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VOLUME IX.

No. 4.

THE second number of The Louisiana Educator has been

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THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

THE JOURNAL is in receipt of copies of The Toronto Daily Mail and The Saturday Globe, both of which depict a strong local interest in the coming meeting. Each contains excellent cuts of President W. R. Garrett, of Tennessee, and the other officials of the association, together with street views in and

around Toronto, such as tend to make every reader desir ous of attending the meeting. The magnificent building selected for headquarters for the Southern visitors is one of the many handsome edifices presented. These same Southern visitors are to be still further favored by being under the special care of Professor Frank Goodman, of Nashville, who is one of the most successful of chaperones.

It is expected that the major part of the Southern delega tion will attend the meeting of the Southern Educational Association, at Lookout Mountain, July 8th, from which point they will go North in a body.

PROBABLY the most grievous professional error that a teacher may fall into is that of not reading at all-if such a thing can be imagined. And next to this is that of reading only professional books and papers. The former course produces inexcusable ignorance, and the latter inevitably leads to narrowness and biggotry. Which is worse?

T. Sambola Jones, at Baton Rouge, and bears every evidence of earnestness, ability and dignity in its editor.

THIS writer has often heard his father say:

"I want a teacher that I can advise my boy to imitate in all his personal habits and leading traits of character." And he was not far wrong, but he could not always find such a teacher.

DR..J.L. M. CURRY said recently in an address to the Peabody Normal College:

"If I can succeed in getting even one of you young Black Beauty,'

teachers to read and become interested in

I will not feel that I have lived in vain."

SOME School jurnals, like some teachers, take a vacation during the summer, but the SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL F EDUCATION proposes to greet its friends as usual throughout the hot season. We do propose, however, in keeping with our advice to teachers, to leave off much of the usual attention to professional papers, and give our readers more of general interest.

WHEN it seems that nothing will interest a class, suppose you try a good story concerning the author of the book in hand, or of the lesson before you. A backwoods wag used to say: It is amazin' how much curiosity people has about

folks."

Better phrase it if you will. It is true Test it by learning something of the lives of authors studied in your school.

WE Confess to a little surprise, in reading an educational journal, at the statement it makes in answer to a correspondent that "it is not considered in good taste, in school or out, to say Yes, ma'am" Why not? Is it not correct to say, Yes, sir? If not, why not? If correct to say Yes, sir, then we take it, it is correct to say Yes, madam, or the contracted form, Yes, ma'am - Educational News.

It is in exactly as good taste as is the expression, A gent's pants.

BOTH teacher and student need rest during the summer vacation; and the custom, being so prevalent, of spending the summer at the very hardest kind of study is a very doubtful wisdom. If you will study, secure the most rest possible while you are at it. In order to do this select a course of study rather out of your special line. If you have devoted the school year to mathematics, or the natural sciences, take up a course of English literature or history. These are doubtless the most restful of the studies generally offered at summer schools, and, withal, the most liberal in their culture value.

As wise Americans we should be prompt to accept the suggestions contained in the following points on "The American System of Education," published in the London Times:

1. A teacher's diploma, granted in one State is not good in another.

2. A vast proportion of American school teachers are absolutely untrained.

3. The office of school teacher is a matter of annual election.

4. No matter if he has gained a good diploma from a training school, he has to submit to a fresh examination.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE puts into the mouth of an old lady a most sensible piece of advice, as applicable to teachers as to mothers. When asked how she had succeeded in bringing up her children she replied, simply: "By doing. the best I could every day." There is a world of wisdom in this. She did not worry and fret over what she feared might happen to her boy after he had left her care, but simply did the best she could while she had him with her. If teachers would go straight forward in their duty to the children in their charge, without so much wondering about the opinion the parents will have of the year's work, the results would be better.

As the JOURNAL is read by such a large number of County Superintendents, the following is copied from an exchange and endorsed:

"Certainly, we ought, in all cases, make the meetings of the county or district institute an occasion for interesting the people in the school work. Popular lectures on educational topics for the evening meetings, with special and splendid music, such as the teachers can give. A sort of a popular revival work should be inaugurated this was the method adopted by Horace Mann in Massachusetts, by Hon. Henry Barnard in Connecticut, by Nickerhain in Pennsylvania, and others in Ohio and Illinois.

"Get out the people-avoid the dry details of business, but have one or two strong, popular lectures each evening."

WHAT is true of the needs of the public schools of Texas will doubtless hold good of the schools of other Southern States. There are those who do not agree with Mr. Ellison as to what these needs are.

Ennis, Texas-Many things are necessary to make country schools better. First, we need uniform text books in our State. Second, we need a law to compel parents to send their children to school six months in the year. Third, trustees of country schools should by law be compelled to see that their schools are furnished with good equipments, such as maps, globes, charts, etc. Fourth, the ages for the public schools ought to be from five to twenty-one. Fifth, allow no man who is not able to write a legible hand and make a common interest calculation, and is not a land owner and resident of a community, to be a school trustee.

All this I consider as essential to the improvement of country schools. Uniform text books are necessary to a uniform classification, without which no teacher can do efficient work. When people are forced to send their children to school, then another obstacle is moved from the way of country. teachers. By most people of the country a teacher is expected to advance pupils as fast as in schools where they have all modern equipments. A person can not accomplish very much with out something to work with while doing his work.

As the hope of our country is in educating the masses, it is ghly necessary to allow them the right of going to school

until they can at least advance far enough to be competent to judge for themselves on any common subject. As man is not supposed to know what is best for anytning of which he knows nothing, it is quite essential for him to have at least the first principles of an education before he knows what is best for the interest of a school.

These things I consider essential. Of course, there are other things of minor importance, but these are the great essentials.-A. N. Ellison, in Dallas News.

THE LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN MEETINGS.

The meetings of the Tennessee State Teachers' Association and the Southern Educational Association at Lookout Mountain, the second week in July, should prove of great value to the teachers of the South. This writer does not believe that all good to teachers lies in the line of professional iuvestigation. So he thinks that the larger good to be obtained from these meetings, is in the receiving of larger views of life and in the cultivation of the social graces. Το look upon Nature's wonders on lofty Lookout cannot be otherwise than broadening, in the best sense of the term, and the social intercourse of the week spent there will open up to many entirely new views of life.

By all means attend these meetings if you can, even if you avoid the professional discussions.

THE "AMERICAN UNIVERSITY."

The threatened university at Washington has at length taken shape to the extent that a Board of Trustees is organized and an appeal for funds to the amount of $5,000,000 is soon to be made, and "leading educators" are to be called upon to advise in the development of the scheme. If the leading educators really spoke their minds, it is probable that the newly-organized Board of Trustees would be a little surprised, though it is not probable that any amount of expert testimony to the effect that they were making a mistake would at all convince them of it.

The projected university is a superfluity, and a harmful superfluity at that; but unfortunately this fact appears only upon a study of the educational conditions here in America. And though it might be supposed that a study of those conditions would precede the founding of an institution whose function it was to cope with them, there is excellent reason for supposing that that precaution is very often neglected. The best reply that the "educators" could make to the request for advise would be a dissertation upon those conditions.— Boston Post.