p.rj ...v ; . ; v: - A Call for Young Men As Teachers The Public Schools of Colorado Zhc State IRonnal School of Colorado il Bulletin Scries X. No. 12 MAY, 1911 Publisht Quarterly by the Trustees of the State Normal School of Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. Enterd at tilt Pot toffice, Grttlty, Colorado, at Second-class matter ;/■' &$mk il-SstSalK ■•';'A Training School Bilding The Administration Bilding Arts Bilding The Library Bilding The Athletic Field Young Men of the Normal School College Students The Base Ball Squad A Call for Young Men as Teachers in The Public Schools of Colorado THE State Normal School OF COLORADO Greeley, Colorado 1911 the U3R.W OF THE DEC 9- 1938 ' UNIVERSITY OF iLLiNOiS (In all publications of this institution is employd the spelling recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board.) PUBLISHT BY TRUSTEES OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL The Call for Young Men D. D. HUGH Dean of the Training Department The publication of this bulletin has been prompted by the growing conviction that the young men of the State do not sufficiently recognize the importance of the opportunities open to them for employment in educational work. For several years there has been an increasing demand for well-traind young men as superintendents, principals, high school and grammar grade teachers, directors of phys- ical education and playground work, supervisors and teachers of art and manual training, and teachers of agriculture in rural and village schools. As yet the young men who are graduates from our high schools and especially the young mein who are teaching in our smaller rural districts do not appear to be aware of the welth of opportunity afforded them in this work. The opinion of the educators of this State may be gatherd from the letters that follow. These were re- ceivd in response to requests for information upon this question which were recently sent out by this In- stitution to a number of our graduates and other per- sons who are holding prominent positions in educa- tional work. To these were afterwards added state- 4 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, ments from some young men in this year’s graduating class. The practically unanimous sentiment of these persons is that there is a great and growing need of young men in our public schools. Only one gentleman, who apparently did not wish his letter publisht, wrote a frank reply questioning the wisdom of encouraging young men to become teachers. In harmony with the opinions of the great ma- jority of the writers is the fact that the State Normal School is annually receiving many more requests for young men to fill responsible positions than it can possibly fill. These requests are growing more nu- merous each year. That this demand for young men is bound to increase there can be no reasonable doubt. People are getting a larger vision of the work of the public school. It is no longer regarded as an institu- tion for giving merely the rudiments of a literary education — for teaching the A, B, C’s — or for im- parting bookish education of any sort. It is rather coming more and more to be lookt uoon as a place for fitting young people for all kinds of positions in life. It includes the laboratory, the work shop, the play- ground, and the school garden, as well as the recita- tion room, and for the direction of many of its activi- ties young men are imperativly needed. Its function, moreover, is not merely to help young people to earn a livelihood but to inculcate high ideals of citizenship. To train young men and women to be leaders in the larger social work of the twentieth century, to lead them to realize that they are to have a place in shaping the civilization of their age, in moulding their characters and in inspiring them to higher ideals of civic usefulness the influence GREELEY, COLORADO. 5 of men as well as of women teachers is necessary. With the larger demand for young men as teach- ers, the remuneration is increasing and becoming more proportionate to the service renderd. It is not claimd, of course, that the pecuniary rewards of the teacher are princely, but they probably do not com- pare so unfavorably as it is sometimes supposed with the average remuneration receivd in the other pro- fessions. In some of these a few persons make a bril- liant success, but the majority cannot expect to make more than a livelihood, and not a few are doomd to fail- ure. For the young man with natural aptitude, ade- quate training for the work, and devotion to his call- ing there is nothing to prevent the attainment of competence in teaching as in the other professions. There is now a clearer recognition that our schools cannot properly accomplish their work without the influence of men as well as of women, as teachers. Men will have consequently to be paid sufficient sal- aries to attract them to the work. But the rewards of such work can never be mesurd in terms of dollars and cents alone. The pro- fession of teaching will always make its strongest appeal to those to whom the contact of youthful minds is congenial and who appreciate the opportunity of spending their time and energy in a calling which enables them to make their lives count for the most possible in helping young people to attain a richer in- dividual experience and a place of larger usefulness among their fellow men. To the young