Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-14
Thursday, September "A, 1905
TIE School Teachers.

C.nsrs bulletin No. %. from the de-
uar,ment OF commerce and labor
which has Just reached the journal
oaicc. js devoted to school teachers 7
..,bi.ct always close TO the American
heart and Of special interest at this
particular season of the year. Accord
inc 10 the tabulations IN this lttle
,at,phlet. school teachers are the most
numerous professional class in the
,ountrv. They exceed tee total num-
her Of physicians, lawyers and clergy
men. In 1909 they numbered 446'l3a III
continental United States, gam o!
gt 80 over 1890 OF these, t.i2l were II
Maine, g0I OF them being men and DO
women. The number If teachers 10
every 10000 persons Of trachable age
between five and .wenty-lour years
vas 40 in 1900 AS against 12I in lS'o'
The proportion OF teachers To schooi
,nnula-iou has indeed almost doubled
since 1870. II is higher in this country
than in any other except England ana
Wnl.s where Their. are 10 prcceptorS
"a every 10000 of the school population.
Ia Germany there are I0J; in France
luq: in Italy. -: in Canada. lo"' IN
.,nba. 81. ana in Mexico. only %. The
proportion OF teachers % school popu-
latiun is greatest on the Pacific coast.
where il Is .67 to every 10000. and III
New England. where il ) POI. 1t is
least in the South Atlantic States
Nhcrr it is nut =.
school teacher was greater in 1900 than
in 1879 is evidenced ny the fact that his
.,pr has increased in tn" decade by
yearly ;vo years. where in England
..,ar Wales his age has Inc ceased seven
t.nths Of Il year. and in Germany
tarne-tcuths of year. However, this
n;r,iiau age OF teachers is min" years
create. IN Germany than in the Cnit'>
Statcs, and twelve years greater j:
Frarc-. The English teacher average.
nearly a year yOunger than the Amcri
,au. Italy has. perhaps, moro elderl!
teachers than any nthrr country, pc
cent. Of it's teaching force heing at leA5
sixty-fvr years old, "s against les
th,u rer cent. in thus country
America has some very .'oung teacher:
III. according to the census from Ter
10 fourteen years Old. as against 23I II
1890. Forty-tvo per cenr Of all its teach.
c,s are from fifteen 20 twenty-foui
years old. and 81 per @nut. from y toI
years or There ar" $50 teachers Owe
teachers is $50 per cent. of country
teachers, 2o.9.
The 1900 census shows the invincibi'
march of tho little sChoolma'am. II
1880 29.2 per cent. of all America.
teachers were male. IN 1900 only &c.
per cent. or 4iG,l33 teachers. 1851
were male in 1900 ?nd 3:1.614 female
Schoolmastcrs are almost extinct in tn
cities. furnishing only IS per cent. o
the teaching force. They are mos
numerous in the South. being is.2 y"
cent. ~ West Virginil. ii.5 per cent. il
ARKANSAS and i2.2 per cent. in Texas
The Indian schoolmaster makes II
best showing alonSsi l. the school
lna'am-3s.5 per cent. rs against CT
per cent. in tho case of the negro an
nG.l in the case Of he white. India
%nd Monaghan teachers average abou
year younger than whit. and negr
teachers. There we:a 1907 negr
teachers in 1900. 3S4 Indian and GO Mon
goli1n. The children Of Immigrant
furnish slightly greater number II
teachers In proportion to population
than the children Of natives.