National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Milwaukee Is to be the site OF State Normal school,
It Is expected that the professor of Celtic who Is
about to be appointed TO this newly constituted chair
at Edinburgh University, will begin his work at tho
next winter session.
he minimum salary Of the primary school teach
ers In France is 500, the maximum sIl0 Instruction
is free in infant schools primary schools proT and
advanced primary schools, and also In The normal
schools.
The Archbishop OF Paris has siued pastoral letter
deplorng the secularlzation OF education. and chang
Ing parents TO personally undertake the religious in
strucon OF their children IN places where educa-
tlonnl provision beyond the state school exists.
At the recent matriculntion examination ofthe CAL
cuta University, eight passed successfully Of
whom six are natives OF India and at Bombay seven
women successful, including four from the city
of Poonal. AT the First Arts examination Calcut-
tn female candidate obtained scholarship OF the
first grade.
The students of the Harvard Annex have shown n
tendency toward the traditional classical curriculum
and not toward science. All the I'm Greek
taken by the female students last year. rs
classes fed by best private and high schools
The professors marked the Young women ON the
same scale with the young men and have expressed
great satisfaction with their progress. Twenty young
women, who passed the preliminary examinations
last June TO The regular OF four yer6, are
| peciing TO take the final examination next June
The girls have all worked hard and their health has
| IN no suffered All have conducted themselves
| In a Thoroughly exemplary manner.
Students at Michigan Universally who have COM
pleed their second year in the department OF lcra.
ture science and the arts and have also completed
all the prescribed work offered In the first two years
some the several lines OF study leading TO
bachelors degree 10 be allowed TO chot whether
they will continue their work ON the "crcdit system"
or the soculled university system. The DOCTORS
degree is hereafter TO he conferred only persons
| that have made special proficiency In some one
branch OF study and good Attachments In two other
branches and upon presentation OF thesis that shalt
eyince power Of research and of independent invests
| CATION.
congress OF French schoolboys has Just been held
near Toulouse the'twenty delegates resolving amer
two days deberation to suggest TO tho Minister of
Public instruction the substitution OF two modern
angua ages for the Latin and Greek hitherto included
| in the Lycee curriculum, the appointment Of com
mittoe of scholars TO mediate with the masters, Inn
pTOvement OF the food suppression Of the monopoly
hitherto enjoyed by the consierges OF supplying all
luxurics at exorhtAnt prices, and, finally, the am
nesty OF some scholars recently expelled from Tou-
louise and Montpelier Another meeting is to be held
ON August 81 during the summer holidays, In order
to consider the reply of the Minister should he degn
| TO answer the manifesto
That school methods are entirely opposed to tho
worlds method and TO natures method Of acquisition
Is the statement OF Mr.. ]. &C. Maude in Eiucdhon
| Examinations" lie adds, never will ana never
| ought 10 be test of whnt students know Every
mind has It's own inter SITS, and can acquire u. oct
quickly by studying what is peculiar interest leas
/ to- All that should be done in tho way Of compull
/ sion Is 10 keep the mind 10 It's work, whatcver work
| Il chooses 10 DO and to keep the mind In the most
| Important channels and In consistent course, Ma
ture undoubtedly intended that, while there should
| be a substratum OF similarity between and under
meath the knowledge Of all men, there should also
popularity hat should distinguish the mental &C.
| qulrements Of each one Of u.s. and that each Of us
should supplement the knowledge OF all the rest OF
| his tell ows with his own so that the combined ludg-
menT Of mass Of men should he almost perfect
| Examinations compel number OF minds, each by
nature endowed with lis own PECULIARLY, TO learn
what The teacher prescribes and to learn a vast
mass Of nnintere,iing knowledge merely TO provi,
| for whatever the examination may ask. In regard
TO the primary subjects which all men should allko
know, examinations may serve n most useful pur
pose butailer the rudimons have been learned, ex-
amlnaiioas are usually useless aud harmful, II Ia
the was,em result OF our present system OF eduea-
tion which appears IN the relatively greater quick
ness with which q man, with ordinary good judgment
In the choice OF his studies gain an education OUT
OF college than IN. The knowledge That has 10 DO
gained by mere repetition under the spur OF fear "
the examination, but without The help Of Interest, "
seldom remembered long amer the examination, and
| the labor which has been devoted to drns Tint
adge into the consciousness Is lost and vast