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The Globe Republican
Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas
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Kansas teachers spend $200,000 annually on normal institutes, which elevate their rank as educators. The text argues that book knowledge alone is insufficient for first-class teaching, comparing it to training for mechanics, artists, or physicians.
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$200,000 are expended annually by the teachers of Kansas to attend the normal institutes. It is probably owing to the instruction thus received that so many Kansas teachers take so high a rank as educators. The time has passed when a knowledge of books and even useful facts is a sufficient qualification for a first-class teacher. One might as well expect to make a good mechanic or artist by attending lectures as to make a teacher without instruction in the art of applying and imparting information. The normal is as necessary to the young teacher as is the clinic and dissecting room to the young physician.