New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

,..;o. a., Tho San Francisco teachers havc
hs., left updistnrbed Spanish Is taosh' J" 'N'
evening schools Of that city
7, ia proposed TO change the Darc OF the Uni
,erstv Of the South to Sewanee University ana
thus rid II Of all political SUGGESTION
An endeavor TO establish rule for the dismissal
os all lady teachers intending MARRIAGE has Jus'
failed in tie Chicago Board of Education
The Philadelphia Board of Education estimates
ITS expenses fer next year at Sl.7l5,99o O4: VI
this sum 81 1892 will 20 for teachers saa''eS
In thirty Of the London Board schools there arc
penny banks connected with the post-ohice' anu
about 81 900 was deposited last year by more 'han
$500 thrifty pupils.
The interest in teachers institutes IN the oou'"
daily increasing Texas is holding eigh'ee" u
these institutes Ithis summer greatly 10 Vio '"
tage of her teachers.
The Oregon State University IS doHE d" 80 W
lent work with very little money MI. i'
yua,d "a the chief benefactor ol the lhs9a'uttUn'
having ma de largo gifts for library s0no'"'"'F''
otc.
,..,r oarco,ional methods are gaining foothod all
-, tho conntry In Kansas City, Tor example, the
fnreo of continuous examinations Is no longer
MIA, ed: and in several OF the schools the suDec's
of history and geography are nov treated more III
tho nature of reading exercises than ol TEX %
matter 10 he learned by rote and lorgoi'eh snoi
after. Instruction grows more pfactc"i eNciS u'''
The school population of Tennessee white anu
colored numbers 5I5.s75 During the past year
thr average number of days on which the puOHc
sbools of the counties have been at Work mas oeen
81. IN 1850 il was only GS. The nunioer oI
teachers employed is 6,ssO OF TINS numocr Loo
are coored There are ASS schools LOT Mii'HT,, hH
aud 20 for colored children me aNeIagU Hn,S
attendance last year was OF l3v,1O" "hllG -
and 4lO46 cOoIed. The public c-schtol IeIotPte ,ns
were S706,l5 80 13 There are IN the stare ,.a go
private schools with los teachers anu "n "'N'eO
attendance of 25,S2O pupils
A sta,tlinr hut not unreasonable suggestion was
made the other day IN address by the princlpal
of the Ottawa Normal School. In the management
of n school. he declared, lie would have teachers
,,rou,oted downward, if he might be permitted 10
use a paradoxical term lie thought tne salaiIeS
ought to increase in inverse TatlO Win hc oisoo
and for the lower classes they ought 10 nave
1eachers of the highest mental attalnmehtS anu
filled with the milk of human kindness. IL tne IN.
tench~r had created hungering ana thirst LOT
knowledge, he had done all that teacner couio W
expected to do.
Matthew Arnold in his Redo lecture on Lltera-
ture and Science" declared that he meant oy
knowledge of the best that has been thought ana
said in the world true and thorough knowleoee
of which language and books are only the lnstru-
mepts: and for such knowledge, whether physical
or not be claims the title of scence All iearhihg
is scientific which is systematically lald OUT anu
followed up To It's original sourceS' ""u " -0"N
bumapism is scientific" More particularly the
knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquity does not
mean simply an acquaintance with Greek ana
Latin books. but "knowlng the Greeks ana
Romans and their life and genius and what they
were and did in the world what we get from them
and what is its value" And so likewise as 10
modern nations and their literature. Inc f@t
MoU Gazette in commenting on Mr.. Arnolds lee
ture says: =" Our classical school Io"tlne' Tue Vul
CARRIED resduo of the great movement OF the
Renaissance has erred precisely in thls-that In
stead of making humansts of English youth. IT mace
them Indifferent specialists IN rather narrow nelu
of scholarship, and contemptuous not only OF
science but OF all the humanltles themselves out
side that field. A certain number ol them hau
penius for scholarship and became brilliant specal-
5sts lthongh much more ignorant of other things
than they need have been, but at the expense ol
those who had il not. Precisely the same thing
happened at a more advanced stage IN lhe Natn-
hridpe mathematical training. In the race LOT
honors mathematics were carried, by men VINO n''u
no intention OF becoming specialists lar peyono the
point where mental discipline ends and speclallsni
begirs And IL behooves the advocates oil tho
natural sciences to be careful that IN ther Zeai ior
reform they do not merely substitute one klhu ni
uniutelipcnt routine for another. 1t Is certainly
better TO have n sound knowledge OF elementary
physics than TO make bad Latin verses; ana, as
only small number of people VIII, under the most
favorable circumstances ever MAKE go0d tatIn
verses fhis amounts TO saying that our boys and
girls time will the average be not so well spent
in irving to make Latin verses as in learning the
elements of physics But TINS assumes 5 te .9ioI i
ing of physics to be- SO lar as 1t goes. sound ana
thorough A smatteriug of halt-undelsto0d sclen-
tito facts and formulas learned ont OF BOOKS Is, we
think. in no way more Respectable or vaua9ie Vhin
the present average schOOlboys Latin ana Greeh.
And We think from what is already known by the
experience of teachers that there Is real danger Ol
such smattering being the first and largest product
of wholesale attempts TO teach natural science 10
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