Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-07-15
THE CITY SCHOOLS


good preparation, SO he took course
: in the university specializing on pro-
fessional work. When he graduated
he had courses completed in school
administration, educational psychol-
ogy, and history of education, as well
as practice teaching under superyi-
sion of an expert. The result was
that his first year he was paid $1,000,
his second year $500 and now he goes
to his new place on $1,000 salary.
All around him are fine young men
who are graduates of good universities
but lack the professional training
which ne was wise enough to take.
That shows the direction in which
the educational world Is moving.
Shall the Bryan schools stand in the
forefront or lag behind?
In one home about a half dozen
graduates Of one of the best universe
ties in America are rooming Not
one OF them has taken professional
courses in pedagogy and related sub
jects, and not one of them gets over
500 per month. Not over a block
away is a red headed country boy
who took all the pedagogical courses
he could get to prepare him for his
work, graduated only a year ago, but
next year he gets a $500 salary. The
reason is found in the demand for
teachers who are professionally
trained. We must push the matter Of
professional training in the Bryan
schools People everywhere are find
ing out that that is what it takes to
make good schools.
Conferences with leading superin-
tendents show that II Is getting more
and more difficult to put poor teach
ers in the schools, and more and more
difficult to get good teachers out.
That is just as it should be and exact
lily what we urge in Bryan.
Cincinnati pays s1.25 less the first
year to grade teacher than Bryan
does but requires considerable for the
money. met a splendid specimen
of Cincinnati grade teacher just the
other day and found that she believed
thoroughly in preparation for her
work. She had the B. A. degree, the
NJ. A. degree, and is now working for
Phi. d. degree She worked in a
library at $3.50 a month for while
to get money. Cincinnati has schools
worth while because she takes teach
ers with scholarship, training and,
greatest OF all, ambition for greater
things. Let Bryan stand by every
teacher who has an enthusiastic in
terest in higher things and we have
only begun to work toward the stan
dard we shall reach.
A young man was just through high
school and ready for the university
but his father died. The young man
then went to a gravel pit and worked
as day laborer TO support his mother
and put his brothers through high
school. Then he went to the state
university, where tuition is free and
education, like salvation, to be had
without money and without price. He
had no money to pay his board, but
he went in a boarding house kitchen
and washed the dishes for enough to
eat. He selected a course with view
to making himself useful in the way
of doing things needful. Just the
other day he was chosen to fill a
$1,000 position in the schools OF a
big city. Furthermore, he is an off
cial member of his church, and a
pretty young lady thinks such man
is worth while and will go with him
little later on It's the young men
with plenty of idle time on their hands
who are in danger of going to the
bad. Let's preach the dignity Of
useful employment in the schools, and
turn out people who are not afraid OF
work.
Now, what can Bryan do about the
new conditions which confront our
children in the future? Make the
schools meet the needs of future
years, of course. Give the children
pure learning for its own sake, but
give an opportunity to prepare for the
busy world at the same time. In one
state, even now, the public schools
give definite credit for the home work
faithfully performed Strange, is it?
Well, if you give credit for domestic
science which the teacher asks tn
Ibovn dona nj school Whv not give