The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-26
OPINIONS ON EDUCATION. SEVERAL GIFEN ON THE MATTER
 AT LAST NIGHTS MEETING.

 Colonel Osborn Principal Morrow and
 Professor Brewer Appear Before the
 Board of Education-ScienceT Teaching in
 the Schools is Advocated.
 The regular fortnightly meeting of the board of education was held last evening, all the members being in at- tendance. Colonel N. G. Osborn, Profess sor Morrow of the normal school and Professor William H. Brewer of the Sheffield Scientific school appeared and gave them some of their opinions on ed- ucational matters, especially in connec- ton with the high school and science teaching in the lower grades.
 Colonel Osborn in his remarks said that he doubted the serviceability of the education obtained at the high school, as he himself knew of many cases where it had been very detrimental to young people. He advocated the de- partmental system in teaching. He did not believe in using the taxpayers mon- ey in making an exclusive high school for it's own disadvantage. He thought that 1t should be very clearly denon- strated that the high school was good thing before any more money was spent on it. He didn't believe that what was to be done had anything to do with the board of education unless they again wanted to go before the district meet ing and get set upon. He thought all these matters should be managed on sound business principles, just as one would manage his own private busi- ness.
 Principal Morrow in his remarks, which were in regard to science teach ing in the schools, said that he had been working for the last twenty years in teaching, talking and writing, to the end of putting science work into the primary schools, and not only the pri- mary schools, but all the schools all the way up through the high school He thought that science, in the true mean- ing of that word, should be made the chief fundamental of an education. He would not allow that grammar schools were simply to prepare for the high school Such an idea, he thought, viti- ated the schools The boys and girls in our schools should be habituated to reading. And next in importance to this he classed the study of the life and phenomena about them. Science, in the words of Huxley, is organized and train- ed common sense. He said he should like to have some one tell him what Greek culture had done for the world and he characterized the present currlc- ulum at Yale college as fair specimen of what an education in the first cen tury of our era might have been. He advocated manual training and thought that provision should be made for every boy and girl who wanted to go to school The idea of a course of a fixed rule as regards time should not be too much emphasized. The intuition should not develop into a mere diploma getting machine A pupil that could only go and stay year should be encouraged.
 Professor Brewer said he saw no ob- lection to state university in a state where the wants were not already met, as in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He believed in high school and want ed to see its facilities increased He did not believe in thinning out the ranks by rigid examinations, for a great many of the most useful and successful men in the outside world were those who did not show up well in examinations. He did not think that the schools were sirl1- ply for men of genius. He said that it would be his plan to choose as many students as could be accommodated in the building by lot until the district would vote for new building. Sister M. De Pazzie Gleason was ap- pointed as substitute teacher at the Hamilton school alt salary at the rate of s4OO per annum to date from the af- ternoon of January 14 1895.
 Mrs. Frances Platt was appointed as substitute at salary at the rate of $4OO per annum, to date from January 2S, 1885,
 Miss Ella A. Strong was transferred form West street school No. to Day school, grade la, at the salary of the room, $500, to take effect January 2ss 1895.
 Miss Bernice Platt was assigned to No. 2 West street school to take effect January 2S, 1885
 It was voted to instruct Architect Robinson to prepare plans for a school building not to exceed $60,0Oo, to be erec- ted on the George street lot.