Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Teachers Call Music a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Teachers Call Music a Joke.

The teachers of Kosciusko county in annual institute assembled passed resolutions declaring that the ordinary teaching of music in the public schools iea joke. Her® is the way they put it in the resolutions: “Inasmuch as music is a technical subject and the ability to teach it demands a continuous practice and study which can only be given at the cost of academic proficiency, and 1 “Whereas, efficient instruction demands an equipment of voice and ear, which providence has denied many good teachers, and “Whereas, in the majority of cases music is taught as a joke, be it “Resolved, that we asxthe county board of education to abolish the subject as a requirement, both as a subject of examination for a license and instruction, leaving it to the individual liberty of the teacher. “Resolved, that we recommend that properly qualified musical directors be provided to insure the most effective teaching of the subject/*"