Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-07-16

faith and love as opposed to the may OF
sehshness.
THE Professional Growth of the Sec
ondary Teacher" was the subject assign
ed to Prof. Arthur o. Norton of Harvard
University. Professional training. said
the speaker, is not a Substitute for any
other essential qualification in a teacher
1T VIII not make good 'eacher out of a
poor stick. It will not serve as a substi-
tutc for scholarship or personality but
he believed 1T would make a good teacher
better Teachers fossilize at an early age
but this fossilization Is not peculiar IL
teachers alone. II Is true perhaps in all
business and professional callings unless
the law and medicine. Professor James
caps the climax by saying that old foGy-
ism sets In in most people at 20. What
the teacher needs is continuous growth
prolonged efficiency, n long period Of
Elasticity and expansion OF power 50
that school directors will be looking for
those over 30 instead of refusing to allow
them In the schools. The trouble is tina,
teachers adopt one system and then
allow their brains to harden SO that they
become no longer susceptible to new
ideas but positively hostile towards them
Fossilization can he avoided by the
patient study of underlying principles
and the application Of them to all sorts
OF school problems az they arise. Pro.
fessional training gives an organized
knowledge of the experience of those
who have travelled the same way. Judges
do not decide cases according to lega
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with tho opinions Of other judges. Fro
fcssional training gives teachers means
of Increasing their knowledge Mos
teachers arc woeful,y deficient in profess
Fional training The great proportion o.
high school teachers have not had it anc
u result they cease to grow and ex
pand while still in the viror Of youth.
AFTERNOON EXCURSION.
The trip south on tho steamer Chateau
gay during the afternoon was enjoyed >,
about go 81 tho visiting members Of tn,
institute. leaving burlington at two
o'clock and going as far as Westport an,
return. passing many historic spots q
interest on tho trip.
EVENING SESSION
The closing session Of the institute wa
held in tho evening at eight o'clock In IN,
assembly hall of the high school. the at
tendance being about up to the standard
that has been maintained during the en-
tire convention.
The meeting was opened by vocal So
lections by the male quartetto. composed
of the Messrs Shaul. Hull Fisher an,
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port of the committee on neurology, reac
by John l.. Algcr of Saxtons River. Tn,
report contained 10 names
THE TEACHERS REWARD.
The address Of the evening was dc
livered by President Flavel s. Luther o
Trinity College who took for his sub
tect The Teachers Reward" We GO
out of the world, the speaker said. abou
what we put into it. Deeds of our
come back to us as an echo Of the op
probation In which we are held. Tn,
rewards which come to the teacher from
the material standpoint are pitlful wher
We think of them. But the pay check /
not the teachers reward. The service
of anyone who devo>aS himself to an
task worth doing cannot be measured II
money. What we get In money Is simrl,
an acknowledgment of service done. TIL
real reward cannot he gagged that wa
The greatest reward is the profession
itself.
President Luther then spoke of tn
tremendous responsibility which face
the teacher when she realizes that til
chiiuren seated AZ the desks represen
'he Ohlted states or the next twenty-hv
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