Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-03

were reported. It is needless to say
that the facts, as above stated, have
created a tremendous sensation in
that town. The people want to know
what they are eating. We are in
formed that not pound of butter can
be sold in that town that does not
come from tested dairies.
This would seem to settle con-
clusively the fact that bovine tuber-
culosls can be communicated through
butter and milk. fact that has been
disputed. What are we eating?-
Vergennes Vermonter.
Raising the Standard.
With the announcement of raising
the standard of admission to the
Normal schools to that of the
neighhoring states there comes a
sense of relief to all friends of educa-
ton. It means not only the placing
of our Normal schools on a par with
those of other states but apparently
will satisfy the demands of the pro
gressive school people of the state.
President Thomas also in an article in
the last Vermonter advocates the
burying of the Ratchet. This certain
ly should be done if the best has been
secured.
But this settlement of the conten-
tion of sta ndards may not secure the
best for the state. If the state takes
control of the present Normal School
property it can do as it chooses to-
ward the continuance of the institu.
tions as Normal schools. It is now
the duty of the State board to show
that it can give an amount of
demonstration and practice equal to
that of other progressive states. and
to profitable number of students.
IT there is not profitable number of
students both the two remaining
institutions should not be continued,
nor should either be continued if
proper amount of demons tration can
not be furnished. This paper does
not presume to say what a profitable
number of students is nor what a
proper amount of demonstrate and
practice is but it does believe that
the people of the state will never be
satisfied unless suitable instruction is
afforded and the schools are profitable
to the state.
The state board has acted wisely
in raising the standard and so
removing an element of discord. The
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do their work without rivals under
professional names, can establish
their teacher training courses and so
serve their immediate localities with
out envious remarks, and the Normal
schools, under state ownership and
control, can do professional work
without the censure of being local
intitutions of low grades.
In the last report of the superin-
tendent of education, Mr.. Stone
states that two essential features are
needed in order to complete the
educational system of the state.
These two features he states, are
better facilities for training in agri-
culture and better facilities for train
ing for teaching. The last legislature
wisely supplied both of these feat
ures, and the state, in consequence,
has reason to congratulate itself
that it now has such an excellent
system.
There is no doubt but the teacher
training courses will meet the needs
of the state and correct the defects
of teaching in the rural schools in
most economic and satisfactory
manner. while the State School of
Agriculture will meet the demands
for some kind of practical agriculture
al education. So Vermont is now pro.
vided with an efficient and workable
system, a goal toward which it has
been striving for twenty years.
MONTPELIER Journal.