Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-12

Jul WdotC.
w. S. Dearmont, President State Nor.
I, NAL School, Girardeau, Missouri, on
"The Functions Of the Normal
School in Training Teachers"
, The need of the hour is broadly edu.
Gated leaders. Leadership in this
country has been too largely In the
hands of men of narrow and limited
education; men who have sought al.
rect and immediate results; men,. whot
in the sharp conflict OF life, have
learned to win the mastery by falr
means or foul; men who love powep
for it's own sake; men whose every
action is shaped by their lust for pow.
err; men who r devoid Of broad hu'
manitarian principles; men without
civic or social ideals; men without
high moral or religious principles.
These men, too often our Industrial
and civi cleaders, have led the nation
in a mad race to get control OF the
vast resources Of this country. The
rapid material development of the
United States and it's rapid growth in
wealth has been the wonder OF the
world. But the result has been ac-
complished at the expense OF a fear
full waste Of our natural resources
and at a no less fearful waste of the
health. morals and lives CT u peo-
pie. We must have a larger meas
ure of broadly educated leadership.
We must have broadly educated col
lege men for leaders, The college
training itself must be along broader
lines. 1t must train men to be true
leaders of the people. not their mas
tiers and exploiters, our leaders must
be men who take a broad humanlta-
rian view, Of life; men who have right.
eousness, justice and mercy; men who
have faith in the possibilities OF the
race-in the possibility of a high plane
of living for the whole people.
Great leaders and true leaders can.
not be developed among a people who
are not themselves inspired by high
ideals. The education that will make
the people of this Countrywide great
American Democracy-a people OF
high ideals, must be done by teachers
trained in the Normal schools in the
main. The responsibility of the Nor
NAL School, therefore. for the public
welfare-civic, social, moral and re-
ligious, is a large responsibility. The
teachers of this country must have a
large measure of responsibility for
what the people of the country are
AS is the teacher so is the school.
Equipment and appliances are impor-
tant; but the school is really made
and the work of education is really
done by the teacher. The Normal
School must prepare the teachers for
the great work of educating the
American Democracy for the general
we'fare-civic, social, moral and re-
ligious.
How shall the Normal School meet
its responsibilities in training teach
ers for the public welfare? OF first
Importance are the men who are at
the head Of these schools and who
constitute the faculties of these
schools. These men must be real
leaders. They must be men who are
masters in their several departments
of work-men who can command the
respect of their students through their
mastery knowledge in their special
lines of work-they must be men who
have lived near the people; men who
have had a wide and varied expert
ence in the elementary and secon-
dary SCHOOLS; men who have kept in
close touch with life about them and
who are fully alive to the relations OF
the school to the life of the people;
they must be men of the highest ideal
in life. They must be men who take
their places as civic, social. moral n
religious leaders.
Given men at their heads and in
their faculties of real power and hlgn
ideals as leaders. the Normal Schools
must recognize the public welfare as
the chief end of all training. They
must recognize that they are not as
as a first consideration training teach
ers to teach special subjects, as Eng
lisa, arithmetic, agriculture, history,
manual training, ETC., but they are
training teachers to train in turn the
future men and women of this couD.
try for citizenship, for social ef1icien-
cy, for moral and religious RESPONSE
bilities. The teachers trained in the
Normal Schools must in their several
spheres Of activity be real leaders.
They must distinctly recognize as the
chief end of their teaching the train
ing Of their pupils for the public wei
fare.
The public welfare and the highest
good OF each individual citizen will
be attained in proportion a. through
education in the public schools every
member of our great American De-
mocracy is brought to realize his civ.
ic, social, moral and religious respon-
sibilities.
VIM. Hughes Mearns, School Of Peda-
gogy, Philadelphia, on 1.-THE
Worship 0! the Standard"
Every community is proud Of the
high school that maintains a "high
standard" If a large percentage OF
pupils fail of admission through rigid
entrance examinations, the school Is
commonly rated first class; if the ex.
aminations within the school cause.
many pupils to drop back or drop
out, or if the courses are limited to
such branches as mathematics and
foreign languages which the great
mass of young people find hard to