| Show BETTER TEACHERS no man of 0 f prominence has ever emphasized the value and importance of professionally trained teachers with better logic than did J gt 3 terling erling morton secretary of Ae agriculture culture in president Clev elands cabinet when he said twe we demand educated educators r we demand professionally trained teachers men and ad women of irreproachable character and well tested abilities we demand m d from bur legislature laws raising the standard of the jab profession and exalting the office of the teacher As the doctor of medicine or the practitioner at law is only admitted within the pale of his calling upon tipon the production of his parchment or certificates so the applicant for the position of instructor in our primary and other schools should be required by law to first produce his diploma his authority to teach from the normal schools we call no uneducated quack or charlatan to perform surgery upon the bodies of our children lest they may be deformed crippled and bained physically all their lives let us take equal care that we the development of the mental faculties to skilled instructors of magnanimous character that the mentalities of our children may not be mutilated deformed and crippled to halt and limp through all the centuries of their never ending lives the deformed body will die and be forever put out of sight under the ground but a mind made monstrous by bad teaching does not but ever among the ages an immortal mockery of the divine image this plea of mr morton for professionally trained teachers an was made the platform of the first national conference on teach er tm training ining for rural schools which met at chicago in september 1914 in its nationwide nation wide cam campaign I 1 laign for professionally trained rural teachers |
