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

not SO we'll prepared for this work a
at present. Supt. Schmidt's plan wa
good, it was we'll stated, and we'll en-
forced by reasons, but he was then
as he has been on some other &C
casions, simply in advance OF thu
| times.
| The plan is as follows: I'm case
the applicant for a teachers certlh
cate is graduate Of a state mgr
school of the first class, the marx;
of that school may be accepted fol
such of the subjects named in the
preceding clause as he or she pursued
in that school, provided:
First, that the minimum rating thus
accepted shall be 80 per cent.
Second, that the city superintend
ent having supervision over such hlgh
school shall recommend that the cred
its be thus accepted.
90 That no credits shall be &C
copied later than sixteen months al
ter the date of the applicants high
school diploma, unless the county
suprintendents certify that he or she
has taught with success since that
date.
(4) That the state superintendent
may decline to accept any or all sucn
credits for any reason he deems SUI
ficient."
The following is brief abstract
of Superintendent Schmidt's argu'
ment:
High school of the first class are
not required to take examinations,
except in one subject yeear.
Good teachers often have poor GER
certificates and poor teachers often
have good certificates.
A diploma from a first class high
school of the state, if the holder be
a good student, averaging at least 81
per cent, is worth more than the best
second grade certificate.
Graduates of first class high
schools of this state now enter the
freshman class of the best colleges
and universities of the northwest
without examinations-simply on the
scholarship marks given by their
schools. But they cannot enter the
teaching profession.
Colleges do not admit students to
the freshman class on teachers GER
tificate
The training best adapted to pro-
mote mental growth is not always
best adopted to fit for passing exam
nations.
In many of the best schools of the
country they have ceased to make d
fetish of the examination.
Graduates of first class high
schools go to normal school for
one year and then receive diploma,
without further examination, eventu-
ally becomes a professional state GER
volid for life. If their high
school work is good enough for first
grade certificate after a year at the
normal school, why is it not good
enough for even second grade GER
-ificate without that year?
Summer school standings are ac-
;epted toward certificates and sum-
ner school work is no comparison as
good as that done in our first class
nigh schools.
Hardly a session of the state as
ISOLATION has been held of late years
without this plan or the general idea
being presented by some one
anxious to improve the conditions of
he common schools.
Superintendent George F.. Forester
n discussing this subject in 1908
said:
The people of the rural communities
ire not getting proportionate return
for the school taxes
hey have to pay. Do not state high
schools, drawing state money, owe it
o the rural communities that they
prepare teachers for the rural schools?
According to the bureau of educa-
ion, but little over five per cent of
our teaechrs, the country over, are
normal school graduates, and less
han Is per cent have had as much
as that offered by six
weeks summer school,
Many enter the teaching vocation
directly from the high school with no
or but little training, to fit
hem to teach.
The normal schools cannot do all
he work.
The high schools Of the state have
t in their power to improve the ef-
'iciency of the teaching throughout
he state. and that, too, in a field
lot to be reached by the normal
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