isua-isnscatalog-1882-1883-021

Description:	ANNUAL REGISTER.21from five different colleges who are pursuing this course. It is the wish of the Trustees and Faculty to organize a large class of college graduates and those of equal attainments for the coming year, beginning in September, 1883. We desire to have them enter with a view of continuing during the year. But should any be unable to remain longer than one term they will find the time well spent.The line of study above set forth is as different from the col¬ lege curriculum as is the study of law or of medicine. The time is fast approaching when mere scholarship will not serve as a passport to lucrative positions. The demand for trained teachers is increasing each year. It is possible to obtain this training by practice in teaching, but when thus obtained it Is at too great expense of time on the part of the teacher, and at too great cost to the children. A years professional study will give the teacher a better preparation to solve correctly the numerous complex and difficult problems that arise in school management than he will be able to gain in five years of practice. And until he can do this he is debarred from the better positions.The following statement from graduates of Indiana University, Asbury University and Shelby College, is published as additional testimony of the value of this course to those designing to teach : Indiana State Normal, School, >  Term Haute, May 10, 1883. jWe, the undersigned, students pursuing the professional course of instruction in the Indiana State Normal School, recommend this course to our fellow college graduates who intend to engage in teaching. The work is of a strictly professional character. It consists of a study of Educational Science in its different departments of principles, method and practice, and is invaluable to all who aspire to enter immediately upon the duties of principal or superintendent of graded schools. It is a course of instruction widely different from that pursued in the college, and the superior facilities for illustration afforded by this institution add much to the value of the theoretical study of the science of teaching. P. H. Kirsch, Graduate Shelby College,  Chase O. DuBois, Graduate Indiana University.  A. Brinkerhoff, Graduate Asbury University.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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