Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-06-16
NORMAL INSTITUTE
is NOW IN SESSION
With A Good Corps OF Instructors
And A Good Attendance OF
Enthusiastic Teachers.

The Normal luststnte of Audubon
county is now in session with Miss Ella
4 NJ Stearns the County Superintendent
acting rs conductor She ii ably assist
cd by a faculty of able men and women
who are fresh from the work of instruc
4 ton in the public schools. Superinten-
dent r. A, Griffin of the schools up at
Lake City has charge of Civics, Physiol-
\ ogy, Arithmetic and Didactics. Super.
intendent w q. Lancelot of the Scran
ton schools teaches the subjects of
Orthogrtphy, Grammar and History.
Miss Dora Larsen of the Estherville
High School is the instructor i'm Geo
graphy, Physics and Algebra. Principal
j. W. Tavenner of Coin, Iowa, has
Commercial Geography, Agriculture,
and Nature Study Miss Theo Vedder
OF the Audubon schools has the Music,
and the Misses Bertha Caldwell, from
logan, and Cora Steele, from Lincoln
Nebraska, will do special work. OF
these instructors il IL of interest to note
that Messrs Griffin and Lancelot and
Miss Larson are allproducts Of Audubon
county who have been making good in
their respective fields of work in other
parts of the state.
The editor of this paper who spent
many years in the school room and acted
rs an instructor in many normal insti.
tutes has great faith in the beneficial
results from this feature of our educa-
tional work. The Normal Institute has
always paid for the expense many times
over even If we omit the academic
instruction given and the information
received by the teachers. Ii has been
worth more than its cost by the better
spirit developed and the social advan-
tagos it has given. The coming together
once year of the young people of the
county to commingle with one anotherin
u school of education presided over by
men and women of high ideals, strong
personal character and professional
attachments has been of invaluable bene.
tit TO them in % social and moral as well
rs educational way.
II il TO be regretted that some people
still think that education is not of much
value in financial sense except To those
who join the professions This thought
calls TO mind an article along this line
recently published in The Iowa Normal
Monthly concerning the commercial
value of an education That paper refers
to the matter as follows;
The Massachusetts Board OF Educa-
ton has prepared u table which shows
how much the children who left school
ut fourteen years OF ago earned until
they were twenty five years of age. The
pupils who left school ut fourteen began
work ut 800 n week; and by the time
they had reached the age of twenty five
they were receiving Sl2.7 q week On
the other hand those who went on and
completed the high school course began
with wage of $1,000 week, and ut
twenty five was receiving $35. 90 a week.
II was found that in the twelve years
he had been out OF school the boy who
went to work with only the elementary
education had earned but $5, 10000 but
whereas the high school boy in his eight
years Of labor had earned something
over $I,300.00. ltwould seem that going
to school may be made TO pay in dollars
and cents as well as satisfaction.