New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

in an excellent and efficient condition. and the system is
crowned by wellequpped and vigorous high SCHOOL
Adams Academy has this year presented
fifteen students for examination at Harvard anu
Columbia of whom one only has failed to pass the e1
aminations.
Mr.. Holloway is actively proceeding about
tbc erection of his proposed college for In Eng
land The whole cost, it is said, will be more thau
s., SOC, 900.
The consideration of the question of unfit
cation OF the school of this State was postponed
by the Teachers Association after arguments for ana
against the project.
The examinations of the Boston schools are
now distributed through the year avoid pressure OF
work in June. Some of them held In January SONIC
In May, leaving small number in June
More than $50 students are already regis
tered at the Marha's Vineyard Summer Institute and
the number is daily increasing. Only the German ana
French languages spoken in the cottages represent
ing these departments.
The Concord Summer School of Philosophy
g. at the very beginning, very successful 1t already
after weeks session, has sixty pupils ana moro are
expected Should this success he continued the llsntu
ton viii be made permanent one
Mr.. w. f. Forster complains that the Eng
lish schools above elementary schools especially Tor
girls are in sad condition, and adds that America mas
In respects on advantage over Engidhu III l'i"
OF education, aud particularly with regard TO girls
schools.
Professor Geikie, the distinguished Edin-
burrb eeolocist Will give series OF lectures at the
Lowell Institute at the beginning Of hene1t term lie
will arrive in this country next month"; and after Few
weeks of travel will return 10 Boston IN time Tor the
opening OF the institute.
Professor Johonnot speaks of two evils OF
examinations: First examining; and second meehanical
memorisng. The remedies are. lie says "hrst, IT.
regular intervals examinations; second, make your
questions such Is Will demand construction ana MOI
analysis in the pupils work"
1t has been determined by the School
Board Of Richmond, Va that all lady teachers in the
public schools that city who shall marry during their
terms Of service shall thereafter be ineligible TO the
position OF teacher and then places shall be supplied by
the Superintendent of Schools
In New South Wales last year the sum of
81, 7Os.4s5 was expended upon primary education
Teachers salaries absorbed S709320. There were in
operation lS7 schools attended in the aggregate by
l2sl25 pupils Since 1877 there has been an increase
of seventy schools Ten years there were only G42
schools.
Professor Blackie, Of the University of Ed
fnbureh complains very heartily aud frankly of what
he calls the genteel vulgar superstition Of importing
TO Scotland professors from England ard neslectinC
native talent the principle that "far-of birds have
fire feathers" He holds that students learn In Eng
land IAN sfectation Of fine craftsmanship. slavery
to the traditions Of urpca church. coquetry with
the pueriities Of a ceremonial OF religion and ire
meudous amount Of certain small selfcontained
pathological concct" In spite OF his support OF native
Mr.. Bacc does not seem TO find 1t much to his
mind. He says that the higher scholarship has been
neglected for two centuries In Scotland and that
not yet on way definite Improvement since pro-
fessOrs of Greek have to do the lowest work OF ele-
students who
academical life Mr.. Bldckie recommends TO go TO
Athens or Leipsic avoid Oxford If they hope to
maintain the heroic of their native land.
The Bishop of Manchester said the other
DAY that every 80 children the registers, 20 be-
longed to the Church OF England. 10 the British aud
undenominational schools = 10 the Wesleyans, TO
the Roman Catholics and to the school board schools
The total average attendance at the schools 2405
1877 and Of every "a children OF the Church of
England, 2l2 were educated In British and updeDomna
tlOna schools, lilo in Wesleyan schools. d in Roman
Catholic schools 5l2 in school board schools. Then
again. II they looked to the sums OF money that had
been spent, they would find that between the years
1889 aud 1878, period OF forty years-frOm the time
when the system first reared its head the
eut moment-the state had spent 22,S2o000, and of
this there had come the POCKETS Of the Church OF
England schools a14191 ,26s Wesleyan, British and
undenominational, G3,706,5G3; Roman Catholics.
alOsj0S7 board schools, 81 2S4 263 that ont Of
every sos sI4 h.d been granted the Church of Eng
land The expenditure during the same years on the
part Of the several schools had been: Church OF Eng
land, R16.6OO,120; undeHOminatioDal, R4703,76s;
Roman Catholic, 81 326,606 school board, a3443,OOO
So that whatever aspect of the question they looked
it appeared that the Church of England had done six
times more than the British aud undenomin national
schools sixteen times more than the Wesley fifteen
times more than the Roman Catholics, two and half
times as much the school board schools.
At the recent meeting at Penn Yam of the
Kew-York Teachers President Brewer said
that the high art Of correct primary teaching acquired
by but few Of those who graduated from pro
fessiona training schools and he added that great
many young people Of this have been and still
deprived Of the benefits Of higher education on account
of the unsklul primary teaching to which they have
been compelled TO submit for many years not only
wasting valuable time, but contracting habit of being
inaccurate and superficial Mr.. Brewer also complained
that the present standard Of literary qualifications for
admission 10 the normal schools Is too lOw-sO
low. indeed, that several terms are scarcely sufIi
cient 10 prepare the applicant after entering in
branches Of study that should have been
well understood at the time of admission. Be
yOnd, however, higher education, primary instruc-
ton and technical and industrial training, Mr. Brewer
reckOned moral instruction He said-and IL is a
pleasure TO quote himhat secular tuition, the
dry details OF facts and numbers which there not
supsTadded the vital element Of moral principle is only
body without soul, and yet, he added, " would il
be too much to say that at red in our history has
moral instruction in schools been much neglected
as the present timef IL should be considered one Of
the essential elements IN any course Of Instruction,
public private and the teacher who neGlects by pre-
cept and example to impart moral instruction 20 us
pupils should be held TO have failed essentially in the
proper discharge the duties that beongt his profes
sion Is It not TO be feared that great reliance
placed intellectual culture for the proper de-
yelOpment OF the moral facultlcsP
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