New-York tribune., 1882-02-09
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Some Of tho best features Of the Quincy sehooi
sysiom ere now employed in the public SCHOOLS u
rittsbprg.
More than n thousand women are now 'eac'ins :"
Switzerland Glrla are admitted TO The mgh Schoois
only in Zurich aud Berne
The FIRST Sen or class Of Colorado University VIII
bo graduated this year 1t has SIX members. Inc
whole number Of students now IN atlohuahce Is
lis.
More than half of the institutions in the Uuited
States which profess to give university cduca'ioh
.rd confer degrees now admit women on eqaai
terms with male siudthtS.
During the past twenty years only two students
have been entered in the agricultural department Oh
Wisconsin state University. This year. however
tho department has SIN students
About one-fourth of the children i'll the Cleveland
schools are OF Gcrmsn parentage and receive IN
struction in German and in English. About one ~
eight of tn. children Of EugiSh-speaking parents
are in the German classes
Indiana ha now school population OF 7lA'3A3'
and ex oeude ia public instruction dnrng the past
wear 81 3O7 2I0 20. Her total receipts for schooi
nurposes were s. Sl5.42O 81. The school enroll
ment last Yer was 1o3,Noo
party of the students Of mechanical engineering
of the Massachusetts, Institute OF Technology mace
n ioorucv last week thrmgh the manufacturing
towns of Massachusetts, and tOnnetucu 'eAaiiN"''s
carefully the shops aud factories ln each
The women teachers of the Junior divisions Oh 'ho
Toronto schools have applied to the School Boardior
increased salaries arguing that at $27 month they
cannot sunrort themselves and con lnue their tram
ing; and that kitchen servants are III lar pctci
position.
Provost Pepper, of the University of Penns0lva-
ma wisely Us, in or Continent: rev appreciate
the strain that even two three hours attendance
a ~ 81, IN, rocfp fSn
little lessons exert tn sensitive organization OF
vonny children Their brain and nerves are OK
duisi civ delicate, and IL is period OF suCl rapd
grow that the power of nutrition ~ ldN't ~ SUP
plying material tor the formation OF perfect TISSUE
One of the most encouraging evidences of cduca-
fional progress in this country IA tho attention
which school authorities are beginning to give TO
the intelligent study Of the English language. I'm
der the system which is being gradually
changed pupils were made 10 commit to men noTy a
vas. array Of rules, winch served them not aJ al III
speaking ana writing. MANY have been the grddu-
ates of Normal schools incapable o. writing q com
uonplaco letter correctly ana with caS'.
In the ST. Louis schools each class room has
programme written out the blackhoards of tho
studies and hours for rctaons daily for ten weeks
and from these programmes. rOples OF winch are on
file in the Supcnuicudents Office, visitors can learn
when to visit any school to hear recltatjons IN any
study Priucipals and teachers Will not allow the
utly or auy not directly relative TO the lesson
thai may ba under consideration at the ume unless
ordered 10y the superintendent
Teachers often complain and with truth that
their essio is estimated at its proper ValUo
by the public-that while it demands from them as
entire devotion rs law medicine can ASK IRON
those who ractisc them, these two vocatlons take
rank very far above it. The fault does not lie alto
gether with the public while the profession has 80
many Unframed, haf-cducated memheTs II can
meyer oc,uoy the pace in which all reasonable poo-
rle would like to see it, There IS peculiar
dognatism apparently inseparabie from the Office OF
teacher which is nncndurahle % the average out
slder unless # IL accompanied 10y thorough abliE
When that haUpy day aniv wheh pollca III
finence goes cut If the schools, ara co nPGnIy a1o
love of the work become the tests ny "hlch NC
teacher is nd2ed. the profession VIII make loh8
stride in the popu'ar estimation
No careful observer has ever failed 20 see lha'
The chief troubles aud disappointments o' the pubc
schools come from the employment Of teachers VINO
have taken no the work merely to earn nving and
not because they have natural aptitude Tor deal
Ing with varying La aud impartnc ideas 10
lead and enlarge Young mind requires peculiar
l9ot and temper and not every person emerging
from n normal school and carrying new certificate
Is fitted fur the work. There is not niue good
,.,sc in tl,is paragraph from The Lordon GtObe
For man to be a successful teacher ne must oe
,,,mnathetic with boys there must liuger within
hIm an eyrr-iuy emile ecmen'. en- rapport win thplr
m des of thought, sensible of their prrluhcGs ah'
.usplciOns abreast of all hose important d'S,"N-
srics for shrkiug work Ia which eaCh Sehcfat'oh
manages to aid 0mel hing new, wiling To sec thtI
In Iyldual struggles TO cheer on thew arbtlous
and cOndOle with their defeats. Neither the high an
lry style answers wit bo =, nor he 100 InShihg |
and condescendin0-the former repels theln tle 10
Ter means the concession oil tiaI unnecessary H'i
Nhchis the toTerunneT Oi an cl