Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-26
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plants OF low wages paid to teachers IN
the public schools. A committee of the
Maine Teachers Association has investi-
gated conditions in that State, and re-
ports that the average monthly salary of
men teachers is $11.61 below the average
for the nation, and $21.27 below the av-
erage for New England. For women
teachers the average monthly salary is
1891 lower than that for the entire
country, and $11.90 below the New Eng
land average. The majority of women
teachers in the State work for from six
to nine dollars a week. About one-eighth
are paid more than ten dollars. Over
1000 elementary and high school teach
ers board at home and this explains how
t is possible for many teachers to sus-
tain themselves on their small salaries.
Maine has good teachers, and 1876 of
them have taken partial or complete nor
nal training courses. The committee
inds that $3.50 women working in the
Maine cotton mills get an average weekly
wage of $500, while the average pay of
women school teachers is $500 a week.
The average weekly pay Of men in the
cotton mills is $S.01, according to this
report, and the men teachers receive
$9.1S. The committee says that the only
other occupation in Maine for which fig
ures are available is that included in the
wooden industry, where the annual wages
run from 1927 to $500. The average pay
of school teachers, including principals
and superintendent, is 1921.
Japan is to have a unique revenge for
any real or fancied Sights it may have
received at the hands of American school
authorities if President Otto G. Schnei
der of the Chicago school board has his
way. President Schneider wants to adopt
the japanese imperial rescript on educa-
ton as the standard of ethical and moral
teaching in the Chicago public schools.
The rescript, which is a sort of educa-
tional creed, was issued some thirty years
ago by the Emperor of Japan and has
been used since that time as a formula
for ethical teaching in the japanese
schools. In part it reads: BE filial to
your parents, affectionate to your brothers
and sisters; as husbands and wives be
harmonious, as friends true bear your
selves in modasty and moderation; extend
your benevolence to all; pursue learning
and cultivate arts, and thereby develop
intellectual faculties and perfect moral
powers furthermore, advance public good
and promote common interests; always
respect the constitution and preserve the
laws; should emergency arise, offer your
selves courageously to the State; and thus
guard and maintain the prosperity of our
imperial throne, coeyal with heaven and
earth"
In an address before the National Edu-
cational Association at Los Angeles re-
Gently, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler
of the University of California criticised
the prevailing custom of prescribing
college education for all mental ills and
condemning when the potion failed to
cure. He said the public school must be
made and kept the school for all, without
recognition of classes or conditions, and
that it must shape its work and plan so
as to close no door, but rather open the
freest opportunity for the best achieve
ment and the highest advance. He
Thought, however, that the present rigid
system of the grades, whose chief excuse
has been economic necessity, must yield
to permit the more rapid advance of gift
ed and diligent pupils, and that it should
be borne in mind that the school exists
for the child and not for the grade.
President Schneider of the Chicago
School Board is advocating the Japanese
imperial rescript on education as the
standard of ethical and moral teaching in
the Chicago public schools. A copy of
this rescript. which recently has been
translated, shows it 70 be a sort of edu-
cational creed. issued some thirty years
ago by the Emperor of Japan. 1t in
cludes such injunctions as devotion to
parents and family, modesty, moderation,
beneyolence, pursuit of learning, cutiva-
tion of arts, advancement of the public
good. respect for law and loyalty to the
State.
Supt. Maxwell of New York has urged
principals to give the group system of
reaching and grading a trial. The gen.
eraI principle is to so arrange the pro-
gress of pupils that each may have in
diyidual attention Glasses are separated
into divisions and definite times are fixed
for study. This allows bright pupils to
do more advanced work by going from
one division TO another as fast as they
are able.
1t now appears that Lord Curzon, who
recently was appointed chancellor Of the
University of Oxford, is to take UP resi-
dence there and devote much Of his time
to injecting new life into the old institu-
ton. From this vantage ground be will
push his public appeal for funds and car
~ out a scheme for mrdernizing the
course Of study.
The New York Board Of Education has
decided to restrict the use of feather dust
ers and to introduce the yacuum-cieaning
process in one of the new school houses as
a trial.
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