Show A NEW WAY OF TEACHING the superintendent of tile public schoola schools of brooklyn new york is an advocate ad vocata of a new way of teaching ho ile wants specialists in tho the public schools liia his proposition is to make each school teacher a specialist he ile reasons thus in all of oi our colleges experts expert ts in special branches are the tile teachers it would bo be considered folly for one professor at any modern college to teach latin and the sciences at the same time of late this rule bascome haij come into ue use in a number of the academies academics private schools and schools preparatory for college it is now proposed by superintendent MAXWELL and a number of educators saya says tho the new york 1 press ress to put the system in practice in the common schools among the younger pupils who are kearnin learning the simple branches the plan is this instead of being under one teacher as heretofore the pupil is to be under man he ire will recite his geography one hour ilour to a young woman or a young man mail who lias has studied geography all of liis his or her life who is supposed to know all about tha the geography of every country from hawaii to the english empire and if necessary can draw a map of eirons after the next great continental tin war after fie lias has recited liis his geography lesson the young boy or girl will go to a teacher of mathematics in another room who knows all about arithmetic and how to teach it who having devoted himself to mathematics to the exclusion of everything else will ba able to give to tho the pupas points on addition subtraction malt i and division such as he lie could not possibly learn under the modern method of teaching where one teacher instructs dinall in all branches from there ho lie will go to toa a specia specialist listin in english grammar who is equally as well develops I 1 in parsing declension and conjugations as liis his tw two 0 fellow teachers arc in and mathematics this system caswen lias abson opar abed to a cartain extent for years in the high schools but until recent recently lf no one le has thought of applying it t the simple branches taught the boy or giri gerlof of 10 and 12 years of age superintendent maxwell is an antl enthusiast over the introduction tro of this system into the schools of brooklyn ha ile does not favor a sudden but a gradual change if the change takes place it will ba one of the moat most radical over ever made in ill the public school system superintendent maxwell ar argues aties that as ft a teacher will toach one branch only and will have il 4 mw class coming to her every hour she will have time to fully perfect herself in the branch and it will make her duties lighter irwill it will also le be easier for the pupil as he ile will have a new teacher in every for every subject some of the teachers arc are in favor of the bew plan but the tile most of them are not I 1 one of them who was interviewed by the press representative said under it the pupil will rill no ion longer bo be responsible to any one teacher I 1 lie will recite to many ay that hat is all very very well for a young person of 20 years but with a child of bitis 9 it is dif different feren t one of the most important of a primary teacher is bood good government over her pupils un under er the present system the children are bents hystek under her a all of f retime the time during school hours and pupil and teacher learn to understand each other certainly no one need be a great mathematician in order to teach simple artanie tic or a great authority on gra grammar nimar to teach its simple rules it is patience and winning the sympathy of the pupil that count more with boys loss and girls of this age than anything else if the system is teacher instead of having the relief of change of subjects as she does now wi will I 1 be co compelled u to grind and heaven knows the public school teacher has enough grinding awa away on one subject all day long how can a n me she help but lose her interest and her interest lost she is a poor teacher I 1 think it will make both pupil and teacher rl narrow arrow superintendent maxwell says that the system is now on trial in the schools of utica glens falls flushing L I 1 in new york state and paterson in new now jersey lie ile has word from the principals of these schools that it is very successful cess ful |