Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-05-01
Educational.

| education IL one of the corner stones to hap.
mess and prosperity.
The following is from the Illinois 7each.
err:
NATIONAL BUREAU or EDucATIox.--I
We have seen letter from Hon. Henry Bar.
nard, head Of the Bureau Of Education, in
which he expresses great fear least the
House Of Representatives fail to make any
appropriation to continue his department.
Under the cry Of rctrenchment, they have
thus far made no appropriation for II, and
II behooycs every one interested in its con-
tiDuance 10 write at once TO our Representa-.
tives in Congress urging that the appropra,
ton necessary be made.
The work accomplished during tho first
year is very great, and promises to be Of es
pecial value TO the country, If it is permitted |
to see the light. We give list as complies !
Cd:
/. Report on the System Of Public Schools |
Of the District Of Columbia, together with |
an account OF the System, and Statistics OF
Public Instruction in the principal cities OF
the United States. 400 pages.
| 2 Report on the School Codes Of the |
United States, embracing the first School |
Act of each State, with all the subsequent !
notifications Of the same. and the law as it |
stood on the 2st Of January, 1868, with the |
provisions that have been introduced into |
| the successive Constitutions of each State on
the subject Of Schools and Education.
3. Report on the National Land Grants
to the several States for educational purpos> |
es Part l.-Gran,s for Colleges for Agri>
culture and Mechanic Arts with m account
of the Institutions which have been estab
lished on the basis, or with the aid, Of these
grants.
f. Reports on Institutions and Agencies
for the Professional Education Of Teachers
IN the several States, including the State
Normal Schools, City Thinning Schools,
Teachers Institute, and State Teachers As
ISOLATION in each State.
s. Reports on the principles Of School
Architecture, and plans for the internal ar
rangement, ventilation and warming Of
buildings designed for educational uses
Part II.-Plan for Graded Schools, with
6. Report on National Education in Eu.
rope - Part I.-Germany. Part lI.-Switz>
erland.
The library of Congress consists now of
$4,000 volumes. Its law library numbers
nearly $4,000 volumes, and is very valuable.
BY the purchase Of the collection Of Peter
Force, il has become exceedingly complete
in the department Of American history and
antiquities. When European historians
would write American history from or iginal
materials, they must eenceforth come here to
do it.
A young lady in the northern part Of
Wisconsin writes TO . county superinten-
dent Of schools that she thinks it her duty
to teach school somewhere" and that i
be can assist her, TO rite and let her no."
Prussia teaches seven languages in her
primary schools. They are, in the order Of
the number Of children studying them, Ger
man, Lithuanian, Wcnd, Morayian, Walloon,
Tcheque, and Dutch.
The INEVITABLE NEGRo.-On our re.
turn from the recent State Teachers Assoc
citation, We were necessarily delayed several
hours at Camp Point. A friend, in his ea>
ger search for something TO keep the intel.
lectual fire aglow, stumbled upon the fol.
lowing notice, which We give precisely Is
written
"Notice is hereby given that an election
will be held in District No 4, in the Town
Of Camp Point, on Saturday the 18th day Of
DECEMBER, A. D. 1867, at 3 o'clock p. NJ, Tor
the purpose of deciding wheather or not the
negro Shall be admitted into the school in
District No. 4. Pole TO open at and close
at 1 o'clock A.. y.
BY order Of many citizens. 49,
Clerk Of Board Of Directors"
During the last year Lombard Univer.
site received an endowment fund of $780,
900, which was raised in about six months.
II --CouxrY SUPERINTENDENT Ii. II. Morse,
: Of Mason county, Illinois, saws:
The general demand now is for the best
teachers--not the ones that will teach for
the least money. Some who pass better ex-
aminations are not SO good teachers rs
those who possess just the necessary quai>
locations TO be successful in procuring certi>
ficates. After o certain amount Of knows
edge Of books, the success Of the teacher
does not SO much depend upon the increase
OF such knowledge as it does upon the im>
provement in methods of teaching. Some
teach dozen terms aud do not improve so
much in the methods Of teaching as others
who have taught onc.fourth as long. Teach
ers ought to visit each year at least dozen
schoos-such as have the reputation of be-
ing good schools. They should visit them
with the intention of learning methods Of
teaching better than their own, and, having
learned them, put them in p, ac,ice in their
own schools. This is one CT the greatest
|
ectors should require teachers to spend at
least one day in every quarter in the vista
ton of other schools, and pay them for the
time so spent, rs they would be fully COM
pensated for it in the better methods adopted
in their Osra schools.
MAssAcHusErrs-The Latin School in
Boston has decided 10 erect memorial
statue to the fifty graduates who fell in their
l fpx,s a nrspr he ,koti Nc
Greenough has made the design. The work
is to cost $4,000.
lAnyLAXD.-At the neetisg Of The
Maryland State Commissioners Of Public
SCHOOLS, in Baltimore, the school system ct
present existing in the State vas endorsed
seserally ~ the best for continuance.
| TuRkEY.-A large Union School at
Constantinople, for Christian and Moham>
medan children, is one Of the FIRST fruits Of
the Sultan's visit to civilized Europe.
--Thst parent who refuses to send his
children to the school established and opened
in his neighborhood, does TO those children
. cruel injustice, and commits . fragrant
wrong on the community and the State.
The normal class in connection with the
graded school at Aonticello held their clos
ing exercises on the nth nit. Resolutions
were adopted exceedingly complimentary to
Prof. Jerome Allen. Thirty>four nsnbers
were in attendance upon the normal class.
We CLEAN from the Essska.
| -Atshs Wiscossin 0laAe Teachers Asso.
ciatioa the committee on Compulsory At.
tsndance made report declaring il the duty
Of he State to see that every child receives
. geod common educstioa. The report was
adopted.
The yearly expenses ofthe Illinois Nor
NAL University are 4lS,0sO. The building
will seat SEQ normal and 100 model pupils
and the furniture And grounds are valued ct
$4,000.
Indiana Normal School receives On
annual appropriation Of $4,000. The city
Of Terrs Haute gives $50, 900 and the Leg
islature $4,000 fos the building.
KAmaAs.-Prof. L. B. Kellogg. Princi>
pal Of the Normal School, reports IS ladies
and IS gentleman attending the Normal De>
partment; Is girls and IL boys in the Model
School.
MAIxE.-Dr, Billiards. annual repoot
gives the number Of children between and
Fl years Of age 1t 2l2,309 the ratio Of at.