The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-20
PrHTIC OPINION.

Ought not primary science to have a
place IN the course of study of our pri-
mary schools? What safer method of
teaching the eyes to see aud ears to
hear. and what more important power
has man than seeing and hearing?-S.
". Journal Of Ed.
How many OF the public school
teachers make any use of the newspa-
pers in the school-room? Its educa-
tional value to the reading public is
universally admitted, bat it is not al
ways perceived that, judciously used,
it might be made equally valuable in
the public school, School
| Journal
One OF the greatest drawbacks to
/ progress in the workings of the school
system is the too frequent change of
4 teachers. Our teachers are perpetualiy
changing. State Supt Higbee was re-
Gently quoted as saying: Year by year
they come and go. and gain only a
1 transient acquaintance as they hurry
/ by. They seem almost as pedagogic
| tramps, not teachers The law recent
/ " proposed making it obligatory upon
4 school boards TO employ all competent
/ teachers for a term of three years,
| would in measure correct this evil
Teacher and Pltptl, Media, Pa.
| If the advocates of the so-called, and
| falsely so-called. New Education are
taken to task pretty sharply. they have
no one to blame but themselves. For
some time they have had pretty much
their own way in conventions and Jour-
nails. for those who were not carried
away by the novelty of the thing were
/ obliged to wait until they could learn
what his new doctrine is. An 10! it is
| not Hegc,-it is very old But the cool
ton that everything good is part of
the new. and everything bad belongs
to the Educational Co1frQat
The little ones viii be specially de-
lighted with the knowledge that a
principal may grant half-holiday on
Friday, once a month. to the ten in
each class ranking highest in scholar
ship and deaortment during the pre-
ceding month. The new rules say that
| principals shall have the power to sus-
pend pupils for period not exceeding
| one week; and where the case, in their
| judgment. merits a greater penalty,
they shall report the fact to the Com
mittee on Rules and Regulations.
Heretofore the pupil might be sus-
pended. and be pretty sure that he
could be re-instated on the application
OF his parents to the Superintendent OF
Schools. who has the power TO annul
the order Of the teacher, but who has
now been deprived of that privilege.
The rules and regulations of the pres
ent are regarded by parents and think
ing teachers IS very thorough and ex-
eellent-- -SGn francisco Post
A large proportion of the pupils in
the grammar schools end their school.
life before reaching or without enter
ing the high school. Hence the gram
mar schools are not, and ought not te
be. perverted into merely exclusive fit
ting-institutions for speculative
standard for the high school. ozlpt
" ". Waterman, Taunton, Aass.
Children can now be controlled with
ont the exercise of physical force, be-
cause they find greater pleasure il
study than in disorder and mischief
The culture OF the teachers is so mucf
greater, and the tastes of the children
i 80 much refined, that that which
gave inexpressihle enjoyment to ths
children Of twenty years ago, IS nov
looked upon with disgust. Forcet
| etudr and forced order viii still furthc'