man who is planning his future and is not yet certain about his life work this bulletin is worthy of careful consideration. It will suggest a 6 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, field of usefulness which you have possibly over- lookt or the importance of which you may not have recognized. Take time to read carefully the opinions of men who have enterd or are about to enter upon the work. Consider your qualifications and aptitudes for the calling and whether or not you may not make the most of your life by devoting it to teaching. If you feel at all interested, write to the Colorado State Normal School for information upon the subject. We believe that there are abundant opportunities for your servises in the field of education, and we shall be glad to do anything in our power to aid you in realiz- ing your aspirations in this direction. GREELEY, COLORADO. 7 WHAT SOME OF OUR SUPERINTENDENTS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES IN TEACHING FOR YOUNG MEN. Opportunities for young men as grade and de- partment teachers are generally not good on ac- count of the small salaries paid; for principals, su- perintendents, manual training supervisors, play- ground directors, etc., opportunities are good and stedily improving. Boards of education are becoming convinced that in order to get good men for these positions it is neces- sary to pay good salaries. The outlook for young men in these places is better than it was five years ago, still better than it was ten or fifteen years ago. The great number of men leaving the teaching profession renders better salaries for men imperativ. It is my firm belief that within ten years the salaries for men in these positions will be excellent, though not so high as the income from law, medicine and commercial occupations. J. HENRY ALLEN, Superintendent of Schools, Grand Junction. That there is a growing demand for young men in the educational field, there can be no doubt. Many localities are coming to see the advantage to the boy of having a young man as instructor for a part of his young manhood, at least. This makes a demand for young men as principals and as departmental instructors. The growth of the industrial idea in education, 8 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, together with the growth of the playground move- ment, opens up lines of work that are particularly adapted to leadership by young men. One of the most important departments in our school is the physical training department, presided over by a young man well equipt for that line of work. The department includes the regular training classes, together with the playground games and the regular athletics. There is a growing demand for young men in the educational field. D. E. CAMERON, Superintendent of Schools, Fort Morgan. Permit me to say that the opportunities for the several positions you mention have increast annually, but only for those who secure all the preparation that our age of practical and cultural conditions demand. As Heaven is said to be a prepared place for prepared people, so is the teaching profession for those qualified by natural endowments and proper training to enter its sacred gates. CHAS. E. CARTER, Superintendent of Schools, Greeley. I find it rather difficult to state just what lines of work in education offer the best opportunity for young men. At the present time in Colorado, it does not seem difficult for a young man with proper train- ing and experience to secure quite desirable positions either as principals of the elementary or high schools, or as superintendents in smaller school systems. There are relativly very few manual training su- pervisorships open, but on the other hand the supply GREELEY, COLORADO. 9 of well equipt young men for positions of this sort is not large, and it does not in the main seem difficult for such individuals to secure fairly satisfactory po- sitions. The position of playground director in the larger cities is decidedly new, but from indications there will be an increasing demand for well equipt directors of this kind of work. If a young man has scholarly tastes and is con- tent to remain in a position paying only a moderate salary, I believe that a position as instructor in the larger high schools offers rather more inducements than any other line. I believe this, first, because the number of young men of this type seems to be decidedly limited. Second, such positions when successfully fild of- fer very great security to those holding them. The administrator in all small school systems is in con- stant danger of undeservd dismission on account of reflections of local sentiment. This seldom affects the high school teacher. The salary paid for work of this sort is stedily increasing, and the opportunity for a plesant, scholar- ly life should be most attractiv to young men of a certain type. C. E. CHADSEY, Superintendent of Schools, Denver. For the past twenty years the spirit of progress has been almost universal. The science of Paidology has opend our eyes to the fact that teaching demands (1) persons possess- ing the attributes of leadership, (2) men and women 10 STATENORMAL SCHOOL, who have been traind by skillful specialists for the calling, (3) persons who love humanity and have con- secrated their lives to its servis. It has also emfasized the fact that a boy or girl entering the adolescent period needs the influence