New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Milwaukee is to lie the site OF o'"''
School
7, "a cx,ccted that the Professor OF Celtic wno
-. 60 ro onnointed to this newly constituted
chair at Edinburgh University VIII ''e
ut the next winter session.
The minimum salary of the primary schoo' 'e"'"-
ors IN France is 5000 the maximum $l4O. Ihsr"'-
tion is free in infant schools, primary schools ptp
err and adv snced primary schools, anu aiso 4"
normal schools.
The Archbishop of Paris has issued pas oral let
fer deploring the secularzation of education' anu
charging parents to personally undertake eho re-
cous instruction of their children IN places choo
no educational provision beyond the state so"o0'
exists.
AT the recent matriculation examination OF 'n'
Calcutta University, eight women passed success.
fully. of whom six are natives OF lndia ""r ..
BOMBAY seven women were successful ine,@ ts az
fonr from the city of Poonah AT ths io ohtained
animation. at Calcutta, female caI'u'''''
scholarship of the first grade
Students nj Michigan University who nave co."
pleted their second year in the depar'i'on, com.
ra,nre science and the arts, and have aiso IN IN
,,a,od all the prescribed work offered IN the "le'
to e.rs in some one of the several llues OF study
loading 70 bachelors degree. are to be allo"cu ~
choose whether they will continue their WORK OH 'no
..credit system or on the so-called university ~
fem The doctors degree ~ hereafter 80. w ~ mo
ferred only on persons that nav "r and good at
tainments in two other branches and upon paesrb
fation of q thesis that shall evhce po"o' "
and of independent investigations
. Congress of French schoolboys has just ocen
,Ia Moor Tonlouse. the twenty delegates resolving
after two DAYS delberaton to suggest 10 the NH"
;ater Of Public instruction the substitution OF '"o
modern languages for the Latin and Greek h'her'o
;nclnded in the Lycee curriculum, the appointment
of q committee of scholars TO mediate Win Tue
masters Improvement Of the food, suppression 81
the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by the conGlelees u
supplying small luxuries AT eAo,n npantIv ov
6npiIy the amnesty of some scholars recentS ~
nniicS from Toulouse and Montpelier. AnotioI
meeting is to be held August u during Ie sun,
Iner holidays IN order 10 e9nsusr The man-
The Minister shoulu ne uelsn W '"'
festo"
The students of the Harvard Annex have shown a
tendency toward the traditional classical curricu-
INN and not toward science. All the courses III
Greek were taken by the female students las. year
The classes were fed by the best private ana hign
schools. The professors marked the young women
on the same scale with the young men anu h"No
exnressed great satisfaction with their progress
Twenty young women who passeI one o'rsn Of fonr
Examinations last June 10 the regular course Oh t
years are expecting to take the hnal eAahInd.ioIi
next June The girls have all worked haro a anu
their health has in no case suffered An nav I ~
Quoted themselves in q thoroughly exemplary
manner
That school methods are entirely opposed 10 inc
,ror,d,s method and to natures method OF acqulsi-
zion &c the statement of Mr. j. T. Maude IN Ed"cd-
fon. Examinations" he adds never WILL anu
never ought to be, test of what students Know
Every mind has ITS own interests and can acquire
most quickly by studying whatlt peculiar inteies''
,ead TO- All that should be done i'll the way OF com
pulsion is to keep the mind TO its WORK. wna'eNei
work il chooses to do and to keep the mlnd IN the
most imnortant channels and in consistent course.
Nature undoubtedly intended thai, while thefe
shonld he a substratum of similarity between ana
,ndorneath the knowledge of all men, there should
o1so he n peculiarity that should distinguish the
mental requirements Of each one of us, and that
each of rs should supplement the knowledge OF ali
the rest of his fellows with his own so that the COM
bined Judgment of mass of men should he almost
nerfect Examinations compel number OF mlnds'
each Inv nature endowed with its own popularity,
"a learn what the teacher prescribes and to learn
vast mass of uninteresting knowledge merely 10
,rovide for whatever the examination may ask. In
regard 70 the primary subjects which all men should
alike know examinations may serve a most uselul
,,,,rnnse. but after the rudimentS have Deen tarneu
examinations are usually useless and harmful. II
is the wasteful result of present system OF eu-
cation which appears i'll the relatively greater quCh-
ness with which man, with ordinary GOOD 1udg-
ment In the choice of his studies. can gam an c9u
cation out of college than III. ne knOWlcuSe
that has TO be gained by repetition unuer tno
spnr of fear of the examination, but without me
holm of interest is seldom remembered long aIteI
fhe Nominations and the labor which has been de-
voted 10 drilling that knOwledgelnto the CONSCIOUS
ness is lost and wasted"
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