Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-27
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Sch00l Notes.

Thoughts Suggested by . visit TO Then-
Gleanings from Examination Papers
School Notes.
BUrrE, April 24.-[Editor Miner.l-The
atmosphere OF the High School is clear and
healthiul. It's moral as well as it's mental
tone is good. It's government is about per
feet, since it is based on self-government.
It speaks for itself. Its students are
ladies and gentlemen. Its principal and
corps Of teachers are highly efficient. Its
graduates are fully prepared to enter col.
iege, its course OF study being extensive and
thorough, and embracing a period Of four
years. It is to be regretted. however, that
its curriculum does not include draw
ing and calisthenics. The man who
has no music in his SOUP never existed.
Education is simply the development OF
our gifts. and should be applied to the
drawing out OF each equally. He is but
one-sided, one-half educated, whose men.
tai, moral and physical nature HAS not
each received due training.
Nearly all draughtsmen, architects and
persons filing responsible positions where
an educated hand and eye are requisite 10
this country, are Foreigners. 1t is mortify-
ing to hare to confess that this is the Ease IN
our boosted land OF educational advan-
tages.
The primary teachers here have made a
happy hit. Their walls are 70 mass OF
beautiful pictures and picture cards. The
little folks are deeply interested in bringing
those pictures to the teachers and the com
sequence is that their rooms literally
TEEN with beauty that is a constant joy to
the child as well as an educator. It natur.
ally loves pictures; they are it's poetry; it's
music, that elevates and refines it's mind.
The marching in the schools is u feature
enjoyable alike BY all-teachers and pupils.
old aud young. 1t is SO simple and easy,
and yet a great Improvement. Formerly
the smaller children were in danger of be-
ing trampled by the older ones in their
rush from the playground. By this method
not only the safety OF the children is Sc
cured; but o discipline OF great value. both
physical and mental; a training in which
the young people take special delight. In
the Central Building two little boys beat
the time on their drums. In the eyes of
this juvenile community, they occupy an
exalted and important position, and are
more envied than the President of the
United States.
The crowded condition OF the room in
the public schools is scarcely creditable.
The medical faculty Of Philadelphia gives
q teacher five years in which to wear out
her strength. Yet there thirty pupilsi is the
highest number given in charge to one
teacher. Here as many rs one hundred
and twenty are found in one room, under
the care Of one young girl.
It is a pity the city cannot give the little
ones a specialist in music. They are sing-
ing too loud and straining their precious
voices now, and they are altogether lack.
ing in that all-important branch, note
reading. Now, since it is so simply pre-.
sented by the thine Sci La" system, and
children everywhere throughout the world
are singing by note, these children should
have the same advantage in this respect.
The proportion of public funds expended
ON it's citizens in large cities is about the
same everywhere. Those which fail to ex.
pend it in the training and education of
the young, are compelled to put it into
jails, pe~nitentaries and criminal courts. A
murder trial costs the country on average |
$4,000. The "stitch-in.time' plan would
save q good deal Of this mony and the boy |
two. One WHO HAS TAUGHT