The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1922-06-08

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Number of teachers in Elementary
| SchoOl-Men. l: Women, II; Total, -.
Number of teachers in High School,
| Men. > Women. >: Total. f.
The public schools are organized and
maintaine in order to prepare our
boys and girls To become better. more
patriotic and more efficient citizens.
| This Is the high ideal that each teacher
should hold steadily before the school.
/ am glad to bear testimony TO the al
most universal good work done by our
teachers during the past year. No per
son should enter upon the work OF
Teaching without serious consideration.
| No work il harder and more nerve
wearing and no work demands more
conscientious. cOnsecrated devotion To
duty. The influence of the teacher eli
| ther makes or mars lives. and unless
| the would-be teacher realizes this point
| fully she would better decide To do
something else.
/ wish To impress as strongly as pos
sible the Importance of good, thorough
| ly prepared and trained teachers for
our schools. The mere fact that one is
a graduate of our. or any other school,
is not evidence that he or she is prepar-
ed to teach school.
The high school education is an es-
sential basis upon which TO build in
teaching, or in practicing any other pro-
feSsion, but until the people learn that
teaching requires at least as much pre-
paratiOn as do all the other callings,
| they will he doing their children and
| the state incalculahle wrong by employ
| ing incompetent persons to teach their
children.
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the best books are of great value in do
| ing school work. but above and beyond
all these material things stands the
| teacher, whose worth and personality
decides for all time 10 come. the destiny
OF the children fntrusted to'her charge
Just at this point l want to call your
attention to the splendid work done the
past year by the Parent-Tea cheers AssO-
| cia ton. This association raised enough
money the past year to equip a school
kitchen and pay the salary of an effici-
ent home economics teacher for the full
year. ! wish to congratulate the school
on having one of the best Parent-Teach-
ers Associations in the state.
There is an educational awakening in
every school in Kentucky. and Hick-
mans schools will be placed by her pa
triotic citizens in position in the very
forefront of the onward movement for
better and more thorough citizenship.
Last year, you know, our high
school was placed ON the accredited list
of the Association of Colleges and Sec
Ondary Schools of the South. No school
can be accredited which does not re-
quire for graduation the completion of
"a four-year high school course of study
No school can be on this accredited list
that does not require at least three
fOurths of the high school faculty to be
graduates of standard colleges belong
ing to the Southern Association of Col
leges.
There are other things of which /
would like TO speak, bat the length of
this report precludes my discussing
them at this time.
i cannot close this report without ex-
pressing to the Board of Education nv
sincere thanks for the courtesy with
which all of my recommendations have
been received. and for the loyal support