Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS.
Thoughts and Hints of Leading Edu-
Gators and WRITER'S

Our high schools hold an important place
in our system. They determine the course
of studies to be pursued in the lower
schools, and the methods of teaching by
which the topics are to be presented tc the
learners mind.-Hon. J. D. Dickinson.
In the matter of discipline, more thar
all else, the old maxim, ''As is the teacher.
so is the school, holds good, and is most
manifest even TO the casual visitor. The
best discipinarian win teach her pupils
self-control, and will have one of those
" best governed schools which apparently
governs itself."-Supt. L. D. Smith, Los
angeles
Since the greater part of the college
course was made elective, it has become al
most impossible for student, especially a
senior or junior, to obtain outside of
Cambridge the instruction necessary to
enable him to keep up in his studies, and
prepare himself for the examinations,
which he must pass at the regular times.
President G. ". Eliot, Harrard University
All competent authorities agree in the
opinion that course of special training in
the theory and practice of teaching should
be insisted upon as prerequisite to the
occupation of teacher. In no department
of school economy is there greater waste
ment of unframed teachers-Hon. John d.
Philbriek, Ia 6 City Schools in the United
StttteSh
The brain, served with thin, poor blood,
cannot exert itself vigorously without det-
riment, and the absence of healthy appe-
tite in growing school child is a sign of
cerebral exhaustion or irritation, or of a
state of body in which that rapid and we'll
balanced destruction and construction of
tissue, which is essential to vigorous health,
has been seriously disturbed.-Dr. j.
Cficlt0n- Browne.
In the primary schools are laid the foun-
dations Of scholarship and character, hence
the necessity of securing the best teaching
talent for this most important work. | re-
commend giving more attention to reading
and less, If necessary, to number work
during the first three years of school life,
as ability to read well is the key to progress
in all the other studies.-Superiatend G..
T. Fletcher. Marlboro, MnsS.
Let some of the older pupils, or in gen
eral exercise let your school answer these
ten questions l. Write the full name of
this country. 2. Name the States which
excel in the following productions (a)
corn, (b) wheat, (c) oats, ID potatoes, (e)
| sweet potatoes, e. tobacco tg) cotton, (h)
wool, III oranges 3. What State produces
the most maple sugar? A. What city in
| tins country is called the =" Garden City?''
5. Who are called " Hawkeyes?' 6. When
the pendulum of clock is heightened dues
| il gain or lose time? Z. Where is Bunker
Hill? s. What is patent? 8. Where is
the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal?
Where the western? 10. What American
city stands first in the production of -four
Amerjcda Journal Of Education.
| Some good stories are told of the exam
ination by school inspectors in the London
| elementary schools. The following may
certainly claim to have put the examiner
| in the least favorable light: With what
weapons" he asked did Sampson Stay
| the PhiGstineS ?" and finding that The
youngsters hesitated, and wishing It
prompt them, he touched his own cheek
Significantly, and asked What is this? ?
| His action awakening the chords of mem
| DRY, the whole class responded with one
| voice, The jawbone of an ass" Thi:
| was as clever in its way as the answer o.
| the little girl to the question: Who came
after solomon THE Queen of Sheba
sir or of the lad who defined an uncleai
spirit as dirty devil