The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 19, 1915, SECTION FIVE, Page 36, Image 36
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\COUNTRY SCH(
(By Lueco Gunter, State Supervisor
.... of Rural Schools.)
Having seen something of the qualifications
necessary to success in the
country school work, let us consider
what are the actual conditions in the
State with reference to the training
or teachers ana tneir locanon in me
schools. In the latest report of the
State superintendent of education
2.556 teachers were classified as to
training. Of this number 1,017 were
graduates of colleges; 412 attended
college but did not graduate; 542
completed a high school course. Out
of the 2,556 teachers, therefore, there
ware 585 with only a common school
education. There were lust year in
the schools of the State 4,780 teachers.
If the figures with reference to
the training of teachers remained
in the same proportion in the counties
reported, there were the past
year more than 1,000 teachers in the
State with less than a high school education.
SALARY OK TEACHERS.
There are no figures available with
reference to the salaries paid town
oml rmiiilrv (pafliprs 5n thp
State. It is known, however, that
as a rule the monthly salaries In town
schools have exceeded the monthly
alaries of country teachers. The
a vera pee session of the town schools
for the State last year was 10b nays:
chile the average for the country
schools was 120 days. The teacher?
;.re usually paid only for the time employed.
It is easy, therefore, to see
that the superior Inducements which
the town can offer secure for the
towns best teaching talent.
These figures are hardly necessary,
however, as it is a matter of common
knowledge among the school
workers in the State that the college
graduates and teachers generally of
the best training and experience are
secured for the town schools and the
larger consolidated country schools.
These 1,000 teachers with only a common
schol education, therefore, are
fnr tho n? not no rt loco t Ail I n orvtin
try schools, and the greater number
of them in one-teacher country
scholos. As has been pointed out,
this type of school Is in need of a
teacher with thorough training and
nn unusual amount of resourcefulness
more than in any other type of
school. If the large number of
one-teacher school in South Carolina
could secure teachers of the best
scholarship and training, the oneteacher
schood problem in this State
would not continue very long. Under
the leadership of the teachers these
schools would be consolidated where
possible and where impossible many
of the present mistakes made in the
one-teacher schools would be avoided
It is unfortunately true that the
possesion of a college diploma does
not always argue preparedness to
teach. Most of the recruits to the
teaching profession each year, even
tlinu^h thov nnooooo * V%
V?D.. v*v/ pvoovoo i lie OVllUlUISlIip,
must learn by their own experience
the best methods of teaching and
school management. If these recruits
after they have been developed into
successful teachers remain in the profession
there might be some hope of
securing trained teachers for our
schools. But, unfortunately, from the
best available figures it is found that
the average teaching life of a teacher
in the State is not more than four
years.
HIT OR MISS METHOD.
In the city and larger town school
systems under the supervision of the
superintendents and principals these
recruits each year would sooner be
developed into efficient teachers, bul
in country schools where theio is always
an absence of close supervision
the scholos must get along wit a the
bit or miss method of the inexperienced
teacher.
Method* of t- tching. as method* ol
loing everything else, have undergone
* change in recent years. School exparte
vfcave great'./ reduced the tlm<
rrceeaarv to ftach a child to rear
by employing ? -Iter methods of in
structfon. #n our country school!
there are hundreds of honest, hard
nr working teachers, but lacking ii
''A* scholarship and a knowledge ol
[''modern school methods they are do
fas little less than occupying th<
time of the pupils at school. As hai
been suggested, the country schooli
re the chief sufferers from this kln<
af teaching.
The question is: Is there any wa;
by which the trained teachers can b
aacnred for rur country schools? I
they are to be secured it is my con
v1e*1on that some provision for train
lag teachers -will have to be mad'
farther than has been provided. I
wf*t hardly be possible for all of th
amorous colleges of the State t<
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)0L PROBLEMS J
iiii?ii(i)Ki)Kiiitii:i>iiiii;iiiiiiaci)icijii?i.i ,
supply the schools with college graJ-,
1 uates. There were in the senior c.tss
of all the colleges whose graduates
ere entitled to teach without State
examination 794 students the past
session. Hardly more than one-third 1
r?i' these will enter up^n the work of
< hing, Decidedly more than liaiti
of the women may do so, but only a .
small per cent, of the men. If a third
of these graduates should enter upon !
