The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-11
EDUCATOR FIGHTS
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taking her place on the program.
DIR. Anderson declared that the nv
erage educator fights for an ideal and
starves while he fights" He thinks
the teachers mission in life greater
one than that Of the minister, with
out disparaging the work of the lat
ter. A preacher, he said, breaches
three times a week, while teacher
preached two. three and sometimes
four times a day to the same group
of persons. who go out and preach TO
others.
Recognition by a community of the
worth of the educator will come, in
the opinion of DR.. Anderson. only
when the educator places a true valu-
alton upon himself.
He declared that the time has come
when college administrators and trus-
tees must look the issue sQuarely in
the face and, instead OF adding occa-
sion pittances to the salaries of men,
bers of their faculties. adequately
compensate them"
Mr.. Hart dwelt briefly on the state
wide survey ordered by the governor
and which has been in progress for
about four months. Following corr
pletion OF the work, report is to be
prepared for presentation to the next
general assembly.
ers a fair financial reward for their
labors He advocated a minimum
| salary per annum of $500 and maxi
mum salary Of $1,100. The average
| salary of elementary teachers in Vir-
ginfa is $3.50 There are $500 teach
ers in the state. This. Mr.. Hart said.
| represents an increase of 20 per cent.
| over any salary the state yet has pad
| and was. he believes, the best the last
| legislature could do with the finances
at it's disposal. He hoped the next
| general assembly will be in shape to
! adopt minimum salary law that Will
| prove adequate.
To make possible maximum year
| ly salary of $1,100, the legislature
would have to appropriate $4,000,
600, an increase of 100000 over TIE
last appropriation He advocated more
attractive remuneration and the prop
er preparation for teachers.
Miss Taylor, taking the case Of a
teacher who, by doing extra work
during vacation. managed to average
$500 year. presented a teachers
budget, which showed that as per
cent, or $315, of this went for sus-
tenance and shelter. or this, 25 per
cent, or SITS, was spent in food and
20 per cent, or $14o, for shelter
Twenty per cent. of her earnings went
for clot'Ses, 10 per cent, for "opreat-
ing expenses, which included laun-
dry, carfare and travelling expenses
and rs per cent. for insurance. church
dues. books. pleasures. recreation and
vacation, If she got one. She dwell
upon the importance of clothes from
. the standpoint OF personal appear
} ance, OF recreation and resources L
!, books for a well equipped mind.
| DR.. Mitchells' address. in part, fol
: lows:
II heard recently a Belgian scientis
say that the great need OF his countf.
| in reconstruction was not raw mat
E erials nor labor but to supply tn
: eighty per cent OF brain power whtcl
) Belgium had lost in battle. Fl
executives, administrators, chemists
8 and ind lstrial leaders to give direc
tive energy to the reorganization .
! Belgian society. DR.. Shipley, OF tn
British Education Mission. put graph
ically the loss in leaders which Eng
land had suffered in the war.
while our country has not los
eighty per cent of its braip power II
battle, 1t Is within limits TO say tina
eighty per cent OF the American mln'
i, lis dormant and undeveloped. To -sti
, with inspiring Impulses this liner
mass and to set free the creativ
energies latent in our people is tn
, work of many agencies, such as tn
: home, the church, the newspaper, tn
= club, the political party, and. abov
: all, the school. The task of tn
! teacher is to make men fit for demo
> Icracy by the development of person
: ality through moral self-control
, Democratic forms of government ar
l futile unless the people have tn
, habit of sound thinking. right politica
~, lite of jat 0nr
r vice. Self-government is mocker.
!, unless the self is made sovereign ant
> takes part in the execution of the com
mon will The teacher, therefore. ha
8 to do with the making of the mint
= out Of which democratic processe
and ideals spring.
Perhaps in no class do talents o
3 the same order receive less rewar,
: than in teaching. This is an old prob
! lem. For Socrates there was the cul
! of hemIock. and for Jesus and cruel
!. fixion without the gates. When Il
: the history Of the world has adequat
recognition been given to the teachin
profession? And yet tho list Q
teachers IL a martyr roll, OF whom tn
}world was not worthy.
Teachers are not without recogni
ton in other fields of activity. TIL
> training and ability OF one teache
r has made him the foremost figure /
9 the world today. in the effort to or
|ganize international society in accor
Q dance with the aspirations and ideal
: LOT humanity. Yet President Wilso
o lin resigning from Princeton Univer
4 lsity to enter public service found him
n self without means.
o 1.-The faculties OF our colleges hav
: recently been depleted in furnishin
o men of practical sagacity for the mos
= important services in the state an
army. President Judson of ChicaG
n has Just returned from the relief g,
q petition to Persia; President vincer
= of Minnesota, was laid hold OF to &C
minister the vast interests of th
Rockefeller foundation for tn
of the war; PresideI
= Garfield of williams was the fuel az
ministrator, ito mention only a fe
Iof the most striking instances.
a mo elementary teacher in Virgin
10 Ishould receive less than eight hundre
- dollars a year. Certain states are 81
n Ideavoring to to fix the minimum
nine hundred dollars.
,e "Tn appraising the teachers taAl
Is let us keep in mind the fact that II
n motive OF service and not salary
n 1.-THE ultimate basis OF Judgment. Mar
n foF ". M tea cheers find In the uuf0u