The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-08-21

eneraHines and pdintihg6 ald sosnetinles
pianos. Every city has slar9e, handsome
school houses of brick or stpDa we'll Rghted, 8
warmed and ventilated, and comfortably
furnished. In Connecticut which has the
reputation of being as backward as any
State in school improvements the High
Schoo. building erected in Hartford in 1910
cost $14 400 In New York State there was
$847, 900, while in their school libraries there
were over eleven hundred Thousand volumes.
These exceIlencies are of late introduction;
for thirty years ago in some of the Northern
States the school buildings were no better
than have been known in North Carolina.
Here in 1857 the $500 school houses with
their land. furniture and apparatus were es-
timated at $3.50, 900, or an average of hun
dred dollars a piece. None Of them con-
tanned more than one room. ,.i..
oince writing inc aooyc w n1 To. ie.:lseu
Tue ouiy humber u Tue Kansas huues''o l'a
Sourna', anu we ana IN i1s o'ase l' : ior
tne month the IoiioWlng noIes VI scnooi
houses;
5osdsosn Osty, erecting ruDnc Schooi
eoince which VIII pe ready lor .ue !a'' 'eim;
- r ~. 2.
ee ,,. ~ 90 W Oh Vi sone .nioo az
I,uoing .ne paseme.e, 70 pe leauy ~ ,al I.
H0Moo1ee :, neat na eul1 =, nea!ly con p'e.e' az
c,st u So,Voo; 100 mas issue.' JULIUS ror
So,ogo lor scnooi mouse. LeaoenaoeTen ~ ne
t 40 ol niSn SCHOOL puiiulns. ny
~, tnree stories Mgn, WIN oaseMent' mas
peen iaid on neautiiui SITE overinoKlnS tie
ciey. Marysoaste nas stonc nulldlng, 90 oy
Oh, Two stories nign, WIN basement, cupoia
ana oeIi, COST Slo,Voo: ,noune Osty mas a
s.one scnooi mouse, 4oAoV ieet, TWO s1ories
Ilgn. Osde"e making an enors 70 erect
scnooi mouse al cost OF SlV'ooo,. Ond@"
mas prica scnooi eoince, Two s.orles; fa0'o
mas electeu prick eoince ior el4'oou.
Lct II DC remempereu a,lat h n, was mol
auniteeu asa otaIe t.il 1901. Inc ABOVE iacls
yen iouoiy now Ptecious .ne fiee ocnooi sys-
'eni ~ W 'nose ny nave 'rieu ~.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
r leaene,s arg e'luca'cu WIN sPeoiai re-
teleheG " tncil WIN, massachusetts nas
-FOUR Norman ocnoois wnefe tne ART OF teach-
ing Is itseii taught 10 oSS Cahdidates ior tne
PROFESSION % a teacner. Inc course extends.
tnrougn year ana haiI. BESIDES thls, ior-
ty eight deserving students In colleges re-
ceiye $loo annually TO assist them during
tneir Tour years course on condltion that tney
shall teach an equal number OF years IN the
public schools OF the State
New YORK mas out one Normal school
with 3Ol pupils, but teachers classes were
authorized IN "a academies which gave spe-
cial instruction to ,641 persons who had
signed declaration OF intention to teach in
the Common Schools; and Teachers lnsti-
tutes, held from one to four weeks in the
different counties diffused much normal in
struction through the State.
The Superintendent of schools in 1855
says: If only one-third of the Common
School Teachers of North Carolina could be
induced to read the most indifferent work on
teaching, what vast change would soon be
perceptible Do We not all
know that the Teacher IN Primary Schools
here' Iorgets nothing ana learns nothing Z"
FEMALE TEACHERS.
In the North. moreover most of the teach
ing is done by women ; as in Massachusetts
s. 6S4 females to 1 $50 males. All authori
ties are agreed as to the desirableness of
such teachers. The N. @. reports inform us
that only one-twelfth of the teachers in 1869
we're women. tl,ouoh females make mnch
the best teachers of primary schools" The
Nv Snnpr;ntendent !. no;nts with u,d;e-
ouised pleasure TO the fact that nearly eight
tsntbs Fl Tho teachers en,n,nrad IN ~.
schools Of the State are females To teach
and train tho yo,no sesms 70 no ono of the
chief m;ss;ona Of woman Herself b;gb.
MINDED The minds Of those with whom She
comes IN ae;Iv contact unconsc;ouslv aen;re
Gentle herself sbe renders +han, ,rsntie
NSAieaS AASi1SAis o1S ASAA'<SAc SAANhA SShesS.
.,a = .s~. az SO.,,,, 80 .aa p :; a.
hiou 10 ihoiO oCOPiy iCdo thdii iHou III ehO