The Republican journal., 1892-04-07
Educational Problems.
THE MODERN SCHOOL rEAcHER

She reckoned percentage, so many boys,
And so many girls are counted
And marked all the tardy and abSenteeS
And to what all the absence amounted.
Names and residences wrote in full,
Over many columns and pages;
Canadian, Teutonic, African, Celt
And averaged all their ages.
The rate of admission of every one,
And cases of tlagellation,
And prepared list of graduates
For the county examination.
Her weary head sank low on her book,
And her weary heart still lower;
For some of her pupils had little brains,
And she could furnish no more.
She slept, she dreamed it seemed she died,
And her spirit Went to Hades,
And they met her there with question fair,
Estate what per cent. of your grade is?'
ges had slowly rolled away,
Leaving but partial traces
Ant,, the teachers spirit walked one day
Ia the old familiar places.
y mound of fosSiilzed school reports
Attracted her ol,>ervaton.-
AS high as State House dome. and as wide
AS Boston Slice annexation.
She came t" the spot where they buried her
bones.
And the ground was we'll built over;
Bit iaborer> digging threw up a skull,
One planted beneath the clover.
y disciple ri Galen wandering by,
Paused to look at the diggers:
And pluclled the skull up, looked through
the eye
And saw that twas lined with figures.
Just as I thought" said the young NJ. D.,
"How easy it is to kill em2''
Statistics ossitied, every fold
"Of cerebum and cerebellum."
Its great curiosity. sure. said Pat,
by the bones you can tell the creature.
80, nothing strange, said the doctor, ''that
Was a nineteenth-century teacher
Educational Gazette.
Mr. William Elroy Curtis, of the State
Department, is writing book which will
be used as a text-b book for the Chautauqua
Jnited States and Foreign Powers. A
brief survey of the diplomatic and con-
sular service will be followed by an ac-
count of the relations which have existed
and those which are now maintained be-
tween the United States and other nations
! The book will be an admirable aid in pre-
pairing for an intelligent visit to the World
Fair
Superintendent Lord of the Portland
schools makes a good point i'm his annual
report on the efficiency of teachers. An
idea prevails. says he, that anyone who
has High School education is capable of
teaching the lower grades of the primary
schools, providing he or she can maintain
a certain amount of discipline. There is
a further idea, too. that the primary
school is the place to put young, untrain-
ed and inexperienced teachers to get their
training and experience at the expense of
/ the mental development of the pupils
This certainly is radically wrong, and Sup
erintendent Lord will be supported by
every educator in his battle against it, 1t
is the first year of school life when the
most telling impressions may be made and
4 when the most skillful teachers should be
employed. Boston Journal.
The Pedagogical work at Chautauuua in
the summer OF 1892 will be under the
charge of Col. F. W. Parker, of the Cook
County Normal School, Englewood, Ill.
Col. Parker will be assisted by w s. Jack
man, W. NJ. Giffin, Mrs. Parker, Miss
Emily j. Rice, Miss Sarah f. Griswold,
and several other members of the Normal
School faculty. The course offered is
comprehensive and unified The teachers
are accustomed to supplement and enforce
each others works. The advantage of
having corps of teachers who work to-
gether the year round, is one which
Chautauqua has appreciated and secured.
A model school house. to be built for next
summer, will add greatly to the efficiency
of this department.
\ University Extension Conference will
be held at Chautauqua during the week of
July 1S-23. All University Extension So
j, cieties will be invited to send delegates.
The exercises will consist of: l. Model
courses of daily lectures, quizzes, ques-
ton papers. etc. illustrating the Univer-
Sly Extension Method One of these
courses will be given by Prof Moses Colt
Tyler, of Cornell. ?. Paper and discuss
ions on various aspects of University Ex-
tension work. B. Lectures by men of expe-
TenCe 10 young men VINO intend to take up
University Extension work. 4. A plat
form evening meeting with short address,
es. Delegates will be rendered the Gree
dom of the city, and every effort will be
made to render the week not only helpful
to the cause, but delightful to it's friends.
A correspondent OF The Journal calls at
tention to some errors in the use of the
relative pronoun in the newspapers, and
evidently would suggest that there must
be some young writer's connected with
the Boston press. Our correspondent is
perfectly correct as to the fact that gram
matical errors do creep into the newspa-
pers. Bnt he must not for that reason as
sumo that they are proof that s'young
writer's are welding the pen. The Eng
fish grammar is a stumbling block for
some graybeards. The relative pronouns
have way of tripping old as we'll as
young. This is especially true when it
happens that the clause containing the rel
ative plays the part of substantive and
the pronoun that of subject, as it did in
the instance cited by our correspondent.
But ism t this matter for the conSidera-
ton of those who would cut down the
study of English in our grammar schools
to introduce French Latin, ALGEBRA and