The Daily State Register

Mr. Warren Johnson, State Superintendent of Schools in Maine, is a man whose head is very level on the subject of our common schools. He advocates uniformity of text books, more care in the appointment of teachers, compulsory attendance, a better classification of pupils and increased school revenues. He also says, very sensibly, "eradicate from the course of common-school study much of the present rubbish of high algebra, puzzling with metrical conundrums, superfluously guessing at words called parsing, and the futile memorizing of geographical names."

He would have ordinary education embrace "reading with spelling, writing with drawing, arithmetic with mechanics, geography with natural philosophy, grammar with English composition."