Excerpt from The Training School Quarterly October, November, December 1920, Vol. 8
The banker, the manufacturer, the doctor, the judge, the senator, the mayor are not hirelings or charity wards but honored citizens and friends.
Here is your greatest treasure, your most vital possession, the community's supreme asset - your boy and girl. From these you and your community are to get your homes, your social life, your industrial prosperity, your bankers, your manufacturers, your doctors, your builders, your lawmakers, judges and executives.
The energy we expend in the production of wealth is energy expended chiefly in the interest of our children; the self denial we practice in the saving of wealth is chiefly for their benefit; the money the banker holds in trust is money held for them, the insurance we carry and the deeds and wills we record have them in mind as beneficiaries. Our children, whether we consider them from the viewpoint of the parent or the state, are our chief present and future concern, for upon them depends the realization of our hopes and ambitions, the peace and happiness of the home, the progress of the community, the destiny of the nation.
To whom then shall we entrust this treasure, these bonds and securities, these bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, not for a week, a month, a term, but for all the years of their formative growth and development in body, mind and spirit?
And what just compensation, what rewards, what honors, what sympathy, encouragement and gratitude, what gracious courtesies and evidences of friendly appreciation shall we bestow upon those to whom so much is committed?
Our second question: "What does the community expect, require, demand of its teachers?"
The requirements are many and varied; let us try to classify them.
1. Professional requirements: We demand of the teacher intelligence, ability, skill - the training of years in the academy, the college and the professional school. But the end is not yet. What means all these teachers meetings, these county institutes, these summer sessions? That to meet the professional requirements, the teachers training is continuous, month following month, year following year, during the entire period of service. It has fallen within my province to teach teachers 50 and 60 years of age. Possibly they derived some comfort from my inexperience - some encouragement from my amazing ignorance.
We make no such demand upon our bankers, our manufacturers, senators, mayors and much less insistent and continuous demands upon lawyers, doctors, dentists and ministers.
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