Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Trained Teachers. [ARTICLE]

Trained Teachers.

The great aim of every system o public instruction should be to secure services of teachers., specially s 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 ah army of 300,000 public-school 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, disgnst, imitation, and if permitted, frequent allopathic doses of rattan. —President Thomas Hunter.