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taught; but with the establishment of this school, knOwn for some years merely as uthe High Schoolii or uthe Central SchooP, and later as the City College? educational expansion upward began. In this same year a resolution was passed permitting and indeed advocating the use of the Bible in the schools for its uplifting moral effect. And at the end of the same year in which uthe High Schoolii was established, the Board began presenting to the Council the need of more suitable accommodations for it.. A financial event of special interest to teachers of today who find their salaries scarcely adequate to meet all of todayis demands occurred in 1841. The principal teachers in all of the schools below the High SchooYi lstill classed as Primaryl were given an increase in salary, the i'malef now receiving $850 per year and the iifemalesii 3450. At this time t 18413410 there were twelve Primary Schools, six for each sex, six Night Schools and the High School? and the Board looked with satisfaction upon these creations of its hand under the authority of the Council-but also looked ahead and dreamed of still greater possibilities for free public education in Baltimore. The public schools on the whole present a spectacle calculated to excite the admiration of all. . . . Their future prosperity may be relied on With confidence. Whilst the Board look at the present onward condition of edu- cation throughout the world, and see its importance to our institu- tions and reputation as a free people, we feel anxiously solicitous that such provision be made for the advancement of education in our city as its vast importance demands and that may be consistent with other great interests of the community. It was in keeping with the spirit of this fine pronouncement that the Board, the next year, offered the suggestion that made pos- sible the story that follows. ' XVII
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suitable for some trade or profession, on which their future comfort and usefulness will depend? Later in that first school year t1829330l the Board expressed ' great approval of the monitorial system of organization and instruc- tion: ' In a suitable apartment a competent instructor on the mutual or monitorial plan can instruct three hundred pupils as well, nay, better than thirty are usually taught in the old and ordinary method. But in his report of the same period a Mr. Coflin, apparently the most successful of the BoarcPs original appointees, presented food for a different thought on this subject: The plan, of course, agreeable to the requisitions of the law, is monitorial, but I by no means depend on the monitors to teach what they themselves do not understand. Mr. Cofhn kept the monitors strictly to their proper business of preserving order and hearing tasks committed to memory. He him- self gave instruction to 'the whole school at once, and expected- and secured-simultaneous response from it! But although Mr. Cofhn was a young man who pretty obviously had the situation well in hand, it is also obvious that he did not have a very high opinion of that situation, since he pointed out that on this plan the atten- tion of the teacher was too much divided and there were too many classes at once, and recommended the two types of schools that the Board thought desirable. In the nine years following 1829 the Board continued to urge the need for new schools, and these continued to be established lthere were eight by the end of this period, the Femaleii keeping pace with the Male? but all still considered Primary, and also eight Night Schoolsl . The course continued the same: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic; but some especially capable boys lonlyl were getting a little more-the beginnings of History, Alge- bra and Mensuration, and Bookkeeping. And the Board continued to extol the excellence and cheapness of the education furnished: the rudiments of a sound, practical English education which would fit the pupil for all ordinary pursuits at a cost to the taxpayer of $4.00 per annum! Then in 1839 came another outstanding event in the history of Baltimorels Public Schools: Baltimore achieved a High School ta higher school, that is, than those already existing . To be sure, such a school was thought desirable for timalesil only, and only the higher branches of English and Classical literatureii were to be XVI
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