Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — Better Teachers For Rural Schools. [ARTICLE]

Better Teachers For Rural Schools.

(By J. L. Mcßrien, School Extension Agent, U. S. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior.) There are not many things new under the sun. A mere glance at past history shows that the normal school is as old as the teaching spirit. We are reminded by Prof. Searson, of the Kansas state college, in his recent review of the subject, that the schools of philosophy in Greece, the Hebrew schools of tile prophets, and the ecclesiastical and catechetical schools of the early church are the remote antecedents of schools for the training of teachers. Side by side with the ecclesiastical schools sprang up the great medieval universities offering practical training in three different lines — law, medicine and theology. The aspiring young advocate was trained to expound the law; the student of medicine was fitted*to practice his art; and the theological student was especially prepared- to teach the dogmas of his creed;