The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-02-03

nauguated department exists at Mddebuy
College AS pointed out elsewhere the number high school teachers
required yearly a The supply that presents itself from the
colleges both adjoining large Nearly all
training teaching
They taught colleges education been
formed by adding certain amount psychology and theory of teach
ing to ordinary college Teachers cannot be trained in this
No school of education real tranngae for teachers
until offers praciceeachng The schooroom is the laboratory
the school of education The teachers training college that does
such teaching the situation that the school of
engineering would be taught engineering without laboratory
In this connection word be said concerning the attitude of
schools toward teaching There widespread feeling
among parents that children in school that practice
teaching being the victims of educational experiment
Nothing could be further from the facts No child is well taught
child school practice teaching allowed The sua
similar to that the hospitals which medical teaching
is allowed The patient in teaching hospital such attention
the patient other hospitals seldom obtain at price The
physician who visits the wards of hospital with hafdozen keen
students at his heels gives these patients study that he gives to
other Here his mistakes they made will be brought out
conditions the
way that itself the benefit of
teachers qukned by the keen stimulus the
tice teacher
AS to the second problem obtaining
which been determined word need be said
This every university whether it be
city large Obviously it the interest
the University Vermont to draw to the best possible
teachers have these represent varieties training and
to give them the onpnitv to create an atmosphere of scholarly
endeavo that shall be inspiring the student This the problem of
university Every institution has to resist the tendency to
breeding and deliberately to widen its choice of without losing
the feeling conference sympathy The salaries at
the University OF vermont are o" compared WIN tnoe at otnr
institutions of its standing and the bringing of good it's teach
of salaries but should not be forgotten that tends toward
the duon of salaries strongly than the widening of the field
instruction The university that undertakes limited field
with limited number of the of the higher
than institution which, with the undertakes
deal with the entire field of knowledge Expansion of the
always the duion well energy.
limited number of strong far bet
many by number of pad
the University of Vermont to Middlebuy College,
the University Vermont old college with
good history whose roots have grown true educational SOIL and
performing educational function the
the University of Vermont the College of Arts and Sciences
of the institution This duplication of obec
tonabe Undergraduate student bodies of the of these
colleges be taught in two without duplication waste To
teach English mathematics chemistry and physics two such
hundred students each instead different thing
maintaining technical schools instead of for limited
body of students.
Mddebuy College, the College of Arts and Sciences at
the University of Vermont the will be- has been in the past
both education grounding for professional
Strong departments therefore ustabe not only the humani
ties but in economics and physics and chemistry and biology The
for the existence of strong and vigorous college of liberal arts
Middeby College which shall do these two things is clear and
unmstaka Whether the college should undertake than this
question that those who should consider with the utmost
the stimulus subsidy department for the