Show notice to trustees will you please insert the following list articles needed by teachers in the public school all terri ory for practical work one each of the following measures namely gill half pint fiut quart half gallon and gallon one pair of scales one yard measure one large table one set of dissected maps of each of the different countries of tho world one globe one cards one micro cop copeing eind n box for school rooney wo see in many schoolrooms charts that arc scarcely if ever used and when used merely to look at but not handle to what we want is morn practical work in our schoolrooms and less theory john can recite many tables he can tell how many cardd m a pile 0 wood if the measures it for him mary can tell edw many yards of carpel are needed for a the length and breadth of the room are given to her and the wid carpet but neither can take the yard stick and do the practical work and so on ad mf the object of aduca tion is to develop all the ot our nature physical intellectual and moral if one is neglected all must suffer I 1 hold that the objective principal or faculty of perceiving through or by til the senses is sadly neglected in our schools the intellect being the only faculty applied to give alie teachers tools to work with then the school room will be a workshop 16 turn out practical business men and women and not bookworms book worms so molcie be more anon CHAS WEIGHT |