of a normal, high minded man to serv as his or her ideal of what a man should be. There is a growing tendency to establish a grad- uated scale of wages for teachers. This gives security to the faithful and insures the educator that his suc- cess will be rewarded by continued employment and increase of salary. This scheme is in line with all modern industrial systems. No one is competent to direct others or the affairs of enterprises who has not servd his appren- ticeship and made himself familiar with the details of the enterprise. It is the survival of the fittest in its biggest sense. I do not believe that any field offers greater in- ducements for red-blooded, skild young men than that of the public schools. The professions of law and medicin are much overcrowded. There are scores of traind electricians and engineers that would be glad to find stedy em- ployment in their line, with opportunities for reason- able promotions. I am sure there are just as many men that have succeeded in the profession of teach- ing as in any legitimate calling that can be named. Their welth is great, not in “slippery dollars," but in what makes a man and a nation welthy. I believe that amassing riches is the smallest part of a big man’s life. Even in that respect the profession of GREELEY, COLORADO. 11 teaching is looking up in the matter of pay for faith- ful servis. The call is for teachers in every department of public education. There is a demand today for com- petent principals and superintendents that cannot be met. I wish more young men would appreciate these facts. PHILIP M. CONDIT, Superintendent of Schools, Delta I feel that at no time have the opportunities for young men in teaching been greater than are now of- ferd by such positions as grade and departmental teachers, principals and superintendents, as manual training and physical culture directors and supervis- ors, and all such positions of an educational nature. Under the present tendencies in educational thought positions of this kind offer boundless chances for self- development and individual growth and achievement. The personality is no longer bounded by the position but rather the position by the personality. Further, it is becoming more and more felt by people controling these situations that adequate servis is entitled to adequate recompense. The realization of this idea will remove the financial barriers that have kept com- petent young men from entering these employments. On the other hand, our schools need the vigorous, masculin influence that can be gaind only by strong young men instiling their ideas and ideals into the system at these points. SARA B. EASTERLY, Superintendent of Schools, Gunnison County. 12 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, It has been my good fortune during the past twelv months to have had the opportunity of ob- serving educational conditions in a number of eastern states. Each occasion brought the realization that within our own state are found better opportunities and conditions for young men, than may be found in any other state in the Union. Colorado is rapidly undergoing a profound change economically, largely affecting educational conditions. The field that offers the young man the best opportunities is to my mind found in the lines of industrial training. Almost all departments of school work are full to overflowing with young wo- men, fully traind and equipt for the ordinary class- room instruction. Necessarily competition is keen, and the law of supply and demand naturally tends to keep the wage down. Very different are conditions in the work of manual training especially. Every superintendent knows how difficult it is to secure good manual training instructors, for the reason that there are more positions open than competent men to fill them. Consequently, salaries are better and the outlook far brighter for advancement and legiti- mate compensation. Any young man with aspiratio is for the teaching profession can not make a mistake in choosing this line of work and our Normal Train- ing School as the best place for securing the proper training. GEO. L. HESS, Superintendent of Schools, La Junta. In recent years the wonderful industrial activi- ties in our country have cald young men away from GREELEY, COLORADO. 13 less lucrativ callings and the teaching profession has been one of the chief sufferers. Industrial lines, as was to be expected, have become crowded, and today no field offers greater opportunities for young men of character and thoro preparation than does the pro- fession of teaching. Young men are especially want- ed as principals, manual training teachers and super- visors. These young men must be willing to begin at the bottom at a low salary and they must not expect to be promoted to a superintendency at the end of their first year’s servis. With the coming of more men into the profession fild with the spirit of loyalty and enthusiasm, salaries will advance and from the ranks of efficient principals will come the superin- tendents of the future. Manual training supervisors are always in de- mand. We find it most difficult to secure well' pre- pared men for the manual training work. Men suc- ceed in this field far better than women. It is a man’s work. The playground movement must have men and women as teachers and supervisors. The demand for men in this field promises to be very urgent. In this work