Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Higher Education. [ARTICLE]

Higher Education.

In a remark made by a teacher in the Association the subject of broader and higher education was touched upon. The speaker regarded this as one of the legitimate results of the Association. Hundreds of teachers are going from our ranks because they cannot keep up with the times, as they term it. They do not try to keep up. All that is required is a proper spirit of investigation, a taste for reading, either natural or acquired. Teachers, when you come to the Association in the spring, tell jhe assembly what you have read this winter. I speak without advice from the executive committee, but will guarantee you will be gladly heard. The teacher who reads earnestly during his spare time, wasting no golden moments, will never be compelled to “step down and out.” He will be an ornament to the profession and a valuable citizen.

E. R. PIERCE.