New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

+ Iowa has 81 sos teachers, only 1882 of whom
arc men. Their average salary is S3l 10; that oil
the female teachers is SIG Is.
Not single male student attends the course of
lectures which are being delivered at the University
of Cambridge on the History and Science of Educa-
Gon.
The Ohio College Association at its meeting last
week adopted divers recommendations as TO degrees
and courses of study which will tend TO ralSe the
standard OF college education throughout Tue "oS''
The University of Pennsylvania Is endeavoring to
purchase more ground in its vicinity for Inc cree
ton of additional buildings. If 1t succeeds u Is
said that two citizens viii contribute for 6ni9lng
funds, one a million ana the Quiet luieo hu"u'NN
thousand dollars
The average expenditure upon primary pupl
in Boston is $ls is; upon grammar pupil
SIS 20; and upon pupil of the high and normal
schools So -. O. the Boston schoC population
10 per cent in the primary schools, ana % per
cent in the grammar and high schools.
The superintendent of the Peoria schools IN
recent report recommends that when a teacher has
proved his practical ability his position should be
assured to him during efficient service and GOOD
behavior He thinks that the third annual APP
pointment OF d teacher should provide for continu-
Gus service
Senator Buffers bill establishing National edu-
cationa fund out OF the proceeds OF the sales OF pun
lie lands and the net proceeds of patents is warmly
South Carolinas urgent need of assistance IN her
schools Mr. Buffers bill provides that the state
officers shall report to he Commissioner OF kduca-
sion the manner in which the money Is eNpehueu'
Vice-President Fnney of the Boston School
Board in his retiring speech last week said that the
important change in the methods of primary School
instruction made in Boston about two years ago has
had most beneficial results. Work is now acc M
uisbed in the lowest grade Of schools that was not
attempted ten or even five years ago inns IS l9t
The result Of crammng In most OF these schools
there is an air of checrfulness and interest on inc
part of pupils in happy contrast with their appear
once few years ago.
The state Of New-Yori expended $9675, 992 last
year upon her public schools-a larger amount than
any other State Illinois follows her on the list
with SO. 73jf7s; then comes Pennsylvania with
g Ot611G The smallest sum cXpendcG-S7, Dot
was that provided by Wyoming. New-lork mas
3S622J illteTatcs ont of a population of 3,oS2S
AMI Massachusetts l6S6l3 ont oil rHpnlauom ,o 81
from ilHteracy. IL has population of l.142,Ioo,
and OF this number 67,099 persons either cannot
read or cannot write
There is a great deal of unpleasant truth in
complaint recently made by the president of the
San Francisco Board of Education. He declared
that one reason why the work of teachers was not
more uniformly uCcessful was that parents showed
indifference TO their child rens progress 30 long rs
the child was cramme1 with something al schooi
they were satisfied. " IT. they would VISIT nc
schools more frequently he said. and show the
teachers that they themselves feel an intcIest IN
what j. being taught, the result WouIu oe lho4O
mutually profitable.
The difference between teaching and training IS
optly put by The Providence Press, which asserts
that industrious examining TO the exclusion OF ap-
piled knowledge is the great fault OF the modern
school system. It is teaching it says. that pro-
duces the stif. mechanical essays and other pro
auctions Of Authorship which are the ITlde oil eH-
bibiiou DAYS: il is training that enables one 70
write we-eypressed. grammatical letter. IN
fine it Is teaching that makes the average s?noo,
combined IN due measure with the teaching that
constitutes the superiority of the Quincy schools
A large percentage of Phladelphia's school pOpu-
1ation never GO higher than the primary course.
President steel of the School Board says that the
Unfortunate system of grading teachers salaries
was great injury TO the primary schools, and the
STIGMA placed upon them by that method remains
to Their injury although a reform has been made IN
the matter Under the old plan novices we're
uaced in charge of the primaries at small salaries,
and of course the pupils suffered. IL rs pleasant TO
see in all directions evidences of growing convlc-
tion that the first years of study are more important
and should bemorc carefully supervised tllh any
Others.
The supcrintendent of drawing in the Boston
rubliv schools saws that he has found useful n
course which leads the pupil from points and lines
TO curved lines, then to plain figures or plain per-
spective of solids In tho second part he lea s ;he
pupl TO the study of historical ornaments, from
this TO the principle of design and ornamental work
The, 70 the study of the natural forms of plants.
and finally Instrumental drawing and Geomctrlc
% nrr MIR, " ). Perry. of Worcester has
found that the pupils in his charge nave dohe
better since the drawing books were introduced
into the third class instead OF Tie louflu cItSs ds
was formerly done.
conference OF the executive committee of the
American Missionary Association with its most
prominent Southern workers was held in Nashville
last week IL was decided 20 extend the Work OF
the Association in the directions of college and
college preparatory work OF industrial instruction,
10th agricultural and mechanical; of normal in
struction for teachers and of theological instruc-
tlon In discussing the labors of the Association
The Memphis Apped goes so tar as 10 say that II il
not the least of its gains that in the last lew years
such a revolution has taken place IN the minus OF
the Southern people on the subject OF tne eGucIon
whites declared him incapable OF mastering even
the rudments of knowledge. Now no one Is so
foolish as advise the limiting OF the education Oh
The cOored man his aspirations IN TINS direction
AT the meeting last week of the Massachusetts,
Teachers Association the question of moral teaching
in the schools was discussed by two speakers. One
declared that moral training is an obligation as
much duo the State, and even society, by the
schools. as intellectual training; that during the
kndergarten stage of childhood, when the mind OF
the child is open and plastic the proper direction OF
the sentiments. unfolded under tho stimulus OF
curiosity IS most Important; anu that naDits Oh
truthluness are best cultivated by observance OF
natural phenC mena The other speaker on thiS suO-
iect en- phasize1 the necessity of having teachers
with powerful moral natures who would sufficiently
impress the pupils Mr.. W. j. Rolfe read to the
ASSOCIATION paper complaining tnat there Is TOO
little use made of poetry in the public schools. lie
held that history may be stuffed witt. its aid and
changed from dry mass Of facts - living amt
interesting picture
Mr.. L. w Anderson, master of the English High
>ol in Boston, read before the Massachusetts
teachers interesting paper on his method OF
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