Show SWISS SCHOOLS AND THEIR LESSONS FOR I AMERICA DESCRIBED Nearly 90 30 per cent of the teachers te In Switzerland are men said W W. I K J Tate supervisor of or rural al schools in South Carolina to a conference of or ed educators educators educators ed- ed at the United States bureau of ot education Mr Ir Tate Tato has lias Just returned from Crom a n three months Investigation in in Switzerland under the tho auspices of or the bur bureau au Five FI hundred dollars Is considered r a I good salary salar for tOl a teacher liter After a lifetime lifetime life life- time of or service he 01 may a 30 go a as high as SOO Living Li is cheaper there thel than here however an and In ad addition to his ho lie is furnished with a. a dwelling a n. certain amount of or garden arden land and andwood andwood wood for foi fuel Cuel lIl His 1113 dwelling Is generally general general- rally ral- ral 1 ly in the thc same ame building with the school choul J His lis position I is of or local importance im Im- Aside from hl his duties in the schoolroom he Is oCl often n secretary of or the local lucal creamery ns association and general intellectual gul guide e for the community When hen a teacher is en engaged ag for a a. position It I is for lif lirA life or a long loner term of or years ar He lie settles down with tho the people people people peo peo- whose children lie he teaches an and generally generall gen- gen exp p expects ct to make that particular Job his And ho sta stays s 's Changes han eR are rare lure Twelve now nO teachers In on one year ear In a f system of or was considered Yer very unusual The record for tor continued service in hi the tho sam same village Is hel held b by byn n t teacher acher in au who has ha occupied the same position for sixty five years year ti One teacher that I I visited ite has h held hii his hh 3 position for 01 twenty four r years pars and find hi iii hiI s father held the sun same position for tor thir- thir five O years e before him hinr One of or the most a attractive features feature t ures s of th the Swiss schools is the cordial personal per per- relation that exists between n teacher an and pupil There Theio Is nothing oine o IJ of f t ine lie military In the dl discipline of th the e school no lining up no marching tocla to o cla classes sc When the lire children zo o 0 to th the or r classroom the they shake hands with th the e te teacher chel greeting him him ns S If the they 11 ha had 1111 hadnot 11 1 not seen geen him for a lon lung long time limn and ar are really glad gla to see J him The whole i relatIon rela- rela ela elation tion IK II ono one of oC charming naturalness and 1 kindliness on both sides In the Swiss cantons school is in session from Crom 8 to 4 in winter time with l lan an intermission of or two hours at ot noon three hours houts for tor tho the younger children In summer the children have hac to be a at t school at 7 j a- a a a. m. m Failure to be bo promoted Is rare e I After Ates' the four years ar of elementary I I training training- in Iw in the th the primary school pre pre- ie scribed f Cl bed for tor C Cl everybody l bod the the children childre proceed proceed pro pro- Into schools that that are are carefully differentiated for the l e arlous various types of or children J iome ome of or the children enter upon upun a technical training others are sent gent through h th the gymnasium t and ultimately ulti stately I tl to the university and nd still oth- oth other thera th- th era er are aie prepared H for fur business s life ute or orI I a any l other suitable career According to time the ability and aptitude of or the individual individual individual indi indi- vidual bo boy or girl Intro Commissioner roner CI Claxton who Intro Introduced laced the tho speaker speak r. r said he believed Amei Americans m leans would d derive much muth benefit f fi i cm ont Mn tr rates tc study of ot conditions in tit Switzerland rland which will soon Roan be published pub pub- fished as a bulletin of r the bureau of ed education catlon In Switzerland said Dr l i I Claxton Caxton Its lt's a case cae ot of o th the school forthe fur for JT the people not the people for U thu school Wv V cara car cap learn much from Irom SItz Switzerland Swit Swit- z more more perhaps than from some ome of or the larger countries 8 o of Europe |