, 1875-08-28
educational Items.


Normal School.
The MARYLAND State Teachers As
soeia,iation will meet at Cumberland
in the latter part of this month.
Instruction in drawing will be begun
this autumn in the primary, grammar,
and high schools of Baltimore, and IN
the City College.
The United States Minister at
Stockholm states that 10000 pupils
study horticulture or forest culture ID
the common schools OF Sweden
The effort in Pennsylvania to Sc
cure the legislation necessary for the
proposed naval training school has
failed. Boston and New York have
each now trsining-shlp.
The University Of Missouri has
large number of excellent buildings
well furnished with apparatus, and an
annual income of s44, goo. There are
630 acres in the University farm.
The institution has, however, debt
of s25, 600.
At the New York State Teachers
meeting recently, q report was adopt
ed advising the establishment OF
permanent bureau to form medium
of correspondence and exchange be-
tween those who desire to employ
,oocbers and teachers desiring stu
ations.
Superintendent Leach, of Provi-
dence, says what can't be too often
repeated "To educate the mind
when the body is in a nervous, feeble
condition is a fruitless and useless
task. The first thing to be sought is
sound body with physical vigor.
This should take precedence of every
thing else: without this, any acquisi-
ton can be of but little avail"
Forty students are engaged in the
Harvard course of summer study IN
natural history. Twelve of these are
ladies. Fourteen students are taking
qualitative analysis seventeen, gen.
eral chemistry; eight, quantitative an
alysis, and twelve, mineralogy. There
are two courses of lectures given-one
on mineralogy, daily, and the other
semi-weekly, on general principles and
methods of experimenting in chem
istry.
As to the classical and the scienti.
fic quarrel, the Philadelphia Telegraph
speaks thus " Any kind of study is
good mental discipline, if it is pursued
with thorOughness, and what most of
our colleges need is not Greek and
Latin, but well qualified teachers who
know what thorOughness is. and who
are willing and able to insist on hav
ing it. The great object of any edu-
cational system is to fit young men
and young women for the work they
will have to do in the world and it is
the business of educators TO fill their
minds with knowledge that will be of
some use to them after they leave col
lege, and to train them in habits of
exact thought and thorough methods
of doing whatever they attempt to do.
For practical purposes, mathematics,
science, and the modern languages are
beyond all comparison of more value
than Greek and Latin, while if prop
erIy taught, they are superior to the
dead languages for disciplinary pur-
poses"
The report of the New York Teach
ers' Committee on the condition of ed
ucation in the State says that not
much progress has been made in coun-
try districts during the year. The
Compulsory Education bill has thus
far had little effect in increasing the
attendance. The question most dis
cussed is how to furnish competent
teachers for the schools. The conclu.
sion of the Committee is hardly judi
cious if it points in the direction of
technics it is that schools should ed
ucate with more direct reference 10
the wants of those who are to engage
in industrial pursuits Technical stud
les are thoroughly out of place in the
common schools. An exact and man
ageable English education is what is
particularly needed, and it is true that
there too many teachers incompetent
to give this. The COMMITTEES report
advises the retention of the bible in
schools; recommends co-education /;
asks for more efficient law for COM
pulsory education, and deprecates the
demonstrative character of our educa.
tiOn leading to exhibitions, boat races,
etc.