Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-28

of salaries paid should form any future scheme for
approval or classification of high schools
The questions of what taught and how well it taught ara ~
fundamentally curriculum will be discussed
Inc writer's Impressions of the which applied were drawn
from contact with teachers met in short confer
ences or in the of instruction. both Estimates
based upon brief single visits must indeed be used with
determinations in respects however, they conclusive as
an exhaustive acquaintance In the majority cases. the per-
sona of the visitor and the Of his unknown The
call intended to create little possible and usually
made no apparent impression the routine of the Glass;
entered and retired without ceremony. said as result Of
this experience that there nothing praise for the
character of these teachers Almost thew the
impression being hgindd naturally capable painstang
men and women Deep interest their pupils their
progress and welfare qualities that far toward making
any possible lack of information and SKILL and qualities
teachers peculiarly rich In the quality of the
almost variety physical equipment
On the WHOLE safely be said that the honest faith
full and pansang professional clearly except frequently
the largest in occasional instances in the
Others
To be rated professional" that instruction must
least the following features degree: first
knowledge of the must have become comprehensive
and automatic that the purpose may always be
uppemost and unebarrassed second class procedure
reasonable insight into individual problems sfu
application OF the best modern experience in their ouon third
both pupils proceed with such
be stimulated undistrbe under critical
observation Comparison with profession this regard
is helpful and not unfair To the professional
technique that has become second nature adequate
knowledge OF modern surgical methods confidence
that finely challenged by attendant critics. The
held standard fully high instruction high schools
is exceedingly vulnerable at these points, indeed the
majority of American high schools Most of the teachers
general high ideals and the goodwill bred by their college
their specific tasks they unframed and their
out of the post commensurate with whatever skill hard
experience give them majority of them teaching subjects
in which they i'll prepared their of information therefore
limited and their application of is likely to be tmd and forcees
Incorrect There results therefore, extreme degree the
American pedagogical vsash dependence upon Textbooks
Under such conditions teaching Instruction. assigning
hearing lessons and recording ark periods of this
sort of recitation week not exhaung while really instruct
demands few minds retain their
under than 20 to Is periods week. The conditions n
Gated reflected uerrgy the class work Instead of sng
with the confidence knowledge and trusted
Of youth loves to do expey d the classes
slow and ve have be pumped suggested
reaction the content of the lesson unusual The
effect of this the pupil depressing hardening In far
instruction fails to interest and develop pesurabe
power only negatively it positive discour
agemnt c education however loyal he be to the teacher
personally The waste this point certainly large Part of
nquestonaby to the curriculum although
the of to be helpless in the grip
rigid Part of the blame doubt due the NAL