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1 90 1.] Document No. 9. 243
of the advantages of such organizations for our county systems of
schools and teachers.
"The County Association should serve as a professional centre,
around which should cluster all the professional pride and zeal of
the teachers of the county.
"Meeting here, month after month, each teacher receives that tine
impress and toning up, if you please, that we call enthusiasm,
engendered by an exchange of ideas on congenial topics, in line with
the daily life of the schools.
"And we need more of this professional spirit; for too many
teachers are easily content with the old ways, and their monthly
wage, ignoring the higher and nobler phase of their vocation,
which is found in the desire to give and take mutually in the great
principles of education.
"Every profession must have its stated meetings, where all things
shall be in common, and the right of debate and exposition of cbc
tenets of the profession shall have free course. Nowhere else is
this need more imperative than in the teaching profession. And i
presume that there is no county in the State that is without this
most valuable auxiliary of the educational work among its schools.
"Again, the County Association should serve as an open court for
presenting any desired reform, or expanding or illustrating any
theory of education. There is no other way better to enlist the
sympathy and co-operation of the teachers than by a full and free
debate on any proposed advanced movement. Practically, the suc-cess
or failure of tne movement is secured; for as the wisdom of the
more able and experienced leaders points the way, so surely will the
rank and file of the body follow.
"Personally, let me say, many, if not all, of the reforms that have
grown up under my administration as Supervisor, have had their
origin in the open court of the Teachers' Association; and if I may
digress, most of the notable advances in State school legislation
began in the State Teachers' Assembly, where, for years past, the
leading educators have debated such questions as "A Training
School for Women 'leachcrs" (now the State Normal and Industrial
College), and various reforms in school legislation, such as are now
embodied in the present School Law, enacted in 1897.
"The Association may, and should be, a school of methor^s, based
on the varied experiences of all the members; for the methods in
books are often of little value to the poorly classified, badly "booked"
—pardon the license—pupils that come into the district school; but
tliG living method or device of one who has succeeded under given
conditions may inspire and enthuse some 'ship-wrecked brother,'
now at his wits' end as to what next to do.
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| Full Text | 1 90 1.] Document No. 9. 243 of the advantages of such organizations for our county systems of schools and teachers. "The County Association should serve as a professional centre, around which should cluster all the professional pride and zeal of the teachers of the county. "Meeting here, month after month, each teacher receives that tine impress and toning up, if you please, that we call enthusiasm, engendered by an exchange of ideas on congenial topics, in line with the daily life of the schools. "And we need more of this professional spirit; for too many teachers are easily content with the old ways, and their monthly wage, ignoring the higher and nobler phase of their vocation, which is found in the desire to give and take mutually in the great principles of education. "Every profession must have its stated meetings, where all things shall be in common, and the right of debate and exposition of cbc tenets of the profession shall have free course. Nowhere else is this need more imperative than in the teaching profession. And i presume that there is no county in the State that is without this most valuable auxiliary of the educational work among its schools. "Again, the County Association should serve as an open court for presenting any desired reform, or expanding or illustrating any theory of education. There is no other way better to enlist the sympathy and co-operation of the teachers than by a full and free debate on any proposed advanced movement. Practically, the suc-cess or failure of tne movement is secured; for as the wisdom of the more able and experienced leaders points the way, so surely will the rank and file of the body follow. "Personally, let me say, many, if not all, of the reforms that have grown up under my administration as Supervisor, have had their origin in the open court of the Teachers' Association; and if I may digress, most of the notable advances in State school legislation began in the State Teachers' Assembly, where, for years past, the leading educators have debated such questions as "A Training School for Women 'leachcrs" (now the State Normal and Industrial College), and various reforms in school legislation, such as are now embodied in the present School Law, enacted in 1897. "The Association may, and should be, a school of methor^s, based on the varied experiences of all the members; for the methods in books are often of little value to the poorly classified, badly "booked" —pardon the license—pupils that come into the district school; but tliG living method or device of one who has succeeded under given conditions may inspire and enthuse some 'ship-wrecked brother,' now at his wits' end as to what next to do. |
