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    876 EDUCATION IN FBANCE ,

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    4§Kb- ' No. Iii. The A Variety Present O...

    number of children who , In 1850 , were growing * up in ignorance ; and instancesamong" other similar examplesthe _arronchssemeti 't of

    , , St . _Quentin , in which , out of nineteen thousand one hundred and eihty children of an age to attend the Primary Schoolsseven

    thousand g five hundred and eighty were without any instruction , whatsoever . Butas already remarked , although more ' ample funds are

    , needed to place the Primary Instruction of the country on a level with the needs of the population , great progress lias been effected

    within the last ten years ; and I am assured by a gentleman occuing an official position in this department of the public service ,

    that py five-sixths , at least , of the juvenile population of France attend the schoolswith more or less constancy , at the present day . The

    , Primary Schools constitute the first and lowest branch of the governmental system of Public Instruction which we have now passed in

    review . The important institutions of the Salles _cVvisile ( Infant Schools ) and of the Creches ( Day Nurseries for Infants ) are of

    exclusively Municipal origin , and are placed under the immediate management of the local authorities , subject , however , to the general

    regulation and inspection of the State . But many of the warmest friends and supporters of the former are desirous to see them

    recognised by the State as constituting' the first degree of the educational career , and included as such in the general educational

    system of the country . Paris , 1858 . Anna _BiiAcktveiiL .

    The only changes worth noticing that have been introduced into

    the Public Schools of France during the two years which have elapsed since the foregoing sketch of " Education in France" was

    written , are as follows : — First , —The suppression of the second class of Supplementary

    Teachers in the Communal Schools for Boys , at a salary of sixteen pounds per annum ; all such Supplementary Teachers being now

    included in one class , and receiving a salary of twenty pounds per annum .

    Second , —The appointment , for the first time , of Supplementary Teachers in the Communal Schools for Girls , and the consequent

    introduction of the Simultaneous System of teaching' into the higher classes of these , schools ; the Mutual System being now confined to

    their elementary classes . A slight increase has also been made in the salaries of the

    Teachers of these schools throughout the country , and a more considerable one in those of Paris , where the head mistress may now

    receive from eighty to one hundred and twenty pounds per annum ; and the supplementary teachers from forty-eight to fifty-six

    pounds per annum , with an addition of eight pounds per annum , until they become head-mistresses in their turn .

    The payments due from the parents of the pupils in these schools

    876 Education In Fbance ,

    876 EDUCATION IN _FBANCE _,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/16/