Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-06

work if they are given the oppol
tunity and believe superintendent
and boards of education should en-
courage it.
Our rural schools have too long beel
the practice ground for poorly equip
ped teachers. | yield to no one il
perception Of the advantages of tn
right sort of rurual school. Thu
chances for close individual instruc
! ton, the surroundings close to nature
free from the distractions OF city o
village life appeal strongly to one Wh'
has passed through the process o
evolution from an apprentice in tn
rural schools to superintendent o
d village or city system. But at thl'
day | do not believe it is necessar!
that a little brown county school bt
inflicted with green, gaWky, lgno
rant boy in order that WillistOn may
have an experienced superintendent
twenty years hence.
President McVey says:
whether we like it or not, the fac
| remains that the days of the old ap
prentice system have gone by. This
| statement is true not only in the flelC
of mechanical industries. but it is true
of commercial pursuits, journalism
medicine, law, and even government
Business interests, municipalities and
patients are insisting that they shall
not be the victims of experiments
Trained men and women are as con
sequence necessity
Why should the rural school be an
exception to the general rule and con
tinue to be the victim of experiment
Why should it not advance as rapid
ly as rural needs demand?
That the training of teachers for
the common schools is recognized as
proper function of the high school
is shown by the plan of allowing cred
it for high school work adopted by the
state department after careful consid'
Grafton by this association. At the
session of this association in 1904,
Supt. G.. C. Schmidt read paper be-
fore the county superintendent sec
ton on 1.-THE ACCESSIBILITY of Accept
ing High School Certificates in Ger
tain Subjects in Lieu of Examination
for Teachers Certificate" in which
he proposed two methods for giving
recognition to high school work in
granting of teachers certificates, the
first of which was afterwards adopt
ed in the main by the state depart
ment. Supt. Schmidt's propositions
were:
1st. BY having state high school
board certificates under certain con-
ditions accepted in place of the reg
ular teachers examination, and, End,
by accepting the marks of local high
schools, under certain restrictions.
The general association at the same
session followed this up by two reso-
lutions in which the function of the
high school was fully recognized.
1t was resolved, THAT high school
credits in subjects required for teach
ers' certificates be accepted by the
state superintendent of public in
in lieu of examination in
such subjects, for teachers certifi-
Gates" and that in consideration OF
the facts that the high school is
state institution, open to all pupils
of the state, that it prepares large
of teachers for the elemen-
tary schools, and that the money spent
in high schools is widely and effective
ly distributed, we recommend that aid
for high schools be made common
surate with the services which they
are performing for the state"
In 1905, after the consideration of
the matter by the high school coun'
Gil and the county superintendent
section of the N. D. E. A., and by COM
mittees in both sections, joint COM
mittee of count superintendent and
high school men, in which the county
outnumbered the high
school men two to one, met at the
call of the state superintendent and
formulated the following plan which
was ratified by the county superin-
tendent section at the session of 1905,
and has been followed since by the
of public instruction. Quot
ing from regulations issued by the
Estate high school board
certificates in the following subjects:
Senior arithmetic, senior geography,
and hygiene, theory of
practice, elementary algebra, plane
geometery, civics, physiology, physics
and psychology will be accepted in
lieu of examination for county GER
on the following conditions:
The applicants must have been at
least sixteen years old when taking
tho examination M ctan6inp 1ess