The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-03
Principal Of High School Elected
Vice President Of State Prin.
cipaIs Association
SHARP RAP FOR UNIVERSITY
Principals Declare That Students From
the University are Not Fitted For
Teaching in High Schools
of the State

The schools of Kenosha received a
high honor at the annual meeting of
the supervising principals and super
intendents of the schools of Wiscon-
sin in Milwaukee Wednesday after
noon when w. J. Hooking, principal
of the Kenosha high school, was
elected to the Office of vice-president
of the association and in this way
placed in direct line for the leadership
of the association. Fl. S. Yonker, of
Grand Rapids, was elected president
of the association and r. e. Loveland,
of Darlington, secretary.
The Kenosha teachers took an i'm
portant part in the proceedings of
the first days meeting of the associa-
ton. The sessions Of the Wisconsin
State Teachers Association start this
afternoon and there are &C least a
hundred Kenosha teachers in Mi1wau-
kee to attend them.
The most sensational action in con-
nection with the first days session Of
the supervising principals was the
fact that the association took sharp
rap at the University Of Wisconsin.
The following resolution was passed
by almost unanimous vote of the
association:
Resolved, That in the opinion of
this association the time has come
when the state university should offer
more complete and practical train
ing for students preparing to teach
IN the high schools of our state, and
that committee be appointed to pre-
sent this matter to the regents of the
university"
''The time has come to demand of
the University of Wisconsin that it
turn out out teachers who know some
thing about teaching" said H. L.
Terry, state inspector of high schools.
Zone teacher told me last year that
she had had to study harder than ever
before in her life to keep up with the
pedagogic requirements of her class.
She was pupil all the time, as we'll
as they. She complained bitterly that
she should have spent four years at
university practically for nothing
when she came to take up her life
work. Make students atCthe univer-
sity who are to be teachers selection
latter two years of their course
the particular subject they propose to
teach and perfect themselves in the
= It methods of teaching that subject
particular"
Enthusiasm for their work and for
the particular branches of their work
must be in teachers or they fail,,'
said H. S. Yonker of Grand Rapids.
"They must also have the understand
ing that they are to teach boys and
girls, and they must know something
about human nature as it exists in
students of the age they teach. High
school boys are a an age where their
hats have to be made to order, and the
teacher must understand they are
that kind of animal and be prepared
to labor with them under these condi-
tons. That's the knowledge in peda-
gogy that the university should teach
it's students expecting to teach high
school pupils.
mot over 40 or so per cent Of the
graduates of the University Of Wis
consin destined to teach in the high
schools are fitted pedagogica1ly for
their work. said M. N McIver, Of
Oshkosh. There's not a practical
side at the university that applies to
the schoolroom method and tuition.
Columbia has it and so has Chicago.
We should have the same at Madison -
After half dozen other speakers
had voiced similar views FL. L. Terry,
HI. S. Yonker and G. E. Buell. were
named committee to draft the reso-
luton afterward adopted unanim-
ously. The committee will appeal to
the regents for an elaboration of the
pedagogic system.