The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-16
.Gdnrafpnal.
EDUCATION IN OHIO.
Admirable and Instructive Exhibit How Lady
Teachers Gained the Ascendaney.

gres8 III education and the practical
workings of their system of public in
struction, none has her articles i'm a
shape so easily to be understood and
so readily to be ascertained as Ohio.
BY a peculiar method of shading, and
plain chart, an amount of information
is conveyed that would require the
| peruSal of n small volume to ascertain.
| Here, for instance, is a map showing
the per cent of the enrolment of youth
| in actual attendance at school, the
highest being from sixty seven to seven
ty three, and the lowest from forty-two
to fifty-five. OF the eighty-eight coun-
ties in the State only six attained the
highest per cent, namely, Lorain, Rich
land, TrumbulI, Licking. Fulton, and
Hamilton. a large majority range
from fifty-nine to sixty three, while
very fair number show per cent. rum
ming along a scale from sixty to sixty
seven. Another map gives us the in
| formation that we might be almost sure
would follow from the above showing
that the value of all school property
per cepita is less in those counties
where there is the lowest per cent. of
attendance is below the average, or
where it ranges from forty-two to
sixty.
Tracing with the eye a single line
across another chart, we learn the to-
tai expenditure each year for the past
toirty eight years, both for tuition and
for all educational purposes; and furth-
er, that up to 1862, the teachers and
all others who were paid from the
school funds of this State were paid
either in gold or in paper that COM
Inanded its face in gold on presenta-
tion at the counter 1t is interesting
to trace the changing rate in teachers
wages for the past twenty-one years.
From 1855 to 1876 the wages of both
gentlemen and lady teachers has been
on a gradual increase; but the wages
OF gentlemen teachers has increased
more rapidly than the wages of the
lady teachers. In 1854, the average
monthly pay of men was S25, and of
women SIS; hut in 1875 men CON-
manded $50 and women $50 per month.
@h@rrrh ha fanaIarS
paid less for their services, they have
gradually taken the places of the men,
so that to day the scales are completely
turned Up to the breaking out of the
war the gentlemen teachers employed
in public schools outnumbered the
women by thousands; but the war
drew heavily on the teachers ranks.
Thousands of her best and worthiest
teachers, not only in the common
schools, but in her high schools and
colleges, resigned their posts and en-
rolled themselves among the citizen
soldiery. Their places in the school
room and the recitation classes were in
lare measure filed by lady teachers;
and so well have they done their work,
which before it was believed could on
ly be done by men, that it has been
impossible to crowd them out of the
situations they were called to fill by
the exigencies of the war. So to-day
the lady teachers of Ohio exceed the
gentlemen by more than two thous-
and.
TO note the Increase or decrease in
the number of the youth of this State
of legal school age, and to show the
greatest per cent. of daily attendance,
or the highest per cent, of the enroll
ment of the youth who are in daily
attendance upon the public schools,
another chart is prepared which in
forms us that in 1872 there was in the
State more children between the ages
of six and twenty one than at any
other period between 1854 and 1856;
and that the highest per cent. of the
enrolment i'll actual attendance was
in 1850, when it reached over eighty
per cent. it was the lowest in 1875,
there being steady and almost grad
nal decline from 1850 to the close of
the last school year.
The exhibit of the actual work of
the schools are of much interest.
Bound volumes of the examination
papers of the pupils are here presented,
showing tine methods of teaching and
the advancement of the pupils through
the various grades, from the admis-
sion into the primary department to
the graduating from the high school.
The cities of Cleveland, Columbus.
Toledo. Sandusky, Oberlin, and sever
al Others make an admirable showing
in this department. Ohio is doing her
self great credit in the exhibition of
| her progress in what she has actually
accomplished for the instruction of her
youth; and the visitor TO the Centen-
| NAL who takes any interest IN educa-
tional matters, and who would be
pleased to see the matter set before
him in manner at once easy to CON-
prehend and yet sufficiently full and
explicite to be in any degree satisfac-
tory, should pay this department a
visit He will find anhour spent here
one of the pleasantest and most profit
able of the time devoted to sight seeing
while in the city. The exhibit will be
found in one of the row of rooms de.
voted to education in the gallery over
the south entrance to the Main Build
ing.-N. Y. Tribune.