Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-27
Educational

Educational
A Prussian statesman solemnly prom
ised God that he would look upon every
Prussian child as being who could just
ly complain before Him if he did not
use the utmost means to give him the
best education in his power.
Gov. English thinks he owes his sue
cess in life largely to his paying atten-
ton to drawing, and to him it is also
owing that New Haven has some of the
best school buildings in the country.
Europeans surpass us in the cultiva-
ton of music. This makes the German
so broad chested, healthy and strong.
They are singing people. We should be
healthier people, reduce the rate of
consumption if we would initiate them
in this respect.
Instead of trying as so many teachers
so unwisely do TO have the children
keep still, all keep STILL" give them
slate and pencil, or paper and pencil,
and let them draw. This would rest
them and amuse them as we'll as music
does, and be the quickest way to learn
them to write-and the best way to de-
velop love of the beautiful, which is
wofully neglected by parents, teachers
and preachers.
The study of modern languages is
hereafter to be made a speciality in
French schools, and will be obligatory
after short time. Jules Simon, the
present Minister of Public Instruction,
has issued circular explaining the need
of an entire renovation of the system of
public instruction, and recommends the
study of English and German to all
young men in the public and private
schools.
EUROPEAN SCHOOLS.
They may be regarded as in advance
of us in the following particulars; QJI
More thorough supervision of schools
CO plan of graduation culture of the
expressive faculties. Americans have
few set words and phrases which are
made to do duty on all occasions, with.
out reference to proprietY or congruity );
(4) independence of text books. They
teach the subject rather than the book
the matter rather than the letter, and
their teaching is more conversational;
CO. more thorough teaching Of history;
(6) mode Of teaching modern languages
~ drawing. Napoleon had said, let
it be taught in all schools. . The Swiss
are in advance of all other countries in
this art. To this their general prosperi-
ty was owing. Hemmed IN among the
mountains, they own their own houses
and are more prosperous than many
other countries with better advantages
England pays five times as much for
pouperism as for education, while Swift
erland pays seven times as much for ed
ucation as for crime.
CHICAGo's SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Chicago's public school system consists
o. a Normal school for the education of
teachers; high school, the course of
study IN which is equal to that of an or
ordinary college; nineteen grammar
schools with large and elegant buildings;
and fifteen primary schools. In these
are employed about 25 male teachers
and 450 female teachers, who are well
paid-better than in most cities There
were enrolled in these schools, last month,
30,236 scholars, with an average attend
ance of 1924. The schools are sup
ported partly by annual taxation and
partly from the revenues of the land
grant made by Congress on the admis-
sion Of the State into the Union This
grant is a general one, made to all the
States of the West, and consisted of ey-
cry sixteenth section in each township
of thirty-six sections. That for Chicago
is now in the heart Of the city, commence
ing at the corner Of State and Madison
streets. four blocks from the main river
and three from the lake, and extending
mile south and west. A section is a
mile square, and contains $40 acres.
Chicago's sixteenth or school section is
about equally divided between the south
and west divisions of the city, and has
frontage of two miles on the south branch
of the river