Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-12-31
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3 VOICE OF SCHOOLS 3
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Large Number Attend College

Many Lancaster high school grad
yates are at home for the holidays
| from their school duties in higher in
situations of learning. A check-up
shows that SO are in universities, nor
NAL schools and colleges. There are
"a in the university as follows:
Archie Wilkinson, Harry Kroening,
Rudolph Hartman, Harold Wright,
Carl Kasper, Harold Stevens, Paul
Edwards, Oscar Edwards, Alma
, Thompson, Catherine Fowler, Eliza
beth Bryhan, Frances Tuffley, Hazel
Ward, Marian Mccullough, Ruth
Frye, Ruby lockwood, Dorothy Glib
son, Eunice Pittenger, Martha Petty,
Myrna Bergheger, Walter Pagenkopf,
George Taylor, Melvin Bonn, Francis
Hunsaker. John Mcdonald, Univer-
sity of Iowa; Delbert and Flossie Gov
Ter, Ames, Iowa; Clement Lacke and
| Lyle Blackburn, Lawrence College;
Earl Grimes, University of Michigan;
| Lloyd Hyde, Art Institute, Chicago;
Katherine Walker, La Crosse Normal;
Paul Weber, Dubuque; Kenneth Roy
| al, Texas; Rudolph Vesperman and
Grace Hickin, Stout Institute; Mer-
tice Hanks and Helen Brandemuehl,
! Stevens Point Normal; Guy Huff, IL
| linois; and Inoz McKelvey, La Crosse
Business College. There are a num-
! Der in other schools and among them
are Daisy Bailie, Frances Brande-
muehl, Ruth Graham, Mary Schuster,
Everett Crimes Margaret Batty and
May Dawson are studying nursing in
| Madison and Milwaukee, respectively,
There are others that perhaps have
not been remembered, but this is not
a bad showing for Lancaster. With
| the list attending Platteville Normal
and listed last week, we have total
of So in higher schools and all are
making good.
The Learning Attitude
There is adequate evidence to prove
that the pupils attending high school
from the country-tuition students
on an average, are superior in schol-
arship and general ability to pupils
within the boundaries of the city.
Accepting this as true without
proof, how is it explained? In the
first place, they are older. They do
not finish the rural schools as young
as the city children finish the grades
and then they are often out of school
year or more before they come to
town to school. They are also a more
select group. 1t is common thing
in town for all who finish the grades
to enter high school the following
year, while from the country, only
small percent finish the rural schools
and of these not all can attend high
school.
The factor in their progress that
cannot be overlooked is the general
attitude of lie rural students con-
trasted with that of the city pupils.
They seem TO consider it a privilege
to attend school and are proud to be
known and classed as high school
students. When they return to their
homes Week-ends or for vacations they
are regarded by their home associates
as superior individuals to be honored
and emulated. They speak OF their
school with pride and of the school
activities with enthusiasm. 1t is a sac
rifice to the parents and to themselves
| to keep I'D the expense and they are
anxious to demonstrate to their sup
porters that they are worthy of the
cost. Pupils from the city attend
school more as a matter of course. 1t
seldom occurs to them that IL is
privilege to attend school and thng
of which to be proud. More often they
consider themselves of much lmpor-
lance and act as if they were doing
the school u great favor and honor
| to be in attendance at all.
| This difference in attitude towards
the school and its work is due to many
causes, but one of the dominant ones
is the attitude of the parents towards
the school and its teachers. Parents
of the country pupils display higher
regard for teachers and for the teach
| ing profession than do city dwellers
This may be because they do not
know the teachers so well yet it is
more likely due to the difference in
/ respect a rural parent has for the
| enormous cost it is to person to be-
come teacher. Regardless of the
cause, the students from the country
| have an advantage in proportion 20
! this difference. They respect the
teachers as 5heir parents do and are
easy to get along with, are anxious to
! get all the school has to offer and
give their best efforts to promote the
best interests of the school.
| Teachers do not always recognize
| the Importance of the estimate the
students make of them, and do things
that cannot merit respect and admir-
alton. Yet what parent may say will
have more to do with the judgments
of the students than any other factor.
! A teacher can never hope to gain
recognition in a community thru IL
nancial influence. He may appear very
commonplace to children who are
able to drive to school in fathers six
cylinder car Some respect, however,
is due the profession and the legal
qualifications necessary to become a
teacher of city schools are enough to
merit some recognition. If the par
ents will help their children to like
their teachers and have wholesome
respect for them, their progress Will
repay them many times for their
| troubles.