Biennial Report of the Vermont Board of Education Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...of our schools demands that the teauhurs should attend the Teachers' Institutes or Normal Schools, especially when they are inexperienced, and have not some good system or plan by which to bo gorerned in the labors of the school-room. D. L. MANSFIELD, Bummerston. We havo had to my knowledge but two teachers within the last two years, who had attended a Normal School, and they ware the best that, wo hare had I can not see any reason why the teacher should not receive special Instruction in relation to his vocation, as well aa the professional man or the mechanic. W. H. FOLLETT, Halifax. I am strongly in favor of Normal Schools, but I think that one con" tr;il, well provided, and liberally sustained school would do far more for our State, than three which, save in name and a nominal control by the Board of Education, are little more than local institutions. Our great need is persons with natural faculties for imparting instruo tion to, and governing children and youth, --qualities which no training can wholly supply;--who are thoroughly instructed and drilled in the dement of the branches of study pursued in our schools; drilled as only a well appointed and truly Noriual School can do. FREDERICK MACK, Wimlham. WINDSOR COUNTY. Normal Schools should be patronized an-1 made popular: md should receive aid and encouragement from both parents and the State. H., T PARKER, Andover. In my judgment, the Normal Schools are proving a failure. No scholars or graduates from said schools have taught in this town the past year; but scholars from this town have been to said schools, and taught in adjoining towns. I think scholars who attend the Academy in this place, make as good or better teachers than those who attend the Normal Schools, and make better proficiencv in th...