.! e work of to.-*.! <ng, they would only
supply the need for additional
teachers in our State the coming session.
Las', year the number of teacli.
rs in tlie State increased by 221;,
the year before by 205. If we are to1
secure teachers of scholarship for our
country schools within a reasonable
period, we shall have to look to some
other source than our colleges.
FROM HIGH SCHOOLS.
The only other source from which
we may hope to secure teachers of
training is the high school. The colleges
will do their part in providing
prepared teachers for the high schools
work of the State. With the right
kind of encouragement and support
we might reasonably exect to secure
teachers for the elementary school
from our high schools. No one can
teach what ho does not know. Every
teacher niieht tn Vtietv mere trior,
what he attempts to teach. It ought
to be so in South Carolina that every
teacher would be required to have at
least a high school preparation in
scholarship before being permitted to
teach. W'tli the growth in number
and efficiency of the high schools in
the past few years these scliolos can
furnish the elementary schools with
teachers, if the right kind of elTort is
made.
Numerous other States have laced
his same problem in recent years
..nd many of these States have begun
a solution of the problem. The States
hat have made the most conspicious
success in this direction are Minnela,
Nebraska, Indiana and Ohio.
Ohio lias succeeded so well that wi??.
next year that State will be able to
nt'orce a regulation requiring at least
one year's professional training for
every country teacher in the State.
IN OTHER STATES.
Is it not time that we in South i
Carolina were realizing the neces-j
slty of training teachers for our rapidly
growing schools, and that we
were profiting by the experience of1
other States. There are numbers
of hi eh schools in Snntii c.? ..?it ? !
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> By Clara Moorman. i pl
. Have I yearned and suffered and '
> called in vain?
1 "What is your own you cannot lose."!
Sang the rones out in the rain. ' o)
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- I. the lover of life, have miBsed the ei
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f "The light is above, about and s<
within you," si
i tang the dtars of the misty night. ei
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r Though I search the light it is night ?
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w- ... wwwui v muuiiti prepared
to do the work, if the proper
encouragement and support were giv n.
Could not the State department
pf education select ten schools to
give teacher-training courses? Would
'' not he a good investment on the
part of the State to make an appropriation
of $1,000 to each of these
schools with which to employ an expert
to give a course in teacher training
each of these schools? This expert
could be selected by the State
iepartment of education, the county
superintendent of education and the
| 'oral board of trustees acting Jointy.
This would secure in the expert
a person with local interest in the
community and a helper to the county
superintendent of education in ;
building a country school system. j
The State at present is spending a
vastly larger sum than this in grant- j
'ng scholarships in the State presumably
to secure prepared teachers for;
' 'he schools. A large number of the
scholarship beneficiaries never teach'
in the State at all. If all taught in
the State for a number of years, the
number of them would not be su*lcient
to supply the increase in the
, State's teaching force each year The
. sum of $10,000 invested next year in
s teacher training courses in ten high
; schools would yield, in my opinion,
larger returns to the State in teaching 1
' talent than a like sum invested in
! any other way. r(,
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apers on the life and habits of ants,
escribes her Investigations into the
unction of the antennae. In her earler
paper she sought to show that tha
anctlon of the antennae is olfactory,
nd she now declares that the rartus
segments perceive partlcalar
dors. The segment at the tip, for sample,
warns an ant that be Is approaching
a colony other than **hla own.
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the odor that marks one eat
0)007 as inimical to other# of the
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atward journey. Still a mother saf
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lie the whereabouts of lh? queea ssf
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pect to'the travels of tha ant, eur
eaders will remember the paper la
he Companion In which ths great
'rench naturalist, Psbrs, describes tha
xperimenta that lad him to belleva
hat the ant guldee himself by sight
lone.