Excerpt from Hand Books for Young Teachers: Number I, First Steps
The author began teaching in his sixteenth year, in a poor and scattered district of Oneida County. The school-house had been a milk-room for a dairy farm through the summer; the shelves for the milk-pans had been taken down, one shelf had been put round the room and in front of this a slab-seat had been set on stout legs; a stove and one chair completed both the furniture and apparatus of the room. For fuel there were brought to the door, as occasion required, loads of green wood of "sled-length;" for home, the teacher had the run of the district; for wages, six dollars per month of twenty-two days; for pupils, thirty boys and girls, presenting the usual variety of age, disposition and ability.
It is needless to say that the outward conditions were not specially attractive, and that they were fully equal to the deserts of the teacher. He had never heard of a Normal School, or of any special training for teachers, and had never been told anything of methods or of management. All that he could claim to bring to his school was a sufficient book knowledge of the three R"s, and an honest, if youthful, ambition to keep a good school.
It is assumed that many now begin teaching in circumstances not essentially different, with at least equal ignorance of what to do and how to do it. This volume is written to aid the inexperience and to guide the uncertainty of the beginner, who is without special training.
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