New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

cvenur classes for ordinary and science snSgec'S
az 20 he ssrgsnlzea IN the London board SCHOOLS.
o...,;o teachers are TO be required hereafter to
;,. occasional lessons in elementary physics ana
the principles OF agriculture.
The University of wurzbure, IN Germany, cele-
brated IN appropriate manner inc ooVen ahii'o'
sary of Its foundation on August -
The University of California now has 4s7 stu
dept, 22i of whom taking the literary courses
The College of Agriculture has only eleven STU
cents.
qhe average salary paid to teachers in the eie-
mentary schools OF France is 80 week. ohiy o''
male and 19S female teachers get over @'o'
year.
Tho cvlorcd people Of Georgia are sIuggnns "
establish another college for their race ihey
nearly completed the payments for the ne'0''"''
ground at Atlanta.
. school OF domestic economy is to DC openeu ~
the autumn at Clark University A'i
81 ,nodel home is to be established III eo"NeH
cottage and all the domestic processes 'o"'"''0N
therein IN the best HAMMER
m. ,,.,h.rt Collage established at Cleveland by
Az Amasa Store in memory OF his only son VIII he
o,ened tn students about September 10 Inc
bu;1incs are nearly completed, and the deferred
Commencement of Western Reserve College VIII
he held in Cleveland before the opening OF tne Nc"
term
Tho now constitutional provision in Caliiolhla
which cuts of all aid 10 the high schools from '0
school fund is said to have severed the uii'eis''Y
from the public schools. "Outsidc of the ie"
toSns which maintain high Schools, SAYS nc
I'D Un,on of Sacramento there are now Il"
Ireans Of preparing students Tor the uhNors'N'
Sir John Lubbock said in n school ADDRESS 'ho
other day that it seemed to him that the chaac.ci
of education oven more important 'n'n .no
.uouot. He believed the foundation OF the
ordinary remarks about the undesirabliity OF iein
inc more than two three subjects arose ron ,ie
connfnslon between "a smattcring and a grounding III
a subject Smatterings, no doubt. were very use
less but to be well grounded In snoJeSt was qui'o
a different thing, and very different 'nins'
II il proposed to introduce instruction IN consttu
tional law and political economy in Toronto Uni
,ors,tv A system of Fellowshps is also proposed,
the scheme pro, iding for eight fellows--lwo III
classics one in mathematics one in physics, two III
,nodern languages and two in natural scienCes-to be
elected Inv the Faculty from hrstclass honor grad
mates and to receive perhaps 5000 each lot thelf
assistance during the academic year: ihe eulp.us
nm hand and the annual income OF the INSTITUTION
will nrnvde for the Fellowshps but the scientlhc
.nnl,ances now needed will have to he furnished
through public SUBSCRIPTION
A letter to The Boston Herald describes the female
students at Cornell as strong i'll health and quick
and accurate IN study. The writer declares that
be,v,e-n the Young men and Inadens III the college
there
marriage; and he adds. 1t is said that the young
men find the ladies of the town more interesting
than the oujet studious college girls. The daily
intercourse between the men and women students
is so commonplace. the occupations .that icall lneh
together high ana so engrOSsng. that no tlne
nuT inclination seems left Tor sentimental daw-
ding"
Complaints in regard to shallow and insufficient
teaching are made in England as well as In
America The essential elementary branches are
badly taught there as they are here. Handwriting,
English and arithmetic, 1t is said, seem TO be con-
sidered as OF no possible use to the pupils but give
them sn.ttering of Latin and Greek and perhaps
:. little French and German and they leave school
az excellent scholars. teacher writes to An Eng
lish journal: g have n pupil under me who has
only recently left the town grammar school, at the
age Of SIXTEEN after several years day scholar,
at from thirty forty guineas year, aud gather
from him that writing was not subject Tor teacn'
ing; English grammar was occasionally REFERRED TO-
and arithmetic was "A home lesson. III the answers
were right all well and good, 1t did not matter
how obtained little no working was required TO
be shown"
The Rev. A. Il. Morey, Of the Fifth Presbyterian
Church. Cincinnati, preached an excellent practical
sermon on education last sunday-such a sermon as
honest Christians ought often to hear and to act
upon In the course of his plea for thorough and in
tellgent teaching Nh. Morey declared that IN the
political manipulation CT public schools 10 the
weak point in our theory of government by
Suffrage "The very heart" he added. OF the
problem of free government is here. Popular edu-
cation is put forward the safeguard of suffrage.
What is the safeguard Of educatonT Our schools
are to be check on elected rulers selishness.
Can the whole control of this check itself be safely
nut into the hands of these rulers There is where
we put it, The safeguard against all dangers is in
trusted to the most dangerous class of political
demagogues II is very much as though We should
buid folds for our sheep fear of the wolves and
Ihen appoint the wolves to keep the doors oil the
folds Here is a set of men i'll charge OF our educa-
tIun who treat with contemptuous indifference tue
notion that educators as such have any speclal
authority in conducting educational matters while
All other professions are represented. PRACTICAL
teachers by profession carefully excluded The
people have only reflected their own poor instinct
of education Our schools have no trained PROBES
siona oversight in thus appointing business head
The management is lett to he influenced by personal
and. political and local ifavOrtism. Can we expect
that tie best teaching talent VIII be attracted into
the teachers profession long as the teachers APP
pointment and salary at the mercy of narrow
minded ward politicians. sOme OF whom have the
reputation of selling the sacred appointment and
snbiecting the salaries to the vllest uses The long
existence of such "a suicidal system of education
reveals the deep Indifference of the people to edu-
cation itself"