the salaries will be exceptionally good. J. F. KEATING. Superintendent of Schools, Dist. No. 20, Pueblo. The poor salaries of the past have deterd men from entering the teaching profession, and a dearth of capable men teachers has resulted. A national recognition of the necessity of more men in public school work has occurd at this time of 14 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, insufficient supply. Wages have risen proportion- ately until the properly prepared beginner in teach- ing can command a greater salary than his fellow in the other professions. For the above reason I have been urging, for the past two years, young men of my acquaintance to seriously consider teaching as a life pursuit. H. A. KEELEY, Superintendent of Schools, Manitou. In my opinion, teaching as a profession, offers better opportunities than ever before. Salaries are going up, a better class of men are going into the work, and educational work is rapidly rising to a higher plane. To a young man who is willing to de- vote sufficient time and energy to a thoro prepara- tion, the work offers splendid opportunities, not financially, because teaching will never be a work in which financial returns commensurate with the re- quirements will be receivd, but it offers opportunities for a comfortable living and a life fild with greater, better, and more important activities than any other line of work. I believe the demand for men equipt for principals, supervisors, etc., will continue to in- crease, and good work will be more and more appre- ciated. HARRY L. McGINNIS, Superintendent of Schools, Chaffee County. Salaried positions seldom yield the brilliant fi- nancial returns offerd by mercantil and professional pursuits. But these examples of eminent success are conspicuous because rare. GREELEY, COLORADO. 15 With the increasing demand for men for play- ground directors, manual training teachers; for a greater proportion of men for principals, high school and upper grade teachers; with the opportunities for personal growth, congenial companionship, social rec- ognition and great servis to one’s fellow beings, at a period when efficient servis yields such rich har- vests, the work of teaching now offers opportunities well worth the consideration of thoughtful young men. The public is acquiring a better appreciation of the worth of the teacher, manifest by better salaries, and more considerate treatment. This tide of opinion is only fairly under way. The prospects for young men in this line will be even greater ten or twenty years from now than at the present time. M. F. MILLER, Superintendent of Schools, Fort Collins. Young men are in demand for Seventh and Eighth grades and for Ward Principalships. For the man who is well prepared for this class of work, pro- motion is rapid, salaries are good, and results are gratifying. General supervision implies an intimate knowl- edge of grade as well as of high school work, and highest efficiency means actual experience all along the line. J. R. MORGAN, Superintendent of Schools, Trinidad. I wish to say that there are, in my opinion, ex- ceptional opportunities for young men of markt abil- ity and training for the teaching profession. The de- 16 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, mand for such men in Otero County has always ex- ceeded the supply since my administration began. Especially are there good openings for capable prin- cipals, departmental teachers, manual training di- rectors, teachers of agriculture, and superintendents. S. S. PHILLIPS. Superintendent of Schools, Otero County. There should be men teaching in every grammar grade, but suitable persons are hard to secure. It is +o be hoped that you can increase the supply of young men for these positions. It is important that they shall be co-operativ and patient. So few are willing to take the time to grow into principalships, superin- tendencies, and directorships that it is well nigh im- possible to get young men to do grade work. If one will begin with grade work and stick to it patiently, genially, and with absolute faith in the future, he can- not fail to achieve ample success later in supervisory capacities. Superintendents and principals should always travel the road of actual experience as men do in other professions. Yes, young men are wanted and there is com- mensurate reward for them in proportion as they do better work in the school room and help our boys more than can women teachers. M. C. POTTER, Dist. No. 1, Pueblo. In my own county the need is for young men who are expecting to stay in the teaching profession, and who are not using it as a stepping stone. They can command good salaries in time if they will only start GREELEY, COLORADO. 