Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-05

has been inaugurated similar Middebury
College, AS pointed elsewhere the school teachers
required yearly is sa The supply that presents itself from the
colleges both in Vermont and adjoining states large Nearly all
these college trained teachers without training teaching
They have been taught colleges where education has been
formed by adding certain amount psychology theory teach
ing an ordinary college Teachers cannot be trained this
No school of education is real training place for teachers
until it offers practiceeachng The schoooom the laboratory
of the school of The teachers training college that does
not offer such pacteahng is in the situation that the school of
engineering would be taught engineering without laboratory
In this connection word be said concerning the attitude of
the schools toward praceeachng There widespread feeling
parents that children school that used for practice
teaching being made the victims of educational experiment
Nothing could be further from the facts No child well taught
the child school where teaching allowed The stua
ton similar to that the hospitals in which medical teaching
is allowed The patient teaching hospital such attention
the patient other hospitals seldom obtain The
physician who visits the wards of hospital with hadozen keen
students at his heels gives these patients study that he
other. Here his mistakes if they made will be brought
He put his mete under other conditions In just the
the school that lends itself pracceeachng gets the benefit of
teachers quckened the stimulus the
tice teacher
the problem obtaining the well
the work which has been determined only word need be said
This problem that which cononts university whether be
situated small city large Obviously it is to the interest
the University of Vermont draw to the best possible
teachers to have these represent varieties OF training and
give them the opportunity atmosphere of scholarly
endeavo that shall be inspiring the student This the problem of
university Every institution has to resist the tendency to in
breeding and deliberately to widen its choice of without losing
feeling sympathy. The present
the University of Vermont low compared with those at other
institutions of its standing and the bringing of good to its teach
OF salaries but should not be forgotten that process tends toward
the duon strongly than the widening of the field
of instruction. The university that undertakes limited field
with limited number of the nature of the higher
salaries than institution which, with the income undertakes
deal with the entire field of knowledge Expansion of the
ricuum always the diuon well
To limited number of strong by strong is far bet
than by large number of pad
Turning from the University Of Vermont to Mddeby College,
finds here the University Vermont old college with
history whose have true educational SOIL
which educational function the
the University Vermont the College Arts and Sciences
the heart the institution This duplication of bec
onae Undergraduate student bodies of the size of these
colleges be taught without duplication waste To
English mathematics chemistry and physics to such
thing
maintaining technical schools instead of limited
body of students.
Mddbury College, the College of Sciences
University Vermont the aim will be- it has been the
both education and grounding
Strong departments therefore ustabe only in the hnan
ties but economics and physics and chemistry and biology The
the existence and college liberal
Mddebury College which shall do these things
Whether the college should undertake than
question that those who should consider with the utmost
Under the stimulus of state subsidy department for the
ike