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    Vol. V. July 1, I860. No. 29.

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    XLIII.—EDUCATION IN FRANCE.

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    «s8s»~ No. II. instruction The system be...

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    The

    THE

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. V. July 1, I860. No. 29.

    Vol . V . July 1 , I 860 . No . 29 .

    Xliii.—Education In France.

    XLIII . _—EDUCATION IN FRANCE .

    «S8s»~ No. Ii. Instruction The System Be...

    « s 8 _s _»~ No . II . instruction The system being devised 1 still by notwithstanding Napoleon I . for various the organisation subsequent of modifi public

    -, cations of its details , the basis of all education in France , an examination into the nature of this system is indispensable to a correct

    appreciation of the educational mechanism in operation here at the present The University day . of France , founded by a decreedated March 17 th ,

    , 1808 and destined to exercise so important an influence on the educational , destinies of the country , was not a seat of learning in

    the sense attached in Great Britain to that term . ; but may be defined as a Supreme Council of Educationheaded by a Grand Master , which

    , council , established in Paris , exercised an unlimited jurisdiction over all and all matters connected with education throughout the

    emp persons ire , and without whose authorisation no school of any description could be opened , and no person whatsoever could exercise the

    functions of a teacher . Under the auspices and authority of this Supreme Council , or

    University , were formed twenty-seven secondary and local councils called Academieswhichexercising a certain delegated sway over

    the schools established , within , their respective circumscriptions , were in close connection with , and dependent on , the University .

    The schools created by . the decree in question were of five degrees , viz . : Firsttlie Faculties of the various Academies '; giving courses

    of lectures , embracing the different branches of study in their highest

    development;for Secondl the reception y , Lyceums of boarding , large establishments 1 or day scholars founded , in whi by ch government the pupils ,

    were instructed in Latin , Greek , History , Rhetoric , Logic , tho elements of Mathematicsand Physics ; the buildings appropriated to

    this purpose being handsome , and spacious , and provided with large gardens or playgrounds

    ;—Thirdly , Colleges , institutions of a character similar to that of the Lyceums , but founded by the municipal authority of the locality ,

    instead of the State , and in which , the study of Latin and Greek was optional , instead of "being obligatory , as in the

    Lyceums;vol . v

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/1/