Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — Trained Teachers. [ARTICLE]

Trained Teachers.

The great aim of every system o public instruction should be to secure the services of teachers specially trained, precisely as the members of any • other professions are trained, to produce the best results in the shortest possible time. * *• * The born teacher is as rare as the born poet. Hence the necessity for normal schools. * * * In the United States there are only about 200 normal schools to recruit the ranks of an army of 300,000 1 publie-sehool teachers, As a •matter of course, then, there must be many incompetent teachers, men and women, whose highest idea of teaching is to hear lessons, previously committed to memory, parrot fashion, from a text book. Under such teachers there will always be overwork, worry, disgust, imitation, and if permitted, frequent allopathic doses of rattan.— President Thomas Hunter.