Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1909-02-16

TO you instead OF Senulng tnefn away
, You are giving your children theiI
nights, Saturdays and Sundays al
home, Which they need especial,
in the adolescent years. You art
keeping a high school within cas-,
and daily reach OF them and if in
dustrial work is connected with II
you are giving .bem the training
in a useful occupation and the cult
ure which should go With it. More
over, you keep in your own district
for your own culture and upbuilding
the tuition for every boy and cir
| who would attend school elSeW here
In the places where we are not
ready for these things the creates,
care and discretion must be exercised
to give the children The best we car
and still lead up 10 our final plan.
We can do much in the industrial
lire in our county schools by con
Meeting them closely with the Coun.
ty Fair, Agricultural Experiment
Station and Farmers Institutes
Aneady | Lave plans started which
| hope Will result in the children
taking part, and an important part
in the County Fair. The parents,
teachers and school boards should
make u special effort to induce the
children to become interested in this
phase of education.
When we have schools we must
have competent teachers, and the
| time will come when Stanley county
cannot depend upon the trained
| teacher on the claim to supply her
| needs. | am strong advocate OF
the County Training school, for the
purpose of this school Is TO train
teachers to teach In The rural schools.
Ii the city needs trained teachers
whJ does not the country need
trained teachers? Are the country
children worthy Of less attention,
less care and less successful teaching
! Than the city children:
In the county where my home Was
before coming to South Dakota We
have county training school. Eve
~ student in that school must study
| learn TO teach them, they must take
school law and management, public
speaking, library work, drawing,
music and manual training. They
may take other things, but they
must take the subjects mentioned.
| No TAD work Is acne in this school
and the state pays twice as much ill.,
; to the county 10 support tie school
as the county itself pays to support
the school.
1t is probable that no one has ever
made a more thorough Investigation
OF tie training school system than
did Supt. Ii. ). Yonker Of Crane
Rapids, Wisconsin. Before his inves-
tigation he doubted the wisdom Of
the county training school. After
| IllS IIiN CSlISd Itt lLN StlNlt w lNSSll-
sin has now u system in operation
| in sixteen counties for the training
Of country school teachers. Our
normal schools offer practically the
same course but do not reach the
teachers. At least ninety per cent
Of the graduates OF the training
school are teaching in the country
schools. The Wisconsin training
schools are reaching the country
! people as no other institution evei
can. Salaries are being paid in these
country training schools that are
drawing there the very best talent
as trainers. No county having ob
tanned training school has ever
given it up and many are waiting a
chance to get one. We can have
one in Stanley county il we CARE
enough, if We WORK hard enough.
There lies the secret-persistent
unceasing effort along the right edu
cational lines could talk an TN
limited time on the needs of Stanlel
county. But at the close ! wish t
concentrate attention on these two
things, the ways and means of estab
fishing the central manual trainin,
school and high school in each town
ship and the county traini Dg school
Let US as teachers, parents, officer
and educators work steadily for thes,
two objects. =
| desire to call the attention O
the school officers and teachers t,
the bills before the legislature ant
ask that they keep watch OF thest
bills and use their influence on tn
right side. A bill has been intro
duced providing for uniform text
books over the state. 1t is needles
to say that any thoughtful person
will see the inadvisability and Unjust
ice Of this. Also a bill for takin,
; away the pay of teachers while attend
ing the district institute. do no
pretend to understand the attitud,
of mind that would lead person /,
present bill like this. Is not th
district obtaining from the benefi
| 4 hn tna.hnr LriptrS fo the r.o.