New-York daily tribune., 1843-02-04
woe. HI. no. 25e.

reading. The first five of these classes are taught
in the Primary Schools. The upper schools are
composed of the remaining classes from the sixth
to the ninth, both inclusive; the ninth forming the
highest class-the first class according to the or
ganization of the ordinary District Schools. Oh
The upper Schools there are sixteen for white male
pupils, and fourteen for white girls. Twelve oi
this number have also primary department IN
the basement rooms tf each. Of the same upper
class, there are two Schools for colored boys and
two for colored girls. The buildings for the accom-
mediation of these schools are three stories in
hight with the exception of No. 9, a small School
in Bloonningdae,) and the School rooms are gen
eraly seventy by forty feet and fifteen eighteen
feet in hight. The male, and female departments
are distinct schools in all. The seats ard desks
are arranged with passage of two feet through
the centre, to allow of easy access, and six or
seven feet space from the ends of the desks, and
along the side and rear walls FOR reading stations,
&c. The teachers platform is in the space in
'front.' and in the rear are two recitation rooms,
generally 10 by 15 feet.
The system Of instruction is the same as in the
Lancastrian and Madras systems united, with such
improvements as long and patient observation and
experience have suggested. | have already men
toned that the classfcaliens are made according
In the other studies, they divided into junior
aHd seaior classes; the junior arithmetic class
meaning the lowest, and so on. The girls are
taught By female instructors. The several studies
pursued are not all daily attended to, but time is
appropriated to each according to its importance,
which is designated in a systematic diary, which
duly apportens the thirty school hours OF each
week. The diary also exhibits other operations of
the school, There are in each school a principal
assistant, aud two junior teachers, denominated
first and second monitors; the first being in some
cases passed monitor" The principal and as
sistant alternately have the general government of
the school in the main room, and teach divisions IN
the recitation or class rooms, while the monitors
have charge Of division in the recitation rooms,
or assist in the main room Two sets of teaching
monitors are chosen monthly from the advanced
classes, whe are employed in teaching the lower
divisions in reading, spelling, definitions, arithme-
tic and sometimes geography; the teaching moni-
tors having performed these duties, are received
into the recitation room for their own instruction.
the classes also which they have taught are in
larger divisions, at stated times, personally in
structed by the principal assistant, and paid monl-
tors part OF them in the recitation rooms, and part
in the main room; the whole school thus in four or
I'VE large divisions receiving extended instruction,
and undergoing review of the lessons taught them
by the monitors. This is sometimes varied by the
practice Of having part of them thus engaged in
the class rooms, while those occupying the main
ing copies on states, simultaneous instruction in
geography on the blank maps Of the hemisPheres
on the walls of the school room."N
There are fortyscv Schools of the Primary
grades, exclusive of those already enumerated as
Primary Departments of the Upper Schools,
and exclusive, also of four Colored Primary
Schools. These Schools are all taught BY females.
The Primary Departments of the Upper Schools
have two rooms, divided by aiding partitions, so
that they can be threwn together at pleasure for
simultaneous exercises. " The classes are sew.
orally instructed in reading under draft monitors,
by the teacher and paid monitor; the lowest diyi-
sion reading from broad sheets on the lesson boards
and the fifth class, or highest from books, VIZ:
Introduction to Popular Lessons, Popular Lessons,
and Scripture Lessons Definitions and orthosra-
ply are taught from the reading lessons, and by
writing on states from oral dictation, tor which Pur
pose each scholar is supplied with slate ans,
with the elements of arithmetic and geography
and oral instruction on common things, win VS.
ibe illustrations, is the extent OF instruction In the
Primary Schools and each School has black
board globe, and map of the hemispheres, and IN
the Primary Departments, an abacus, or numcral
frame. The girls are taught sewing twice week.
as in the upper girls schools, by classification OF
the stitches required in making garment, Mus
lin, thread, and the necessary implements, arc
supplied, given out for use, and re-
turned to the care of the teacher at the close OF
the exercise. The alphabet is taught by varied
methods by the printed lesson sheet, by single
letters on binders boards, and by tracing the let
ters in white sand lightly covering part of the
writing desk painted black for this purpose. This
is called the sand desk. This method, besides be-
ing useful one in varying the exercises OF the
is we'll calculated to aid mental de-
velopment, calling into exercise analysis and com
parison and ii very intellectual method OF teach
ing the alphabet In the order of the diary oil the
school, the exercise of the first hour is oral insruc
ton in arthmetcal tables, orthography, definitions
and geography, and occasional lessons on common
things; the second. writing on states Sotn from
copies and by debating words and dekMtlons winch
are repeated before being written by the pupil ana
the third, reading in classes, under draft monitors
While thus engaged, they stand at the reading sta
tions and lesson posts, from which the reading les
sons are suspended. During this exercise, which
is Simultaneous, the scholars CT each class read IN
rotation to the class mentors and to the teacher
and paid moator, who supervise the whole order
and course of instruction. A record Is kept SHOW.
ing the attendance of the scholars, which IS called
and marked daily. The schools have generally
commodious Fairgrounds, and are allowed re-
cess cf fifteen minutes at each session. fro-
motions to the Upper Schools are made only OF
these pupils who have been four quarters IN schooi
continually, and whose proficiency in speci1ed par
tculars will warrant such promotion.
Nothing can be more delightful than the excel
lent order and the general neasness OF the schools,
of both denominations. Indeed, it is 6 well known
fact that the most happy influence is exercised
upon many poor families in respect TO personal
cleanliness, by the very circumstance OF sending