The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-13
EDUCATION NOTES.

HENRY CI.EWS.
EDUCATION NOTES.
! Esperanto is taught in some of the
state supported schools in England,
France and Germany.
OF the $4,000 public school teach
ers in the United States more than
four-fifths are women.
The fairy tales Of Grimm and of
Hans Christian Anderson are exclud-
led from the Austrian schools by re-
cent order, because Of their slight
Importance
At Woodbroke, England, there is a
school for social service, where men
and women from all parts of the
world study various kinds of social
work. The institution is affiliated
with Birmingham university.
A German school is to be establish
ed in the city of Barranquilla. Column
bia The Germans living in that re.
gion have raised the funds for the
land and building. and the German
government will send out and main
tain the teachers.
/ Men teachers in Schwartzburg-S Son
derhausen, Germany, are required to
task permission of the school authori-
ties before they can marry, according
to a new law. Warning is given that
this permission will be denied in case
of Obvious inability of the teacher to
support family"
A course in penal studies was re-
GENTLY instituted by the University OF
Montpelier. France. Physicians, pub
i licists, lawyers, police and court off
cials were among those who enrolled.
for the course. American educators
will lead to something similar in this
country.
In the kingdom of Saxony new
school bill is before the Landstag.
/ Some of the proposals are: Licenses
required for teachers in private as
well as public schools; supervision of
regular school subjects by the clergy
abolished; attendance upon continual
ton schools made obligatory for girls
as well as boys. Religious instruc-
ton continues to be compulsory, de-
spite the agitation against It,
: AS the invited guests of Chicago
university and other institutions,
Professor Caspar Rene Gregory of the
University of Leipsiz, Germany, trav-
leled nearly $4,000 miles in the Unitel
States and Canada during the past
year lecturing before institutions in
(! twenty-six states of the union and
/ nine of the Canadian provinces. Pro-
fessor Gregory is said to be the only
American holding a regular professor
ship in German university.
] The two needs of the present day
publication of the United States BIZ
reau of education, are intelligent
iideaHsm and high scientific standards
To possess these things as a guide
to life, to have the intellectual gifts
that are necessary. for achievement,
and to interpret these things to the
student by sympathetic interest in
his work, is to be great teacher.
The two hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Jean Jacques Rousseau,
on June % Of this year, was almost
q unobserved in the United States,
though the part played by Rousseau's
I educational and political theories In
i the history Of this republic have been
considerable from the very beginning.
Some attention was given to the an
Iniversary in Europe. One enthusas.
tic German, while admitting that
Il Switzerland was Rousseau's birthplace
and France his home, claimed that
Germany had discovered him and en-
nobled his achievements into an eter-
nal gift to civilization"
At the international Mathematics
Congress, held in Rome in 1908.
commission was appointed for each
nation to study the subject of mathe-
mates teaching in the several coun
tries. The members of the American
commission, David Eugene Smith, of
4 Teachers college. New York city. W
F. Osgood, Harvard university: and
~. W. A. Young, University of Chicn-
go, aided by large number of emf
j nent teachers from all over the coun
try acting on various committees.
made very thorough investigation of
American conditions and prepared
series of reports which will be pre-
j scented at the 1912 meeting of the