New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The reduction of salaries is about to be dis
cussed at Michigan University
The largest class ut the University of Nr-
gina this session Lap-thero lis students
Superintendent Pickard of Chicago has re-
signed his position.
The Suite Teachers Association of Kansas
has recommended the teaching Of the metric system in
the schools of that State.
Henry c. Bolton of this city has just been
elected scovile Professor OF Chemistry and National
Science at Trinity College.
There are 574 teachers in the San Francisco
schools salaries amount aggregate of 1857
1S7 %.
The North Carolina University Normal School
for oolored teachers, has just opened with large
number Of students.
The town of Denuison is said to possess the
most successful free school in Texas 1t educates 3os
pupils.
The recent benefactor of the Museum OF the
University Of Virginia declares his intention to make Its
Natural History collections the best in the world
The Trustees of Chicago University have
decided 10 appoint financial agents TO raise moneyto
pay the debt Of that institution
The President of the retiring Board OF Ed
uoaon OF St. Paul MIMI has just made an acdfesS 10
his colleagues declaring against co-edueaton OF the
sexes.
A reduction Of Zig per cent has been made
in the salaries Boston teachers the total SAVING
$50 303 Mr. Moses Merrill has been elected Head Mas
ter OF the famous Latin school
The proposed method Of electing the pubic
school teachers in Baltimore provides that each person.
before being assigned permanent position must W.
dergo preparation OF ut least ten Gays rs SUBSTITUTE
teacher
The School Board of New Orleans has deter
mined that the black and white children OF HAT city sha
be educated in separate schools One OF the cooieu
members Of The Board advocated the separation on inc
ground that it w0ud tend to the benefit OF bis race Inc
abolition Of tie High Schools contemplated but was
given up.
Dickinson College, Penn, has just provIoed
for an additional special course Of study called tue
"Istu Scientific" Students selecting this course are TO
be admitted without examination in Creek ana upon
satisfactorily passing through three years Of s'u!,
special attention being paid TO anaiyIc" chemistry "
laboratory work. they arc 20 receive the doeieo VI
Bachelor Of Science. The head Of the sciC'c p"n'"
Of this suecal course is Professor G. r. Hines IN D'
formerly Of Heidelberg.
Mr.. Shine Isawa is a young japanese, who
has inst been graduated at the Brdgewster Normal
school His essay was chiefly a collection CT long
admitted statements in regard 10 education "hcn may
be Of service Japan. He gave BESIDES sla'is'i'S
ing the condition education in Japan ana feeoS~u
the source thanking Americans for the efforts mace III
that direction To-day there are over 10000 common
schools nearly 600 900 children receiving education il
them and So S66 instructors engaged IN the WORK
President Findley of the Ohio Teachers AS
ISOLATION says that tie right moral training oil MS pu
mis- Is the teachers and highest duty; ana tna'
instruction in schools Of all grades needs some inoca
ton which shall give II more direct influence Oh 'le
common needs Of every day life. The Association al JUS
recent meeting received communication from the ONO
College Association, asking that committee De al
poiuted 20 confer with them with view to harmoiIhS
the course study between the colleges ana inc hisH
schools. 49,,
This very well-stated paragraph is from me
National Teqehers NonthIy: point 10 be noticed IN
th training Of teachers Is that it is not as important
how much they know, how well they understand 10"
n excite in pupils desire know. teacher may nave
vast knowledge and power TO impart to others de-
siro 10 gain this knowledge The amount pupil learns
in the sehoooom is not the great aim Of instruction
He NAV be full of science, lteraSure, ard mathematics
and moor student after all Guided By others, he may
ho,o acopirea great fuud Of information and yet not
no able 10 know how study. II is not OF so much I'M
,orapce TO the apprentice how much work he does, as
how well lie knows how to DO the work he does do.
iourneyar OF our acquaintance who Tor fifteen years
has worked faithfully his business does not to-day
know enough 70 cut out coat There are many teachers
who know enough 20 pass examination in almost
eyerything and yet can do good work IN The
seboorooia They tell talk. lecture explain; ana their
npis 20 away impressed with idea OF the vasncss OF
their know edge while they have received but little ben
eft.