New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The normal institute at Knoxville. Tennessee. has
been useful and successful that the State Board
Of Education has arranged that il shall hereafter
bold session every summer.
The action of the San Francisco School Board in
consolidating classes and disnissing teachers mas
been reconsidcred. and the most experienced ana
successful teachers are TO be reinstatcu
number of teachers Institutes have lately been
held IN West Virginia, and teachers and citizens
alike showed an enthusiastic desire TO learn new
eihods. High schools are increasing IN tho
State.
Ii was suggested at the recent meeting OF the
Pennsylva na teachers that it might he good idea
have one in the common schools for those
who intend euter college OF professional life and
another for those who must leave school at an early
age for the farm or WORKSHOP.
The position of principal in San Francisco
school is not without its excitcmcnts One of the
primary school principals in that city lately re-
ceivcd "a letter in which Mr.. Cohen threatened her
lifo if his daughter was refused admission to her
school The Beard OF Education ordered that This
alert gentlemans children should be refused the
privileges OF the schools.
Teachers England are now getting much higher
salaries than they did few years ago. Out of
1881 ccrti6cated teachers only 1872 are receiving
less than $3.50 year Two hundred and thirty
two teachers get 81 $50 to 81 800, and 1877 in
receipt of $1,000 and over Those receipt of
$3.50 to 1915 year now 1912 per cent of the
whole; in 1874 they w"ro 1913 per cent.
The French Government has organized n commits
sion to cultivate the sense of beauty in the young.
Its president proposes to school buildings at
once elegant and appropriate. TO decorate the larger
colleges with beautiful friczes aud to ornament the
bedrooms of tue boys with. tapestries and hello
grayurcs of the best masters. lie wishes also to
establish Ill each lycco "a small and attractive
museum
kindergarten methods have been successfully in
troduccd Ill tho primary grades of the Indianapolis
schools. Care is taken that there shall be over
study among the school children. Under tho pres
ent district regulations there is child under the
seventh grade who studies more than hour a
day at home. There only sixty children in the
seventh and eighth grades who study two hours IL
day at home.
The system OF practice teaching is pursued in the
Indianapolis Normal School az well as in that at
Worcester. Mass. Graduates given the work of
regular teachers i'll the schools for five months.
Over each two is placed "a successful Instructor as
" critic teacher" who stands in the relation of
friend and adviser. She meets her pupils every
evening and spends hour with them criticlsing
tie work OF the day.
Some of the pedagogic authorities of Switzerland
have discovered that the period between fourteen
and twenty Is forgetting age aud that many of
the young recruits while they know baro reading,
writing and arithmetic have forgotten for want of
Immediate application all they had learned
all the Cantons. Fortbidungs-Schulen Or
schools for continuous educatlon- have been estab
lisbed. and n mauy of tncun attendance is CON-
pulSory Zurich has no school of this sort, but
tends the obligatory attendance at the ordinary
day school TO much later period i'll the youts life.
The leading teachers of the colored schools in
Philadelphia have sent letter to the secretary of
the Board of Education, in which they contradict
his statements i'll regard to the laxity of discipline
easy examinations and irrognlarity of attendance in
those schools His declaration that colored
teachers not asked to know as much as white
teachers" has especially exasperted Them and they
Claim that their certificates the result of rigid
exaulinations-ten of the fifteen colored teachers
having passed the regular and five the special ex-
aIninatious They assert that the school records
will show that the statements in regard To the
requirements and conduct of their pupils III
correct.
speaker at the meeting of the National Educa-
tional Association explained why teachers are out
ranked 10y the members of the other professions. 1t
Is because, taken whole. he said, the teachers
nro entitled to nothing better Their work makes
them narrow--ther lives almost necessarily |
monastIc they have not money to travel, time
for reading and thought, aud their minds are con-
stantly brought in contact with inferior ones "The
professor" added the speaker. " should take part.
50 tar rs his duties will allow, with other men
Ill those active concerns of life in which many
coocratc--so that his pupils may that he is not
only man among boys but a man among men, No
teacher should allow himself to be a teacher"
In tho Honor division of tho Oxford Examina-
tons for Women. three of the sectons-nodern Ian
guages. English literature and philosophy--have
been attempted this year for tho first time
Somerville Hall has obtained first class III modern
languages two second classes in the section
and second class in modern history. Lady Mar
garet Hall has obtained second class in philoso
ply and IA second class in English literature There
are also various third classes Evidently the ex-
anincrs determined to maintain IN high standard of
which the solitary first class of ten honor can
ddates is n salutary Indication. To this record
should be added the success of - Somervile Hall
pears tenth in the whole list of those matricuatng
IN honOrs at the London University. and first among
the women candidates Altogether the Oxford
women's scheme has made good start.
Mr.. A. J. Kickoff of Cleveland said of geography
nj the Atlanta meetlng "What would be the result
OF an inquiry among tho more intelligent tradesmen
ard members of the professions to the knowledge
OF geography which they have retained or accumu-
lated will say, at from thirty 1--WE to fifty years
Go not speak of that alone which they learned in
childhood but of the total of all the knowledge
they may claim at the time OF the inquiry | think
1t would be found that they know very little as
compared with the fourteen or fifteen year old miss
who has just passed her examination for the high
school in of our towns and cities except as
to those points which they have in later wears
looked up for purposes of business or pleasure Not
having any relation to the course of reading or
business pursuits OF matured years. the names and
locations of rivers. mountains lakes, cities capcs
nations etc.. drop from the memory of most men as
the features Of people who pass IN rapid moving
procession. The study having served its purpose i'm
she recitation room and examination day is
promptly dismissed from the mind. Test the yalne
OF study thus pursued by any standard YOU