New-York tribune., 1873-01-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

ahil 10 establish in Kentucky an educauonai
svs,.n, for tho negroes is about 10 be propcse" Ia '
Legislature Of that state. r.
Alabama is 20 have a normal schooi-ior
white tcacherst Florence IL Wi. 0pfn snrdnraon Sn Smo
from the state Of 5000
Asa hit of announcement TO those preparing
xhe American school representation for Vienna TINS year.
~ ay be repeated that at the Paris Exposition the pest
modei of q schoohouse and the best textbooks came
Trom spsn
The School of Mines at Rolla, Mo-, is re-
narkatly successful II has good corps Of instructors
and f an institution its second yuar. large number
., oyel and actively practical 1t has already IT is
said brought mining capital TO the county.
The recent report of the Newark, N. o.,
School superntendent says that the entrance of cooeu
children into the higher grammar schools prouGed oS
momeutary sensation, aud even that mas su"siuo"
From all sides come demands not for clas-
sieal and philosophical education but Tor sueh pracuo
industrial schools will prepare students rd I0r Re
hcular professions. Ihe lAleS' ''l'i'"'' " W
mont.
Compulsory education is one of the things
most widely thought OF and talked about al present
The last argument for It's adoption by any one state
comes from Missouri Where however V"e in'1'i'' '
lot yet n favor OF H.
An amusing complaint comes from the Cher
okee Nationhat that instead Of teaching the little
Indians Jlngsh before other things, the English in-
strncioT ip their schools merely teach in English, using
f children aud teacher talking each different language
and LAUNDERING along day after day, IN an unlnteglOe
and useless Mmddle of sounds.
A pnblic school official in Massachusetts, re-
Gently INDUCED in very reasonable talk concern
ing TIE time TO be given TO the study of each OF the ord
nary branches Geography he Justly called the great
anaconda which has hitherto swallowed up far too mucn
lime in school He thought that IL should be taught
orally for she first six years, and then by DooR-
Good sense and lean purses urge that the
many small colleges and universities which in some OF
oar states slowly starve within short distances OF each
otber shoua be consolidated into few large and strong
institutions II could he done at the cost Of not much
more agonized chorus OF local ana sectaIlah
win The Iaw and Medical schools and the Dudley OBJ
Oervatory of Albany will make such an arrangement
A report that the State appropriation was to
pe cut off from University OF Virginia rouses one OF
her editors TO half column Of blazing Indignation He
declares that Virginia is rapidly becoming the seat OF
the chief educational institutions OF the country and
the University great benefit rot 70 tue sate
anybody who would vote TO deprive 1t of its annuity
would be demagogue and an ignoramus We agree
~ IN this fiery gentleman in his opinion that this Is not
She direction for any State TO practice economy m
The President of the California University,
She State Superintendent, and the heads OF the common
schools lately met to consider system OF graduation
from the primary school 10 the university President
Gilman made an excellent speech, wherein he stated
that his university like Harvard and Yale, offers two
distinct examination schedules Tor those VINO woud DC
admitted TO the Freshman class The course oil science
under his no less thorough than the classical
If, therefore vital connection between the Schools anu
university be established, II viii settle Tor
least, question OF " science IN the school Inc
eot no farther than resolution reeommendhg
preparatory course IN the High ana Grammar ocuOOIst
but the discussion will probably not end here
The Catholic schools of Rochester are eaid
80 be welLappOinted and welattended, and Bishop
MeQuaid declares the children cannot be got back
into the public schools the Of the being either
Protestant negative. Asserting that 1t is not right to
tax Catholics educating other peoples children, he
advises a compromise By which the state shal take
these Catholic paIoChal schools under It's charge Egh
dollars tor pupil Is the appropriation with which
she BlshOp PROCESSES he would be satisfied This Is
ODehrd of the required for each child ln our COM
schools He says that the Catholic church COM
mAnds skilled intellectual labor at the lowest prices, its
schools carried successfully at much less eN-
peIse than the Protestant ones.