Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-08-06
The Normal Schools.


opening Of the normal schools in Ver-
mont, it is growing more and more
certain that those who desire to
become teachers, as well as those who
are now teaching in the state, are
preparing to take advantage in greater
numbers than ever of the opportunities
offered by the Vermont normal schools
for the training of teachers.
Educational conditions in the state
seem to be changing rapidly. The
opportunities for teachers as far as
wages are concerned, are surely grow
ing better. School boards and super
intendents in very large numbers are
taking advantage of the law, passed by
the last legislature, which says that
every town employing graduate of
normal school, if it pays at least seven
dollars week and board the first year
after graduation, shall receive
rebate from the state of one dollar
week for each teacher so employed.
This surely means better wages for
the teachers.
The Castleton normal school gradu-
number practically all are to receive
at least ten dollars a week. The
prospects for the coming year are
especially good at that school. The
entering class already numbers thirty.
Of this number, nearly half are teach
ers and very large proportion are
high school graduates.
More than ever teachers seem to
realize the need of normal school
training and to appreciate the fact
that the best positions are open to
those who have studied at normal
school, whose whole object is to show
others How to Teach.
Never before have so many high
school graduates entered the Castleton
normal school, as there will enter this
fall. The number entering in Septem-
ber will almost equal as far as high
school graduates are concerned, all
those in the entire history of the school
who have been high school graduates
| when they entered the school.
A teacher without professional
| training, who has never attended a
normal school, is very likely to find
herself in a small school with little
opportunity and low wages. Not only
will she find herself there, but it will
not be easy for her to place herself in
an appreciably better position.
1t is recognition of this fact,
which is causing so many teachers to
enter the normal school and compelling
so many high school graduates to do
the same, before they take up teach
ing.
1t would seem that the graduates of
Vermont normal schools are to have
their choice of the best positions in
Vermont.
Those desiring information regard
ing the Castleton normal school can
obtain catalogue of the school by
addressing Principal Charles A. Adams
of Castleton.
phases, has been delivered more than
1000 times and brings the highest fee
of any lecture where the lecture
is paid for and not the man. The
term LECTURES" sometimes frightens
people into visions of some dry
didactic discussion of a technical
nature. DR.. Otis address is just the
antithesis of that, for he handles the
subject in a thoroughly popular anc
interesting way, and applies his
reasoning to present day conditions,
It is thrilling, convincing, uplifting.
4 Nominal support will hardly sustain
a course such as this. Those who
really care for these things must take
the season tickets promptly when they
are placed on sale. The cost is
merely nominal. Almost any one Of
last years course was worth the price
of season ticket, and therefore, il
one or two are missed the ticket holder
receives full value. When the tickets
are placed on sale. those who desire
good seats for the Barton course will
have to come early, as the demand fol
y best seats is sure to be large. .-l