New-York tribune., 1878-07-06


In chemistry il presents excellent specimens OF Ia
boratory work. aud in botany hcTbarum of fifty
indigenous plants collected, labelled and arranged
by student. These are specially to be noticed
among mang specimens The industrial school ol
Lausanne also sends students work mainly pen and
ink drawings of decorative designs and mechanical
and typographical drawings. The Deaf Mute lnS!i-
tue of MOndon is represented by textbooks, alpha
bets and a series of colorcO pictures. The system
employed at Mondon Is first to teach the names Of
objects by Inspection ana next tho names OF quail
ties by generalization, as supposing six red objects
given tire quality "rcd is ascertalned by com
pairing and PeneTalizng.
PROFICIENCY IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
Not the least interesting part of the NaudOis col
lection Is the exhibition of scholars work in the
primary schools Here are exercises in drawing, III
writing in arithmetic in composition. All Of them
show an extreme care and finish in the formal part
/ of the work so much so as to lead one TO suppose
/ that their destination was kept in view 10y the
writers-wcre il not that they bear some unmistak-
! able signs of the daily exercise OF the
/ school-room. The themes all, as they
| should be- on simple subjects wholly wlthh
/ the writer's range, and taken, for the most part
/ from their daily life and some of them give vivid
! picture of a Swiss boys cares and pleasures one
! OF the fay0rite subjects is u narrative OF the
I
which is an established practice in all Swiss schools
Some Of these accounts give charming little views
/ Of the cbiIdrcns life filed in with bits OF local
color All 60 together on these courses master,
BOYS and girls. The master names some day III
/ NAV or June for the course" excursion, which
is 10 he tramp among the neElIborlng mountains,
/ and visit to certain villages not lar on; Al an
early hour. usually one OF two o'clock IN the morn
ing the scholars meet at the sChOohOnse, carrying
| their baskets. 1t is delicious morning; setting
out from BaUmcS, let Us say, the hIsJ village iheN
I reach Is NuttcbOcul, al the foot OF Jura. Ihelt
they ascend the mountain, TO see the sun rise, ana
! 20 breakfast Then they 70 down the valley 10
I TraverS which they reach about noon, and where
. they rest; then they come back IN the
afternoon Ly a little stream 10 BannCs'
This rugged sort Of picnic Is the thing they GeDght
in. tbclr daily walks on the mountains. Bui tnc
strain is too much for some OF thcm ara no wonder
that they Gndas of the girls saws III her theme,
with charming naIyete, the niue legs were IRE; %
| sooner han the little people who owned Them hau
/ thought
Passing again to higher education, though there
is no lack Of il in Switzerland, do not find Il fully
. represented at the Exposition Besides the Acad-
euy ol Lausanne, there Others OF Ncuchatoi and
Geneva and higher yet the three universities OF
Basel, Bern and Zurich. There are also the three
Roman Catholic lyceums OF Lug1no, Einsiedeln and
Lion. Neither these nor the Universities have
any exhibit. The Federal University Is still a
( thing OF the future, but the Federal Polytechnic
. school founded IN 1891. and placed At Zurich,
already ranks high among the technical schools OF
. Europe. II has about seventy professors ana 500
students il sends TO the Exposition sketch ol lis
history with lis laws ana regulations ana IlthN
bound volume OF plans and views OF It's bGi'dhGS'
/ which Include an observatory, a laDuIa-
7 tory and q college OF agriculture. he Dund-
. inas are spacious and COnyc' lent WITHIN, ana
externally of a simple and massive style 9I aicIl-
testuIc. The wide scope Of the school IS shown il
its eight courses OF schools, VIZ: Architecture,
civil engineering, mechanics, chemistry. agneulII
I turc and forestry, bCeS-cjtrrs and moral ana
political science, the normal school OF mathematics
and phN sizes. and the preparatory school ol majAt-
maiics adj OF which open To any student OF sew
cu,ccu at the light charge Of 100 francs T2Ul
TIE ART SCHOOL or LUCFRNF.
Among other institutions for superior instruction
reprcscited in the Exposition the Industrial
/ Art School. of Luccrne, whose largo wall-Spaces
are filed with excellent colorcd sketches
cf pieces of pottery, diapering, and richly
ornsmcutcd metll-work. Another institution,
the Special hool of Art Applied to In
/ dustry at Geneva, sends similar work
of a somewhat more ambitious character, consist
ing Of orr zuai compositions OF designs Tor interior
decoration and metal work. all Of rather rocco
stylc. and much less pleasing as art specimens
than those from Luccrne. The faults, how
ever are those Of taste rather than ma
, llpv atipn ard they arise from the study
! OF bad lnodcs-a thing for which there Is
, 10 eX.u.c nj Geneva where the AlusGe Fol with
. its extensive collection is al the student, hands
The cNGiblt of students work IA the normal schools
Of thc PAYS de Naud is good OF IFS KIND but >ngu-
laTy elementary tOT suCh lusl!tulloiS ana Iol TIC
I age Of the scholars.
IN materials and especially in school furniture,
. America has httlc 10 learn from Switzerland; bu!
i'm maps especially maps in relief and textbooks,
( we are still somewhat behind. A limited area is,
of course, great help to minute
and accurate knowledge and representation
Of the geography and topography Of a country, and
the Swiss seem to have gone over every square foot
. of their little territory with peculiar care TIER
historical inVcStiCatiOnsn the matter Of local his
tory c.pecIally-aTe full Of IaborOus and pamstak-
IDg research. Many volumes OF their historical puu-
! hcailOus aIc to be found al the Exposition. As an
illustration of Their mlnutcucsS IN these matters
may be mentioned historical atlas of the Canton
| Of Zurich used IN the Schools which shows the Ter
Titcrial changes in tins little district since the
| Roman occupation. Another conspicuous atlas is a
/ large folio showing Che progress OF education III
/ Switzerland by decades.
TEACHING THE TEACHERS.
/ No account of the Swiss school system would be
/ complete which omitted the means Of professional
culture placed in the hands Of the teacher himself.
One sees evidences Of this on all hands. in each
school district the masters brought together
a body called the Chapltre Scolaire, which has a
library and place of meeting, where the masters OF
the district assemble for the discussion of subjects
relating to thcirprofessOn. All the chapters again,
are united in the Synod which meets less frequently,
but which has a direct voice in the school
government. in that it elects two members
| of the Council of Education, the highest
| body to which questions Of school admin
! istration are referred. All this is in Zurich.
| In Zurich also is the rccently-founded Permanent
Exposition Of school furniture and appliances, where
one may find everything which is, or is expected to
be. an improvement in the material or the methods
Of teaching OF pedagogic journals there are several
/ notably TEcole, published semi-monthly at
Lausanne, and PEdacaieT, at St. Imer.
Other societies exist, similar to those Of
/ Zurich for bringing together the masters in