Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-07
EDUCPIONAh NOTES
New York sch, OILS have o regular fire

New York sch, OILS have o regular FIRE
drill.
The London School Board has appoint.
ed o Committee to consider the introduce
ton Of technical education in elemer tary
schools.
The once famous William and Mary
college at Villa sburg. Virginia, the
| alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe
and Randolph, had only n student last
year, and Is now closed.
A. +. Kent, of San Francisco. a mem
Der of the Yale class Of '53, has given the
college csc, 900. The faculty has decided
to use the money In erecting Q chemical
laboratory, the building Of which will be
begun this spring and finished In the fall.
The American system Of education has
been introduced into New Zsaland, and
there are 81, 4O6 pupilr in 1886 schools, the
| University of New Zealand being empow.
| cred by royal charter to confer DEGREES
ranking with those Of Oxford and Cam
bridge.
A school teacher asserts that scholars
who have access to newspapers at home
outstrip those In their studies who do not
see the papers, becoming better readers
and spoilers, better grsmmarisns and write
the best compositions, be.ides learning
geography and history quicker.
The new compulsory education law Of
Ri de leland requires that every child be.
tween the ages Of z and ID years shall
have sixteen weeks OF schooling each year.
No child under 10 Is to be allowed to work
in any mandatory, and no one under IA
who cannot write his name, age, and place
Of residence, OF read some part of the
state constit ution.
A writer in The Boston Herald sharply
criticises the preseps common school sys-
tenn of that city, which he calls the new
departure" Under this order oil things"
he says. ''the spelling book aud mental
arithmetic were bsnished from the lchools.
All ranking by per cent and classification
was ignored and virtually abolished. q
practice which the most distinguished
teachers, In all time, ha Se found most es-
~sentisl, under judicious arrangement, to
intellectual growth and successful scholar
ship In their pupils.
Austria supports seventy schools OF sgri.
culture with 2, 200 students, and one hun.
dred and seyeDty.four agriculture evening
schools with $500 students. France has
forty three farm schools with thirty tc
forty pupils at each. The government
pays the board Of each pupils, and allows
him seventy francs a year for clothing,
Paris has three department schools OF
agriculture and a national agricultural In
stitute Germany has over one hundred
and fifty schools Of agriculture, horticul
ture, arboriculture aud viticulture. Tn,
! irst experimental agricultural station wa
5 established in 1862; upward of sixty arr
now In operation, each one having a specia
. line OF research.
a An examination Of the young children o
4 the public schools at Boston, made by DIR
Stanley Hall, showed that Is per cent Of
. the number had no knowledge of the COW
a further than that gained from pictures
: I'll per cent of those examined had neveI
! seen corn growing; 80 per cent did no
a know where their ribs were nor exactly
q what they were, while only six per cen
were ignorant OF the location Of thei
stomachs. Some Of the children STATED
Q that -four came from the grocer, who get
It directly from God; others said that mea
was dug from the ground or picked NJ
from the meat tree. From these DIR. Hal
Q deducsd two other facts that q gross IL
noranoe Of practical things may exist sid.
d by side with q very thorough book knowl
edge, and that some modification Of tn
kindergarten method II necessary In tn
' instruction Of the young.