Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-11
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you 1 represent tonight halr mllllqn
of teachers and twenty millions or chill
dren, the youth of our common country
our rich heritage?
II represent a body in numbers more
Medicine rnreii fne and theology-and a body Of
men and women who have the making
of the first impressions upon the plasLc
minds of our childhood-who really shape
their future for good-not for bad-for
the teachers work is always In the direc-
ton of good. ,,., .,o-,ods
the evolution of teaohing-I come at once
to the main question, The Better Re-
muneration of Our Teachers Teachers OF Iod nt nm
to this time, received it's, commercial
value is due to the fact that teaching
has not for its end the same result that
the professions and other avocations
N''' The JOY is in the doing.
Not In the deed that Is DONE
=, "or perhaps this is better Expressed Al
That the deed In the doing it reaches
That the fact has a value apart from its
"or, 1 mean to say that teaching is
different from the work of the DOCTOR
the lawyer, the clergyman, for In all OF
these to the pleasure of doing Is ADDED
the result In the two former, large fees.
1.-The clergyman's work being so closely
allied to that of the teacher, his compen-
sation, while greatly increased lately, is
measured by the same standard as that
of the teacher, viz, the joy in the DO,
world the result is the most important
part of all; 1t can be measured either with
the yardstick or the balance.
ut is not so with teaching; the result
cannot be measured, weighed or even eS-
timated-the whole is subjective so lar as
the teacher is interested.
at is easy to see why the civil en-
gineer can command more-receive more
+bor a collage president. his WORK is the
construction of great bridge lke that
at Niagara or that across North river
it has a commercial value winch can pe
measured by the dollar.
at is easy to see why locomotive en-
gineer receives more for his work tnan
the high school principal; why the stenog-
the primary teacher-often more than the
principal Minute, accurate tabulatlons
have been printed and are acceSslple IN
which the compensations OF al classes OF
wage workers have been made with the
salaries of our teachers of all grades, ana
the result is that these tables show the
teacher to great disadvantage.
Expensive Preparation
$50 far as we have shown, why not?
Let us come to the why the teacher
should receive more for his or her ser,
vices. And of the arguments, first OF al
the work of the teacher is upon the
human mind and the human soul, anu;
in our country, upon twenty millions or
children today that must be citizens
voters and rulers tomorrow.
Second, the proposition of expense OF
time and money is equal in many cases
more than any of the other vocations, or
even professions. Happily, another has
made this out in detail, and L give only
the aggregate. 1t will cost an average OF
$500 to prepare one for teaching.
"Show the patrons-the school board
that in addition to teaching you have to
govern, to keep order, to interest hfty or
sixty little mortals for six hours.
"That every day you decide cases of
discipline that General Grant, when he
was president, would call a cabinet meet
ing on. Put into our schools books OF IN
terest to the young; let the Last Days
of the Mohicans," Lalla Rookh" and
even "Hiawatha" give place to books of
interest about the progress OF our coun-
try, what commerce, agriculture ana the
mechanic arts are doing; what science
in every recitation morals and manners,
greater love for home and school.
Here is a good place to bring IN the
relative number of men and women teach-
ers. In the United States in 1882, men Az
per cent and now it is stated that nearly
so per cent of our teachers are females.
Says one: There has been no incentive
for men to prepare for this calling, and
they have left the field and now now II Is
difficult to keep their places tilled with
competent women teachers. Possibly the
situations would be better If the schools
would adopt the plan Fort Worth did IN
1882. Upon the Inauguration of her pub
lie schools for the remuneration or her
teachers were adopted in general, viz; In
the same grade of work the same salary
should be given to the women as to the
men, Fort Worth went even further and
gave the colored teachers doing the same