School Elocution: A Manual of Vocal Training in High Schools, Normal Schools, and Academies
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A Normal Word Book: Or, Studies in Spelling, Defining, Word Analysis, and Synonyms
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School Elocution: A Manual of Vocal Training in High Schools, Normal Schools (Classic Reprint)
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This book is not an elaborate treatise, designed for special teachers of elocution, but a drill-book of essentials for use by teachers that do not make elocution a specialty. In most High and Normal schools, and in the advanced Grammar grades, the curriculum is so crowded that there is no time for the special training given by professional teachers of elocution to select classes of private pupils. The time generally allotted to reading and elocution seldom exceeds that allowed for vocal music perhaps one or two hours a week. Hence the successful trainmg of large classes involves a great deal of concert dr Ul; and this requires the use of a suitable manual of principles, directions, and drill exercises. This treatise owes its existence to the difficulties met with in the management of a very large High school, including a postgraduate Normal department, in which an honest effort has been made to secure a fair degree of attention to school reading and elocution. Fully realizing the limitations of teachers in similar schools, I have endeavored to keep within the bounds of what it is possible to accomplish without making elocution a hobby. The salient points of this hand-book are as follows 1. It includes only what it is possible to take up without material interference with the ordinary school curriculum. 2. It embraces only what pupils of average ability are capable of comprehending and mastering. 3. It includes a fair outfit of principles and practice for those who intend to become teachers. 4. It can be effectively used by teachers who are not specialists tn elocution.
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Address of the superintendent of public instruction of the state of California, Hon. John Swett, before the State Teachers' Institute, held in San Francisco, May 7th, 1867
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School Elocution: A Manual of Vocal Training in High Schools, Normal Schools, and Academies 1886
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John Swett was an American educator. He is considered to be the "Father of the California public school" system and the founder of the California Teachers Association.
Background
John Swett was born July 31, 1830 in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. He was an only child of Lucretia (born French) Swett and Eben Swett, who were Congregationalists. He was a descendant of John Swett who emigrated from Devonshire, England, to Massachusetts in 1642.
Education
John Swett attended the district school (1837 - 43) and Pittsfield Academy (1844 - 47). After a few weeks of attendance at Pembroke Academy, he was granted a teacher's certificate by the Pembroke school board and put in charge of the Buckstreet school, where he taught during 1847 and 1848, paid at the rate of ten dollars a month by subscriptions. His second school was at West Randolph, Massachussets, 1849 and 1850.
Career
John Swett was given a tempting offer for the next year, but "debarred from the college course by delicate health and chronic weakness" of one of his eyes, he resolved to go west to the gold mines. He arrived in San Francisco in a sailing vessel by way of Cape Horn, January 31, 1853.
After five months in the mining country near Marysville and several more on a ranch near San Jose, he returned to San Francisco and began teaching in the Rincon school, where he remained until 1862.
Elected state superintendent of public instruction in 1862, he entered upon his duties at a time when little had been done to establish educational standards in the state. During the five years in which he held office, he labored with marked success for an allocated state school tax, for a system of state teaching certificates, for the use of uniform textbooks throughout the state, and for the provision of adequate buildings and good teaching.
He helped to establish a state teachers' organization, held teachers' institutes, and was active in the founding of the California Teacher, which was first issued in August 1863.
In 1868 he became principal of the Denman grammar school for girls in San Francisco and remained in that position, with exception of the years 1870-73 when he was deputy superintendent of the city schools, until 1876. At that time he became principal of the Girls' High School, where he was very successful.
In 1889, after having been forced to resign his principalship as a result of his sturdy opposition to political influences in the schools, he was elected city superintendent of schools by popular vote.
In 1895 he retired to his farm near Martinez, California, but held a number of advisory educational positions during the next thirteen years. He died at his farm.
He published a few poems, and many addresses and magazine articles, among them three of an autobiographical nature--"My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Pioneer Magazine, January 1855), "The Old Schoolhouse" (Ibid. , June 1855), and "My Schools and Schoolmasters" (Educational Review, December 1901). Among his books are Common School Readings (1867), A History of the Public School System of California (1876), Methods of Teaching (1880), A Normal Word Book (1879), School Elocution (1884), American Public Schools (1900), and Public Education in California (1911), which was partly autobiographical. His state reports were published in 1864-65, and 1866-67; his city reports annually from 1891 to 1894.
In 1862 John Swett became a Freemason, joining San Francisco's Phoenix Lodge No. 144. During the Civil War he was a member of the National Union Party (Republican) and was elected as a California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, where he served until 1867.
Views
John Swett was an active opponent of the spoils system of appointing teachers, and an advocate of professional training for teachers and permanent certification.
Quotations:
"As a general thing the only persons who have a legal right to give orders to the teacher are his employers, namely, the committee in some States, and in others the directors or trustees. If his conduct is approved by his employers the parents have no remedy as against him or them. " (See Swett's Biennial Report, 1864, page 166. )
And we must not forget that this same superintendent has said that: " The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous. "
Membership
John Swett became a member of the California Educational Society in 1863.
Connections
On May 8, 1862, John Swett was married to Mary Tracy, daughter of Judge Frederick P. Tracy, by whom he had two daughters and four sons.