Middletown transcript., 1897-04-17
Teachers
Round Table
Conducted by Prof. A. R. sPA1D, Highlands
Delaware.

Delaware.
All teachers and friends OF Education
in New Castle County and the
teachers of Kent and Sus-
sex are fnYlted to take
Seats
IAu persons who take an interest In this
i column should send their names and address
for enrollmentl
The Cabinet officers of a president are of
sufficient Importance to be taught to the
pupils of the history class. These men will
be prominently before the public for the
next four years. The teacher should give to
her pupils a few of the most important
facts concerning these eight advisers of the
president The names of the Cabinet OH
GERS are as follows:
Secretary of State, John Sherman.
Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman Gage.
Secretary of War, Gen. Russell A. Alger.
Attorneys General, Joseph McKenna.
General, James A. Gary.
Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long.
Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N.
4 Bliss.
Secretary Of Agriculture, James Wilson.
| SPELLING REFoRM.
The American Pathological Association
has recommended the following "Rules for
New spellings," and resolution has been
| introduced in Congress instructing the
Public Printer to conform to them in all
printing for the Government:
1. Drop ue at the end of words like dia-
logue, catalogue, etc, where the proceeding
vowel is short. Thus spell demagog, epilog,
synagog, etc: .e
Q. Drop final in such words as deh-
mite, infinite, favorite. etc, where the pre-
ceeding vowel is short. Thus spell opposit,
preterit, hypocrit, requisit, etc.
8. Drop final te in words like quartette,
coquette, cigarette. etc. Thus spell eigazet,
roset, epaulet, vedet gazet, etc.
4. Drop final me in words like pro-
gramme. Thus spell program. oridam,
gram, etc.
S. Change ph to in words like phan-
tom. telegraph, phase, etc. Thus spell aifa-
bet, paragraf, fosofy, fonetic; fotograf, etc.
6. Substitute for the diptho ngs E and
G when they have the sound of that letter
Thus spell colin, ,esthetic, ,diarrhes, subpoena,
esofagus, atheneum, etc.
~ The Association says: English spelling
is the worst in the world. Millions OF dol
lars are wasted each year in the writing
and printing Of useless letters. The educa-
ton of our children is retarded and the
progress of our people is hampered by our
cumbrous, illogical. misleading orthografy.
The scholarship of the world is almost
unit in demanding change"
1t takes time for reforms to succeed, yet
we believe that reform in our spelling
will eventually take place. The people of
this country believe that the shortest meth
cd is the one to adopt along many lines.
Why not spelling2 1t would tighten the
teachers work, and give the pupils time
for more enjoyable lessons.
LAWS OF TEACHING.
1. There is no school unless the father,
the mother, the teacher, and the pupil
keep school together.
q Know thoroughly the subject to be
taught and explain to the pupil why you
teach it.
8. Gain and keep the attention of the pu-
pills. Excite their interest.
4. In your teaching use language that
your pupils understand.
s. Begin with the known and go by easy
steps to the unknown. Take the whole
class with you'll
6. Excite self-activity in the pupils and
lead each to discover truth. Show the class
how to study.
7. In each lesson let half be made and
then have pupils fix points already made,
the conclusions reached, and the premises
upon which the conclusion is based.
8. The teaching must touch the whole
nature of the child and stimulate to higher
action and more industrious habits of work,
of silence, of obedience, honesty and truth
| fulness. Three-fourtbs of educa ton is
habit of work.. NJ. Greenwood in Mid
land Schools.
Hard times have not prevented Massachu-
sets from increasing her teachers salaries.
The men received the past year an average
OF $13603 per month, and the woman $50.-
80 per month.
ABOUT TEACHERS AND SALARIES.
There are over eight hundred teachers in
Delaware. Sussex county has a teaching
force of two hundred and five, of whom
thirty-three are colored. The highest sal
| ary paid to white teacher is $4,000 per
year. The lowest salary paid to white
teacher (assistant) is $4,000 per month. The
highest salary paid to colored teacher is
$2S.0O per month. while the lowest paid is
| $24 90 per month.
Kent county has one hundred and sew
enty six teachers, of whom thirty one are
colored. The highest salary paid TO white
teacher is $950.OO per year. The lowest
salary paid to white teacher is $500 per
month. The highest salary paid to col
ored teacher is $27.O0 per month and the
lowest is $2S 90 per month.
There are three hundred and twenty five
teachers in New Castle county, of whom
two hundred and seventeen are in the city
Of Wilmington. Ofthe one hundred and
eight out side of Wilmington. twenty-four
are colored: and the same number of Will
mington teachers are colored. The highest
salary paid to white teacher, out side of
Wilmington. is $4,000 per year. and the
lowest salary Ito an assistant) $50 per
month. The highest salary paid to col
ored teacher is $500 per month, and the
lowest Ito an assistant) is 5000 per month.
The highest salary paid to q white
teacher in Wilmington is $4,000 per year.
and the lowest is $4,000 per year. The
highest salary paid to colored teacher I'M
Wilmington is $4,000 per year. and the
lowest is $4,000 per year.
We have stated in the Round Table be-
fore that the minimum salary to teacher
should not be less than $1,000 per month.
But some of our teachers receive only half
that amount.land they teach but five OF six