New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

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Va schools is 20 he given only in the DIVISION ana
grammar schools and IN separate rooms
The addition to the Peabody Institute at
baltimore is SO nearly completed that the lecture
department will be used during the coming season
The amount paid for tuition in Cleveland
last year was S2SO47l Ga The total number OF pupils
registered in the schools q 659 The experience ol
Cleveland proves that pupils in tho higher school erades
make more progress when instructed by fem ale teachers
than under the guidance Of male teachers
The result Of the co-cducation OF the races
I'm Poughkeepso said 70 be that tie present eoioreu
registration IN each Of five public schools is larger than
was ever tic average attendance I'm the separate o
ing for ell colored children OF the CITY, when was
abolished three years ago. There slight opposN'h
20 coeducaton hrs bat there is entire harmony!
There is to be Southern Educational ConYen-
on IN Atlanta on the 7th Of November ior Inc puiioso
of considering the difficulties Of the educational SITUATION
and Of devsing most elective means OF suruouu"e
them and establishing in every southern state WISE
and efficient system Of public education Inc
ton will have the heartest good wishes nom every "'S
American.
The last act of NJ Washington as Minister
ri public instruction in France, the creation OF
Professorsip at the Ecoe DIES Hautcs Etuccs Tor TAT
tudjcai and Rabbnlcal Language ana Literature ~
Dereubourg member OF the Institute VINO IS ePoih'eu
for This important post will begin his lectures IN NcVe-
her next AT Paris Leipzig, Strasbourg ana Canuriuee
,yovisiop is now made for students who wish to study
he OF the post-bblca Hebrew equally important
for theology exegesis aHd plilology II Is hoped thS'
oxford may have a similar chair
The average monthly wages OF teachers IN
this city are Men, S115; women, 500 In MaSS'cnu-
sets they are Men. S94 80 women S34 81 In New
Jersey men, 500 II ; women, S3s In Ut'h' men 9tV'
women GIG The Cherokee Nation. the Distric' o. Co
luula and Nevada pay the highest salaries OF all those
OF the Cherokee Nation being men, $40 Women S-OO'
Nevada, Arizona Wyoming, Maryland, Louisiana" Ioif
da Tennessee and New-Ncxico pay women inc same
wages they pay men south Carolina ana MISSISSIPPI
pay women few dollars more than men receive
Prof. John McCrady who was designated by
Agassiz as his successor the chair Of Zoology at a
- has b.cu elected 10 the Pofessorship Of Biology
and the Relation Of Religion and Science IN the UnVei-
sty OF the south 70 IS believed that TINS Is the list
formal recognition Of the so-caled eo'yieI ana 'n''
the creation Of this chair for this scholar WHO Is a.
Christian az he is learned viii contribute much io"aus
an acceptable solution Of the problem OF the times HIS
lecturedclvered by special arrangement made beloIe
his eleciion-have been listened to by intelligent au
ences largely increased 10y The cultivated people WHO
spend the summer at SuWGnee.
Prof. John Hancock of Ohio made clever
and iudlcous little speech in the National LducSuonal
Convention In reference TO technical education He do
not believe in substituting technical for general nSuc
zion and added: Il would have the American boy 90
whatever lies al hand, and believe that the proper edi-
cation is that which gives man power 10 90 TINS II we
give the pupil this the best OF our ability we cahh't 80
far astray. cannot agree to any capitalization MO
classes that would be likely to result from 50 early de-
Termination Of the occupation Of the pupil We should
make general instruction the trunk OF Sur educational
tree and LEI technical instruction grow ont of it. For
some the technical instruction should grow out nearer
the 10 C, aud for others further away"
The annual school meetings will be held
throughout this State the second Tuesday in October
and the trustees Will be obliged by the terms Of the IeN
Book Acts passed Session to designate the TEXTBOOKS
e. be used during the i've years the superh'ehd-
ent of Puc Instruction intends TO send out soon CIR
cur 10 school Trustees embracing copy OF the act IN
one ton together with comments upon the duties
OF Trustees ana others under H. He will also issue c-
culsr 10 School CoIumis Throughout tie slaleaa
ysne them TO call meetings Of Trustees ia their respect
I've Districts fo- he purpose Of arriving at correct
understanding Of law. and also to take steps towards
securing uniformity OF textbooks in the several counes
or at least. in tlo several commissioner districts
President Newell of the National Educational
Association sand az the recent meeting OF that BODY, that
he had very little doubt that by judcious management
oueha of the t0e given to spelling, arithmetic gram
mar and geography could be saved, to the great adya
tase Of the pupils lie Illustrated this statement By the
following reference TO spelling: large part OF
childs school life is spent IN learning TO spell II as
been calculated that an hour day for the
ten years between six and sixteen is spent upon thls
acCOmpl shne0t Now, granting thdt bOOu eitHlhb u
necessary part Of finished education does VI follow that
40 much time should Dc given it in the cartier part of
the coursef Are Here not other things which the pupil
capabe OF learning. aud knowledge OF which would he
OF more service him than the ability to spell all the
test words in the list And If the vocabulary OF
pupil who leaves school at fourteen is limited.
as il is to between five hundred and thou
sand words Of what use is It 10 him that he can
spell five or ten thousand words II the first clements
OF spelling have been properly taught students spell
ing Will keep pace with ms reading aud Why should 1t
advance faSerl II person can spell correctly ali the
words that be with In his reading he prob
ably spell all words that he use iutelgentiy and
what need lac OF mOre4 Time, then, can be saved
from spelling; ana by rsidy excluding from the pr
mary curriculum every part Of arithmetic, grammar AMI
geography which is merely preparatory or disciplinary
aud not immediately useful. large saving OF time can
be elected which can be utilized in the revised pro
granme" Mr. Newell declared that Part Of the time
thus saved should he given the plain reading OF
rood books Tor the sake Of the Informal
ton they contain, and he added wisely indeed 1t
IL not ccdable to efforts educators that large
proportion OF pupils pass from US without haVug &C
qurod taste good reading Consult the statistics OF
any popular libraries ard observe how few books
Of real merit are called for then say If the Of
instruction Of which this is the outcome docs not need
resdjustment II ~ coniers ability to read
without creating only desire to read, but desire
for the night kind Of reading it surely stands IN need Of
reformation Especially for those who not have the
benefit complete curriculum is necessary that they
be brought into sympathy at an eTly age, with good
literature"