Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-24
DIPLOMAS FOR 50
JERSEY CITY GIRLS
Teachers Training School Has
Graduation Exercises-Ed-
mund 8. Osborne Speaks.
Tspec,al to the Evening start

| JERSEY CITY, March 24.-Fifty-
nine students of the Jersey City
Teachers Training School obtained
| their diplomas at the graduation
exercises last night in the assembly
hall of the school. The exercises were
attended by many prominent men OF
this city.
Henry Snyder, superintendent of
schools, welcomed the visitors in a
short address. Edmund b. Osborne.
OF Montclair. member of the State
Board of Education. also made an
address. Justice Blanchard, president
of the local Board of Education, pre-
scented a picture Of the school IN be-
half of the graduating class. MISS
Cornelia Bradford, a member OF the
education board, received the gift for
the school.
Mr.. Osborne took the occasion to
appeal for additional normal schools
in this State in his address. He
scored the existing system of proyid-
ing for future teachers in New Jer-
sey and incidentally gave the gradu-
ates some advice as to the response
bilities they will have to bear.
lie said in part:
The business of training children
is more important than any profess
sion or business 1 know of, and yet
we are allowing tens of thousands of
men and women to start every year
in the delicate and important bust
ness of training children without
having had any special training
whatsoever to fit them for the work
of teaching. All our teachers train
ing schools together are not turning
out half the number needed to meet
the demand In this State. hTe result
Is that thousands of children in this
State are being trained by teachers
who know nothing about teaching eX-
cept whath they can pick up
II ask you, Mr. Taxpayer, to an
swer in good conscience whether you
don't think it is as much worth while
to employ experts to train our chill
dren for their life-work as it is to
employ experts to work in our fac
tories and make money for the chill
dren's fathers. The only reason we
can't furnish enough trained teachers
for the children of New Jersey is
that the taxpayers won't give us the
money.
You young ladies are graduating
from a school that Is supported by
Jersey City. because the State doesn't
provide enough normal schools to
supply the demand for teachers.
There Is no good reason why eJrsey
City should be compelled to maintain
it's own normal school when the State
is undertaking to furnish enough
normal schools for the training of it's
teachers. The State has now taken
over the normal school in Newark,
and / hope it will take over the
Teachers Training School in Jersey
City. The State ought to build
enough normal schools to furnish
training for all the new teachers the
State needs every year. 1t will take
q lot of money to do that but 1t will
pay. and pay big. No teacher ought
to be permitted to practise on the
children of New Jersey till she her
self has been taught to teach.
you ought to make your children
realize clearly" he continued, that
/ there are only two ways in the world
to gain wealth; one Is to earn it. the
other is to take it away from some
| body else who has earned it. If they
have been rightly trained in the pub
lie schools they will all their lives c
| ashamed TO possess wealth that they
| haven't acquired properly. and they
will always be ready to fight against
men or interests who are taking
wealth away without compensation
from the people who have earned it.
l believe that the right kind of mora
training in our pulic schools will
steadily reduce the number of men
who are willing to exploit their fell
lows, and will steadily increase the
number of citizens who will consider
it their duty to fight against every
form of privilege, and against every
kind of trust or monopoly by which
the few are enabled to tax the many