Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1917-07-12

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v~entaally graduate, But school
interests and teacher efficiency
are reaching u higher standard
every year.
FARMERS are realizing that
they can't farm so we'll hampered'
by 4 limited education, and this
realization On their part has re-
suited in a departure from the
old idea that when the farmer
boy or girl has completed the
eighth grade in the rural school
he on She has had enough learn
ling. There has been a marvellous
change of view in the agricultnr-
al sections on what constitutes
an education.
The demand for normal
school graduates as teachers is
increasing. Boards of education
everywhere are demanding nor
NAL graduates in preference to
the high school graduate. With
this demand has come q slow but
noticeable increase in teacher
salaries. Boards of education are
realizing that young men or wo.
men cannot afford to spend years
in fitting themselves for the pro
fession OF teaching only to exist
on starvation pay when they
launch out upon a teachers ca
reer.
The normal schools are not
keeping up with the demand for
graduates. There are $4,000
school teachers in Missouri, and
the average career of a teacheris
about three years. The'number
of graduates from all the Nilsson.
ri normals averages about 1000
each year. So it may be readily
seen that the normals are not
Supplying the demand"
Prof. Lynch is a member of
the National Education Associa
ton, the Missouri State Teach
ers'Association and theAperican
Association for the Ad satt emept
of Science. He never fails to at.
tend the meetings of these asso.
Citations. Z
a tribute to his work, which
Prof, Lynch treasures, was paid
by Albert E. Winship. one of che
%country's foremost educational
authorities, in a recent issue of
The Journal of Education of Bos,
ton, He said:
Down in the Ozarks, William
H. Lynch has worked enthusias
tically with young people. for
nearly half u century,. l had met
him often before he attracted my
attention. I had met him at Ma.
tional EducationA Associations and
in a national political convention.
1 knew him as a good fellow, as
an interesting personality, but
he signitied little beyond that.
AT State association meet
ing in one of the Southern States
[ was much impressed by an ad
dress of al superintendent of
schools and ! sought his acquain-
lance. Almost his first question
was; DO you ever g. to Nilsson
rip And then he told me that he
and his wife owed all they are
profes sionally to Mr.. Lynch and
told a wonderful story of the way
Mr.. Lynch rescued them from
the oblivion of ignorance in a far
away corner of the Ozarks. /
then mades the most of my per
sonar acquaintance with Mr..
Lynch. g
mot long after thatI was at
the meeting of the Inland Empire
Association at Spokane. l met a
physician who had cone tS the
meeting from a small city in the
Panhandle of idaho on purpose
to find out If a man said to have a
national reputation had ever met
Mr.. William H. Lynch of the o.
zarks. He later had two brothers
meet me. They were all pros.
porous in Washington and Idaho
and they said they would still be
in poverty in the Ozarks, far from
any town, had not Mr.. Lynch
found them out, made them be
lieve they could know something
do something and be somebody
II wish / could make my read
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