The Dickinson press., 1916-10-07

from Slope, Hettinger, Mercer and
Oliver, making a total Of % from
west of the river in attendance at
the State University.
At the Agricultural College there
are 6 from Mckenzie; 4 from Golden
Valley; 3 from Billings; 2 from
Stark; 2 from Dunn; 1 from Mercer;
8 from Oliver; and none from Bow
man and Slope, making a total of 81
in attendance at the A. c. from this
side of the river. 10 from Morton
county.
Valley City Normal has 1 from Nc
Kenzie; l from Billings; l from
Adams; 4 from Hettinger; a from
Stark; 2 from Mercer; l from Oliver;
and none from Golden Valley, Bow
man, Slope and Dunn; II from Nor
ton.
Mayville Normal has no one in at
tendance from west of the river.
Minot Normal has 4 from McKen-
zie, making a total of A from west Of
the river in attendance at the Minot
Normal.
Glendale has 1 from Billings; 1
from Mercer; 2 from Oliver; and 8
from Morton, making a total of 7
from west Of the river.
Wahpeton has 2 from Bowman;
and l from Hettinger, making a total
of 3 from west of the river.
Bottineau has 2 from Mckenzie
county, making a total Of 2 in attend
ance from west Of the river.
This makes a total of 100 from
west of the river in attendance at the
various schools; Is from Mckenzie;
5 from Golden Valley; 6 from Het-
finger; "a from Stark; 4 from Dunn;
4 from Mercer; 6 from Oliver and 43
from Morton county.
All the state schools have land en-
dowments except the Minot Normal,
neither would Dickinson Normal have
an endowment if located there. For
the 120 pupils we are sending down
it costs $120,000.00 a year.
Now all the schools r local. In
order to get any large number of
pupils to attend school from west of
the river we must put a school here;
otherwise, we will never get them to
go.
From the days of Horace Mann
and David Page, down to the present
hour, the policy of maintaining nor
NAL schools at the expense of the
state, for the professional training of
teachers, has been approved by u
greatest public men, and our most
illustrious educational leaders have
given their unanimous testimony in
it's favor.
Scholarship An Asset to Life
Years and years ago DR.. William
E. Charming dcclared: "In education,
books and implements r not the
great requisites, but a high order of
teachers. The object Of education is
not so much to give a certain amount
of knowledge, as to awaken the facul-
ties and give to the pupil the use Of
his mind. 1t is not necessary that so
much be taught, but that what is
taught should be taught philosophic-
ally, profoundly and lovingly"
DR.. Emerson E. White, n Of the
greatest teachers that cver stood be-
fore a class anywhere on earth, used
these words: "We need teachers
trained by superior methods that
thew NAV become teachers of teach
ers, and by example and precept lift
up the profession to a higher and
truer standard. In short we need
normal schools that shall go beyond
mere scholastic training, and unfold
thoroughly and systematically, the
WHY as we'll as the HOW of cduca-
ton. that shall teach it's history, it's
philosophy and it's methods"
The distinguished founder of one
e ~. o,,,+oo+ nrixoto normal cch0n1C
expressed the same sentiment in the
following eloquent words: who
would entrust life or limb to n not
trained in medicine o. surgery? Who
would entrust his estates to one not
versed in Blackstone or Kent! Who
would entrust his marble to n not
skilled with chisel and mallet? And
vet, if an unskilled stroke has de-
faced the ideal image of a Venus or
a Hercules the block of marble may
be replaced. Not so with the human
mind. The impress of every unskill-
full stroke leaves its mark through
time and eternity"
w. C. Bagley, dean Of the College
of Education of the University OF
Illinois, recently stated that "Ameri-
can educataion needs at the present
time a concerted movement through
out the country looking toward a
very wide extension of the present
facilities for the adequate preparation
of teachers.
The normal schools and the educa-
tional departments of the colleges
and universities are not beginning to
meet the demand for trained teach
ers. In the country at large, accord
ing to the most recent statistics avail
able for the reports of the U. S. Com
missioner of Education, the entire
output of the normal schools, both
public and private, is insufficient to
fill tire new teaching positions that
result each year from the growth Of
population and the differentiation OF
school work, to say nothing of replac-
ing the large number of teachers who
annually leave the service. In other
words the proportion Of unframed
teachers is actually increasing every
year in spite of what we are now do
ing. In a typical recent year fourteen
thousand additional teachers were
required in the public elementary and
secondary schools. During the pre-
ceeding year only thirteen thousand
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