The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-19
EDUCATION OF TEACHERS.
Plea for Better Facilities for Wome1
 In This State

Plea for Better Facilities for Women
 in This State.
 The following communication from Edwina B. Martin appeared in the i Hartford Courant:
 To the Editor of The Courant:
 From the last day of the district school to the. commencement of the college, with it's conferring of degrees is a far cry. But time was when the knowledge acquired in, the ungraded country school was sufficient to war; rant it's possessor in applying for a po- sition as teacher in similar institutions. 1 Now, however, the Would-be teacher of the district school must have normal training, and if she aspires to teach a grade above the intermediate, she is frequently met with a demand for her 1 college diploma. Not only are schoof officials requiring college trained in- structors, but teachers themselves are eager for the more liberal education and broader training to be obtained at 1 college.
 Connecticut provides generously for the education of her sons-Trinity, Wesleyan and Yale offering ample op- portunity to them for traning in any line of study. Of these colleges only one of them permits Women to share its advantages, and so grudging1y is that permission given that few sW5men are willing to humiliare themselves by seeking admittance there. The Gonnec- ticut woman who, desires collegiate traning in preparation for teaching must turn to the more hospitable doors of New York, Massachusetts or the west; for although Connecticut was among the first to provide a normal school, she has not yet proved So pro gressive as to establish a teachers 1 college. That there is a great and in creasing demand among teachers in this state for larger opportunity for study is realized by all thoughtful men and women who are in touch with edu- cational affairs.
 Tn recent years, Yale university has manifested a professional interest in the teaching force of the state, and has offered extension courses which are open to women. Within two years the l university has established a summer school intended primarily to benefit teachers. The state in it's turn has met l the opportunity thus offered with a i willingness 10 cooperate in this matter by arranging for one free course for I teachers of her public schools who shall I register as students of the Yale sum | ner school But there is at present nc T reason to believe that work done by | women, however earnest and diligent students they may prove themselves in the university extension courses dur ing the winter and at the summer school, will be rewarded by an officia recognition from the university beyont issuing a certificate for the courses talk. en and by printing their names in tht list of rnatriculated students at Yale It remains for colleges having a keen CT sense of justice to give credit to- wards a degree for work by women IT these courses.
 Is it not possible for Connecticut t. provide and that speedily, a coiteg, where teachers can get more education than our normal schools give ant where the completion of the cours shall be recognized by the granting o a degree? It would seem that thi : might be done either by making on of the normal schools state college, o by opening a school for the theory an practice of education in conneetiol with an already established college 0 university.
 Art and science, law and theology } medicine and forestry all flnl shelter i the shadow of the elms of Yale. l there not room for one more depart ment where the teachers of Connect 2 cut may obtain the professional equir ment which they earnestly desire? Is 1t mere fortuity that the state ha a normal school in New Haven, we equipped for the practical training (
 teachers? Might not some plan of ce , operation between the state and tn
 university be devised whereby thi l school might become a department (
 Yale as the teachers college is a de v partment of Columbia university?
 Such a college once established a would divert to it's treasury the none
 now spent for higher education by tt women teachers sof Connecticut and u
 state would profit not only financial il but by the possession of a corps (
 more highly trained and more broadle V educated teachers in her public schoo
 Must W eask in vain of our ow commonwealth what neighboring state
 gladly offer us?
 "a EDWINtA B. MARTIN,
 Lawrence Street School -s Hartford Oct 16.