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    EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 297

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

    stimulate societin to the ti production on bestowed of books prizes suitable and meda for ls these on the libraries authors , the of ques

    the best y elementary works , reserving to itself the copyright of these , and causinthem to be sold at a very low price , with a view to

    their Besides more g the general attention dissemin given ation to . the subject of education by the

    princi la iSocie pal te journal Primaire s of the Elhne day 7 _itaire , two 0 Manuel new ones , General called the de " VIn Bulletin struction de

    Frimaire" and " & _Instituieur" were founded in Paris about this time . An official educational journal , published by the governin the scholastic

    ment , also served to chronicle all matters of interest department At this tim . also were first instituted the " Teachers' Conferences / 5

    e or periodic f an entire gatherings Academic * among Circumscri the teachers tionwho of one met or together more canton once or s ,

    di twice or sci o line a month and t to he confer mana upon ement all of t matters heir p schoo , connected lsand to with exercise teaching them- ' ,

    selves p in , the best metho g ds of imparting instruction , . These conb ferences also y the to the interchang were latter of great themselves _-e of thoug utility ht , by no and breaking t onl activit y to the y in upon schools ong the the , w monotony t hich eachers profited , and but

    isolation of their lives , and , creating among them ties of esteem , friendship , and emulation . They led , in moreover of , to illness the organisation accident

    of a Society for Mutual Assistance case or among their members . Unfortunately the Public Libraries , formed with so much Teachers care ,

    government have Conferen long c * since , of been t a race certain ab andoned w per rema -centage and ins dispersed exce on the pt t ; salaries h and e sto of pp of the age the , by hard the - '

    branch working of and the public ill-paid service men . and This women per-centage devoted is ostensibl to this y arduous devoted to the formation of a fund for the pensioning of infirm or superthus

    annuated teachers ; but only a small portion of the sum retaine Besides d ever the finds movement its way s alread back int noticed o the pockets and the of establishment the teachers . _** of y

    numerous schools for the instruction of adults , in reading , writing , the o arithmetic utline workmen drawing , grammar in , various the , most the courses legal dens system el of populated Free , of wei Lectures ghts quarters and were measures of op the ened , city and for .

    These lectures , given in the evening y and on Sundays , embraced Arithmetic , Accounts , Book-keeping , Elementary Geography ,

    Descriptive Geometry , Mechanics , Physics , Chemistry , Grammar , Drawing ' , The and teachers Hygiene of . tlie Free Schools have established among themselves a

    illness which Society _^ and pensions for accident _^ Mutual to _superannuated to Assistance its other members , at t the heir memb end subscri , er are of s , supp and ptions lied temporary . forming Tlie amo aid a unt fund in case of from this of fund unapi _^ ropria ted each is distributed in the

    form remaining of a dividend ' among the members . year , A . B _»

    Education In France. 297

    EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 297

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/9/