New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


An endeavor to abolish the teaching of Spanish in
TIC San Francisco evening schools has just failed
The language is found to he useful to business III
that region to be given up.
Encoura gng reports as to the progress of public
education are constantly coming from Georgia. III
terest in education is rapidly increasing from year
to and the subject is coming TO the front as 'nc
first social interest OF the state
The famous cid English schools, Eton and Har-
row, Rugby ana Winchester are constantly iuH 10
oyerowing although their cost Scmsd nryer 80
crowded with students as now.
President Gaines of the Kentucky Teachers As
sociation declares with reason that there is too
much arithmetic taught in our common schools and
too much of so-caled grammar. Better, he thinks,
j. he teaching of UNCONVENTIONAL school imam no
moral teaching at all
The German newspapers state that the project Of
establishing a German University in America is
actually approaching realization. A bureau for ad
vancing the matter is to he opened at Frank fort,
and many of the most distinguished professors of the
German universities arc on the committee.
Women teachers in Germany are far from we'll
paid. Salaries begin at 5000 and exceed
pensions. Retirement at the end Of ter years
vice secures onetourth of the annual salary given;
and for wear of service added to the ten one
elghteth OF the pay Is gwen.
by correspondence for women the subjects taken up
are English history languages and literature, the
ancient and modern languages. arithmetic and algc
Ira, the science of music, the biological and chonl-
cal sciences etc. A Teachers Education .oan
Committee makes grants of money for fees ON loan
without interest to correspondence students, pro-
vided that they fulfil the conditions of the commit
tee.
The Marquis of Salisbury said at a recent public
meeting in London that it seemed to him that the
extension of higher education to women rather than
TO lind arguments i'll favor of it. If such education
Were valuable TO those who had to make their way
i'll the word and to win their bread, it was as vau
able to women as to if it gave robustness to
the character aud retirement to the intellect, surely
those qualities were as admirable III the female sex
as In the male
No subject is taught in tie French primary schools
chat is not deemed absolutely necessary for all cit
zens, and all the subjects which to he studied by
% boy at school are given to him in his first year
therein These only six Reading, writing
arithmetic, French grammar, French history and
general geography. The difference between the first
and the third year Is simply between an elementary
The French way of rewarding successful teacher
is to promote him from provincial school 10 a
Partisan one, or to make him an inspector.
Rctrenchment in the San Francisco School De-
partment is going relentlessly. The Bulletin jul
dicously points out that thus retenchment ought to
be carried into other depart ments of the City Gov
eminent, and mentions an excess of official subor-
hates that might well be pruned away. 1t is proba-
bly, useless to hope for any action in this direction
it is always the school department in every city and
town which bears the burden of all retrenchlnrnt
This Il inevitable OF course, long the
ment of the schools liz intimately associated with
politics. Ii Is the vote that counts, not justice
efficiency
1t is stated that the great majority Of women who
asking for the benefits of IA University education
in England have private MEANS and it is urged
that they he not shut out from scholarships at the
Universities as they have been shut out from sclol-
arships at preparatory schools. In many parts of
the country the Endowed Schools Commission has
been distributing old endowmcnts so as to increase
the DEMENT'S to be derived from them, and to extend
those Dement'S TO larger number of persons. But
by far the larger part of these inprov have
been made To apply To boys only. Girls have still
been left to find for themselves what BOYS are fortu-
nate enough to have found for them.
Tho Rev. Robert l.. Thompson is to be Dean of the
Economy a, Philadelphia He will also act as pro
fessor of Social Science. The University OF Penn
sylvania. with which the school is connected will
give an appropriate degree the completion of the
three years course of study in the school and ON
the presentation of u satisfactory thesis. The fees
for instruction in this school 100 year. and the
graduation fee is $40. Those no wish to pursue any
special study III any department of the school can
make arrangements to do The text hooks in So
ca science used in the first sub-iunior wear are
Peshlne Smith's Political Economy" Tho,np-
sons National Economy aud Joiuston>s History
OF American Politics." Instruction is be given bv
Iecitations and lectures and through or gnal re-
search, under the direction of the professors.