The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-01-29


of the teaching staff the should be establish the child
in the noblest mental spiritual relations with life.
In the necessity of enriched high school is especially
desired avoid misunderstanding schooling
of the individual shall be widely and tn expanded Precisely the
concentration is Indispensable but wide opportunity
selection alone opportunity for fair and effective concentration
Concentration of the curriculum without the concentration of
the pupil nothing and this will without
establishing sympathetic relations between the pupil and his work
" "A SUGGESTED SOLUTION OF vERMoNTs HIGH SCHOOL
PROBLEM
requires long the problem secondary
education Vermont has the rural situation its factor
large number of small towns villages widely
scattered farming population Comparative isolation owing ardy
growth OF means OF communication preserved and fostered spirit
of local patriotism and independence many
admirable impulse has created and ung with tenac
higher education public high academy propose
their radical modification allowable only where it
these communities not securing the educational opportunities
they earnestly desire and think that they getting
the world without rapidly and fundamentally changing
aims and methods that the cherished institutions Of these smaller
and in their present form must always be- hopess
With the Improvement of transportation however community spirit
grows more and combines with that of other commune
ties into larger whole What town cannot adequately for ITSELF
several towns accomplish together.
The schools Group w. though
and operating under heavy handicap should by all be pre-
served and strengthened Although only woyear school,
better living higher ideals steadily gather
the surrounding youth under its influence The disadvantages
of its unsuitable curriculum and waseu form of organization
be remeded indicated below and the school be turned
economical and profitable servant of the community.
OF the next two the woteacer eeteacher schools
much be said All of them aiming goal
of the twoeacher shooe sanng distorted institutions
excessively excessively waseu proportion
Certainly their there point
which they be justified spite the capable
uconquerabe native talent who have through
The tables Part III forth clearly than
conditions under which these schools operate The
that college
them uucky last chance This situation
only through notable exceptions due usually special circumstances
home connections in the village of the abe
observed the state this account at otherwise
wholly inefficient school Save the burden of subject and
of class changes great absolutely preclude effective instruction
This combined with characteristic widespread lack of
the Of both principal and assistant and exceedingly abstract
curriculum presents situation requiring monumental endurance from
determined pupil nothing of the pupil whom
education seeks and to reach and hold The twoeacer
type of school thus actual Encouragement education
addition expensive the discussion of the financial aspects
of the curriculum apparent that the cost pupil Of the
teacher schools high and would be if the salaries
equazed This of the small classes of from
five pupils which, in the upper small school makes
teach Of twenty successfully
employed the class two her performance clearly
but onetenh of what might be- When addition the teaching
the good douby extravagant
price for what it gets.
is proposed to improve such school in its FORM much
must be put into for salaries and equipment if