New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-31
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

gymnastics are now regarded as neces-
sary part Of education in the Italian schools
The salaries of the teachers IN the Maine
Normal schools have been reduced. The salaries VI VIC
Portsmouth, n. H., public school teachers nave S''
been reduced. go "A.
Teachers ought not to read without pron'
This sentences not the disposition OF 'he ave-
age boy girl to fight persstenty' ioreNei' "s
kindness and moral force"
The next class at Wellesley is expected TO
,,,n,hor ohout 100 The College has received gifts
amounting TO sl55.OOO during the past year Ihree
thousand volumes have been added TO Its Vauapio
library.
Sixfv-three ladies presented themselves at
the Midsummer Matriculaton Examination just heiu ~
London University. THIS is nearly SIX times as many
female candidates applied for the examination 's'
January at which for the first time were auli
ted upon equality with men,
Principal Dana, of the Vermont State NOT
nal School, N comparing old and new methods OF e'cn
ing complains that much Of the modern education Is sU
pere,tal ana thar children are not taught as Of
Old obedience truhfuluess, integrity and setheipiu
ness He wishes that children should be encouraged u
work themselves and not rely ON the teacher
Education in Belgium is made as entertain
ing as possible. The children OF the communal Scno
are taken on the seaside or into the coun
try or to some neghOOrng town. In the last case INC
local authorities make ARRANGEMENTS Tor the young W.
TORS IN see az many of the Of the place as can
be crammed into day, and many cramped niue
mind is enlarged and frightened.
The Rev. Z. E. Hale, talking not long ago
~ study 10 the students at Antioch College ADVISED
them to study when they left school what they heeueu
most and could do best. n you have found out al
seventeen" he said, that you cannot ven IOio" VIC
mathematics, let them 40 to those who can
1a0f1a ha
any one can choose for you. When you. have decided
hold on TO your decision; let book lead to DOOR, suc'
omen from subject. Never fear but the range VIII 10
wide enough before you have done. sincerely DeeNe
that with the resources OF great pubhc hor%nes
nny man or woman OF spirit who chose to take up
suiect OF detail which had been already wrought
ont by specialist might, In montus time, be III al
vance OF any person the community on that line Oh
research could safely, believe make the statement
for q shorter period.
Superintendent Mabbett of Rochester, adj
yocatiug the tracing books In teachhg peumaH
ship to very young pupils says tnat circular oil inquiry
Oh the subject has called out from superntenaeh's al
over the country many valuable statistics About ~
per cent Of the large number of responses approve Oh
tracing as means securing beginners better re-
suits in pen-hOiding, position ana movement Vi INC
remainder larger number admit they have never
tried this method and the others ask for Information
Pupils begin to write at different ages In different re-
CiODs Eighty per cent OF Tue Ie>pOhsOo 'AN' ''A~
ern states their pupils begin the use OF pen
and ink at nine hears d. In the Middle States 90 per
cent begin years and Al per cent at eight years
in the western States 60 per cent begin at seven years.
and the other 40 per cent at eight In me western
States more hours week given to writing than III
the Middle or Eastern states.
Professor Lincoln, of Brown University, says
that in classical teaching must have grammatical
study but 1t be combined far more with living
processes OF practice. Teachers must try he de-
cares make their pupils sanskrt students or scientific
grammarians before they have made Greek and Latin
scholars "NOr must pupils he adds, "be burdened
with oyer-much grammar nor perpe1ed with the sub
tletes Of IT'S science. sui there must be grammatical
study-accurate thorough, and continuous For lack of
this what is called natural method is faulty and
fatally So But the grammatical study and knowledge
must be combined with living practical use in hearing
and speaking, well in reading and IN writing.
Greek and Latin languages, must be taught by the
tongue and the quite much by the eye tmust
be voiced and heard, and spoken by all possible
cises of most practical kind in union with the reading
OF the book. method must be carried on from
the beginning the end Of Of instruction in
school and college.
An effort has lately been made in Cleveland
10 induce me Herald OF that city, TO publish communi
cations asking for the reduction of the salaries Of the
female teachers the city schools The editor decnes
with hearty emphasis, Ieeitns the long and exsCng
labor Of the teachers and plying them that they do
not enough to make old comfortable, TO
them from painful anxiety in illness. The salaries
paid our female teachers" says this manly writer
none too high They earn al they get They wear
away their lives tas that is endless, work that is
never compieted-one in which they neither ask
pect gratitude thaukfulness. When exhausted
by labor broken down, perhaps in the prime of life,
with nervous prOstratiOn disease growing out Of
close sehool-rooms, bad ventilation and want of
cise they made promptly TO retire for their success
sors without apensOn the means TO live, with youth
wasted and the power to charm gone beyond recovery
We honor this class OF the community as we honor all
brave heroic aud resolute souls. When IN
nueuce Deitte their great services and labors or
take from them their hard-earned wages, 1t viii be
when we bold manhood cheap, and have forgotten
some Of our weightest obi cations"