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EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 371
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is years five of hundred age , in tlie the various nuniber Evening inscribed Classes in the of reg th isters is establishment being much ,
; larger _Corresj . ) onding classes for women have been attempted only in
one or two of the Girls' Schools , and on a very limited scale . The salaries of those hard-working and most useful servants of
the State , the Masters and Mistresses of the Primary Schools , consists to twenty of a minimum -four pounds of eight pounds annum , increased with lod , b ing y prescribed and firing additions . This ,
per , g sum is raised to twenty-eight pounds after five years , and to thirtytwo after ten of serviceIn the principal cities the salaries are
much higher ; years and , in Paris a . master usually receives eighty pounds and a mistress seventy-two . A " supplement" is paid to those
who of school the add ; but the school this tuition extra alread of p Evening ayment referred is Classes exce to e who ding to teaches l their y small labors in . these The in the m classes aster day five evenings large in the week y keeps the , isters and accounts of the
establishmentand administers , its whole reg internal economy , receives for this heavy , additional work only from twenty-five to forty francs
extra per month ; making an average of about fifteen pounds a year in addition Upon these to his salaries regular , which salary are . paid in monthly ent instalments , this the
entire amount of the first month ' s pay of a teacher ering on hy service the , State and five ; ostensibl per cent y , on for every the purpose subsequent of forming payment a , fund are leted retained for a term the granting of retiring pensions to teachers who have com
j of ect thirty was passed years of , declaring service . that In 1854 no length a new of regulation service anterior p on this to sub that
date will be taken into account as entitling to the pension , which will of thirty only years be accorded of service to those posterior who to shall the date have of comp the new leted law a period . The
amounts previously retained on the salaries of the teachers were repaid " The to proportion them ; but of the Primary injustice teachers of the whose measure constitution is evident can . stand
the wear and tear of thirty years of such incessant and harassing toil teacher is very t £ most small of , " them observed are utterl to y me worn a hig out hly by intelli throat gent -disease Primary and
general ; fatigue , and are compelled to relinquish their posts long before the expiration of the thirty years ; and it have is , therefore alread , been
perfectly certain that none of those who , like myself , y in lete the the harness long period for a quarter of additional of a century service , will imposed ever upon be able us to by com the
new p law . In 1854 I counted twenty-two years of service , and considered myself as one of the fortunate few who had a fair chance of
may of retiring say on without the as promised a vanity Prim , done pittance teacher my dut . - during y But honestl now six y , _-and thoug and -twenty to h the I have very years , best as , it I ary
is absolutel my power y impossible that I should gain the pension _; for I can
Education In France. 371
EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 371
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/11/
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