17 with that idea — to make teaching a life work. We need teachers of that kind who understand something of agricultural pursuits and mechanical arts. ROSEPHA C. PULFORD, Superintendent of Schools, LaPlata County. It seems to me that students and keen observers in every department of our democratic life and all those who are activly identified with any one of our consciously constructiv institutions must feel and recognize the fact that the American people are rap- idly putting to experimental test the! protest faiths and the cherisht sentiments of the latest and best civ- ilization. The true citizen of today, in America, must be prophetically loyal to the immediate future — shar- ing intimately the persuasiv faith in human better- ment and progressivly equipping himself to meet the larger demands of expanding and new profession and engagements. Rapidly and certainly the functions of educational institutions are becoming better defined and more urgent in the appreciation of society at large. There is a democratic demand for wider servis and for an intensity of servis. Any studious inter- pretation of existing social, political, industrial, and educational conditions enforces the inviting conclu- sion that the teaching profession will afford, with in- creasing financial remuneration, splendid opportu- nities for traind and efficient young men as princi- pals, grade and departmental teachers, manual train- ing and play ground supervisors, instructors in trade schools, and superintendents of vocational Schools. Communities are becoming more and more apprecia- 18 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, tiv of educational values and discriminating in the matter of qualitativ services upon the part of teach- ers. School administrators are learning how to focus the progressiv sentiment of a community upon educa- tional problems and they will soon voice a very vigor- ous and democratic demand for young men who can perform efficiently the newer educational tasks. WILSON M. SHAFTER, Superintendent of Schools, Cripple Creek. Permit me to suggest the following as my opin- ion regarding the opportunities for young men as teachers : 1. There is a demand for young men who can control young people without friction, teach eighth grade subjects well, and wisely direct the activities on the playground. 2. For young men who can combine the teaching of manual training and one or more high school sub jects. 3. For young men who are able to organize commercial departments in high schools in the small cities and assume full responsibility in the manage- ment of these departments. 4. For young men who are prepared to teach public speaking and debate in addition to other high school subjects. 5. For young men prepared to teach high school subjects and coach general athletics, including the three popular games — football, basketball and base- ball. DANIEL WARD, Superintendent of Schools, Rocky Ford. GREELEY, COLORADO. 19 I certainly think there is a great need for larger numbers of young men teachers. I am much in favor of men, as principals of grade buildings. I believe less boys would drop out at the time they now do. I find efficient men teachers a great help, in my grade work, as well as teachers of science and ath- letic directors., in the high school. GEO. M. WARNER, Superintendent of Schools, Canon City (South Side). 20 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WORDS OF COUNSEL FROM YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. There is a growing demand for young men in the village and smaller city school as principals and su- perintendents. In this part of the state many of the rural schools are being taught by men. As the de- partmental feature is introduced into the graded school, young men who have had a thoro normal train- ing will be in greater demand for the departments of mathematics, history, and civics. If men and wo- men were paid the same salaries for the same work, hundreds of positions would soon open to young men in the upper grades. But so long as there is no fixed standard of wage, the young woman will be em- ployd. W. L. BAILEY, Superintendent of Schools, Sterling. We are experiencing a new birth in education. The traditions in teaching, both in regard to practis and the subject matter of the curriculum are being replaced by saner methods and more vital instruction. Old time practises have proved themselves inadequate to prepare young men and women to meet the indus- trial and social demands of the present time. The efficiency of public schools is being justly criticised, and patrons are insistent upon the demands that things more vital and more helpful to the pupils be taught. In order to meet the new demands on the pro- fession, teachers specially traind and qualified are in pressing demand. The demand is for young men of industrious habits and sterling integrity to occu- GREELEY, COLORADO. 21 py positions of responsibility in the public schools. Possessing initiativ, broad ideals and capabilities for giving vocational instruction, a young man does not need to look beyond the profession of teaching to find a field wherein his ambition for achievement may be fully satisfied, and wherein his efforts will be sub- stantially rewarded by an appreciativ public. W. W. BLACK, Principal, Victor. There are too few of our promising young men who are entering the teaching profession. Some are making the mistake of their lives. There is a genu- in call for more competent young men. Schools are paying for them as never before in the history of our public schools. There are some lines of work where men are sorely needed even in the grades. The de- partmental plan in the higher grammar grades offers an opportunity to select men and pay for their ser- vises. I sincerely hope that more earnest young men will thoroly prepare for public school work. For the good of our citizenship we need more strong men teachers and I feel that he who truly responds to the call will find opportunity for advancement. W. D. BLAINE, Principal Fountain School, Pueblo. The increasing demand for and the