Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-07-15

EDUCATIONAL.
The Montpelier Union ScloH clo=el on tn,
oath of June. The catalogue reports the name,
Of 80 pupils, w.th en- s7e-age daily ettenLuc,
of 832. There are six departments b,.ow tht
''Grammar" CT High School grade IN thi,
We find the Names Of Il pupils enrolled for the
year. The sohco! year is limited to 3, weeks.
D. d. Gorhsm IS principal aad Ms Mary T.
Durham preceptress.
The catalogue of the Brandon Graded School
gives an aggregate Of 4l2 scholar from the
district, and q from oa,l.je. The average Egg
rollment per term has been $50, Of whom IS
have taken rsssieal course. Tie High scloo,
department numbers a. There are Elk grades
beneath it The school yel- numbers Sc weeks,
And no child is admitted under five years O.
Age J. S. Culey, principal.
The National Teachers Association VIII NEE,
this year at Cleveland, Ohio, On the 18th, ,th,
and 10Th Of August.
The American Normal School Association
will be in session at the same place. august
9Th snd 10th
The National School Super;atendents Ass5-
citation viii hold q business meeting at c eyeaud,
on the afternoon Of the 10th Of august
The American Institute Of Instruction will
hold its forty-frst annual session IN Worcester,
Mass, on the 18th, 9th, and 18th Of July.
The American Pathological Association VII
meet this year at Rochester, Il. T., Tie sessions
beginning July Goth.
The american Association for the Advance
ment of Science viii hold It's eighteenth annual
meeting at Troy. beginning August 18th. The
Trojsns are making liberal srraBsea ents for
their entertainment
The Educational meetings this year will be
distinguished from those Of former years b. ,he
absence Of School Book Agents, the publishsrs
ofiext-books having agreed 70 withdraw their
army of runners from tie field after July Let
How We shall miss them They were always
ready to tell US which was the best b50t anl TO
present US with copies Of IL. Eaat deal OF
trouble they favel, or were wiling 70 save, to
teachers But that is all over NOW, and all |
Independent and honest men, whether ca boards 1
Of instruction or Of control, are yhs1kfal fJr !
the change.
Massachusetts has 10 high schools sai tvo I
Of these are in the charge Of ladies' One Of /
these we happen to know something about |
The school committee of the town Of H say |
that their female principal is giving better
satisfaction both to them sid to the patrons O; /
the school than her male predecessors
This reminds US Of the leading argument ~
the petition Of the suffrage women Of B.sttle-
boro to the Constitutional Convention. Dill .
anybody notice it, ami tine quiet, assured air
with which it YVES nut forward, They said
tie dear solls-that there wss CREST complaint
on ali hands abo-t the condition Of the public
schools, the doings of the State Board of Edrca-
ton, SC, &c. They limited not obscurey, that
if WOMAN could only get an equal share In the
trsning and education Of the children, If only
the male could be ousted from this monopoly,
which he is known to have enjoyed ever since
the world began, Of developing and directing
the infant mind, the good Tine which We have
heen looking Tor so long would SET in ST once
One would think, 70 read the petition, that
that there were No schoo-ma ANS in Vermont,
snd no mothers either, for that matter. d" IF
the oppressed sex could only have something to
do with the schools 80 Well the most import
ant and the only indispensable school cltcor Is
the teacher. Ii he be not equal to hi- work. not
all the Women in B. can make the school yield
the best results Now who is it that has held
this highest. this most influential ofl5e, up and
down throughou. the SAFE these thirty years.
Why. women ; as every body, save these highly
logical politicians, is aware.
Last year, IN Vermont, the State schools were q
taught by males ,253 weeks, by females orl1
80, 557. That is, tire females have had bur SIX c
chances to " mould mind, where TIE males
have had one No doubt the few renaining ri
deficiencies Of our schools and school system
would disappear At once, if the seventh chance
were only given to tie female teacher. We in
fer that it e ouly every seventh school which
furnishes cause for complaint, s;z o. the seven
having already attained the perfection (in teach
ing) which the s,gners OF ,ae petition hope will a
be universal the next yea after Female Suffrage
has fully come
Prof G. y web5ers Fa,t-Day Sermon on p
- The Bible and the Public Schools has been o.
printed 1t is a vigorous and timely discussion o.
IF theme which interests every patron Of our !,
public schools,-nsy, every American citizen. u
Tie Rbo5s Island Scico'na.fer is furnish :, !,
ng very practical specimen lessons n Grammar
md Arithmetic.
The Mass Teacher for June contains the -.
questions used AZ the examination for admission -
% the English High School, Boston also a good =.
,sper On the hest method Of teaching Reading =,
md Spelling to Beg nuers.
The teachers # Lamoi lie county draw ~ good
esolutioDs. One hundred and hge Of them.
FER weeks attendance upon the Institute at IA
Johnson a few days since, rssoirs! unanimous AZ
y thst County Teachers Association would
,e good thing, and then-sent the resola- CO.
ion to the papers and went home without organ 6.
ring the Association. We commend to their
consideration the remarks Of St. James on Works
IS. Faith; $50 a certain proverb relating to the "
Use Of good resolutions for paving purposes.
We should add to this that we have the best
authority for saying that the Institute was a
uocoss, and that this success is in large part 81
@ be sssritei to the influence Of the Norm b
chool in hist county
Al
The Addison County Teachers Institute closed IN
IN Saturday Of last week There were in ali a III
title over one hundred teachers IN attendance al
u the seventeen VINO took tho examination for
be State five year certificate nine were success CT
al, Of whom one was Student from Mijdebnrv as
,olege the rest ladies, fou. being residents If tin
'ergennes. The resolutions speak very highly an
Dr. Frenoh's instruction. Much Of the in
crest and success of the Institute vas due to Mr. an