Past And Present of Our Common School Education Reply to President B a Hinsda
Past And Present of Our Common School Education Reply to President B a Hinsda
Andrew J Andrew Jackson Rickoff
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ELIPHALET NOTT, for sixty years the President of Union College, we find the following, in reference to the schools as they were in his youth and early manhood. He was born in 1773. ^ ne schools of Connecticut, his native State, are here spoken of : " The country school of that day, in many districts at least, was a unpinmising institution. The teacher was not (infrequently a person of barely education enough to satisfy the critical requirements of some illiterate com- mittee-man to whom was del...egated the office of Examiner, llr- had perhaps left the shoe-bench, the anvil or the plow to try his hand for a few weeks at this easier work to return at the close of his brief engagement to his more fitting business. 'I he emolument could haroly have tempted him to turn PAST AND PRESENT. 49 teacher, for the pay was only from three to five dollars a month, and two months during the winter season was the usual term that the schools remained open. : he teacher's office, therefore was not at that time a very inviting one, nor did the school he presided over hold out any strong'inducements to parents who desired most of all to have their children well taught.
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