class of Institutions, viz: 1. The ungraded District Schools. 2. Primary Schools, and home instruction of little children. 3. Intermediate and Grammar Schools, and the largest District Schools. 4. High Schools and Academies. 5. Normal Schools and Classes. 6. Colleges and all higher institutions which have substantially a common curriculum. While I deem it of the greatest importance to make the Institute the common gathering place of teachers of every name, for the consideration of those elementary principles and methods which constitute the basis of all professional success, and for the discussion of topics which concern their common advancement, as well as the awakening of parental and public interest in schools and education, I deem it of no less importance to hold out inducements for the most accomplished teachers, in their respective fields of labor, to bring into the common stock the result of their special and individual experience and help to carry forward and upward on some common plan, every institution of every grade of instruction. II. VISITATION AND EXAMINATION OF NORMAL CLASSES. I shall reserve for another communication an account of the visits which I have been able to make, and of the personal interviews I have had with the principals and normal professors of the institutions which apply for participation in the normal fund, as well as the tabular statement of the examinations by written questions and answers, carried out under my instructions, of eighteen of those normal classes. Respectfully, HENRY BARNARD, Agent of the Board of Normal Regents. PLANS OF SCHOOL-HOUSE IN SIMCOE, UPPER CANADA. The building, designed by Messer and Jones, architects, Toronto, is built of brick, at a cost of £1,700, on a lot two acres in extent, and will accommodate 600 pupils-one-half girls and the other boys-each sex having separate yards, entrances, and school-rooms. We procured these cuts of the Simcoe School-house from Mr. I. George Hodgins, deputy superintendent of education of Upper Canada, who has published a treatise on "The School-house," with a large number of plans. INDEX TO VOLUME VIII. OF BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. ABECEDARIANS, 384. Adult mutual education, Holbrook's plan, 230. Eschylus, quoted, 14, 43. Agricultural and literary instruction combined, 568. Belgium, 589 France, 545. Arithmetic, Raumer on teaching, 170. multiplication table in, 171. Pestalozzi's method, 172, 173, 179. systems of notation, 176. apparatus for, 183. German methods in, 385, 439, 451, 453, 459. Arnauld, geometry by, 158. Arndt, 207, 348. Arnold, Dr. Thomas, 280. Art, and science, how connected, 134. gifts for, should be developed, 227. Arts, conservatory of, in France, 545. Astronomy, growth of, 125. Athenæums, Belgium, 587. Attendance, law as to, Germany, 358. Augustine, quoted, 51. Aurelius Antoninus, quoted, 44. Bache, A. D., Report on Education in Europe, 435, 437, Bacon, Lord, quoted, 47, 137, 147, 185, 216, 225. Barnes, D. H., 340. 64 classical schools, 494. technical schools, 510. rescue and orphan schools, 519. Belgium, public instruction in, 581. state and voluntary system in, 583. secondary schools, 587. superior schools, 588. special and industrial schools, 589. Bell, in school discipline, 617. See Educational Benefactions. Berea, Ohio, Lyceum village at, 235. schools of, 440. Bhagavad-Gita, quoted, 10. Bible, quoted, 9, 65, 69, 227. study of history should begin with, 104. in Prussian schools, 395, 435. Bigelow, D. H., on C. S. Hovey, 95. Biography, of C. E. Hovey, 94. J. Holbrook, 229. N. Guilford, 289. T. Claxton, 253. Dr. J. Griscom, 325. T. Sherwin, 461. W. H. Wells, 529. Biography and history, 109. Boehme, J., quoted, 35. Bonaparte, N., quoted, 48. Book for Mothers, Pestalozzi's, extracts, 212. Books of reference, 315. Boston, Mechanic's Lyceum, 234. Lowell lectures, 241. Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 242. English High School, 465. Educational benefactions in, 522. Botany, growth of department, 125. apparatus for, 126. how to begin, 132. instruction in, 146. Holbrook's instructions in, 240. Bourne, V., 471. Bouterwek, quoted, 17. Boxford, C. G. Hovey at, 95. Breslau, Turning at, 206. British Museum, 314. Bruno, Giordano, quoted, 16. Burgher school, defined, 414, 434, 457. 44 8 to 10, 374. 10 to 12, 377. 12 to 14, 379. burgher schools, 449, 455, 457, 458. Cousin, V., quoted, 598. Cowper, W., memoir, 469. Tirocinium, 472. Discipline, 489. on public school-life, 476. Crates, quoted, 39. and geometry, 155, 166, 168. Cuvier, quoted, 148, 149. on schools of Holland, 597, 607 article by, 616. plan of instruction, 632. articles from Wegweiser by, 616, 633. Digby, R., 349. Diogenes Laertius, 402. Diploma, of agriculture, 567. Discipline in schools, 457, 616, 620. modes of 456, 617. Doederlein, quoted, 59. on school discipline, 621. Donations to educational objects in Boston, 524. Dorothea School, Berlin, 446. Drawing, 381, 388, 439, 448. and geography, 122. Dunmanway, 577. Duty, Kant on, 28. |