The daily gazette., 1876-03-11
SECOND EDITION,
Our Public Schools.
PRHPARlNG THEM FOR CENTENNIAL
vlslToRs-1NsTRUCTIo TO
TEACHERS


PREPARING THEM FOR CENTENNIAL
lslToRs-1NsTRUCTIo TO
TEACHERS.
At school No. last evening Super-
intendent Harlan gave instructions
and suggestions to the public school
teachers, in regard to separating the
schools in the best manner for the re-
ceeption of visitors during the Cen
tennial. His remarks in substance,
were as follows:
Some of the products OF human in
genuity and enterprise from every
quarter of the globe will be on exhibit
tion within forty minutes ride of us,
next summer. At this exhibition edu.
cation will be very fully represented
Among the many things that will be
put on exhibition in the educational
department will be plans of school
houses, methods of imparting instruc
tion, evidences of advancement and
improvement of scholars, &c.
American education is attracting a
great deal of attention abroad. and
from many parts of the world there
will be visitors who will desire to
study our school system more fully
than it can be studied from such
things as will be exhibited at Phila.
delphia. They will therefore wish to
see how our teachers and pupils work
in the school rooms. No town of any
considerable size can be reached from
Philadelphia more quickly and easily
than Wilmington, and as consequence
we shall have without doubt some
strangers to visit our schools, next
summer. We should therefore pre-
pare to do our part to give them
favorable impressions of Americon in
stitutions.
| We are so we'll up with the times in
our course of instruction and methods
of teaching that there is no need, in
this connection, to mention new
things. What particularly concerns us
now is to have things as well done in
all divisions of our schools as they are
in the best divisions and TO have the
fittest things in our schools to take the
place of whatever is not SO good.
To sum up the matter briefly, i think
you will all grant that whether we
have visitors or not, the following are
things that ought TO be continually
preserved, or if they do not exist,
ought to be secured and preserved:
1. Clean rooms, with the furniture,
maps, pictures, &C., well arranged.
2. Blackboard work, such as orna-
mental designs, drawings for children
to copy, map drawings, arithmetical
operations, &C., executed with neat
ness, order, and as far as possible,
beauty.
3. Cheerful industrious pupils, clean
ly dressed, with clean hands and faces,
combed hair and blacked shoes.
Il 2. The entire abtence of threatening
and scolding in governing pupils.
s! Good position in sitting and stand
ing.
8. Uniformity and prsmptness o.
movement in passing to and from reci
tations, and in assembling and closing
, school.
z. Attention, promptness, energy
and accuracy in Rotations, with
perfect control of the class by th'
teacher.
8. Neatness and order at all times il
the execution of various kinds of 81 at
: work.
= 10. The fullest use of the time allot
ted and the means within the reach fo
9 the cultivation of the perceptive fac
ulties Of pupils, by the teaching of oh
ject lessons.
II. Collections of the best specimen
= of penmanship, map and other draw
ings, written examination papers an,
compositions by the pupils, put up il
convenient form for exhibition. ant
kept in each room, to be shown t
C visitors.
~, A nicely bound. book in eac
- room, in which to record the names c
distinguished visitors, of pupils n
ceiving prizes and otherwise distir
gushing themselves, and other intel
esting events.
:. These points were dwelt upon {
- length and fully explained by til
Superintendent.
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