The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-25

superintendent of the two cities and
the county superintendent. The date
set is Dec. IL. 1t is planned to take
up Visual Education at this institute
for the main topic, Final arrange
ments have not yet been completed
County teachers of the r. r. and
southern sections are expected to at
tend. All others attending viii be
given credit for one teachers meeting.
The following article taken from the
Rock County Educational Bulletin APP
plies as well to Manitowoc county as
it does to Rock county. Read the arti-
Gle substituting the name of our own
county for Crock"
Why graduates of Rock County
Training School for Teachers fit in the
work of the Rock county schools bet
ter than graduates of other schools.
This article is written without any
disparagement of any other school
and could apply just as well to an
other county and its school by max
ing a change of the name of the
county. Each county has its ideals and
plans differing somewhat from those of
other counties, just as the people, con
ditiOns and needs of each county differ
from those of another Therefore
local training tends to greater fitness
for the local place. This, of course,
should be supplemented by experiences
of other people, places and conditions,
to broaden and make most useful in
any work.
Rock county graduates have a
friendly feeling and acquaintance with
one another through their school work
together They have learned to work
together as does a teaW of horses or a
group of people, enabling them to ac-
complish most good work with the
least expenditure of time and effort.
They have a spirit of loyalty-a
class, school and county loyalty,
which tends to better service as a
group of graduates. This is fostered
by the alumnae association and by all
the friendships formed in connection
with our school. Their united aim is
to help Rock county
They have been inspired by the work
in our school, by attendance at our
county meetings, by our county Bule-
tin and by the devotion of our county
educational force to all our schools
and especially to our rural schools. To
some extent the aims and ideals of our
leaders have been learned and abb
sorbed by our graduates, and they
take them out into their work, with
the expectation of trying to carry
them out
Before our graduates begin teaching
afrendly spirit has been established
with the supervising teachers, the
training school faculty and the county
superintendent In most cases there
have been frequent meetings and CON
situations between us. We have be-
come really acquainted in many ways,
and thus can work together better and
help one another more.
They are accustomed to the sugges-
tions of the county leaders, know
something of our plans, want and ex-
pect us to help them and desire to fol-
low our lead. Having been taught our
methods and general plans they can
carry them out better than teachers
not acquainted with them.
They have observed and taught for
two weeks or more in some Rock
county schools before graduating, and
have for months helped some teacher
a little with the problems of that par
ticular teacher. They have each been
given more than ten weeks of practice
observation and teaching directly
| planned to fit in with Rock county
work, Thus they are taught consider
able of the equipment, conditions and
needs of our schools ano to some ex-
tent specially fitted for them.
We know the abilities and peculiar
tiles of our students, and can place
them to better advantage in schools
fitted for them, and then help them
more than students we do not know.
They come to us more for advice,
and help because they have learned to
look to us for them. This gives us
more opportunities to be help to
them.
These facts are not the same for
those trained in other counties, no
matter how good their training NAV
be. The conditions and plans in other
counties arc often very different. The
education and acquaintance of grad
yates from other schools all tend 10
draw them to those places and the
people there and away from us. Their
sympalhics and friendships naturally
attach them to those they have studied
and worked with, and keep them from
working as effectively with those who
are strangers to them.
Experience conclusively proved these
statements to be true very generally.
Hence the conclusion that for the best
results and most cfrarlnpo eo,,.,