New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


teachers are to be established in Baltimore IN jan
uaTy
Cleveland has school attendance Of Is 600, and
al teachers All but thirty three OF The teachers
are women.
The expenditures of the industrial schools of
Great Britain last year reached the sum Oh
$l,51s,275.
The Spanish school authorities have made instruc-
ton in the metric syS;rm ot weights and measures
obligatory in their schools
The French Minister OF War has ordered ooliee-
tion OF patriotic military stories to be comp'lco i0i
the use Of the primary schools.
1t has been proposed to abolish corporal punish
ment in The Memphis public schools, and the cues
ton is 10 be considered at the next meeting OIL inc
School Board.
Alta recent teachers meeting in Massachusetts,
II was explained that teacher has no legal fight
20 keep child in school after the hours prescribed
by the local committee.
colored man living in Philadelphia. al owner OF
property and taxpayer for twenty-five years, Is
unable to get his children into the public schools on
account of their color. The City Board OF Ednca-
zion after much discussion Of the matter has or
dered that it should be Investigated further
The free night schools of Cincinnati are reported
to be failures. The attendance Of pupils cannot be
maintained, and those who do go are not cnthnSl-
astic in their work. The causes of the failure are
pattern of ;he day schools, aud the employment OF
incompetent teachers.
The Egyptian Khcdivc has ordered the estAplish-
ment at. Kaartoum Of q model school Tor young
pupils, who, after five years of study. cou'd>eht
direct into all the superior schools OF Egypt ana
special class will exist for the CREATION OF account
ants tranSators and copylss. ms model Sch0oi IS
10 he opened an May next, and viii lie aCapted Tor
one hundred and fifty scholars. The hheoiVe
GefTays all the expense
There is no wise aud practical man in the country
who Will rot echo these words from The Memphis
Appe0l: THE schools should ,oach integrity with
grammar, truth with arithmetic. Children ere
made to speak several languages, but are never
taught to speak the language Of truth. They are
made TO understand chemistry. but are never
taught 10 aualyze tae awful chemistry OF ne
What our country most needs i incoTTuptible IN
teguty, and what We want IN the scnooi-Tcom anu
in the family circle. Is not more brain culture but
more heart culture"
An English writer says that the reason that
science is not mora protita5iy studied III schools Is
that the subject is frequently ntru>tcd TO men VINO
have not been trained for their work rs classical
masters have been trained for theirs. Science must
be taught not SO much BY means Of textbooks as by
means of direct contact with the objects and forces
which il undertakes 10 explain. and the pupil
must not always ID. told " hat IL IS 10 onSrNe allu
what conclusions he Is 10 draw from given premises
TIE fuscton 81 the teacher Should rather pc 20 pHt
hun on the track by wnic he VII bc lea 10 accurate
results 10y hls own Efforts.
President Buckhan. Of tie University of Yer
mont. sand at a teachers meeting the other day
that the failure ID mastering mathematics IS
usually found 10 lie Smoral rather than mentai ol-
fculty Nhen school gets sluggish in intciio ;tuai
forces investigation will show that the trouble is
moral one some bad boy. some vUatlng literature.
n moral malaria The best intellectual results can
not Oe reached without tue presence - religion IL
teilectuI culture Is not 50 nae. so hSu 80 DFojd
without religion u with u. hehS.on, however
should not only be recognized and TcSnrciec. II
should he taught. IL Il nos religious dogma we
want, but religious stmospleFe.'
The University Of Denver has moro than fifty
students Dr. Moore, the president is man OF great
energy, aud under his care the institution Is rapidly
iaking useful shape. correspondent OF The Cia-
einnati Gazette called at the University search OF
the president ana was directed 10 small room
where a professor Gnd workman IN oycralls were
trying 10 set I'D a little monkey stove whose pipe
was badly battered and foot too short TO reach the
temporary pipc-boe that had been fixed IN thc WIN
dow. Where will fnd Dr. Moore" inquired.
That's my nane' said the workman ID oveTalls.
,etfiDg I'D from las knees ] was too much sur
prisei 70 say much, bat laugh on my part ana
characteristic cordially oi greeting Oh ms soon put
me III harmony Wild the spTf0ludlngs, ana the DOC
tor pursued his work a. The stove.
The Rev Mark Pattison Rector Of Lincoln Col
lere. Oxford declares that the English artisan need
not fear competition from France noT Belgium but
from the United States. and speaks admlrlng'y OF
the quick adaptation TO conditions the devils
ing OF new methods versatility Of application,
ouiekness of perception Of the advantages Of new
processes the spirit 0! discovery AMI enterprise -
al these be points 10 be found IN the North
ern States Of America TINS greater Intellectual
vicor of the United States he attributes to the lib
Grafton from the dcspotiSm Of routine ; everything
here Is new. While anything new meets VIZ! grave
di.hcnlty ~ establishing itself In England. Ana
here Mr. Pattison speaks aPPr0ylngiy OF orr thor
oughiy democratic schools. wherein each pupil
learns that II depends on himself alone what place
he may take IN after LIE"
Mr.. james Russell Lowell in an address gwen
the other evening az tie WorkiugIn.n's College IN
London. SAID that generations which preceded them
we've looked down upon with good deal OF SELF
complacency, aud 1t was thought that they were
superior to their iorcfathers; but the congratua-
zion was little too soon. lie thought tha; Cse
great advantage which their forefathers possessed
was tina. they had few books but those books were
good ones lie was inclined 10 think that II some
Of the modern books were chained Up Is Of old in
monastery i. woald be better for they deserved
sncb treatment Nowadays nobody need com
PLAN that br did not 2 ow languages, while all the
hes, books were within ne reach OF al Ho com
planned that too much tim was spent upon matter
OF faei things winch were Of little Importance that
dav ard would be Of 40 importance the morrow.
Instead If giving their time - inferior literature,
students should study Dante, and Goethe. and
Shakespeare WHO gave them thoughts from the
very prOioundeSt depths OF he humaO soul. De
would recommend q student 10 take such a book IS
Dautes a." Diy1u3 COmedI9," a1d master II, and
then they would have got liberal education.
Teachers Ike Goethe and Dsute never bored them.
He would defy any one who knew Dante thoroughly
II do shabby thing. his works opened up pros
poets of the peaceful ocean IL ooniraostnetlon 70
TIE storm. and that was OF great advantage I'D
world like theirs.