Author: Orson Leroy Manchester

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-27

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781334789403

Excerpt from The Normal School Crisis The state recognizing the value of the service of such an institu tion established four other normal schools, and it was believed that hav ing established them it had committed itself to their support. There has been no change whatever in the appreciation of the central place teacher training schools occupy in a common school system. There has been no change in the appreciation of the far-reaching effect they are having upon the standards of scholarship and education throughout the state. But for reasons rather difficult to discover, the state has not supported these institutions in such a way as to make them most serviceable to the commonwealth. To be sure, little complaint can be offered on the side of their physical equipment. Our five normal schools have, in the main, good buildings and good equipment. The lack of support has touched the spiritual side of these institutions. For many years it was considered such an honor to teach in the normal schools that men and women of the highest training accepted places in the faculty without much consideration of the question of salary. They were men and women devoted so thoroughly to their pro fession that little thought was given to its economic side. Gradually it began to appear that these institutions were falling a Victim to the very excellence of their work. They were training men and women to go out into the schools and teach with such rare excellence as to command something like a just and fair economic reward. Soon the very graduates of these normal schools, as high school principals and city superintendents, were receiving salaries in excess of the teach ers in the institutions from which they graduated. Moreover the re wards in industrial lines were becoming greater and the cost of main taining one's self as a teacher in a normal school was mounting higher and higher each year. At last educational leaders of the state awoke to the fact that the normal schools were no longer attracting to their faculties the best men and women of the state and nation, and that their in uence for good was being curtailed. Every attempt to seek out the cause and remove it led to the conclusion that the teachers in these normal schools were being underpaid - underpaid when com pared with the services they render, underpaid when compared withthe salaries paid to their graduates, underpaid when compared with the appreciating costs of everything they had to buy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."