New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The highest salary paid to woman teacher III
Iowa is $1,000
The American School OF Archaeology in Athens is
Aowin good working order.
Ont of the 81 900 people of West Virginia there
are Sc, 600 who cannot write
baltimore is endeav oring to take the school CON-
mission out of tho domain Of ward politcs.
A veterinary school is to be soon established in
connection with the University OF pennsylvania
New Jersey has 343,526 children OF school age
The average attendance upon the public Schools
is1l3.532; 44,56O children are in the private
schools. The school receipts of the State during
the pas: year were $1,000 ST. OF th Nsy SI eT
teachers 2, 594 are women Inc value VI No"-''A
sey's school property is $G.27O,T1e.
public ,entim emit in Cleveland is wholly against
the silly boys who have been exalting horse-plaY
into solemn rite. The Leader says: " Ii the STU
dents arc allowed to disoDey the faculty Win lmpu
nifty In this one instance there can be no reasohaoio
ronnd To OK oect them be obedient In the nature
and Il voud be wiser for the faculty to close the
college for year or than to yeld TO the per-
crrptory demand of number OF young gentlemen
that they should recedc from the position they nave
taken to enforce discipline Ihe students o tb nov
do they should submit to its rules. he moment
they begin a course of study within us was .mey
supsct themselye s to the authority OF It's iacuy,
and il that authority is found too severe ltls tne
nrerogatiye TO leay the college, but is not tner
n,eroSatiye TO defy its rules while there, ana IL ID
rot honorable 10 try to compel the faculty TO come
"a, their terms by forming what might be caleu
conspiracy that all leave at once"
A successful school for the training OF young
women In the art Of teaching is in operation IN Des
Moiucs. They ore put into actual school-room work
md required to discipline and instruct III nc
cordance with the principles of the "new educa-
tom and under the constant criticism and control
of one of the best primary workers 10 the State.
Three rooms have been set apart for this school, and
two Young teachers have been assigned to each
ROOM While one is teaching, the other is studying
the best books on the history aud science ct educa
ton. and during about half the time is present. pen
ell In hand, noting all Violate rs OF Pestaloz1lan
principles all faulty methods, every petulant ihiec
tOp of the voice, disregard OF poor department OF
ANYTHING else which would Iniuro a teacher lnnl-
ence upon her school, These criticisms are READ
and discussed by the training teacher ana the young
women at the close Of the session. ana
incentive to the correction OF errors ana Inc estao
lshment of better methods. In the study OF the
history and science of education complete ana
anpreciatiye mastery of few well-chosen BOOKS
IL preferred to a more extensive and necessarily
mere hasty perusal of the many excellent WORKS
now accessible and every member OF the framing
class Is thoroughly examined by the principal OF the
high school or the SUPERINTENDENT on the SUBJECT
matter of the books required III the course.
New publications.