failure to ob- tain capable young men for principals of grammar grades, supervisors of manual training and directors of playgrounds is an indication of the excellent op- 22 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, portunities for the young man in these various de- partments of our schools. Especially are they much needed in the play- ground movement, which has been taken up so re- cently as to be almost wholly unprovided for in the matter of instructors, yet is universally recognized as a very essential element in the production of the most useful national character which is the result of a sound mind in a sound body. J. E. BURNS, Superintendent of Schools, Berthoud. The world is just beginning to realize that it is the function of schools to teach children and not sub- jects. This conception of educational function has revolutionized educational curricula, methods and ideals. Prime among these changes are the new standards of requirements for teachers. To teach children rather than subjects requires not only broad culture but thoro professional training. To compen- sate for higher requirements on the part of the teach- er, the remuneration of teachers is moving in an up- ward scale. Today, the man principal, superintend- ent, or supervisor is enabled by his income to take his proper place in the civic and social life of the com- munity. The opportunities of the school executiv are many and rich. The field of education is virgin. The possibilities in trade schools, technical high schools, open air schools, schools for defectivs, schools for gifted children, schools for retarded pupils, schools of parental character, are boundless. All such institu- tions are in formativ states. True it is that in the schools we alredy have better administration, and in GREELEY, COLORADO. 23 these special schools the sociological problems of the future will be solvd. So to the young man desirious of living a life of efficiency and real social servis com- bined with great possibilities of individual develop- ment, no field is richer than the field of education. There is in process of formation a profession of school administration and direction. The young man who enters education in the next few years will join a profession that ranks with law, medicin, and engi- neering, and yet is more significant than these, hav- ing to do with the training of every power in every individual in the community. H. V. CHURCHILL, Principal University Park School, Denver. At present, there are greater inducements for young men to enter the teaching profession than al- most any other, for the demand for well traind male teachers, at excellent salaries, is far in excess of the supply. Law, medicin, dentistry, etc., are over- crowded. While there is a more general demand for male teachers for all school positions, practically all manual training supervisors and teachers are men, and there is a widely spred tendency to secure a much greater number of high school principals and instruc- tors and graded school principals from the ranks of the professionally traind male teachers. Such posi- tions command constantly increasing salaries, and the custom of making the tenure of office much more permanent is growing E. F. EWING, Superintendent of Schools, Colorado City. 24 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, The demand for young men as teachers is in- creasing for the following reasons : Grammar school teaching is undergoing a change from the room-teacher plan to that of the department- al plan. It is now required beside having a general education that the teacher be prepared in some one special subject. There is a demand for men to take charge of these departments in grammar schools. I think men are specially fitted for the departments of mathematics and of history. The physical welfare and the playground move- ments which are certain to bring permanent changes in our conception of school duties bring with them a demand for directors of playgrounds and teachers of games. There is now a demand for men for this work in conjunction with their teaching. This demand is certain to grow. As to principalships (the practis is in city schools to promote from the ranks of the teachers) th* se- lections are from among those who show a high order of teaching and executiv ability. The highly suc- cesful teacjher has another opportunity of promo- tion, from the grammar school department to the high school. In selecting teaching for the life work there is but one question for the young man — that of salary. However, when we come to consider the stediness of employment, teaching in general possesses an advan- tage over most other callings. A few years ago nearly all of our young men were preparing for engineering. Employing companies inform me that there are more than a dozen men for every position in this line of 'GREELEY, COLORADO. 