The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-02
SUMMER SCHOOL
At COLLEGE
instruction Will Be Given In
All Ordinary Branches
IN ADDITION TO SPECIAL WORK.
A Splendid Corps of Instruct
OrS Provided

Beginning next Monday morning q
four weeks summer school for teach
ers will be held at the State college.
Instructions will be given in all Of
the ordinary branches from primary
work to the work of the high school
grade, and In addition courses will be
offered IN nature study, agriculture
and home economics. A fine corps of
instructors has been secured, and 1t
should be a very successful and we'll
attended institute. The attendance Is
not expected to be confined to Brook.
ings county but teachers are expect
ed from all over the state.
The corps of instruction and admin
istration is as follows: Superinten-
dent G. +. Brown, of the Brookings
city schools, director and instructor;
superintendent S. T. May, of the Ha-
warden, Iowa. schools. lecturer and
instructor; Miss Alice Kilgore, whose
work in the primary schools of Min
neapolis is widely and favorably
known, instructor DR.. A. A. Brigham,
Principal of the New School of Agri-
culture, lecturer and instructor; Mr..
Robert Matheson, State Entomologist
and Instructor in Etomology in the
State College, lecturer and instructor;
Miss Jessie NJ. Hoover, Preceptress
and Instructor in Household Econom-
les in the New School of Agriculture,
lecturer and instructor; J. r. Bagley,
Supervisor of Penmanship in the Min
neapolis public schools, instructor.
For a number of reasons there Is
at present a shortage of teachers in
the state. This is partly due to in
adequate salary. partly of the inability
OF many applicants to secure state
certificates because of insufficient pre-
paration, and partly to an act OF the
last legislature whereby the certifi.
cation of teachers was taken from
County Superintendents and placed In
the hands of the State Department of
Public Instruction. During the past
few years the Institutes in the state
have been chiefly along the inspira.
tiOnal line, and not much emphasis
has been given to imparting to the
teachers knowledge which would be
helpful to them in securing certifi-
Gates. Furthermore good many
teachers incur each year the consider
able expense of attending distant sum-
mer schools, while a still greater mum.
Der are forced to remain home be.
| cause of the extra expense involved
in attending schools so far distant.
TO meet these exigencies and in re-
sponse to many letters of inquiry, it
has been deemed wise to establish a
summer school here.
Some educators object to the intro
duction Of Nature Study, Agriculture
and Home Economics among the reg
ular studies Of the common schools.
claiming that the curriculum is al
| ready crowded and that some of the
studies now taught will suffer neglect.
The facts, however, as provided by
experience, bear us out i'm the state
ment that IL nature, the field and the
home be correlated with the ordinary
school curriculum, connection be.
tween the home and the school can
be established uniting these two great
institutions which form the basis of
our government. Children too often
become discouraged with school life
because the school and the home stand
out as separate units. II We educate
the head, the hand and the heart in
unison, then we may hope for intelli.
gent labor rather than drudgery. Labor
will be dignified and the home glori.
fled. There must be the closest touch
between the investigator, the teacher
and the practical worker. They are
trinity Of workers with a unity of
purpose. Hence, because of the grow.
ing demand for the useful and practi.
cal in education, the. drill in agricul.
ture and household pursuits should Ger.
tainly be embodied in the school cur.
, riculum Of an agricultural state.