Show school teachers aa many kany if not all the wards and settlements of our territory have built commodious and comfortably school houses and teachers are presenting themselves for examination with ith a view to employment and a fe few general remarks may y be of benefit to all concerned ned by a resolution on page of the acts ac of the Ies session sion of 1851 2 the chancellor and board of regents of our university are authorized to api point a superintendent of common schools who is to be under their supervision and discretionary control I 1 will readily occur to the minds of many that tha the ordinary mode in the states is ill to prescribe by enactment the duties of superintendent and it may be asked why leave the discretion with the chancellor and board A short answer to the wise wise would he be because we prefer a living constitution to a written law when we can have it another is because we deem it good policy fo 0 o have a u uniformity ni i of books in our primary schools and of the best kinds as near as possible the best methods of communicating information the be best s t system of school government suggestions suggestion 3 as to p properly lighting warming arid and ventilating TOOMS rooms and th ih I 1 1 I 1 proper con construction is rui chion and arr arrangement aig frue it of seats a and rd desks and many other items of a kindred character it is is generally supposed abere abe e is is wisdom with the wise herice hence the discretion left with the chancellor I 1 and board to council and direct direce for the attainment of the above desirable objects is is in in our judgement jud gement good and a child can be taken from the first step by a regular system instantly improving with experience until he graduates at the university the committee appointed by the county court for the examination of school teachers have in this e county given certificates to be of force but for one year there were several reasons for this thia course and lest there arise ill feelings we will notice the most prominent As yet the persons present presenting ing themselves for examination have fallen far below the standard of the qualifications that the committee would be pleased to see established under the when the moral character was good and information sufficient by a low scale certificates have been given iriven for foi not to have given them would have shut up our school houses they have been given for one year upon the presumption that the teachers could and should improve and at the end of the year should again pass a more extended examination aside from the consider consideration alion of the improvement of the present applicants next nett years emigration may furnish us ar improved e d supply and our committee hive have informed those to whom they have griven given i certificates that they must expect in in future to pass pas tl a more rigid and ex tended examination now inasmuch as our teachers are not so well qualified as they or we wish we suggest as an excellent means for their improvement that as many as can meet together consistently agree to mertat the most convenient school house upon a certain e evening i 9 every two weeks and it would P pleas laase us if a penalty were eaf enforced arced for not attending unless unavoidably prevented furthermore we wish the teachers to invite the examining committee and such parents as take an interest in education to attend at these meetings we wish the teachers to propose and discuss briefly those i questions that are pertinent to their occupation to relate their mode of fe teaching aching and governing and prominent prom ment results of their observations also to give those they have invited opportunity to make ap remarks and i the great benefit that can be derived from such meetings is is so olmous obvious with very little reflection that it saves us us the trouble of commenting upon it wo we also wish our teachers to improve their leisure tinie time as much as possible in in what is is technically called posting up in their profession and not be afraid to ask questions fur information for fear we should think you do not know everything for we know you do not we have no objection to a teachers u using s ing a reasonable portion of his leisure time if he is is posted up at a party or a dance or other innocent amusement and enjoy enjo ment but we e feel to insist that he shall retire at or before 10 ani p m that he may not impair his abilities for ahr the e cities d ties of the following day and we hope his friends and ours will permit his retiring in in this manner without tempting him by b y their importunities or i injuring j his feelings by improper remarks |