Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The cost per capita for instruction in the
Cincinnati public schools is S25 20 year.
Persistent efforts are being made to pro-
cure the establishment of the proposed
Texas University at Austin.
Colby University has begun new term
with freshman class of twenty ight
members, including four women.
Baltimore has Sc, 337 pupils ia her public
schools and S22 teachers, only thirty-eight
OF whom were educated at colleges or uni
versities.
The incoming class at Brown University
will be about the usual size Sixty. five
applications for admission have already ap-
peared, and more are expected.
A scheme of instruction by correspond
ence has been organized in Dude, India,
for the benefit of educated Europeans who
wish to pursue studies in which they re-
quire aid.
The Rochester School Board has passed
a resolution providing that graduates of
the Free Academy be granted teachers
certificates without further examination.
An amendment forbids the holder of such
certificate to teach in the Free Academy
or TO act as principal of public school in
the city.
In the course of much sound advice to
teachers, the Philadelphia Ledger adjnres
them to regard "the children not as so
many small machines to be run so many
hours day, finishing off so many yards of
recitations week, but as little audience
to be influenced, little society to be
trained to debate and think" 1t must be
remembered that the teacher who can thus
regard the children is one who has special
adaptation to the work and a special liking
for it. There are too many teachers in the
public schools who are glad to use the me-
chanical methods now in force as refuge
for their own incapacity. When the same
drill is used for fifty children of widely
differing natures, tastes and abilities, a
dull and uninspiring teacher finds no diff
Guilty in the work. To the "born teacher"
the task of instruction is delightful, but
rarely easy.
Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, has is
sued an order to the Catholic clergymen of
the city to the effect that all Catholic
children whose parents desire them to re-.
ceive their first communion and confirma.
tlOu luuSt HISG dt1Cuu VIC dioSiiai oCuoulo
of their respective churches for at least one
year before they will be received into the
church. This order is issued in obedience
to one sent from Rome several years ago.
The church in Milwaukee has new facili-
ties for instructing all the Catholic children
in that city, and will enforce the rule.
A Free Educational League has been
formed in Great Britain to procure the
abolition of all fees in connection with
National education. The League cites the
example of the United States in free edu-
cation and notes that France, profting by
the experience of other nations, has this
year established free education in all her
primary schools. Notwithstanding these
instructive examples" the secretary's cir.
cular says, "the tendency of the Educa-
ton Department of Her Majesty's Privy
Council has been to raise the scale of
school fees, and thereby to minimize the
benefits of the Education Act. 1t is fur
Their stated that the conviction is rapidly
growing that unless Great Britain is to fall
behind other nations in education, a reso-
lutte movement should at once be made in
the direction of abolishing the charges for
admission to public elementary schools
and that with this view the Free Education
League has been formed"