Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-13

DDS Of doing particular parts of school
work are discussed by conferences with
individual teachers when some vital
matter Is coEsidered-these are the
leading and perhaps the most effective
ways Of bringing a larger and more
wholesome life into the schools.
The kind Of training into which I
would like to put what power there is
in my life, make Of US all just one fam
lily. The end Of the school years has
cUme-the last session Is over-the chill
dren have all gone-the teacher of a
fifth grade stands there looking at the
She thinks Of one little fellow whom
she will probable never see again. He
has been something Of a rogue. and has
made many demands upon her strength
and upon her patience, and now she Is
forever rid Of him. Is she glad? No.
She has put her life into his life and
she cannot let him 60.
Training while in service-its needs
and its limitations. Its needs CD will
exist just SO long as we who are i'm
perfect and so long as our successors,
who must need be imperfect. are work.
ing upon the varying natures Of chill
dren in ways that the ever suscepti-
BILE Of improvement.
Its limitations % The training that
I would give and that would receive.
has no limitations. for it ever opens the
way into larger life-into freer and
more joyous service, and the voices
that I hear calling helpfully to me, to-
day, are the voices of those who are
close beside me on the way.
The discussion which followed was
participated in by Walter B. Jacobs.
professor of education at Brown Uni :
versity, Providence, ard Supt. Ranger
Of Vermont.
The first meeting Of the Department
OF High and Grammar Schools was
held, today. Head Master Augustus D.
Small Of the South Boston High school
is president Of the department, and
Augustus II. Kelley, master of the Ly-
man district, East Boston, is secretary.
Ray Greene Huling, head master of
the English High school at Cambridge
read a paper on Correlation of High
School and Grammar School Endeav-
or" He said in part
The bane Of the teacher is isolation.
Does this seem to you an extravagant
statement: You are reminded at once
that instead Of being physically alone
she always has from 20 to SO young
folks about her, and that within the
same building there are usually from
six to a score of her kind, men, WON
en- or both. And yet. these very cir
cumslances tend toward the Isolation
which 1 deprecate, and are often eff
fective in bringing it about. Those
young spirits are necessarily making
ton, for control. and for moral guild
ance. demands that are exacting and
absorbing. and in consequence they
are the means of narrowing her range
of effort and of interest.
And the remedy? The remedy for
all narrowness is expansion. The
remedy for narrowness of interest is
the requirement of broader ranges of
interest. 1t Is for this reason that !
hold that a teacher would better be
a teacher Of more than one subject,
that as much as in her lies she should
ningle with good men and women in
social relations, and that as far as in
come and strength permit she should
take her place among those who are
:ninistering spirits in the field of BEN
evidence.
High schools can aid the Grammar
schools through their pupils by leading
the boys and girls in various ways to
fit themselves thoroughly and ade-
quately for secondary study, through
their masters. by conferences. visits to
schools and cordial relations generally
and through the school committee by
an earnest expression of opinion after
due study of the problem under con-
sideration. All these good officers and
many more are included in single
ideal. The High school principal
should make his own school as good a
school as he possibly can and should
make himself and his assistants as good
teachers and as broad and deep think
ers on educational themes rs he can.
Then his graduates who enter elemen-
tary teaching will be efficient agencies
in securing better work; then the
school committee will honor his opin-
ions, the grammar masters will well
come his suggestions and the Gram
mar school pupils will feel an attract
tive impulse toward his school; all to
the benefit Of the Grammar schools
but not whit less to the benefit Of the
High school itself
d. o. 8. Lowell Of the English depart
ment of the Roxbury Latin School. Bos-
ton. gave a most interesting and logical
talk upon the Requirements for Admis-
sion to College" He held the close atten-
ton OF his audience and gave them much
good for thought as he told his reasons
for different method Of admission He
contended that neither of the two
methods of admission to college now in
vogue (by examination or by certificate)
Is either satisfactory or fair.
That while the object Of both Is
avowedly to exclude the untitled and
the unfit. statistics show that both sig
nally fail of their object; for numbers
that are unfit manage to secure entrance.
and are dropped. suspended or expelled
That Furthermore there is reason to
fear that sometimes the fit are excluded
or heavily conditioned; and that 1t Is bet
ter for society to allow 80 untitled men
to show their unfitness-if they so desire