Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-04-01
EDUCATIONAL.

couldn't spell lucrative " right. They
must get lean wages,
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has nearly 1000
children of school age who do not attend
school.
A SCHOOL teacher says that children
should never be stupidity joked at when
they blunder in answering question.
THERE are sold to be 10000 children
in Chicago, who get no schooling what
ever and 1000 in 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, inaugurated a
move to establish similar one in Eng
land.
A BILL providing for compulsory edu-
cation has just been passed by the Iowa
legislature. The forfeiture incurred by
parent or guardian for not sending a
child to school is 500.
A WmLD1ANT1c schoolmaster who does
not believe in t}oggng, recently swabbed
out lying pupils mouth with salt and
water. The boy has reformed.
The grand total of the school fund re-
ceived by state taxation and otherwise in
Iowa amount to 81, OBJ, 783. 15-an aver
age of $7.O6 to every individual of the
school age, or about double the amount
for the actual attendance.
APEr1r1oN signed by over 1 200 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,
in his annual report, makes some excel
lent suggestions as to the teachers
work. 1t is his opinion that the use of
q daily paper as textbook in the hands
of teacher cannot be overestimated.
He advocates the teaching of spelling in
connection with other branches, as a
means Of interesting the pupil in the Or
typography and pronunciation Of every
geography, for instance, as in Pittsburg,
the pupils are not satisfied with simply
learning the name of a country, river,
or place, but they will carefully look
after the spelling and pronunciation of
the word.
THE 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, and
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 wr1te at the pace
he likes-hurry, of course, being dis
couraged-but insist strenuously and
persistently that his copy shall be
legible, shall be clean, and shall ap-
proach the good copy set before him =
namely, well-written letter, not rub
bishly text on single line, written as
nobody but writing master ever did or
will write till the worlds end. He will
make muddle at first, but he will soon
make passable imitation of his copy
and ultimately develop q characteristic
and strong hand, which may be bad or
good, but will not be either meaningless,
undecided, or illegible. This hand will
alter, Of course, very greatly as he grows
older" d. -! ~t-'-' g. 1,'&7..
DURING practical examination Of the
Quincy schools, a correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger asked the teachers
if it didn't exhaust them to give out so
much to their classes, instead of simply
hearing recitations. 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 sale, 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 it is not afraid to talk to it's teacher,
and it is too busy to talk to. its neigh.
Dor. The restlesaness and the IN
.quisitiveness Of the children are used TO
good account instead Of being sternly re-
pressed, and consequently finding vent
i naughtiness,