25 work. If New York be taken as a standard, it ap- pears that men, because they are men, are not to re- ceive a higher salary as teachers than women. Yet there has been for the past several years a steady in- crease in teachers’ salaries. Beside this, a great many cities have establisht retirement pay or pensions. Taken all in all the financial outlook in teaching is far from gloomy. From most points of view there is no reason why the work of teaching should not be sought with enthusiasm by young men. v C. A. HOLLINGSHEAD, Principal Wyman Schools, Denver. The opinion that the rapid development of Amer- ican education depends largely upon the superintend- ents of smaller cities and towns, because of their wide distribution, and the influence that they have upon the work in contiguous districts, is becoming so gen- eral that individuals of purely academic training are no longer considerd sufficiently qualified to hold these positions. The rapid growth of this idea is opening the widest field of today in educational work to young men who will specialize and prepare as carefully in education as doctors, lawyers, and engineers do in their respectiv spheres. AXEL E. JOHNSON, Superintendent of Schools, Windsor. Of the fields of activity open to the young man, teaching is becoming more attractiv each year. Peo- ple are recognizing more and more the dignity of the profession. The movement to reorganize primary 26 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, and secondary education and the spread of informa- tion, giving to the patrons of our schools definit ideas of what good schools should accomplish, are creating a demand for the young man of ability and training. The man teacher is recognized as better for the physi- cally activ departments. Manual training and play- ground supervision have made but a beginning, and the young man who can supervise the physical train- ing or direct the industrial work of a school has an unlimited field before him. We need more men in the work. W. C. P. MEDDINS, Principal of the High School, Telluride. The outlook for traind men teachers, directors, and supervisors is better today than at any previous time in the history of education. As a graduate of the Colorado State Normal school, it is a real plesure to commend the institution to anyone contemplating the teaching profession. Being a college graduate, I was naturally prejudist against normal schools, -but my work in finishing the courses of pedagogy and manual training in the Greeley school thoroly dissi- pated my bias. The beautiful location, the playgrounds and gar- dens, the library, the laboratories and training de- partments, together with a staff of able specialists and a Dr. Snyder at the helm, combine to make it one of the greatest institutions of its kind in the coun- try. The student's attainments are limited only by his own incapacity or apathy. He who thirsts may quench it — tho Greeley is a dry town. V. E. ROWTON, Dept. Man’l Training, Colorado Springs. GREELEY, COLORADO. 27 Young men are in demand in the teaching pro- fession, but the time is past when there is use or op- portunity for the men who have faild in other fields of activity and have fallen back on the teaching pro- fession as a last resort. The need now is for men who will definitly elect teaching as a life work, who will give themselves a broad training for the work, and who will bring to the profession the same energy, the same foresight, the same business sense they would expect to take to any other profession. The profession pays well. Salaries are growing beltter for all classes of teachers, but big rewards are for men broadly traind to meet and solv the problems affecting the entire educational policy of the commu- nity where they may work. Low salaries at present common to many men in the teaching profes- sion are due to the fact that these men traind for departmental work in high schools only. This field is small, salaries low, and the supply exceeds the demand. There are very few pupils in our high schools. The elementary school enrolls the majority of the pupils and this field is broad and practically un- toucht. Men traind for superintendents, principals, and for the direction of departmental work in the ele- mentary school may command good salaries from the first, and the opportunity for promotion is unlimited. J. A. SEXSON, Superintendent of Schools, Telluride. The recognition of the wider duty and almost limitless field of educational activity is opening up 28 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, new possibilities and making new demands, the extent of which is only beginning to be realized. To young men education offers a field that for variety and extent of opportunity is unexceld, and al- redy ability, preparation, and hard work are receiv- ing prompt recognition thru promotion and appro- priate salary. The newer fields of playground supervisors, vo- cational advisors, and the various forms of industrial training should appeal to men especially, and it is here that opportunities and returns seem greatest at the present time. GUY C. STOCKTON, Superintendent of Schools, Eugene, Ore. Of course there are untold opportunities for young men along all the lines you suggest. The bound- less energy, the undimd faith, the creativ ability, and the Western push of Colorado young men render them indispensible to the virility of our schools. On the playground as instigators of clean speech, fair play and helthy ideals, as manual training di- rectors to teach the nobility and manliness of useful handiwork, but most of all as principals and superin- tendents, the school needs young men to solv the prob- lems raised by the conflict of modern commercialism with educational traditions. A vast field for investi- gation is opend up, and the work of leadership de- volvs upon the young men. The rewards will be commensurate with the servis. Alredy the public has begun to loosen up its purse strings, and no expendi- GREELEY, COLORADO- 29 ture will be too great for results shown to be benefi- cial to the child and to the community. JOHN J. WARD, Principal County High School, Castle Rock. Never before has there been so great an opportu- nity for traind young men in the teaching profession. Superintendents and school boards the country over are seeking them — these traind young men who are capable of meeting and solving the new and complex problems arising each day. They are being sought for as principals of grade schools, as departmental teach- ers, as supervisors, as grade teachers, and as high school instructors. Salaries are being raised and the work lessend in order to encourage young men to take up this work. D. E. WIEDMANN, Superintendent of High Schools, Montrose County. 