Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-11-08
HE THINKS THEY ARE FADs
Disapproves of Training Schools and
Agricultural College
EDIToa cENsoa: wm CAUTION one

/ EplroR CENSOR: win Carlton one
wrote:
The quack sets w the doctors shop.
No matter what our ills.
Could he but use the eeXton spade
No better than his pills.
Poor fellow. would toll from morn ell night
To bury half he kills.
The same author also wrote:
The middling farmer sits up to be a gentleman
To live at ease in town he's bent
But soon his name Is on the pauper's Hat,
fool not worth cent
These stanzas come to US after read
ing some of the articles relating to a
county training school an 1 agricultural
college, and as there arr always two
sides to question, we conclude the
others side needs to be represented.
This trainging school is fad, and only
tends to weaken the work and influence
of the graded and high schools. The
course of these schools could be changed
so as to meet the demand for
training country teachers and then au-
thorize some one to see that no I'M
worthless receive diploma The sys-
TEN of graduation is weak and tends to
encourage incompetency, and the higher
institutions of learning are not exempt
in this relation. When person holding
a diploma issued from a school il is sup
posed they have mastered the course
IN that school; but when one holding q
high school diploma cannot find the
long side of right angle triangle where
the length Of the other side is given,
is very good indication of slackness in
instruction. When p graduate from the
/ training school or normal cannot read
with the proper emphasis or expression
it shows a lack of proper training.
| Out of four or five letters on the other
side of this question only one writer
practices what he breaches. He resides
I on farm, studies his business from @
/ scientific standpoint Though not pro-
7 fessionaO. He also sends his boys 70
+, the stat school that they may gain new
ideas. while the others are engaged IN
something that Is easier, cleaner and
more lucrative. One refers to the
Richland county school and the proud.
ness of that county. He has been mis-
informed The city residents are proud
of the building; but the country people
arc not proud Of il and do not hesitate
to condemn the course pursued TO saddle
1t on to the taxpayers. III committee
of the county board were to establish a
school and locate the building at Hills.
boro or some of the Mississippior Kick.
apoo river towns il would be promptly
voted down. The taxpayers have been
liberal in building up good county build.
ings and they are not all paid for. Be
sides, buildings cost more when built
with public than private funds | firm
ly believe the county Jail cluld have
been built at half the cost and Their
paid handsome profit to the contractor.
The late Judge Wyman once said when
he was county superintendendof schools;
That not his best scholars were his
best teachers, but those naturally adapt
/ ed 10 impart knowledge. This would
/ indicate that teachers were born to fol.
low the vocation.
There are places Of lealnine al over the world.
There are humble school houses and colleges grand
Where wisdom is taught IS the rich and che poor
But the folks smarter thaD they weFc t1fora
And the fools are rs plenty. Tn sorry 20 say,
AS they once used TO he Ia lsy grAndfather's day.
About twenty years ago. in a teach
er's meeting a teacher complained thai
they were poorly paid, when the sup
erintendent made the remark that sthers
were nearly S45, 600 year eApeEdeS