New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Princeton now has sixty-two endowed schoi'
Arships. 800,
Io.,,.ana has a school population of 200, O36'
New Orleans contributing 614oo 10 tnis humooi'
AMaine womsn, Miss Ellen Lord, Of Portland,
has held for several years the chair OF creek az
Wellesley College
The separate education OF the sexes was declared
nv speaker at the recent meeting OF the ottawa
TEACHERS Association, socially morally, ln'eiecS
ually and economically wrong
There il an enrolment of 196,574 in the Mime
,ota schools. the State having school population
of315.94s. The average sum paid monthly to the
male teachers is S35 so to the women teachers
S2s 80. Why this difference
In the ,> .,rrmental kitchen in the Iowa Agricult
ural College, the grl-students are taught the phil
osophy US well as the practice OF Cooking lnoS
learn the chemistry and comparative economy OF OF
foods the usual adulteratlons ana Ihe hieVhou' VI
marketing.
In ono of the Boston public schools mover OK
pertinent has been conducted during the past year
A roou was fitted up Tor instruction in wood work
,nC and two classes we're organized TO give two
hours week to manual study. The experiment Is
sid m have been an entife success. The boys
while dell ghted with their carpentry. dld not neg,
lect their other stndies and their marks were All
high.
The AVERAGE salary of women teachers in Yer
ceivea by the ignorant servant who scral Kettles
N tho kitchen. In New-Hampshire the women
te,cbers receive 500 SO. Vermonts male teach
ss oro naid AZ the rate Of about dollar II day
smaller wages than are gwen 70 an uiuin"t5 Ia Ia
borer in the fields. IL IS no WONDER INA. tuo
,,s are considered incompetent and INC schoo'S
failures.
,rssord bas next TO Indiana the largest
smount OF permanent funds devoted to school pnr
noses in the Union They aggregate $94l'o0o
not including the annual apportonment "l S'ato
revenue The state has a school population OF
741 .G32, and of this number 4os,OOO are ehrol'eu
in the public schools. There are $50 Scnooi S n
OpgratOn. conducted 10y lUbO! teaCHsls any iroO
war vs.. 3t- 7}S were expended upon these SCHOOLS
French inspector general of schools who IS
strong advocate of education, compulsory, secular
al f,o. savs. We must admit that we are III
presence of q vast gap which here point ou'
,uerclv. dogmatic religion wIthdraws from our
s,bools and there is nothing at present to take us
MACE IL our democracy l. not to be, "hat llS
detractors call it, regime OF mediocHty o. SOM
and OF Vulgarty OF character tuAt y 10 say %
cadence-thrrc j. no time 20 he lost we mus lI!t
way of uniting. as AT inns uolIeH' VIC "' NV N'
tdVcutiCH with inSTHctON
The State Superintendent of Instruction OF Now
Hampshire complains in his annual report ''utV VIC
schools are not effective. There Is too much pHhu
crorD,ng Of the memory. and the scholarship OF
many of the teachers IS limited and inaccurate
There Is amoul them fatal want OF Eno"e"se Oh
the laws Of mind. growth and the natural ORDER OF
ttudies No. uufrequently they coniound silence
with order, and mistake mental stagHaIlon 1oi
mental digestion. With such drawbacks the
nhysicll Intellectual and moral facnIlles OF chIl-
dren cannot he 80 disciplined and informed as TO
it the IA To d. their best IN the ipdu'tF1S ara re-
snorsiE,jttrs OF afttr-life. The average daily at,
tendance IN the schools is 1886. The total
amount expended last year was $J7JeOo 90. &.