New-York daily tribune., 1843-02-04

sive charge IS added
Teucher- by dear children, tie intention Of this school,
each you be good and useiun this wsr!d mai you
may be happy IN The world To coHe- "hae ae
r. We therefore first teach you to remember your
Creator days Of your youth" What do we rs teach
is duty teach you this because we s,.5 aad oi
r. The Holy Bible directs train you up in The
way you shoud go What good book directs Us TO train
r. Therefore my children
You must obey your parents
5: must obey my parents.
T. You must obey your teachers
s. ! must obey my leichers-
T. Yeu must never tell a lie.
S must never tell lie
T. You mast never steal The smallest thing.
S / mast never steal the smales; thing.
Il. You must never swear
r. God wifi no, hold him guess, that taketh his name
s. God will not hold hin, guisess, that take'h his name
in vain.
S God always sees me.
II. God hears all you ssy.
S G6d hears all say
It. God knows ali you do
S God knows all do.
It. You should fear TO offend him, for he IS most holy
s. should fear to offend him. for he IS most holy.
T. You should separt lronn evil and learn TO 90 WILL
S. should depart from evil and learn 10 DO We-
learn TO be good and useful IL this world ~
S. May while attending this school, learn 10 oe
good and useful in this world.
world TO come. ,,o..,,o
come" -,
The effect of adrnontions ard explanations like
these, repeated daily, cannot be otherwise than
salutary upon infant and juvenile minds, both IN
respect to manners and morals. And the strongest
evidence is afforded that they do exercise such
healthy influence in the beautiful order which
prevails in all the Schools, OF every grade.
Greatly conducive to this ordor, to the uniform
ity and excellence OF the teaching, and also to the
general efficiency the teachers in the employment
of the Public School Society are the Normal Schools
under their charge-the crowning glory oftheir no
bic institution. These Normal Schools-schools
for the instruction and general training of teachers
were begun eight years ago. In each OF the up
per Public Schools there are a Principal and an
assistant teacher, and two monitors under pay
The Primary Schools have female teacher at the
head and from one to three monitors according 10
the size of the school. The schools are all open
five days in the week-being closed on Saturdays
There are three Normal Schools-one tor white
females one for white males, and third for col
ored females. The mentors of all the schools re-
ceiving salaries, Public and Primary, are required
to attend the Normal Schools; and the assistant
teachers of the Upper Schools, and the teachers OF
the Primaries are insited to attend. Such OF the
pupils of the 9th class of the Upper Schools, as
from peculiar intelligence, industry, and decided
taste for the pursuits Of learning might be recon-
m.nded by the teachers, as solicitous of such ad-
vantages are also admitted. These in the Normal
Schools are denominated " Cadets" and those
qualified by advancement, and desirous OF such
station, appointed as monitors under pay. When
duly prepared by united examiRaton before the
committee, they are, if approved, ronoted TO the
station of Passed Monitors, and continuing their
course of instruction, are in regular progress ol
promotion TO be assistant teachers after full exam
ination by the committee, and then to the rank OF
Principal. The white female Normal School IS
hold every Saturday from o'clock A. NJ. to : I.
M. 1t has now about one hundred and nifty schol-
ars in attendance, divided into I'VE classes, occu-
pying separate rooms, and under as many teach
ers-three of whom arc males, and two femaies.
The design of this school is TO impart thorough In
struction in all the branches Of knowledge which
the pupils may be required to teach IN the fuolic
Schools. And to this end the course has thus far
been limited. d.-comprehending, therefore, little
more than Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and
Astronomy. instruction is likewise given TO the fs-
males of this department in Algebra, Geometry, |
and Trigonometry. Should the Society not be In |
terruptsd in its career-gratifying in the retros-
pect, and glorious if unobstructed, IL It's prospect
lit is proposed to extend this coutse OF instruc-
ton, and perhaps to introduce systematic courses
of Lecture. on the natural sciences and on the best
methods of education.
The Normal School for males numbers about |
thirty pupils. 1t has two teachers. The course
of instruction is much the same as IN the female
schoo|s. more attention being given, however, to
mathematics, including the higher analyses and
ANALYTICAL trigonoAetry. During six months OF the
wear this school is open FIVE evenings In the week
but durin. the other six months only on Saturdays.
The school fer coiorcd females is very small,
though it has very competent white instructor.
Thus many of the assistant teachers, and all the
monitors in the service of the Society, are EN-.
ployed FIVE days in each week in the discharge o,
their duties in the Public and Primary Schools,
acquiring practical knowledge and experience
daily. while they have the advantages of the Nor
NAL Schools for the improvement of their own
minds. The experiment has thus far been az
tended with the most satisfactory results. The
monitors thus in training are continually os-
coming better qualified for the discharge of their
Immediate duties, and, ultimately, for the station
of principal teachers. The standard OF teaching
is hyh: and several OF the g boys of these Pub-
lie Common Schools, with the farther advantages
of the Normal Schools, have grown TO hsaiy re-
spectabLe rank as mathemaucians. Numbers oil
teachers from these Schools hare been supplied
for other places and it Is my Intention IN the or
paniza,ion of District Schools under the new law
Whenever any such School shall be opened-to OBJ
tain teachers if possible, who have been fitted for
the responsible work in these Normal Schools. And
here allow me to suggest whether Normal Schools
canno. be advan,ageoasly opened ia Albany, and
nerhaps in few more of the inland cities, such for
example, as Troy, Utica, Rochester and Buffalo !!
yery well know that the object Is not attalnaoie
in the smaller villages; but wherever dozen
- ,.,Is could taps.
lv rnes, together two or three evenings in week,
. ,a,b.,s only r,on SATURDAYS [ am persuaded