The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05


colleges adjoining Nearly all
these cogeaned teachers without actual training in teaching
They have been taught colleges where education has been
formed by adding certain amount psychology and theory of teach
ing ordinary college Teachers cannot be trained this
No school Of education is real training place for teachers
practice teaching laboratory
of the school education The teachers training college that does
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 praceteachng There is widespread feeling
parents that children in 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 in school where practice teaching allowed The tua
ton similar to that in the hospitals in which medical teaching
teaching hospital receives such attention
the patient other hospitals seldom obtain The
physician who visits the wards of hospital with hafdozen keen
students gives patients study that gives
other Here his mistakes they made will be brought out
his mee under other conditions In just the
way the school that lends itself gets
teachers qcened by the keen stimulus the
tce teacher.
problem that of obtaining the do well
which determined upon only word need be said
This problem that which cnfronts university whether be
situated small city large Obviously it to the interest
University Vermont to it the best possible
teachers have these varieties Of training and
to them the opportunity to create atmosphere of scholarly
edeyor that shall be inspiring the student This the problem
every university Every institution has resist the tendency in
breeding deliberately widen its choice of without losing
feeling of conference and of sympathy The present
University compared with other
institutions of its standing and the bringing of good its teach
ing force will be in at least related to the increase
salaries but should be forgotten that tends toward
of instruction The university that undertakes to limited field
with limited number of the nature of the higher
than institution which, with the income undertakes
to deal with the entire field Of knowledge Expansion of the
ricuum the dtion of salaries well
To limited number of strong by strong is far bet
than many by large number Of pad
Turning from the University of Vermont to Mddebuy College,
finds here the University of Vermont old college with
good history whose roots have true educational SOIL and
performing real educational function the
the University of Vermont the College of Arts and Sciences
thab of
tonae Undergraduate student bodies of the size of these
colleges be taught in two without duplication waste To
teach English mathematics chemistry and physics two such
several hundred students each instead of one different thing
from maintaining two technical schools instead of for limited
body of students.
In Mddeuy College in the College of Arts and Sciences
the University of Vermont the aim will be- has been the
both general education and grounding professional
Strong departments therefore ufb not the human
but economics and physics and chemistry biology The
for the existence strong and vigorous college of liberal
Mddebuy College which shall do these two things clear
unmstaab Whether the college should undertake than this
question that those who should consider with the utmost
Under the stimulus Of state subsidy department for the
training of teachers maintained Like the department at the
University of Vermont lacks the prime requisite of