Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-10
EDUCATIONAL.
Qualifications Necessary for . Progressive
and Practical School Superin-
tendent.
Hleanings From Various Sources on Var
ious Subjects Embracing Suggest
I've Hints.
PUBLIC OPINION.

PUBLIC OPINION.
President Eliot of Harvard Universi-
ty in an address before the Massachu-
sets Teachers Association the other
day, said it would be much better for
two or three towns to maintain one
high school adequately equipped, rath-
er than for each one to maintain a
weak and poorly equipped high school.
The only thing that stands in the way
of such union is local jealousy. and
the sooner that is set aside the better.
More liberal appropriations for salar-
les of evening schoolteachers should
early follow, that these schools. as far
rs can be, may be made widely recOg-
nized and well regulated part of the
state system. Statistics tell us that
evening schools, like day schools, when
under similar conditions, have proved
success. but when maintained under
eleemosynary management, or by an
indifferent public support, have never
justified the expenditure. Massachu-
sets Board Of Education.
To learn to read easy Latin prose
and ordinary French prose at sight, is
as good training for pupils who are not
going to college as it is for those who
are. If the technical schools
should add to their usual requirements
for admission, Latin, and the elements
of chemistry, physics. botany, and 20
ology, they would strengthen the high
schools, secure to all their regular pu-
pills broad and firm foundation for
SPECIAL studies, and raise the general
level of their own courses-Prestden
Eliot.
asked two Prussian officers, whom
/ met in the summer of 1871 at FORTRESS
ina. how the German troops behaved
when going into battle,-did they cheer
and encourage each other? The reply
/ received was: Never in our exper-
ience has the cry. .Wr nussen seizen,'
we must conquer,-been heard from
German soldiers; but in hundred in
stances we have heard them resolutely
exclaim, 'Hir muSSen unser Pficht ntun',
we must do our duty" 1t was q
sense of duty rather than love of glory
that strengthened those men and filled
them with an invincible heroism.-Pro-
fessor Tyndat.
Those whose reading is limited sell
dom makea success of teaching. They
form class of verbatim teachers"
who teach children sound not sense.
Mary Allen West.
The results of reading are best pre-
served byscommunicating them to 9TH
ers. Ii is of little Use to read to ones
self and never to speak of what one
reads.-Lyman Abbott.
We should remember that the direc-
tion of a stream is easily changed at its
source. You can make something of
a Scotchman if he is caught young"
said DIR. Johnson; and the saying NAV
be applied to the little people Of all
lands.-7he Lighthouse, Wilmington,
n. C.
Educational journals furnish a means
of improvement which no teacher can
afford to ignore, and which no success
full teacher does ignore. The best teach
ers need such helps; and what is to be
said of the teacher who fails to provide
himself with such implements?-THe
Normal Teacher.
Child-nature is a furnace wherein the
animal dross may be purged and the
mind and heart left pure and fresh for
the entrance of good thoughts and the
expression of noble deeds; or the gem
med beauty of precious souls may be
sotted and corroded and burned with
passion so that they crave nothing
good, love nothing pure. and hate all
that is holy.-S. W. Journal of Educa-
ttOn.