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

ordering general activities training spirit
teaching central should establish the child
the nobes mental and spiritual relations with life
urging the necessity of "enriched high school especially
desired avoid misunderstanding is not intended that the schooling
of the individual shall be widely and hny Precisely
concentration Indispensable but wide opportunity
opportunity
Concentration of the curriculum without the
the pupil nothing and this will
establishing sympathetic relations pupil work.
A SUGGESTED SOLUTION OF vERMoNT's HIGH SCHOOL
PROBLEM
requires long survey to discover that the problem of secondary
education the rural situation
large number of small towns and villages widely
scattered farming population Comparative isolation tardy
growth of means communication has and fed spirit
of local patriotism and independence
admirable impulse has created and chung with nacy
higher public high academy To propose
their radical modification allowable only that
these communities securing opportunities that
they earnestly they are getting Education
the world without rapidly fundamentally changing it's
aims and methods that the cherished institutions
and their present form always hopees
With the of transportation
comprehensive and combines with that of other
ties into larger whole What town adequately ITSELF
several towns accomplish together.
The though many of them
operating heavy handicap by be pre-
served and strengthened Although only twoear school,
focus for better living and higher ideals and should steadily
OF the surrounding youth under influence The disadvantages
of its unsuitable curriculum and wastefu form of organization
be remeded indicated below and the school be turned
economical and profitable servant of the community
Of the next two the woeaher schools
not much can be said All of them aiming that
beyond them and should be frankly particularly
true the twoeacher hoo stranng Institutions
excessively expensive and excessively wase proportion
Certainly their present form there is point
which they be justified spite of the capable
of unconquerab native talent who through them
The tables in Part III set forth clearly than words
conditions under which these schools must operate The
the teachers low that college take
them except unucky last chance This situation
only through notable EXCEPTIONS due usually
such home connections the village
observed the state this account
wholly inefficient school, Save the burden subject
of class changes absolutely preclude effective instruction.
This combined with characteristic widespread lack of
the of both principal and assistant exceedingly abstract
curriculum presents situation requiring monumental endurance
determined pupil to nothing of the pupil whom
education seeks and to and hold The woeacher
type OF school thus actual encouragement to education
In addition In the discussion of the financial aspects
of the curriculum apparent that the cost pupil the
teacher schools high, would be if the
equazed This DUE the small classes of from
five pupils which, the small school makes
When teach of successfully
class two employed the class of two her performance
but onetenth what might be- When addition the teaching
Of the two not good paying douby extravaganza
price for what it gets.
it is proposed to improve such school in it's present