The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-12
FISH PROPAGATION
Annual Report Of the Board
Of Fish and Game Com
nlissioners Of New
Jersey.
COST or TROUT AATCHERIES
Pothunters Now Respect the
Law for Came Preserva-
ton More Money
& Needed.
COST Of TROUT HATCHERIES
Especial 10 THE Jersey city News.',1

Especial TO THE Jersey City News.',J
/ TRENTON. Dec. H. 1s9S.-The State Su-
] perintendent of Public instruction, c. 4.
Baxter, in his annual report to the State
/ Board of Educat tion, which has just been
/ completed. makes d strong plea for bet
ter facilities for high or Secondary school
| education in New Jersey, and he also rec
omnlends that the next Legislature enact
law making the minimum school age IN
/ the State four years. The latter recotn-
! daticn is made with view of having tie
State make tne kindergarten a part of the
plan of common school education SUI
perintendent Baxter urges that the incoDa-
ing Legislature appropriate special fund
1 to be used al the discretion of the Srate
Board Of Education for the encourage
ment of high and kindergarten schools.
! Speaking on the condition of school work
in general and the necessity for better
high school facilities, the report says:-
The past school year has witnessed
unusual progress along many lines Of adu-
cational effort Among the most impor-
tant is an intensifying of the interest al
ready taken in our public schools ana a
| more general recognition of the fact that
the primary education of the past is not
adapted to present conditions. Our rapid
development as a commonwealth and as
a nation. the new position our country
has so recently and so Unexpectedly tax
en- among the nations of the earth to-
gether with its opportunities and It's per-
lis, tend to magnify the words citizen
and suffrage and make them increasing
" comprehensive and impressive terms.
The youth who pass from our schools to-
day come i'll contact with greater mental
alertness, encounter sharper competition
and enter upon far larger responsibilities
than the graduates OF former years
Their civic duties are more complex, eheir
social functions Of a higher order and
| the demands Of every line of Industrial
enterprise and professional pursuit more
exacting. Whoever asserts that the meat
gre educational advantages afforded him
in his youth, are. good enough for his
children. and are all he is willing to pay
for, is quite as lacking in discernment as
in paternal interest and soIicitude and
the community in which such educational
views prevail has much need to be 1eiiv-
cred from itself
THE parent who is thus welded to the
good old kmes, will in after years, ;ind
his children not only relegated to the
humber walks of life but even here CIV
en- subordinate place, because brought
into competition with intelligent labor
the man Who most intelligently and e. n
scientiously strives to secure the largest
heritage for our youth. most surely pro-
notes the material interests of his own
household, community and State. The eau-
cational advantages provided by each
city, town, borough or township, are a
sure index of its progressiveness and its
desirabiity as a place of residence. Capt.
tai and enterprise and shrewdly discern
ing and intelligence and culture will ever
seek environments the most congen1al To |
the extent that we are, in an educational
sense, wisely progressive or blindly con-
servative. will we either attract or opel |
those helpful and elevating agencies.
1t is much to be regretted that we have
fallen into the habit of applying a more /
pretentious term to an important and ne
cessary grade of educational work than I
is warranted by its, character. Al standard /
of public education that simply fits the /
pupil for ordinary pursuits and the duties |
of citizenship, is but common school /
education and Should not be known by i
name than implies much more. Popular /
education must, if we would make our
development safe and symmetrie keep
pace with the worlds advancement In I
our efforts to thus advance and maintain /
it, it is unfortunate that we should en- |
counter opposition having its origin in |
unreasonfng devotion to long established
conditions The so-called high schools
are not such, cannot be objected 10 as
such. but have come into existence in
obedience to the requirements of the I
times. They are needed not only to bring
our public school system up to the re- /
quired standard but also to furnish our
youth with school advantages during
their allotted school life days a period
sufficiently brief for adequate preparation
for lifes duties. we have rightly made
eighteen the maximum age for school +
enumeration and kindly extended to all I
Others between eighteen and twenty
years of age the privilege of attending
of attempting to gain "a reputation for
progressiveness and generosity by
seeming to offer advantages we have not
made available. ANY pupil of average
ability can complete the usual primary
and grammar school duties by the time
our free schools But IN so doing We as
a State, appear in the strange attitude
he is fourteen years of age. What shall
be done with him? He lacks the acquired
Judgment and mental and physical de-
required TO engage in the
worlds work. and is not offered further
to continue in school. Surely
we would not abandon him to years of
enforced and dangerous idleness. The
period of preparation. laden with abun
dant opportunity should extend TO the
time that service begins Manifestly II
Is the duty Of the State to so broaden
and strengthen our public school system
as to adapt Il to the needs Of our youth
ana the requirements of the times.
Many of our centres of population
have already demonstrated the feasibil-
IN and value of such DEVELOPMENT and
ire far more strongly inclined to attain
still higher standards than to return to
the old In the public schools OF manN
Of our cities and larger towns the range
3f study is such that those who desire
may prepare ID enter upon d business
career and others are Instructed along
such lines as viii enable them to enter
etar leading colleges and scientific schools
and pursue the particular course Of stndv
rest adapted to their individual gifts ana
.asfes. This IS d condition far removed
rom that existing In those communities
II hose education is still confined To tho
traditional Three r. Equality Of OPP
1ortunity Is ETassailabie eduea tionai doc
Whea von are nervous ana sleepless. takA 4
strong and gives refreshing sIeep