New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Politics arc said to faint the Baltimore schooi
svstem. ward politicians having too mucn po"oi
in the appointment OF teachers
Al tho recent meeting Of the Maryland leacherS
Association the abolition of corporal punishment III
schools was generally advocated
Tho colored children in the public schools are
said to bc nearly free from myopia-a trouble WIN"
is daily increasing among the whl'e puP'i''
The Cincinnati Wesleyan College has been p"'-
chased by its own authorities money haNlns o.o"
raised by them and by the alumue association ioi
the purpose.
The sessions of the Baltimore Medical CoheecI
nm institution which instructs students oil oo'"
scxes-hsve been extended to seven anu a nan III
stead of five mouths.
tits complained of the public schools OF fh''auo,
mia that their teaching is narrow ana ant qu"'0u
Memory is cultivated at the expense VI o'0iS
other faculty.
Tn ,b. scbools Of Wclmar Germany. there is an
excellent custom of taking all the pupils once d
week unde1 different teachers on an eAcuision "a
outdoor study and oOserNalloh'
M text books in arithmetic or geography are put
into the hands of pupils during their hrSt three
wears in the primary schools of New-Faven. ne
oral method is chiefly used. The result Is sara W
be encouraging.
Az the recent Intermediate Examination III
Medicine at the University of London hi'oon
students passed in the first division and e'sn' ~
the second which latter included the name OF o,Io
rvoman q student ia the London School OF No"'O'"N
fer Women.
A committee of the Massachusetts, Society LOT inc
University Education of Women are endeaNollhg
t,estobsh IN Boston q loan library for the use VI
students who are in need of such help. lhey
rennest gifts of money or looks OF reference III
literature and science
The city of Fort Worth Texas, has voted 10
tax herself for the maintenance of SIX free schoos
for ten months in the year. The city has l%'ooo
inhabitants. Only eighteen ballots were cas-.
AGAINST the measure. Tine example Is one tnaV
shouId g followed by the rest OF the leXas loWns
and cities now in state OF darkness Ill matters u
education.
Miss Eleanor Ormerod who was lately mace
Consulting EntomologIst to the Royal Agricultural
Society of Great Britain, has just been appoin'eu
Special Lecturer on Economic Entomology 10 inc
- Cuoco ,,ireucestcr Her
class will consist of young men who are t,aIillhs
as practical agricultuIists This shows dlstihcI
advance III woman's cducatlonal posl'ion'
The coored children of Georgia are said to be as
eager for education as the white children anu III
many cases more so. In a great many places .Hey
are more regular in attendance than are INC whites
Fx-Supeuntcudent Smart says: :" TOOK pans 10
inuulre of the c0lOred people their reasons LOT
desiring an education and III almost every case
their reply was To get up IN the Worlu. AHoS
More than go of the young women at Wellesley
College study chemistry The college expects 10
instruct about SEQ students next year. new
preparatory school is to he established III Phade-
nina this autumn as a source of supply for Nelles-
lev The annual charges IF the college have been
raised from $3.50 to $40. Miss Alice +. Freeman,
tue newly appointed PRESIDENT mas rete p iIoil
the University of Michigan the degree o1 m "
The present demand for good teachers III the
Il, boJ tIa vppllp q
salaries in many places. "One committee IN sub
nrnao CITY" The boston Irarellnr says, fixed the
nrice for teacher in iIs high school at hundred
and fifty dollars more than had been PAID and
called lady who getting the Old salary III
another place and the committee there AT once
raised her two hundred dollars to keep her. New
ton lost a teacher sumo time ago because another
city paid more this year they have raised the
salary hundred and fifty dollars and called her
hack The committee of another city offered y
SG75 position to two ladies in retired TOW MS ana
the salaries of both were raised to retain thell,;;
These are samples of what has been gong on an
about us for the past two months. The reason iof
This is that there Is a clearly defined ldea OF
what constitutes success than there mas Deeh pe-
fore of late years. There Is most emphdU'cuiS q
demand among citizens, as well as among SCHOOL
officers that all teachers who have ceased 10 ne
nrogressiye shall either advance in professional
aattaInments or be superseded ly earnest peda-
gorical workers; hence those who have demon
strated their fitness Tor school laOOrs Dy experience
ore in such demand ds never before
A clever writer in Education says of the would'be
infallible teacher A bright child asks question
that gray-haired philosopher would be cautious In
answering; yet teacher of limited learning and
less sincerity gives glib reply to keep the child
from doubling his scholarship He wishes the
pupil to think that all knowledge worth having
has been attained in a few years by one person,
namely. himself Between devotion to textbooks
and the careless dogmatism of such teachers
children leave our schools with the cOnceit that
they have compassed the universe ana settled all
the problems of existence. young teacher once
followed an older one Of this infallible type. Dur
ing the first week a bright boy propounded
question to which she quietly answered, do not
Know but | think You will find 1t IN -, naming
a book The class looked surprised. From that
day several of the students threw tes-quest0is at
her on all occasions. to about hall of which she
simply replied, / do not know. Contempt for her
hogan TO GROW but, meanwhile, she had Interested
them in her daily class-w ork and gradually they
forgot to ask her pulling questions. Before she
had been there year. il was reported about town,
in their Western phrase The scholars all swear by
NJ iss -. The pupils would accept no statement
that varied from what she had told them without
careful Investigation and, when such investigation
had proved her mistaken, the pupils carried inc
knOwedy e 10 her with JOY, knowing that she would
sincerely thank them for correcting her Compare
the results of the two kinds of Tork,-results to
the character of the teacher and the development
of the pupil. If teacher is to be so truthful, 1t
follows that he must be uncXce ptonaDle III CHAR
acter and we'll prepared in scholarship"