New-York tribune., 1884-11-13
NOTEs ON EDUCATION.

-, orr,at;o, Of the United States Is
90 600 600 OF this 10000, 900 is enrolled IN the
ss,. ..hooIs The public school system OF the coui-
r. .anas more than sol 0O00 900 year, and employs
roo, 1000 teachers.
MANY educators in Ohio appear to think that there
ara too many so-caed colleges in the State. says
tn. t,c;upati Commercial Gazette ": While Illinois
and Nev-York have % each, and Pennsylvania 20
M other state having than 10 Ohio has 30 bu'
II only in the number Of these institutions ha' 'n
State can boast. Their aggregate Income from pio
ductiys funds il but S2O251O, and IRON mtoh ices
but s125.3s2, while the value Of all grounds ana
hu;,dnps Is but SO l92, $40, and the number OF
volnmes in their libraries but 1Ol ,3O2 Ihe numner
of stndents however in the preparatory collegiate de
nartments compares favorably with the Older Sates
only SURPRISING ono no" m"Im thau those
colleges they have an income from productive funds OF
e2ei Sl2 and receipts from tuition OF $l66o3S' ana
303. i2o volumes in their libraries. but the value OF
Su;iaines and grounds ia only $1,310OOo, Tho
colleges Of Newly and Pennsylvania are also muGn
better endowed than those of Ono. and are Vastly @
ficher IN libraries and apparatus. Michigan, with only
nine colleges shows up better than Ohio in the pro-
eision made for their support. These figures, wnich
might be tcdously multiplied give rsc to che suspicion
that many Of our colleges are in TACT ntuc os',i ,n
academies. and are colleges Only ~ s"u rnn
picion is rather confirmed by the dsproportone'e nun
her Of scholars in the preparatory departments anu III
the regular college course
In nm interesting lecture delivered the other night IN
Boston, the Rev. Edward Everett Hale said that his
idea of q model school about this iic would
recognize each boys drift, Then he would have halt
time and that Ia, complete coursos ro
ou,r,ng only thirteen weeks attendance. a. well ns
coursoa covering q period Of forty-ss weeks in,'
would bc halftlme study but u would bc concentrated
And boy could begin year just whcrc no 'ei' on
ihe preoednr We should gain regularity where now
We have irrcgulari,y; should know our WORK. ana
tho boy would have timo TO earn somethiag. oh the
teachers side Of the question one thing was plain
Something must be done 90 relieve them from over.
work The number Of teachers who apply ior leave OF
absence ON account of i'll health increases year by year.
aud some relet must be found for them Oi study u,
home he spoke very deprecatingy saying .n,, n nra @
been carried 10 excess and growing more ana more
40 In some schools all the study was done outs'oe'
90 that the public teacher was simply devoted 10 nna
Ing ont what had been learned elsewhere ms was
~rswiag evil in the Boston public schools in his judg
ment He wanted his audience TO see that our Amer
can system attempts too much and does not accomplish
what Il aims TO do Boston's public schools cost
81 100000 q year. outside of the new buildings
erected and what do we get in return we aha ABOUT
fourhs of our pupils under thirteen years OF age ana
We cannot tempt older to continue their stu de
His aim in the lecture was to show how mucn care anu
anime this stny and care who<ctermnes the theory
of our schoolsl school committee OF twenty rtour
ppersons He yentured to say there not five por
sons in his audience outside of any possible teachers
or other closely interested persons present VINO Knew
There were some ten twelve members OF the com
mttee who we're qualified for their position out he
Others appeared to have been selected by ward poll
ticians who wanted some recognition: men Passeu
Judgment the expenditure OF Si.ooo.ooO whose
oppion was never before sought the investment OF
$1,000.
The free text book experiment in Massachusetts, is
said TO he success 1t has resulted in larger attend
ancc in the schools and it is economical than the
old system.
In speaking of the "learning" and teaching
Nations of Europe, in his last Oxford lecture. MT
Ruskin said that the Huns and Vandals were merely
"forms of punishment" The British we're neither ap-
nrehensye nor receptive The Normans were scarcely
more apprehensve but had more constructive energy
their chief characteristic being that they never spend
themselves in VAN anger, passion. or sorrow they
are like the living rock they flow Ike lava and congeai
like granite The Saxons and Franks are doeile, i'm
aeinatve and active but with difficulty rational, and
rarely wise For the type of the Osrogoths You may
faLe the German CAESARS till standing barrier
against the license and insolence OF modern fepuDcan
governments" And, lastly. there are the Lombarus
sternly indocile glOomy imaginative; Tor The Lom-
bard ike the Arabian. never jests. Of Bl1sh art ne-
tutor Nations there is wesiftcd account; but they
must have been practicable builders III wood good
boat bnilders skfu in sail weaving. with knowledge
Of stout ronwork and copper for orlamentation fou
have here and there the stones of their temples stand
g one on another in the midst of deserted PLAINS ana
ia an Increasing matter of wonder to me that
vour historians never ask you to consider what you
mi have been if Roman missionary bad ever
passed the Alps in charity and no English hing IN
oilgrimace what the clay of Isis might have yieded
II IL had cen touched by the spear Oh falias ana
the rod Of Agricola