The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-11
porty-second Days Proceedings.
or THE

counts furnish this Convention tabular state
ment Of taxes now due the State from 1863 TO
1878, inclusive, by parishes, showing the
4 amount due by each parish every year, ana
that 1t be printed
FROM THE TABLE.
The memorial of the school board OF Inc
parish Of st. Landry WAS referred TO the Com
,nittee on Public Education.
The memorial of dealers In hay was re-
sarred To- the Committee on Limitations.
The resolution offered by Mr. Lott, owing
III his absence, was ordered to lie over.
The report OF the Committee On Federal Re
Z lations, relative to United States District
Court for North Louisiana, was taken up.
The memorial was read and the accompa-
nying resolution was adopted.
The report OF the same committee, relative
4 ~ the resolution Of Mr.. Simon, was adopted,
and the further consideration of the resolu-
l Hon was postponed indefinitely.
The report OF the Committee on Elective
franchise, relating to female suffrage, was
& adopted.
Mr.. ella presented his dissenting views as
member of the Committee on Public Educa-
& Hon, which were ordered to be printed in the
journal, as follows:
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Committee on Pub ic Education.
New Orleans. La. June 3. 1879
The undersigned, members OF the Commit
teeon Public Education, would respectfully
beg leave to differ from the majority OF the
members Of said committee On the following
points, and for the reasons to be hereinafter
assigned:
Trst-The necessity for providing for
State Superintendent Of Public Education.
Second-The necessity for extending the
course OF study In the public schools, beyond
/ the mere rudiments Of an elementary English
education.
It's difficult to conceive how school sys-
tenn with its necessary and unavoidable COM
plications, can be conducted properly, any
4 more than any other complicated business,
without suitable supervision or superintend-
enee.
It ID hard to estimate the Importance Of q
proper supervision Of our public schools.
That ID the best system OF schools which is
. best supervised, has become maxim among
4 experienced educators all over the world. All
the foremost educational communities OF Eu-
rope-P Prussia, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden,
have q close and careful system OF supervi
sion, extending from officers who watch over
single schools up TO the minister OF public a.
I str1ction; such D system Is simply Che appIi-
Fl cation OF the principles that are observed by
" successful business men iii conducting large
] operations of any kind. Our railroads, mines,
q mills, manufactures, all have their systems
B Of supervision. An army has grades OF OIL
cers. from corporal up TO commander With
out some such organization good schools are.
as q rule, impossible.
10 have parish superintendent Of public
schools is well as far as It goes; to perfect the
system 1t Ii necessary to go step further,
and have State superintendent who will
watch over all As well expect an army TO do
well, go to battle successfully, commanded
only BY colonels or captains, without the one
q single general head to direct all, and make all
4 their movements harmonic to conform to
Il single purpose.
BY trial It has been proven that whenevera
Il town or city Is provided with good super1n-
/ tendent OF schools, In that town or city the
best schools exist. A superintendent Is able
To make his schools personal study: 80 as
intelligently to direct their modes Of teach
A iDg, to appreciate their deficiencies and sup
i ply their wants. The Prussian schools are
II subject to good supervision. The State
Il provides their support. The minister Of pub
u Lie instruction, through subordinate officers,
has control Of all the schools OF the State,
from the national university down to the prl-
mary schools OF parish.
The beneficial influence on teachers OF q
close supervision by an able and expert
enced inspector cannot be overesttmated for
instance, 1t is asserted that notwithstanding
The two or three only In. Holland. the Dutch
schoOlmasters are decidedly superior 10 the
Prussan and this superiority is attributed
Nj entirely to better system OF inspection.
tha Is Inc pass On Waoh re s WIZ" Thorough
ana complete school lnspecIlon , IN az a Ing
G aas from the gneSbb - eyery Grade
0cai lhspecgors uP Pc oysrn men Minis.
~ supernIendence 70 tne goyei iaared IN HnI-
er o. public education. 70 cpns,ue h ~ a. "a Mn
saton ah as m cenneePted with educaton and
tne absence OF proper provision ZOE soh ~ SUN
aGrough supervision q scnoos, w' aI rent
and results on teacners, ld IL W n the
anu me community at large, WouIu " -, fa tn
aaamnle Judgment 81 Ihe uhaefsieheo' iao'''
eeIect IN our new cohstlIuIion. ,horo
Besides the parish superlntenaentss p .neie
should be State Super1ntennehI OF I W ~
nucatlon, Whose main guy u s ho r 1e 40
n st 10 person tne scnoos sh - cnnditinn "a
ana cities to inquire ih.o tneal b1 hna rd 10
confer with the teachers scn anno p wards
parsa tbem and to the chill
dren and parents; to lecture upon san1ects
connected with educaJoh' 70 hu,a and reneive
institutes and, IN general, 70 sl ,,bants
s mah upon eauca and sneh work who