Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-20

of the graduating class OF the curren'
school year This room must be SUIT
ably equipped and opportunity must be
provided the members of the class to
I observe methods Of teaching in the sew
eral grades, and to, teach under proper
criticism and direction Not less than
four forty-mnute Rotations each day
are required. The teachers in charge
must meet certain requirements as TO
qualifications. No candidate under sew
cnteen years of age may enter these
classes. The candidates upon beng ad-
mittcd must subscribe to an obligation
that it is their purpose to engage IN
teaching in the public schools of the
state OF New York at the completion
of their preparation, and that they will
remain in the classes the entire year TN
less sickness or other cxcusable cause
should prevent
Minnesota has two very excellent pro-
visions. The first one provides an ap-
preparation of $2,5OD to each of ten high
schools for maintaining a department IN
agriculture, manual training and domes-
tic science. This law has given a great
!, impetus to this phase of education IN
our sister state, and it has no difficulty
in finding high schools ready and will
ing to meet the requirements. This law
will undoubtedly receive amendments
from time to time SO as to include more
than ten high schools, and should be
watched with interest. =,
The other provision grants SPECIAL
! aid of $3.50 to each high school NAM
tanning special training department TOR
teachers. 1t is somewhat similar to
the New York law The conditions are
! that a special teacher is engaged whose
entire time must be devoted to this par
,ir,)ar work and the students take no
other work. The course of study en-
braces a thorough review Of the com
mon school branches, together win
practice teaching and observation work.
The state superintendent of public in
,,ruction. Mr.. c. e.. Schultz. writes III
This connection: "1Thcse departments
have grown in Minnesota through the
la,t two years from less than ten to
the present number (3o), and J. look
for them to increase until we shall nave
one or more in each county III the state
am convinced that this must be the
plan followed in Minnesota tor the pro-
fcssional training of teachers tor the
rural schools. Graduates from our nor
NAL schools 60 into teaching service IN
the cities and graded schools, and very
few of them take up teaching IN the
country
What Superintendent Schultz says
about conditions in Minnesota applies
with even greater force to us in North
dakota. Our normal graduates dlsap-
pear from the country, and the country
schools do the next best thing: LOOK ~
the high school for its teachers: me
high schools are called upon to turnlsh
workers in field for which the otter
no preparation. And right here is the
weak point in the educational system
Of our state. The high school is a
creature of the state and should be
subservient to the best interests OF the
statc,-and that is not drilling students
into Romans, Germans or ancient MS
torians in preparation for college only;
II should prepare teachers as well.
am convinced that we can lnaugurate
no educational reform that would DC
more effective and beneficial at the
present time than the establishing of de-
DartmcntS III CO1lllCStlOll VIZ. o
.ondary schools for the specific purpose
of training rural teachers. 1t IS tar
from me to say that the appropriations
for higher education should be reduced
but business prudence and foresight
would indicate with unanSwerable argu-
ment that the state must educate 10.
wards the productive fields of labor, and
with this end in view it must furnish
the rural schools with teachers who
can instruct and inspire in matters OF
greatest community interest these
Schools should, above ALL be embryonic
representations of the community lie
around them. They should give more
than intellectual knowledge OF society:
they should vitalize this knowledge by
concrete facts and intelligent experiment
tation. They should, in other words
give actual work in the science OF agril-
culture, manual training and domestic
science, and thus bring their students IN
actual contact with the problems OF pro.
duction for the maintenance of lite. If
this ideal shall be attained III any meas
ure. the state must take steps to place
teachers in the rural schools who can
do the work. and its money would be
srent in accordance with business cx-
pedcncy.
Elementary and Secondary Education.
The departments of elementary edu'
cation and secondary education held a
joint meeting at the presbyterian
church Wednesday morning and many
valuable topics were discussed. Six
papers were read bearing upon diff
ferent phases of the general theme,
What Are Our High Schools Doing
and What Should They Do?' One OF
the best papers read was that OF A:
B. Hess of Larimore on 1.-The Study OF
Agriculture" All of the others were
deserving of mention also.
Industrial Section.
The industrial section of the asso-
citation held it's initial meeting at the
Commercial club rooms Tuesday after
noon, and an interesting session is re-
ported. Supt. Jewell of Cando gave