River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-03-04


les provided with all convenient and
necessary apparatus, under the
guidance of specialists in their diff
ferent fields of work, of ripe schol-
arship and superior teaching abil-
ity.
Within recent years, departments
of manual training and domestic
science have been established, and
many of the new students entering
school, at once begin work in these
departments. Then later they
should be able to direct such work
in such rural schools when their
school boards are prepared to pro-
vide suitable facilities for having it
done. All students in the early part
of their course are required to study
the elements of agriculture, and by
actual experience in a school garden
to learn how to direct one, and to d.
rect simple experiments to show eff
fects of different fertilizers, of diff
ferent modes of planting seeds, and
of different methods of cultivation.
When school patrons shall demand
teachers more thoroughly prepared
in the arts of manual training, do
nestle science, and agriculture, the
Normal School plans to furnish
them.
AS there are many rural teachers
who are unable to attend the regu-
lar sessions of the school, the board
of regents has directed members OF
the faculty of the Normal School at
River Falls to conduct a Summer
School of six weeks duration for
the special benefit of such teachers.
Another benefit conferred upon
students in State Normal School
is that they are surrounded by
teachers and students actuated by
the highest moral ideals and a pro-
fessional enthusiasm that can exist
only in a school DEVOTED to the one
task of preparing teachers for more
efficient work. This spirit that ex-
lists so strongly in Normal School
raises their ideals of duty and life,
increases their sense of duty to the
children confded to their care, and
causes them to take a professional
pride in increasing their efficiency
by all possible means.
Thus, the State Normal School at
River Falls has done much for the
schools of West Wisconsin:
First. In the past thirty-three
years the school has trained to a
considerable degree of efficiency
about four thousand teachers for
rural schools.
Second. 1t has supplied over one
hundred teachers annually to rural
schools in this section of the state.
Third. Students entering the
school for the first time are taught
by the ablest teachers the school
can command.
Fourth. These students have &C
cess to extensive Libraries and read
ing rooms supplied with the best
periodicals.
Fifth. The students in the early
part of their course are required tt
take professional work to fit then
for their work in rural schools.
Sixth. The school greatly stimu
lates the moral natures of its stu
dents, their enthusiasm for thei
chosen profession, and deepen
their sense of the responsibility tina
will rest upon them.
Seventh. The school will main
tain a Summer School for teacher
of rural schools who cannot atten'
the regular sessions of the Norma
School.
Eighth. The fact that man
graduates of the advanced course Q
the school become county superln
tendents, shows that the State Nor
NAL Schools are training many c
the leaders in the work of upliftin
rural schools.
L. H. CLARK, Mathematics,
River Falls Normal