EDUCATION—TEACHERS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 390, 11 January 1879, Page 3

EDUCATION—TEACHERS.

The New Zealand Times says:—The Education Department has just compiled a new classification of the teachers in the various schools under the scheme set forth in an order-in-couucil some time ago. The scheme is rather involved, and as far as can bo gathered at present is not likely lo give much satisfaction to the persons most interested. There arc five classes denominated from A to C, each of which is subdivided into five sections, so that there are really about twenty-five grades. Examination is to determine the class a man shall take, and length of service, teaching power,&c,. wo believe, is to fix the particular section in which he shall be classified. To rank in the A class a man must have, taken University degrees with honors. B class is to be made up of those who have taken University degrees without honors, and so on. The practical result it seems to us, will be'to push down into the D and E classes nearly the whole ol the members of the profession in. the public Men of great experience in work of teaching, whose acquired art of instruction is far more valuable in training up the young for the practical business of life than the most profound classical lore, will in popular estimation, at any rate, be degraded to the lowest pointin the system. Extensive erudition may be necessary in a good teacher, but it is not all, and any classification that has book learning simply or perhaps even mainly for its basis will never give satisfaction or afford a means of arriving at a true estimate of a teachers ability. The classification now made by the department under this system will remain in force till June next, and will in the meantime to a great extent regulate salaries. In March all teachers will be invited to come up for examination, and on the results will bo reclassified, such new classification taking elieet from the beginning of the new Educational year, ■ July next.

Well-dressed Men—Among those habitual errors of conduct which are common in both careful and careless persons, not one is more often met with than disregard of the advantages derivable from being well dressed; jet whoever lives observantly in such a County as Patca. is soon convinced lliafc this mistake is fruitful of mischievous results. All ■of us instinctively judge from first impressions; we proceed from the exterior to the interior; a well-dressed man gratifies our fondness for beauty and our appreciation of neatness: and there is no one, however cynical or unobservant, but is pleased when a well-dressed person, even it a stranger, passes by. and disposed to think favorably of him. This universal disposition cannot safely be offended. To be habitually a sloven is to constantly, though unconsciously, offend numerous persons, among whom the favour of some may be valuable; and therefore a shrewd man i;s not content to make himself neat now and then, but always will appear well dressed. He keeps his clothes in good order, and is careful in the selection of a tailor. In bringing this maxim before public notice, K. A. Adams. Cardigan House, is gratified by remembering that the disposition of a great many of ids customers to appear in public well dressed has been met by the combination in his goods of selection, material, good tit. and low price. He obtains his cloths in the most advantageous markets; he employs first-class cutters and workmen; he avoids obsolete fashions; and ho is content with moderate profits in the place of the exorbitant percentage which only a few years ago was universal, and still is frequent in the tailoring trade. His gloves, hats, shirts, hosiery, ties, and scarfs, arc also such as will please the most fastidious. Whatever experience, capital, care, and good taste can effect on the tradesman’s side, is done by 11. A. Adams, in order that all his customers may realise the substantial advantages of being well-dressed; and that his efforts give satisfaction, is shown by iho rapid and steady increase in the number of those who deal with him. •Attentive to the changes of costume necessitated by varying seasons, and of style by the dictatec of fashion, 11. A. Adams has now on hand a large and carefully selected stock of cloths suitable for all seasons.—R. A. ADAMS Cardigan House, Carlyle.— advt. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —Coughs, Influenza.—The soothing properties of ; these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the lungs, in common colds, and influenza.' The Dills arc taken internally and the Ointment rubbed externally are exceedingly efficacious, When influenza is epidemic this ' treatment is easiest, safest, and surest. Holloway’s Dills and Ointment purity tiie . blood, remove all obstructions to free circulation through the lungs, relieve the overgorgod air tubes, and render respiration free without reducing the strength, irritating the nerves, or depressing the spirits, bueh are the ready means of saving suffering when afflicted with colds, coughs, bronchitis, and other complaints by which so many are seriously and permanently afflicted in most countries.