New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The study of English grammar il to be made
obligatory 81. Pupils in the eighth year OF INC 81
Louis district school course.
The Kentucky Teachers Association lave
pasaed resolution fagorng the establishment OF Nor
mai School Ia that State.
Dartmouth will hereafter have three terms
instead of two The first term begins on the 3lst OF Au
gust and viii close at Thanksgiving
Prof. Hitchcock Of Amherst is now pTepar-
ing tie various statistics the basis OF the metric
tables tic metre system having been adopted by me
college.
1t is suggested by The Chicago Tribune that
there is too much money wasted in the business 81 super
nendrnce would be better employed in the business
Of teaching.
Ii is said that the lighting of school rooms
b. windows both sides has been forbidden IN Ger
many on the ground that such arrangement. injuries
the vision of the pupils.
The Board of Trustees of the Peabody Fund
10, onn,oriat,e 50 900 10 the Nashville Normal School
for this wear and win support in whole or IN part stu
dcuts from other s,etes WHO wish TO prepare them
selves for teaching this school II reported that
the trustees intend make it the chic! Normal school OF
the Southwest.
The recent reduction of teachers salaries in
Chicago gives 100 teachers Sil2 each-for which sum
poor teaching is deserved equivalent That there ia
general dc cne in argument for reducing the
already beggarly salaries Of teachers. II there is any
thing Tor which State municipality afford to pay
IL is thorough teaching.
France is said to be now spending 71,oOo,-
GOO francs for primary instruct on OF which part is
paid By the state and the remainder by the oonnunes
and the parents OF the pupils, and this Is more IMAM Is
suen for that purpose by any other nation of ContIen-
I'll Europe in the proportion Of scholars to tie popua-
on Germouy SURPRISES Fr9nce the former has 10 per
cent to 10 per cent in the latter.
1t was stated at the late meeting of the On
fario Teachers Association that the whole system OF
written examinations led 10 uOrnate examining in the
schools and serious injury to the health OF Che pupils
In Austria the country OF examinations, says the
French ConimssioDer there is no intellectual work
"The paramount aim in Prussia writes the English
Commissioner, ais to encourage love oil study ana
science for their own sakes and the prof are con-
stantly waruiug then pupils against Observation-Disclosures
pursued with view TO examinations and posts"
President Phelps of the National Teachers
, Association saws: A compulsory educational law
should be found Just and adequate educational test
"a a qualification for voting" Prof. Oaey OF the Uni
versity OF Michigan says let the elective franchise
be granted 10 our young upon the attainment OF
their majority only Wheu they pass satisfactory exami-
nation before beard: requiring proper knowledge OF
reading writing, geography, arithmetic, afamlarty
with American history and constitution of our Govern
ment as well as good moral character IS requisites.
Superintendent Wickereham of Pennsylvania
said the other day the state Teachers Association
meeting that i'm the future larger amount % apparatus
must be us-d We expect 20 keep up with educational
institutions in ohe. countries. He also suggested that
more tangible expressions in rectons must re used
and that large % the work must be reduced TO
writing he would require tEis WORK done weekly ana
monthly. that comparison might be maze IN nc
fuure He declared that primary instruction III the Old
World is far superior 10 own. We" said he use
the abstract idea. aud they the concrete or III other
words use more Of the system of object teaching AT
the sane meeting, President Cattf OF Lafayette College
read paper approving technical eGut@Noh IN coi'E1s