ers in the State, the propriety of urging upon the Teachers whom they meet the importance of becoming subscribers to some one or more educational papers. Several of the County Boards have for some time practiced this with the happiest results. They find that the monthly visits of the Ohio Journal of Education, and kindred works, exert a most salutary influence upon the minds of all whom they reach; that they deepen or renew the impressions made at the regular examinations, and strengthen the resolutions for improvement there formed. It is also hoped that the Journal will be found valuable to School Examiners themselves: containing, as it does from time to time, the mode of conducting examinations in different counties, the questions proposed, and the methods adopted for the improvement of Teachers, it can hardly fail to interest and profit those who feel the importance of an intelligent discharge of the duties of their office. Report of the Executive Committee OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, FOR 1853. In accordance with the Constitution of the Association, the Executive Committee submit the following report, for the year just closed. An edition of four thousand five hundred copies of the Journal of Education has been published monthly. The financial condition of the Journal is as follows: Received during the year-from Subscriptions, $1,765; from Advertisers, $1,083... Expended, for printing and binding... ...... for mailing, postage and express charges.. ...... RESOURCES. Due-from Advertisers, $26; from Subscribers, $300. Unbound sets of Vol. I. $150, of Vol. II. $1200.. $2,848 00 $2,528 20 136 00 The number of subscribers for the Journal ought to be doubled during the coming year; and it can be quadrupled, if each Teacher in the State who was a subscriber in 1853, will act as an efficient agent and secure a list of subscribers in his own neighborhood. Although the Journal has prospered and has been triumphantly successful, yet the fact that only one-twelfth of the Teachers of Ohio are subscribers to it, is a lamentable evidence of their want of interest in the general cause of education. Let each subscriber remember, that only by untiring effort and self-sacrificing labor has the Journal been sustained, or It has become the right arm of will it be sustained in time to come. our Association: its influence must be extended and its usefulness greatly increased. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. By reference to the table found below, it will be seen that thirtyeight Institutes have been held in the State during the year; and that 3738 Teachers have attended them. The average attendance of Teachers at the Institutes held in 1851, was eighty each: in 1852, ninetyone each; and in 1853, ninety-eight each. It was feared that, after the novelty of Institutes had ceased, and after the curiosity of Teachers had been satisfied, the attendance of members would annually decrease. But the statistics of the State Association present the gratifying evidence, that each well conducted Institute held in a county, adds to the interest and increases the attendance of the next meeting. In Ashtabula county, Teachers' Institutes have been regularly held for a longer period than in any other county in the State; and yet the interest remains unabated, and to satisfy the wishes of the Teachers of that county, for the past two or three years, the annual Institutes have been continued in session two weeks. Stark county has exceeded all other counties in the State in the number of its Teachers' Institutes; and in that county during the past year, was held the largest Institute ever convened in Ohio. These facts prove that Teachers are not losing confidence in the importance and necessity of Teachers' Institutes, as an instrumentality for the improvement of our schools and the elevation of the Profession of Teaching. The large attendance of citizens and friends of education who are not Teachers, upon the exercises of the Institutes the past year, clearly proves, that a more favorable public sentiment prevails in our State. The evening audiences, especially, have been remarkably large and attentive. The advantages of Institutes begin now to be well understood and appreciated. That they are the cheapest and speediest instrumentality to reach the great mass of Teachers, to impress upon them the responsibilities of their position, to convince them of the necessity of a much higher standard of qualifications, and to excite them to greater diligence in the work of preparation, is now almost universally conceded. But important and necessary as are Teachers' Institutes, they are by no means the panacea for all the many evils which are incident to our Publie School system. The time has now come when the interests of education in our State imperatively demand the speedy adoption and vigorous employment of other educational instrumentalities: among the most important and necessary of these, are Normal Schools. 1⁄2 I. W. Booth, C. C. Nestlerode, W. G. Walker I. A. Ward, Esq. and I. W. Booth.... J. Markham, Geo. Fraser, R. Q. Beer, J. H. J. Markham, A. Hart, Esq. and L. Andrews. 105 74 395 35 Rev. Mr. Maple, Rev. C. Elliott, D. D., and Lorin Andrews .... A. J. Nelson, C. Tracy, A. Amyx, J. H. Rolfe, C. S. Bragg, J. H. Rolfe and H. Childs..... H. Childs and W. S. Furay. 1 ... Perrysburg Aug. 22, 2. .. Aug. 29, .... Sept. 5, 1 Dr. C. Cutter, T. C. Bowles, F. J. Thomas, Dr. C. Cutter and Lorin Andrews C. Rogers, J. H. Rolfe, A. C. Deuel, W. N. Ed- J. H. Rolfe, W. N. Edwards and Lorin An- Dr. C. Cutter, A. D. Lord and L. Andrews.... 195 drews .... 50 ...... 171 45 ... 85 65 J. Ferguson, W. Carter, Miss M. E. Bannister, Lorin Andrews and Dr. R. N. Porter. 35 23 Knox Mt. Vernon.. Oct. 3, 1 D. P. Colburn, Dr. C. Cutter, W. Mitchell, C. D. P. Colburn and Dr. C. Cutter 91 C. S. Royce, A. Bartlett, Dr. C. Cutter, C. Dr. C. Cutter and L. Andrews 85 1 F. W. Hurtt, D. E. Bowen, E. C. Ellis, C. Bar- Dr. R. N. Porter and T. C. Bowles.. 65 J. Hurty, I. S. Morris and Rev. E. Adamson. J. Hurty. J. D. Cox, M. D. Leggett and Mr. Clisbee....J. D. Cox and M. D. Leggett... 160 Mt. Gilead... Oct. 17, 1 Oct. 24, 1 C. S. Royce, F. J. Thomas, N. Knight, S. E. F. J. Thomas, N. Knight and C. S. Royce.... 60 J. D. Cox, Dr. Richardson, D. Anderson, J. C. Tracy, Dr. C. Cutter, L. Hall and H. Dr. C. Cutter and C. Tracy.. |