New-York tribune., 1884-01-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The National Educational Association will hold
its annual meeting this year at Madison WIS., July
Is. The New York State Teachers Association Will
meet At Elmira in the same month"; and the State
Association of School Commissioners and SupeIm-
tendents will meet at Rochester next week.
Women are,thoroughly successful as students AT
Michigan University. President Angel says III lii'
latest report: As We have now for thirteen years
without the least embarrassment admitted "oii'"
to all the privileges of instruction III inc ui'''i9'S'
we cannot but observe with gratlhcaVioh io"
RAPIDLY public opinion both in Europe ana Anoi i,'
is coming to approve the granting OF suoS'ah'"iIS
the same opportunities for education 10 women "'
10 men. II may be questioned whether this change
in public sentiment is not the most important event
in the educational history of the last fifteen years
We shall risk little in predicting that the mstitu-
+ions in this country which are lurnshug separate
instruction of high grade to each of the SEXES VIII
AT no distant day find, like ourselves thal llGiJ ~
no adequate reason why they should nol saw iaoy
and expense bv educating the male ana the lendiy
students for the most part in the same claSsrooins
A German who has been teacher in England mas
published striking book in which he says that
English private schools are the most lnemclenV
educational institutions in Europe. "hat WIN
holidays the time spent in examinations anu losS d.
The beginning and end of the terms. he reckohs tV
Tho actnal working days in year are reunceu ~
most midJle-cass schools to 1876. The teacnng anu m
the discipline are bad the masters are lreq9oh{ my
changed and are so badly treated ana lll-puul %
they become the merest drudges auu '"" ' ~
personal interest in their work.
There are moro than five hundred pupils in arcnl-
,ectural and mechanical designing attending lIo
eveninp sessions of the art school attached 10 le
Maryland Institute. 80
The admission of colOred pupils to the puDho
schools for whites in Columbus has had no upie"o-
ant results 1t has not injured the white chiiureh
and IL has greatly benefited the colored ones
The Superintendent of the Columbus schools says
that the children most difficult to controi come
from weIl.to-do and wealthy families They are
not vicious. disrespectful or impollte but are III
dolent and averse to doing anything contrary 10
their own sweet Wills The reason is evident. so
long os the teacher can disguise the work as play,
all ia we'll, but when it becomes plain, hard ana
continuous work. and little cOmpulslon becomes
necessary trouble begins. Sometimes, III oIuol "
avoid tronbc teachers do the work Tor these pupis
The result in all such cases is the acquisition OF
some knowledge by the crammlng process ou' no
increase IN mental power These pupils STUDY 2niS y
,vhen nnder the eve of the teacher. Ihls may 10 III
The urinary grades, but those puplls IN lno hsu az"
Grammar grades should daily devote from oilc ~
two hours to unnterrapted Stu%y twcIVe UHe Years
When children arrive at the age OF tweiNS, fin
they should have acquired a power oi aPPIao o,oI
and attention have formed m hao esnongb 70
force themselves to the per- rmahce VI unple"S'A'
duties"
The cost Of public school instruction in New
Haven is $2l per capita, the figures annually H.
cTcasing.
At tho recent meeting of tho Massachusetts
teachers one sneaker advocated etter-wltlhg lls u
very good method Of teaching English composition
"Once week." she said have the children "Il'o
letters among themselves, and provide etter-box
for the purpose For correcting exercises, use &a a a
few of the signs used by proof-Teadeis, slhco tAc!
are as easily learned rs arbitrary ones
A foolish system of admission to the puollc
.otools cxists IN Baltimore. Those who desire 10
have their children entered as free pupils are ooeeo
IN mako application in person to the comnllssioei
rcpre,enting the ward in which the school 10 10
Gated To ascertain whether he is Justlhed III
issuinp n permit the official must ask the applicant
rather searching series of questions IN rclerence u
his or her pecuniary condition, and sometimes n .s
,yomcn of tender sens iblllteS nave oeeh loiceu y.
teors while cOnfcsSlng the necessity, competing
them to ask free education for their little ones
Excellence in the gymnasium at Amherst counts
in the students record as does hs excellence ii
mathematics. President Seelye says that this re-
ouired physica discipline has had the happiest re-
suits. "By close statistics carefully kept, ior
twenty wears it appears that the health of au Am
herst College STUDENT is likely to grow better win
each year of his college course. The average heln
of the sophomore class is better than that o1 the
frcIu,on and of the Junior better than that OF the
snnLomorc and of the senior best of all ms
~ eraUc i shown TO from an lulproNcmcllJ III
~ Tyeic3i condition of the individual student.
and not from dropping ont "i the c3'r7c ol 'nos'
who might be too weak TO complete H.
There are now 9,5l2 public schools in Pcnnsyl-
vania inStructing 957 $50 pupils, and conducted by
02 OH teachers The school expenditures last yeai
amounted TO $9.335,3J9 80.
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