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 for the school being the finest sort of advertisement.

A vast improvement might be made in many schools by making it a rule to require all instructors to be graduates of other schools, with not less than two years' practical experience after graduation. The instructors should not be employed upon one study, but should be required to be prepared to teach at least four subjects, one subject each semester, thus compelling them to grow. It is deadening for a man to teach graphics all his life, or to carry advanced algebra year after year, or to teach any subject in which the advance to-day is small, if there is any advance. Too much specialization is the trouble with the schools, not alone in the courses taught, but in the teachers.

In American schools there is a class of teachers known as "flunkers," who seem to think that about 25 per cent. is the minimum number to "flunk" at examination. What would be thought of a workman in a factory if 25 per cent. of his product day after day were condemned? How many days would he last? A teacher who regularly flunks a high number of his students is a misfit, for a real teacher will soon remedy the trouble, if there be any other trouble than laziness on his part. Sometimes it appears to an outsider that instead of the teachers who handle the students during the first two years being the most poorly paid, the case should be reversed and the pro-