New-York tribune., 1881-12-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Iou;sville has $50 teachers instructihg i''o3O
pupils. ,a ,sA
Wesleyan University at Middieto"h n"'
students eighteen of whom are si'i --.
r,o. ;s an averaCe daily attendance OF 1882 III
=, i"o - o.,aono schools--about forty pupils W
each teacher -, c.;oooo
Tho average daily attendance IN inc Ns "ns
.tao,s "a now 4s. $50 the enrolment being oo'o''
The city employs o12 teachers ;,
Tho ,ouisiana State Univ ersity proposes 10 auo
TO the practcality of its course oy tnp
,nent of an experimental sugar laooraloiy'
A lady has been employed as director OF the NIL
,ro,Lce kindereartens at salary of Sl,o0o. a
reoular system Of kndergartens will probaply Oe
established in that city.
The statement of The Student that good teacher
GO first born then made and neither the inheritance
nor the culture alone will make him success snou
be carefully considered by the average schooi "oi
Three New-Jersey school trustees are to be tIleu
tn Gloucester County for refusing to admit 10 'no
one public school of their district the TWO
of respectable, taxpaying colored citlth fathc
sentiment is said to support the angry la'n'i'
Ills the general opinion of the legal profession IN
Yantuckv that the colored school law of the State
is completely at variance with the Na'lohai ooh
sti,u,ion A test case is in process OF decision
in the United States Court OF the DStrlct Oh heh-
lucky.
There are now eight Fellows studying at Prince
ton: one has gone to Lepsc. The college Is also
instructing ffty-four post-graduates and eighteen
snecial students Altogether Princeton has 2oS
students. THIS year there are thirteen posi- siauu
ate courses against seven last year,
NJ Fdorard Lockroy in a recent lecture said that
what was aimed at in English schools was to pre-
mare bows for the struggle of life and to teach the
selfreliance By means of the museums wherein an an
artisan could study ana compare % InodoiI thotaned
parts of the world, England he declareu' 1ni0"''
TO eclipse French workmanship
There is a good deal of discussion going on at
,rnsent concerning high pressure i'll the public
sobooIs-a discussion which will doubtless have IT'S
own small effect in changing the cul-ahu-urIc"
system of instruction for those fresh ana hVeN
methods in use at Quincy and elsewhere. I ne
Rostop Herald saws: There is something so relent-
less in the pressure of our public school system
aspeciaIlv in IFS higher grades, there is In IL SO niue
,assihilitv of adaptation to the needs and weak
nesses of individual pupils and the spur WliCa @ ~
constantly applies to the more sensitive anu tnviA A
constituted minds is so excessive that gie"V anu
often irreparable injury Is the result
The Pedagogcal Association of Cincinnati re-
cn+lv held an interesting discussion on teaching
grammar in the public schools. report proNld-
ing for oral language lessons in Grade u OF the
primary schools was adopted. In teaching by TINS
method sentences are given which contain perhaps
two ideas, or have two objects. For example;
81 Iohn has apples; " Jane has apples" Inc pupil
nuts them together and says: " John anu Jane HAS
apples" The correction is made: " John ana Jane
have apples" As the pupils advance short nara
lives succeed and the exercises grow broader the
thoughts less simple and the logical distinctions
oro moro closely observed. Superintendent Peaslee
said that he hoped the day was not faT distant
when the incucation of correct LANGUAGE IogiGan % M
will take rank in Importance as mental orlli DC
fore mathematics. He had found eVerywheIe
throughout the country the sentiment rreyailing ing
hat language and the expression OF Thought are
heinp sacrificed TO mathematics. In TINS conhec
lion ne expressed his opposition TO the trausler oI
pupils on per cents and favored ora teyt
70 avoid it. The per cent system inyotEes n teAI,
hooks and technical WORK. and fixes the latier upon
he teacher habit: 1t is thonght lhat tG tIe
Tincinnati Board of Education VIII make the
ebange in grammatical instruction suggested by
the teachers
At the recent meeting in Boston of the Council ol
,he American Social Science Association, an inter
estinc paper on moral teaching IN our puDlc
schools was read by Mr. c. T. Angel. After stating
facts in relation to the increase OF crime I'D thlS
rountry and the nOn-acceptance OF religious teach-
inc Mr. Angel suggested remedy in moral, hu-
name and unsectarian religious teaching III our
public schools, and particularly in the primaries
He yould have taught first, God; second, immOr-
talitv third that the grand object of living is not
TO accumulate money, but by honesty truth, hohor
morality peace, temperance, kindness 10 al crea-
tures and other noble qualities and aspirations to
make the world happier and better, and be better
fitted for the hereafter. Half an hour OF each day
should be given TO such teaching. Each school
should have a small library of the best and most
;mteTesting hooks teaching these things. School
readers. in interesting ways, should teach them
school songs set 10 the best music should teaGl 1
them; also pictures on the walls Children shOuId
write compositions on these subjects, and be on,
couraged TO gather from all sources and recte and
read to the school daily during these half hours
Every noble and pure ueed and thought they car
find in history literature and the daily press anC
school certificates diplomas and rewards may also
beIo. also eeions of hon or' chldren's societies
in the schools Great success has come in European
schools from simply teaching children kindness u
ANNALS In thousands of European schools sucf
instruction is pow given. Other good things can be
tanght as we'll Mr.. Angels suggestions are
The matter anv thought at all must be aware tina
moral standards in this country are loWered & an,
;s necessary. The work of publication can be
begun nowhere so well as in the public schools.