New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-23
NOTES on EDUCATION.

Tho school population of Ontario is 4S9921, ana
the total expense Of instruction is $2,S2Z'Oo%'
There are l34ISs colored persons in Maryland
who can neither read nor Wrlie.
Professor Huxley, in recent short address, sara
that very few teachers of science understood inc
distinction between knowledge and learning
Illinois last year expended upon her schools the
sum of 81 531 941, the teachers of the State recelV-
ing S4,5s7,O15 10. The school population o. the
Stale is 1.O1O.S51.
In ST. Petersburg this year $50 women are pur-
suing the higher courses of e1ucatlon go Oh THESE
students are of noble origin. Physics and mathc-
mates are studied by j21, and All take literature
At = recent meeting of the Philadelphia School
BOARD il was stated az a proof of the stupidity Of
the school system in that city that it took twenty
Minutes TO read over the course OF instruction
authorized in primary schools for pupils III theT
first four months.
There is movement in the Kentucky Legislature
for the equalization If the distribution OF the school
fund between the white and colOred people OF the
state A discrimination is now made against the
coorcd people on the ground that they pay taxes on
orly $3,j00,000 worth OF property.
The demand for the teaching Of morals and man
pers in the public schools is now heard from one
end of the country to the other. When Burnside
saw his bill adv coating such teaching received with
derision il would have been hard for him to believe
that so short a time aftervard the comnon-scnse oil
the country wOUld assert the wisdom Oh MS pro-
posal.
The Rev. Or. GLADDEN. thinks that pupils should
learn such things as will tend to make them happy
IN whatever calling they may choose He suggests
that ali possible ways should be devised in school
tn awaken the minds of the pupils and stimulate a
| thirst for knowledge; and he suggests llat boys
shonld be made to see that farm NE Is lar rom
| lonely undressing. lhey shouiu DC I"ueuI
! natural history and mlneIalogy'
A sneaker at an educational meeting recently held
in CbicagC insisted that instruction in morals should
be given IN the public schools from some good text
| book. He added that the pupils should be made 10
! commit to memory the ten commandments, and
! these should be explained to them so that they
| could understand them They should be taught
| the existence of God, and 70 recognize INN as ne
Ruler of Inc universe, as well rs mans lcSponsiIl-
| ivy toward God, that there vas a lie beyond '-n9
| one, ana the hope or everlasting me-
The iuspectoIs of the British National schools are
rs n rule university men aud graduates III honors
The defects Of the existing system of inspection arc
said 10 he threefold There is sufficient unity OF
action among the inspectors themselves; school
managers are too much at the mercy OF individual
INSPECTORS an appeal against whose decisions pro
duces few beneficial results and is only res0rted TO
| in very extreme cases; no adequate opportunities
for engaging in the work of inspection are 0HeIei
| TO those who have had experience IN pobilc ee-
|
par;ment intends to appoint as assistant inspectors
| the best masters of public elementary SCHOOLS.
Professor Frost of Obcrin in making an urgent
plea for the teaching of patriotism IN the public
schools says that the history of our own country
so essential so necessary, so indispensable, thai
every urchn who will ever. cast vote ought TO be
caught and taught perforcc. United States history
| can be taught without interfering with the Other
studies; it viii give zest and interest to dull
subjects like geography. teacher might place
two three United States histories upon his desk
call the attention of the students to them and writ
upon the board four five questions upon the first
chapter. In day or two he could call for voun-
teers to answer these questions and spend ten min
utes in a general exercise OF the school upon thos-
| topics little rivalry will be aroused, curiosity
excited and as all cannot read the history once
| they will question each other at noon and recess
and perhaps question the teacher. Avalu bic tOplC
for conversation will thus be kept before the school
and with careful reviews a very considerable store
of information will be gathered in a single term.
Miss Helen Magill. Phi. d. who has spent the past
| four wears in study at Cambridge, England, says
| thai III the higher education Of women England
! leads the world; that woman can do a higher
| Grade of work in England than in America. Miss
! Mapju adds: "The same kind of work which has
| been done at Cambridge by Newman is beginning
| al Oxford in Lady Margaret and Somerville halls
| London University has admitted women to all IT.
privileges without limitation. Six women Their,
took the b. A. degree last July. You will STE by all
this how England stands in comparison will
America. Here only one college of the first ranl
gives women the degree or even the degree examine
| lions while Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins ex
clude us. In England London gives degrees. Cam
! bridge degree examinations aud the reform IA be-
ginning at Oxford. The position OF women on thC
| whole is better in this country than IN any other
but il is serious question whether English womel
| do not have the suffrage before We do"
An English lecturer on the higher education o
women lately gave a sketch Of the education tina