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JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

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VOL. IX.-No. 7.

NASHVILLE, SEPTEMBER, 1891.

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VOLUME IX.

NASHVILLE, TENN., SEPTEMBER, 1891.

No. 7.

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IT may be hetrodoxy but this writer believes that every country school teacher, unless he should have conscientious scruples on the subject, should attend his county fair. "Why?" Study that out for yourself.

It is nearly time for the programme of the Public School Officers' Association to be promulgated. The meeting occurs in December, and the programme should be formulated early if it is to amount to anything

well.

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"The human race is divided into two classes-those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire Why wasn't it done the other way?"

THE Teachers of Tennessee have not a better friend than they have in Maj. W. L. Danley General Passenger Agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, and if the Executive Committee of the State Teachers' Association decide upon a large meeting at Tullahoma or Murfreesboro next summer, he will render them every assistance possible.

NASHVILLE is to be congratulated on the fact that art and art teaching and art studying are yearly becoming more popular. Chancellor Payne has doubtless established in the Peabody Normal College the best school of drawing to be found in the city. And it is to the benefit of the country at large for almost every teacher that goes out from that institution carries a sound knowledge of elementary drawing.

"GETTING wealth for the sake of wealth is a fool's ambition." The Misouri School Journal is responsible for that, and it may well afford to be. Not long ago a young friend successful in business said to this writer:

THE subject of school examinations was touched at the right point by Dr. W. H. Payne when he said to his class at Monteagle, that an examination is a means the teacher has of "taking stock," that he may see what he has accomplished that I have ever possessed; but I am prouder still that I have with his pupils.

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THE attendance upon the annual meeting of the North Carolina Teachers' Association reaches the thousands. Is there any good reason why the Tennessee State Teachers' Association should not have an attendance of five hundred next summer? In that case we can have a thousand the next summer.

For the first time in the history of Tennessee a holiday has been set apart and observed in the interest and at the demand of organized labor. An occasional holiday, observed

"I am proud that I have worked and earned every dollar

never worked for a dollar for the sake of having a dollar." Think of the proposition.

THE New England Journal of Education on the authority of the Census reports, pays this compliment :

Tennessee was one of the first of the southern states to have public schools. She gave her money largely to private schools, making them free as much of the year as they were paid for. The gain in school enrollment is 56 per cent, or nearly four times as great as the gain of population. The enrollment increased from 291,500 in 1880 to 456,732 in 1890. Today but one twentieth of the pupils are in private schools.

ELSEWHERE in this issue Mrs. Frank Stuart Parker, in an article on "Preparing Elocution Teachers," says postively that "the use of apparatus is an absolute requisite to any system of physical development that aims at thoroughness and adequate results." Many teachers of Physical culture, especially Delsarteans, claim that apparatus is unuecessary. The subject is

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