New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

m. col,are Of South Carolina now has 14s stu
Dents.
The Wisconsin State University has 367 Students
Ave of whom are resident graduates
Over one hundred Of those instructed at johns
Hopkins University during the six years OF us ei-
}steuce have become professors ana teachers Ia ooi
Aeres academies and schools.
Az the last examination for the degree OF Baohe-
lar ~ Arts at the University of London rs per
cent OF the female candidates were successful as
.ga,nst AZ per cent of the male candidates only
81 per cent of the were placed IN the nrst "a
Vision, while 90 per cent OF the women oo'Sin0N
that honor. -,
There Is demand in Kentucky for colored nor
NAL school The State Board of Education has de,
termined that the qualifications of the ooioleu
teacbers must be the same those OF the wh'.e
teachers and that length of terms course OF Se ny
and payments OF teachers must DO the saine III WV
coIored as in the white schools
The Cincinnati Board of Trade and TRANSPORTS
tion lately held meeting attended by the proiii-
nent business men of the city consider the Ques-
ton of establishing teehnologioal sonoo,' in0
BOARD of Education and the authorities OF the UNI
vsrs,tv ore willing to cooperate with such school,
and II was determined to raise fund of 81 ooo0
as an endowment. Committees have been appolnteo
to push the matter.
An editorial in The Boston Herald asserts that II
ia an admitted fact that the school committees VI
the State in intellect and character have greatly ue
Perforated within the past twenty-five years IL
adds that the character of school Inspection Is
changing growing more and more narrow III '0
scope concentrating its energy more ana more upon
the petty and the mechanical. ne peoPIo el
giving M the important positions upon the schooi
boards TO the political parties, to be useu as GULL
pensatIou for iavOrs received or eNpoc'eu'
The School Superintendent of Indiana comp'ains
i. - r.nA
and declares that the reasons why 80 many OF them
are inexperienced and poorly prepared are nrs''
that the compensation is too small; second that the
empovment is only for one year third that good
teachers are compelled TO make too frequent
changes fourth, that the length OF the scnooi .Gi
except III cities and towns is 700 S"9 T 70 norin
teachers reman in the profession ne supediiui
tendent adds that a good teacner Is never pau
enough, and poor one is usually pald 700 much'
At a recent meeting Of the St Louis Society OF
Pedagogy one speaker in discussing tho question Oh
teaching children to talG good English, declared
that the books used to accomplish this are aito-
cether too sbstruse for the children" lie Illus
trated this by quoting the rules from BOOK III use
by pupils six years of age, which would be perfect
ly incomprehensble to such little ones. by actual
count in one Of these books there are l2o rules ana
definitions, one of which he quoted as follows;
"When two words mean the same person or thing
the same form is used after the asserting relation
word as before it, The speaker added that In
teaching language the first thing was to nno OUT
what the children can do. They can talk ana
here they and the teacher meet on common
ground. Hence, let the first lessons ne 10
Teach the children how to talk If they talk cor
rectly they will write correctly. when they know
how to spell. he children should be led 10 tax
babble, if the word suited better. DoIs BOWS ana
arrows and kites couli be taken into tue room
even a kitten might be introduced and talked
about; this would help to banlsh restraint from
the school. The children could talk upon mem,
and their of speech be corrected DsnhltqIn
or rules should be avoided. lie believed IN the
studying OF words, butnot IN word analysis.
Professor Woodward, the principal of the St.
Lonis Manual Training School, says that the in
stitutlon is not managed the assumption that
every boy who goes through 1t will Work as a
mechanic or that he will be manufactures
We strive 10 help them find their true callngs;
we prejudice them against none. have no sort
of doubt. however, that the grand result Will be
that many who would otherwise exc out scanty
subsistence as clerks, bookkeepers, statesmen, poor
LAWYERS murderous doctors. whining preachers,
abandoned penny a-liners OF hardened school keep
ers will be led through the fundamentally of onr
school TO positions of honor and comfort as me-
chanics engineers OF manufacturers" he parents
of he boys write to their teachers thusi Ger-
aid takes great interest in fixing up things general
w." "Charles has fixed my sewing machine"
George has made many htte matters of house
hold utility and seems to delight in it," I'VE go
to Henry to have chairs mended, shelves put up
etc and lie does excellent work. He made fine
set of screen frames" The mechanical faculty was
quite small in Johns case, and 1t has been de-
Veloped 10 remarkable extent; and so on 1or
nearly a hundred lupils. The professor adds that
the parents testify TO an Increased interest in
practical affairs, in shops and machinery, and IN
ecientifc books and periodicals. and that beyond
question, there is a certain observation-disclosures In
practical matters consequent upon this sort OF
training that in value far Outweighs special pro-
ducts Nothing can be wiser than the establish
ment of special chronological schools of the St
Louis sort and nothing more foolish than the IN
PRODUCTION of industrial studies in the public
schools.