30 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SUGGESTIONS FROM A FEW OF THE YOUNG MEN IN THE COLORADO STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. It is with great plesure that I refer to teaching as a profession, for some fifteen or twenty years ago the occupation of teaching was scarcely considerd dignified enough to be calld a profession. Education is becoming more highly organized, and educators are working with more uniformity of purpose, and toward a common goal. Men must broaden their lives correspondingly. They must be able to meet situations that come up, in carrying out this great scheme of education. They must mingle with the world in order to teach the child what the world demands that the child should know. The man who sees this larger conception of edu- cation and puts forth all his energies to carry it for- ward is the one that succeeds; and we are proud of the fact that in teaching, as in other professions, the weaklings must step out, while the man who does things goes on. H. M. BROADBENT. In whatever perspectiv it might be viewd, from whatever standpoint it might be enterd upon, to those desirious of a vocation and capable of handling one when obtaind, the profession of teaching would seem at this time to contain a larger proportion of advan- tages to a smaller number of disadvantages than any safe and regular calling open to men. Does a man desire money, there is enough of it to live on as comfortably as one ought to live when so many have none at all; does he look for social po- GREELEY, COLORADO- 31 sition, there is as much of it open to his enjoyment as any man ought to have time to use; does he de- mand leisure, there is more of it than he can obtain in any other profession save that of doing nothing at all, and as much of it as can be generally utilized by the average man. But does he, more than these, wish to be absolvd from the degenerativ influences of a lifetime spent in business, useless and harmful in their nature and ef- fects, and does he desire a lifework in which he may know that every hour is expended in directly neces- sary and valuable servis to mankind, he achievs such as a professional teacher of the young. He has an avenue for the transmission to posterity of all that is best in him, and every possible incentiv to the inhibition of all that is worst, thus embarking himself upon a career which of all others is calculated to induce in his own development and in his effect upon the world around him the greatest ultimate good of which his natural gifts are capable. SYDNEW NEWNES HILLY ARD. I am persuaded that the opportunities for men in the teaching profession are rapidly increasing. I un- derstand that there are far more calls for equipt men than can be responded to. From excellent opportu- nities to know I can say that the Colorado State Nor- mal School at Greeley is second to none, at least in all our great Western country, in every characteristic which makes for efficiency in training both men and women for the vocation of teacher. M. R. KERR. 32 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, The aim of education should be to teach us how to think as well as what to think, and to improve our minds so as to enable us to think for ourselves. I know of no institution which affords young men better opportunities for such a development and and the teaching profession than the Colorado State more efficient training in the manual arts, fine arts, Normal School. W. EARL RICHEY. I have been in the Colorado State Normal School for four years and know some of the opportunities a young man has. In the first place, he has an oppor- tunity to specialize for the position of Superintendent or Principal, receiving the degree of A. B. in Educa- tion. Places in this work for the specialized person are always open. In the second place, he may special- ize in various branches, such as Manual Training, Art, Music, Science, Mathematics, History and Sociology, and many others. In the third place, he is coming to a school where athletic competition is not as severe as in a university or other colleges. Every young man has an opportunity to enter football, basket ball, and base ball. In the fourth place, a Normal traind teacher has more than an even chance with one that is not. In the fifth place, the Normal makes every effort to place its graduates. Much praise is due the Normal for what it has done and for that which it will undoubtedly con- tinue to do. GEORGE P. YOUNG. THE LI3RA.RY Or THE 0£C 9- 1938 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Si The Greeley Tribune Print