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    362 EDUCATION IN FRANCE.

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    India The in system the e of arliest Mutual times Instruction . Cicero appears describes to have its been al known methods in gener

    the as in Ottoman use among Turks 1 the Romans loyed of it his in day their . In schools the fourteenth in the fifteenth century ,

    Erasmus called the attention emp of the learned world to ; its advantages ; in the seventeenthit was in successful operation in the schools of

    Orleansand Madame , de Maintenon introduced it about the same period into man the , named establishment Herbaut founded loyed by her this at method St . Cyr . in In a 1747 class a of French three

    hundred poor children formed emp by him at the hospital of La Pitie , in Parisand a few ars afterwards the Chevalier Paulet founded , in

    t diers he same killed ; city or , a wounded Military ye in School the service for the of recep their tion country of the in sons which of sol the

    -Mutual and the S elegant ystem was app lishments lied to the with acqui such sition signal of lan success guage , s that , sciences Louis ,

    XVI . took the school accomp under his imm , ediate j _> atronage and protection . The system in question was also applied about this period by the

    reliious order of the Freres de la Doctrine Chreti & nnein the schools opened g bthem in the Faubourg St . Antoineof Paris _^ .

    The success y with which the Mutual Method , had been of employed by the Rev . Dr . Bell , in the school for the _orj _^ han sons European

    soldiers , founded in Madras in 1786 hy the East India ' Company , to and London which , to as the will foundation be rememb of ered the , National had led , School after Dr Society . Bell ' in s " ret 1811 urn ,

    with a view , to the propagation of that method , had brought the and subje had ct of led popul to a ar wide education development prominentl of Primary y before Scho the ols Eng in lish Eng peop land le , ;

    a result to which the efforts of the advocates of the Lancastrians , who founded in the same the British and Foreign School

    Society , for the spread of a method year possessing certain points of affinity with that loyed bDr . Bellthough differing from it in many

    important emp respects , had y also gr , eatly contributed . Several of the continental nations had also organised systems of popular instruction

    about the same time ; while the advantages resulting * from the methodical supervision of the field of Primary Education had been

    shown in Holland , where , in 1784 , an excellent and devoted Mennonite pastorJean Nieuven Huysenhad organised an

    Associa-, , tion under the name of the Society of Public Weal , whose aim was the development and improvement of Primary Instruction in that

    country , the training of teachers for that important work , the com - ilation of suitable books for the use of the working classes , and

    their p dissemination by means of public libraries , etc . The Society of Public "Weal , for the more effectual carrying out of its plans ,

    divided the country into departments ; the educational efforts of the Associationin each of these departmentsbeing directed by a

    Cantonal Committee , appointed by the Society , itself . Such was the zeal ,

    fooin and so its great foundation was the , i success t numbered of this seven Societ , thousand y that , within subscribers fifteen year , anc s l

    362 Education In France.

    362 EDUCATION IN FRANCE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/2/