New-York tribune., 1880-01-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Union Theological Seminary has now
1AA studepta
Ohio Wesleyan University has an attendance
ef 500 studeuts the freshman numbering nearly
loo.
The Boston Society for the Encouragement
q Studies sr owe had s books last year $50 stu
osuts $40 taxing the in English literature
1t il complained in Cleveland that the chill
Aren Of EnGshspeaxiDg parents do not Obtain In the
public schools . knowledGc 0f German at oil commeu
sur.e with the time and money expended or IT, aud im'
provement in the stem and the teachers is asked for
The University of Pennsylvania has at pres
ent In ito Department OF Arts 139 students In the
Tcwne Scientific School, 1873 students; In the Medical
Department, 375. aud In The Law Glass. l4l. The
students In the other departments bring up the whole
number In the university to 1890
Representatives of Harvard, Yale, Amherst
Brown, wiltoms Trinity, Boston University. Tufts and
Dartmouth to NEST this week to plan modification
Of the ordinary method Of examining candSdates tor
entrance. they propose to arrange, IN place OF the
individual examination Of each college, a uniform
examination OH the sanae day for oil the colleges.
The nativn schools throughout India are not
supported by the Government though voluntary schools
are subsidzed. the Government paying for results
respects their SECULAR education. 1t does not appoint
teachers regulate the teaching but Whenever there
II certain standard Of proficiency IN secular subjects
oertNn pagmenu are made.
The Trustees of Union College have estab-
lishsd the Clakson n Potter Scholarship Offering
70 Mr. Potter, being return for his grstu
tous legal which saved the college than
t25cOOO. The trustees consider worth
at least 600. and devoted that to the formation
Of perpetual scholarship which to be controedby
him during his hfe and Afterwards by the successive
presidents of the college.
At the meeting on Tuesday of the Massa-
chusetts TeAohers Association Mr.. B. Sprage. Mas
ter ofths Girls High School of Boston, declared that
the school syster should be to ft for citizenship
whatever else may omitted In the studies He added
that the which is dangerous not ignorance
Of Latin roos Partisan accent. binoniai theorems
polywOgs. but tho ignorance OF the knowledge which
loads to q proper citizenship, and he closed with
strong plea for practical methods in the education
Of children.
New-Hampshire has 1855 public schools,
With an average daily attendance Of 439l0 pupils.
Private schools instruct pupils. while 3oSe c
Areu between Ave aud fifteen attend no school
ct all. The State has 629 male teachers and 1854
female once; the former receive $34 90 month In
cudiug board, the latter 500 s3 Tho school receipts
during tho east year were $587411 40; the expendi
lures $OO95eS Is The State has nearly hundred
higher scnoOl-acxdemes, seminaries high, and select
schools.
The London Times very wisely says
Young people ought to be taught to read with en-
phass and to talk With something like freedom
and grace. Both these accomplishments arc
best acquired from parents aud older friends
that ts, IL the said parents really are on true
psrents, tsrms their children which Is not always
ths oase There parents who neither with
their own children allow them TO talk In their pres
enoe They leave their children to the schoo!-room
teachers teach another aud so acquire COM
uupity Of family fsilings Or they think they have
done whom they set child down to pore for
days together over foolish tale Bad tricks of
reading and talking thus early learnt and scarcely
ever quito got rid or"
The total nur1ber Of recruits of the German
army for the year 187S79 143 119 Of whom 2o74,
or s per cent could neither write their Dames nor read
The majority OF the iliterate recruits came from the
eastern pr0vinces-East and West Prussia Posen and
Sllesia They were 1886 In number and formed more
thap per cent Of all the men levied in these districts
Out all the rest OF Prussia there were only 332 meu
without education, about oncthird per cent or
the other German States. Bavaria cent l0l. or z
rar cent OF uneducated recruits; SaxOny 10, or a per
cent. WGrtemberg g. or .O5 per cent Baden g. or O6
pcr cent; Lorraine 149 or per cent Hesse 6.
or q per ceut; Meckenburg schwern g. or 4 per cent
and Brunswick or g Per cent. OF the other small
States. Anhat sent T. 2. and SAKE wenar
Odenburg, Saxc.Meinugeb, SAKE AltenburR. and Wal
deck each. The remaining States had no uneducaed
recruits.
Superintendent Parker, of Quincy, in re-
cent address on geography In the primary schools sad
that the orru struc and character Of the continents
should be taught hrst and firmly fixed in the childs
nipd as farmor o scene about it, home. He advised
teachers begin 70 teach certain forms Of geography In
lrst year OF school, He had seen children in second
and third year rcote tho names Of all the
States, with capitals; this was utter nonsense. In
fourth and fifth year begin by teaching about plains and
1svei land; show It on moulding board, and draw it.
Ask the children questions. Tell them oil land Is sop
Ing and ask what would happen II 1t was all level. Ask
AIM frorn - hAra ROeS
toto the earth. Lot them take shovel aud dig down,
shey will thus learn the soil Mountains are made too
important Take away the Rocky Mountains and there
slope Of 900 feet Ask where water comes ont Of the
sroundt basins and how much land they
drain. Tell them the difference between . canal and
xfver Where the most water IN the river or In the
basini How In o bay formed BY wearing away Of the
land. Massachusetts, Bay wss formed In this way Use
moulding boards In preference to maps. BEGIN by
building contiueuts. show the importance OF aopes.
ArAr uoulaing the5 lot chidfen mould them. Draw
maps squarcsi the best way Teach hem ncidenta.
such q farests travels, history Of locates Then
tat them BIZ questions. He ctod school he visited
whore the schoare sixteen to eighteen years old
sud know nothing outsdc Of books. Teachers should
compose contnents tell how they are adapted TO
the Mfe OF man. Then describe tho soils and
tho yegetatiop. Do not teach vegetation by States
such 90 Maine raises O. and so-bnt by countries.
In teaching geography tesch own country nrst,
outline Of the United stses and then mix history with
Il II you tell the History OF the huuktr Hill barie.
mould on the board. In reading history locate
sug With msps mouldng this will tee ch geography
su{eker Geography 10 the foundation for physca SCI
spco Huxley says thAt you hang more that peg
shan any other strange that air and water.
s&t,es that We cot drink and constantly in
seutacs WITH arc very last things taught in the COM
on SCHOOLS. BrinG the children to study nature In
ssis way you Will awaken unquenchable love for
harAs ana rocks and In this way naturaists
kPsde.
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