Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-17
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
frontinued from Page Four.)

.,octIv unqualified to teach as a girl
r.,sibly could be-16 years old; and told
or,mittee man that he must not hire
- hadn't any authority but told him
',,,r,v in an advisory way. At the end Of
s .u"ao weeks I came around there and the
~, was teaching school. I went
-. and took dinner with
Twin citizen and says to him
p.UIbst in the world induced - to
i 81. that girl in the school, and he said,
ppIon,t you say word; that girl was
,ino me for COW and - was
o ',ine me for a COW. and that is how
.sa thing came around" We want to
',;r,inate this whole COW business from
me educational line.
~" Wv in this law, it says provided
-, nerson who has never taught, not
Gliding a state certificate, may be
son,e1 temporary teachers permit
p neriod not exceeding one year.
.sose dear girls. and l allow nobody
~ regard them as dearer than 1 do
Mr. STAPLES: Years ago.
Nv KNOWLTON: l am at that peri
.awnen | notice change-those dear
osrs shall have a chance, and what
Etc law contemplateS is this: That
.hore shall not be in the educational
,i,os the same thing take place that
,.kes place in our country places.
srow country town after town, where
,ne grandmother taught that school
sha never went outside of the town
and she learned to pronounce the
gratis of Gibraltar and lots of other
,ords and taught her daughter to pro-
noonce them in the same way. 1t is
~ avoid that eternal heredity of ig-
noran,e that this law was placed be-
soro vou senator's. / can see no hard
shin in it. 1t says that, any person
who WAS taught any length of time,
any person a graduate of normal
school, academy, etc. shall be granted
certificates anyway, and that all of
,aose young girls who want to go out
.nd teach shall have a certificate good
tnr a wear And not until 1911 will
tbis law take effect. There is no per-
con in the world more interested in
.ba boys and girls that want to be
teachers than |, but l regard that boy
mr. Girl as doing a great damage to
herself if she undertakes to make the
roblest calling under heaven hers that
has not qualified herself to be a sue
ross and does not fit h>rself to occupy
the position in which I believe, if she
is TO he successful, the very God of
her nature calls her.
Mr. SHAW of kennebec: Mr.. PrSci-
dent and Senator's: 1t seems to me as
though the law establishing school
unions covers this whole question. 1t
Is working very satisfactorily in this
state where several small towns unite
and employ superintendent to super
wise the schools the State doubled the
amount appropriated by every town,
and a union of two or three towns
brings up quite a salary, 50 that they
are employing very competent mon;
and the schools are being raised to a
better standard. I think it is along
that line that they ought to be pushed,
and it would meet all the requirements
favored by this bill. AS the senator
from Aroostook said, the common
school is where the boy and girl often
get their whole education. l live in
town where there is great deal of
difference in the schools. In Il village
school this might apply. In our rural
schools, part of them would require
a little better educational little bet
ter teacher, teacher such as normal
graduate or college graduate. but
in some of the other smaller schools.
where they are from eight to ten years
old studying the primer and the Third
Reader. some teacher who could not
get State certificate would be just as
,- competent, as teacher who had State
certificate and who would require dou-
Die tie pay. Also, in some of our small
towns, they are raising about all the
money they can by taxation for the
schools, and are running schools for
twenty weeks and they could hardly
afford teachers who would require dou-
bic the pay, such a teacher as would
be qualified to procure a State certi-
flcate. You will increase the expense
very materially. and I cannot see that
you are going to derive a benefit in
mat particular class of school
Mr. HAMILTON Of York: Mr..
PRESIDENT: / supposed always. though
knew the fact. that lived west Of
Scarboro flats and that York county
was only Il bunter between this State
and New Hampshire. but | am proud
now that | live there. and out of the
state when | hear described the ignor-
ance and want of education and want
OF knowledge from the old school
master who has taught in the eastern
part of the state 50 long. If l am
correctly informed, the girl of which
ne speaks was one of his pupils; and