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Not the kind of watching that would lead to peeping through a key-hole; but to watch the sun go down, and the blade of grass come up. * * * EARL BARNES, in calling attention to the speech that is "evolved out of the inner consciousness," ought to have made some effort in weeding out that class of productions from our State Association, and in giving the teachers bread instead of a stone. * * STATE SUPERINTENDENT SCHAEFFER, of Pennsylvania, said recently there is needed on the part of some teachers a new resurrection from the dead. The only hope is, in some instances, to get the teacher married; if a man, to get him on the pension list. * * * THE San Francisco Fourth of July Committee advises the schools to teach more patriotism and less sectarianism. If the committee can give one instance where sectarianism is taught, the public school officials. would like to know it. It is doubtful if men who propagate such slanders have ever been inside a public school in this State. Patriotism is the watchword of the public schools. The Art of THE art of oratory is almost a lost art. The devotion of university men and school-teachers to manuscript has been largely the cause. The art of conversation, as an intellectual stimulus, is also a lost art. It is to be regretted. It is pleasing to be a good listener in the presence of one who has the power of "putting things." Teachers should cultivate the conversational powers of the children. Speech is the heritage of all; good speech, like wealth, is inherited only by a few. It must be cultivated. There are two men in California widely different in their personality, and yet both have developed the art of speaking in an intellectual manner-W. H. Mills and Joaquin Miller. Mills has a potent charm as a single-handed talker. He talks learnedly, and his knowledge of history, classical literature, and current topics is precise. 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TH HE National Educational Association in the following resolution, urges the establishment of more training schools: Resolved, That since we believe that the intelligent teaching of children can be secured only by the intelligent training of teachers, we heartily commend the efforts made in all parts of the country, through means of round-tables, teachers' institutes, and summer schools, to increase the efficiency of the force already in the field; but at best the training acquired by these means, in the nature of things, must be inadequate ; hence we urge upon the legislatures of the several States that they make provision for the establishment of thoroughly equipped normal schools, in sufficient number to make it possible that all the teachers of the public schools may receive such training as the transcendent interests committed to their charge imperatively demand, so that in the near future none but welltrained teachers shall be permitted to enter upon the work of instructing children." Professor Joseph Le Conte's address was unquestionably the grandest, most scholarly, and in a way the most elegant address ever delivered before the Association. Journal of Education, Boston. "Are abbreviations proper?" asked the young woman. "It depends," replied her mother, "on which you have reference to-the English language or a bicycle costume."-Washington Star. D THE GOLDEN GATE. OWN by the side of the Golden Gate Grimly, and solemnly, and silent, wait Guarding its door as a treasure fond; And pass through the Golden Gate. Are resting our cities, sea-embowered, The ships have sailed from the silent walls, Oh, the sea is so dark, so deep and wide! Will the ships come back from the farther side? "Nay, but there is no farther side," A voice is whispering across the tide- Building the future out of the past; And the true is false, and the false is true, Through the Golden Gate of life." And the ocean is dark, and deep, and wide! For the dead are the living-the living the dead,- |