The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-04-03
EDUCATIONAL.

SIX ont Of eight Kansas school ma ans
couldn't spell " lucrative" right. They
must get lean wages.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., has nearly 4 900
children OF school age who do not attend
school.
A SCHOOL teacher says that children
should never be stupidity joked at when
they blunder i'll answering a question.
THERE are said to be 10000 children
IN Chicago, who get no schooling what
ever and 1000 il the schools who, for
lack Of proper accommodations, can only
be taught half
THE English ladies who some time ago
inspected Mount Holyoke Female semi
nary have, their return, iuaugumated
move to establish similar one in Eng
land
\ BILL providing for compulsory edu-
cation has just been passed by the Iowa
Legislature. The forfeiture incurred bv
parent or guardian for not sending a
child to school Is so.
A WILLDIANTIc schooImastcr who does
not believe III ttogging, recently swabbed
ont a lying pupils mouth with salt and
"ttt'I' L liz 10y las LSLA'1 AI'Nl
The grand total of the school fund re-
ceived by state taxation and otherwise III
Iowa amount to 81, 031, 783. 15-an aver
age OF S7.O6 TO every individual of the
school age, or about double the amount
for the actual attendance
APETIrIoS signed by over l, 200 women
of Cincinnati, praying the Ohio legisla-
ture to enact some law which will take
the control of the public schools out OF
the hands of ward politicians has been
presented to that body.
SUPERINTENDENT LUCKY, OF Pittsburg,
III his annual report, makes some excel
lent suggestions as to the teachers
work. 1t is his opinion that the use Of
a daily paper as a teXt-b book IN the hands
Of a teacher cannot be ovcrestimated.
He advocates the teaching Of spelling III
connection with other branches, as a
means Of interesting the pupil in the or
typography and pronunciation Of every
new word he sees. When studying
geography, for instance, as III Pittsbrg,
the pupils are not satisfied with simply
learning the name of n country, n river,
or place, but they will carefully look
after the spelling and pronunciation OF
the word.
TIE Prussian minister of education
complains that the steady increase OF
crime and immortality In the great towns
of Germany during the last ten years
has had an effect upon the teachers OF
elementary schools; and that the tone OF
the class has degenerated in all the chief
centres of industry except Berlin. He
thinks, moreover, that the teachers have
been spoiled by too much attention,
politicians having We'd with each other
IN the attempt to win their support, ana
he attributes the decentralization also to
the increased facilities for drinking which
have been provided by recent legislation,
and which has injuriously affected large
sections Of the community.
"LET the boy, says an English writer,
'hold his pen as he likes, and make his
strokes as he likes, and write at the pace
he hkes-hurry. Of course, being dis
couraged-but insist strenuouslv and
persistently that his copy shall be
legible, shall be clean, and shall APP
proach the good copy set before him
namely, n well-Uritten letter, not rub
bishly text on a single line, written as
nobody but writing master ever did OF
will write till the worlds end. He Will
make a muddle at first, but he viii soon
make a passable imitation of his copy
and ultimately develop a characteristic
and strong hand, which may be bad OF
good, but viii not be either meaningless,
undecided or illegible. This hand will
alter, of course, very greatly as he grows
older F"
DURING practical examination of the
Quincy schools, a correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledqct asked the teachers
II It didn't exhaust them to give out SC
much to their classes, instead of simply
hearing Rotations The teachers all
answered on the contrary, the new
method was not half SO firing as keeping
up attention to the book and going over
the recitation by rote. They said, too,
that discipline was more easily maintain
ed than by the old system, since the
pupils are busy and interested, and have
room for their activity; the child is free
it Is not afraid to talk to its teacher,
and It Is too busy to talk to its neigh
Dor. The restlessness and the in
quisitiveness of the children are used to
good account instead Of being sternly re-
pressed, and consequently finding vent
III uaughtiness,