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

possible be devoted strictly personal
inducing trained teachers Vermont retaining
teachers already clearly Of exceptional ability
promise Vermonts policy should be well for ability and
see that she gets it, For town refuse the deserved
salary to retain notably successful teacher thereby sacrificing
steady excellence Of it's schooling but wholly reprehens
form inefficient management and ought not to be tolerated by
state unless the money out proportion to
grade of school that the community capable supporting
An avowed shift of emphasis education the
to the child involving the intimate and continuous study
wdual child to determine what his characteristics and
natural latent asseand the adaptation curriculum organat
methods the school development assets
end that the social economc-of each nd
be increased to the largest possible extent This end to
achieved:
Through Offering especially subjects
demand active concrete motor application
with solely abstract passivel absorpv verbal reaction
practical arts original oral expression and composition
and modern languages applied stimulating content history
story of the familiar present. and so on;
Through appropriate Offering contributing the
ton of each child elements that will illuminate surroundings
him directly for the life probably await hi
hence particularly agriculture in it's forms;
Through elastic courses allowing and experenc
teachers liberty adaptation insight shows to be
pirate to the pupils with whom they deal; and
d. Through serious effort to for each facl
and responsibility for dealing Individually instead Of Systematically
it's pupils
This recommendation involves delicate difficult readjustme
be accomplished only through of considerable
fesonal ability to prevent degeneration into pedagogical
injurious the mechanical tendency of the rigid system
unifying factors should be-
( Constant and painang criticism by the seconds
education, and
O Frequent conferences Of the schoomen themselves
maintain sal
factory personal and professional standards.
g. persistent careful scrutiny of
applied in each school, with securing the largest
returns for the money invested This
full puserng of teacher of every of appara
and portion of the plant should the
of expensive for few specialized students unless
possible with pupils having initiative these be directed informal
Even the continuity of involving exravagan expense
two pups-ght we'll be sacrificed the
could be invested elsewhere greater advantage chemac pre-
ration for college and strong desire for logical consistency have blind
here to just of actual values.
TO- general reorganization of the secondary schools the
of contradiction:
% The development say Is 10 readily
schools into regional high schools arcatng directly with
boring junior high schools (see g. and having:
rich and comprehensive twoyear curriculum appropriate
the youth the surrounding
ouryear junior curriculum in (2) but including sped
vocational opportunities particularly in agriculture pupils
IL to 16 years of age.
highly trained and wel-paid staff
d. Adequate equipment for all purposes
Carefully studied provision for housing and supervising pupils
from distance and
and