The intellectual condition of the child and that of the adult differ in such essential particulars that the training of the instructor for the adult must be given from a stand-point quite distinct from that necessary for the proper development of the youthful mind. The one lives in the fact of the objective present, and is educated by the truthful presentation of the external world to his senses; the other lives in the principles which bind facts together, and is educated by addressing these principles to his reason. This view of training schools is substantiated by the best educators of the past as well as of the present. Some of the points to be tested and secured by the candidates in the training schools are the following: 1. An executive ability which shall assure the State that its diplomas are given into worthy hands. 2. A knowledge of child nature, and the modes of drawing it out successfully. 3. An ability to properly grade pupils who may come under his charge. 4. Power to arouse enthusiasm, without which no teacher can perform more than half duty. 5. His judgment to assign proper daily work for each pupil. 6. A general familiarity and ease in the management of the whole school; and last, the trial of the personal disposition of the candidate. The training departments, as existing, are much benefited by this practice; inasmuch as such departments, in the hands of a single teacher, cannot be as fully taught as when the increased time and energy which can be gained by the employment of pupil teachers is added to the work. In a village like Whitewater, the number of tuition-paying pupils is not sufficiently large to admit of that close grading which is necessary when one teacher does ffrst-class work in a school of forty or fifty pupils. The only de sirable substitute for a school of practice would be a model school for the observation of normal pupils. The wants of the school would be best met by both of these. A model school should be a model in every respect, having the best teachers that can be secured, and a sufficient number to do the work in the best manner. The question then comes before the board: 1. Whether these three departments should form one model school. 2. Whether the two departments now in existence shall remain as they are, with one teacher at the head, and taught in part by pupils, while the new department becomes a model school; or 3. Whether, with the new department as a model school, a free school of practice, as closely graded as may be, shall take the place of the present primary and intermediate departments, or be added thereto. These questions I desire to submit entirely to the wisdom of the board. BOARD OF REGENTS. The institution has been visited by the following gentlemen. members of the Board of Regents of Normal Schools: Hon. William Starr, Hon. S. A. White, Hon. Edward Searing, Hon. W. E. Smith, Hon. J. H. Evans and Hon. A. H. Weld. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS. The school has been visited, for the purpose of examination, by Prof. J. Q. Emery, Principa! Fort Atkinson High School; Prof, Samuel Shaw, Principal of Madison High School, and by Prof. J. H. Terry, Principal of private school at Spring Green. FACULTY. OLIVER AREY, M. A., President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Pedagogics. S. S. ROCKWOOD, M. A., ALBERT SALISBURY, A. M., Professor of History, and Conductor of Institutes. G. R. KLEEBERGER, Professor of Natural Sciences. GARRY E. CULVER, Teacher of Music, Elocution, Penmanship. MRS. H. E. G. AREY Teacher of Rhetoric, English Literature and Drawing. MISS CATHARINE H. LILLY. Teacher of Latin and English Grammar. MISS. MARY DE LANEY, Teacher of Civil Government and Geography. MISS. ANNIE M. GREENE, Teacher and Critic in Academic Department. MISS ELLA A. WEBSTER, CALENDAR. A change in the calendar was adopted by the board, July, 1875. FALL TERM consists of sixteen weeks-From Tuesday, August 31st, to Friday December 17th. WINTER TERM, 12 weeks-From Tuesday, January 4th, to Friday, March 24th. SPRING TERM, 12 weeks-From Tuesday, April 2d, to Thursday June 22d. In conclusion permit me to express to the members of the board my sincere thanks for their kindness and assistance rendered in the management of the school, and their presence on the various occasions of interest during the year. Respectfully submitted. OLIVER AREY. OSHKOSH NORMAL SCHOOL. HON. WILLIAM STARR, President of Board of Regents of Normal Schools, DEAR SIR:-The fourth annual report of the Oshkosh Normal School is herewith submitted for your consideration. STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JUNE 16, 1875. |