, inquisitive
. mischievous and ranting animals ii
the path of good citizenship and NOR.
: ality.
1t is this that causes him to real
ize that every days work counts fol
all time, that some idea taught ol
some precept done may be followed il
some future generation, that his in
terest does not cease when the hours
of toll are ended.
The teacher knows no reason VIII!
he should not have his whole time t.
devote to his work. Any farmer will
S tell you that he can't farm success
E, fully and be horse jockey, too
e Then, if the farmer can't follow TIVE
f trades and be successful, how can ;
:, teacher?
y Should Have a Chance to Progress.
The state laws and the county ex
/, aminations for some time have mad
n this clear to the teachers, that the.
i must progress; they cannot just sim
t ply stay in the ranks, but must keel
t themselves in touch with the edu
t cational movements and ideas of tn
e day.
It's all humbug to think teache
can be a successful teacher and d.
: anything else except teach and keel
. up with the requirements of his pro
: fession.
= This is the testimony of ever!
Z ,rho taaobac froY,o fo1r 4
: seven months in the year and cut
cord wood or does any other physica
labor the other eight or five months
n as the case may be.
: Most of the teachers are untraine'
f only as they have learned by schoo
e room experience which is good a
i far as 1t goes. In this day of progres
a schools demand the best teachers
1t and at no distant day this, the stat
of Oregon, will provide tralnin
II, school and supervise the training O
9 it's teachers, and it will not be
. strange sight to see the taxpayer, g
= down a little deeper into his gold re
N serve"
d The Picayunish Policy.
a Some boards of education do nc
l. consider a teachers experience wort
1t much and hire the first one tha
comes along, that will teach for $2.5
: less than they had to pay last yea
1 know that If 1 was qualified
teach, when I taught my first tern
/ am now much more able and bel
ter qualified to teach; that If m
services were worth $35 per mont
then, they are now worth very muc
more, by reason of experience.
In trades and professions new bt
ginner has to serve an apprentice
ship of from one to five years; bl
u when it comes to hiring the most in
portant employe in the land, the mil
-, lister not excepted, directors will o
= ten look at few dollars which the
think they will save and don't thin
n. OF the terms of school that may
lost.
It is time for some more of our ol
directors and boards Of education
arouse to a sense of their duty an
trust. Be on the road to improve
ment and progression and not retro
gression.
am glad to know that there al