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    EDUCATION 3 IN FRANCE. 367

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

    Teachers have the right o £ appealing from the verdict of the Academic Council of their Department to the Supreme Council of

    Public Instruction , sitting in Paris , which reverses or confirms the Academic verdict . A teacher who _shcmld refuse submission to a

    verdict thus confirmed becomes amenable to the Correctional Court , and liable to a fine varying from four to forty pounds .

    The instruction prescribed by law in the Public Primary Schools comprises , as obligatory , Moral and Religious teaching , Heading ,

    Writing * , the Rudiments of the French Language , and the Legal System of Weiiits and Measures : it may also include Arithmetic ,

    Rudiments of g History , Geography , Physical Science , and Natural History AgricultureIndustryand Ilygiene ; Measuring and

    Levelling ; Outline Drawing , , Singing , , and Gymnastics . The greater part of this programme is adopted in most of the city schools , the girls

    receiving instruction in the use of the needle in place of the lessons iiii measurement and some other branches given only to the boys .

    The Primary Schools for Boys and for Girls are often held in the same school-house , but great care is taken to keep them entirely

    apart ; the building being so contrived that the respective schoolroomslay-groundsand entrances are as entirely unconnected and

    distinct , p as though occupy , ing different houses . In Paris , as far as my personal observation has extended , the

    rooms , or rather halls , thus appropriated , are spacious and lofty , ventilation conveniently fitted In summer up , but when absolutel the y large without windows the means are open of proper , this

    evil would . not be so much , felt ; but through the greater part of the the windows are necessarily closedand the vitiated air ,

    must _esjDeciall year inevitabl y during exercise the winter an injurious , when the influence rooms , are on heated the health by stoves of the ,

    children . The y Mutual System , abolished in most of the Boys ' Schools , where the master is aided both by professors , who attend

    at stated hours for certain lessons , and by regular assistants in the schools Girls containing ' Schools a where certain two numb hundred er of pup children ils , is still are emp often loyed united in

    , under a single teacher , assisted , with the exception of the singingmaster , ( who gives lessons in all the Primary Schools , ) only by

    monitresses chosen from among the elder pupils . The progress of the pumistress pils must , and in such on the a case amount , _dejDend of interest very greatl she may y on be the able character to infuse of into the

    the monotonous , routine of the school ; a task of no slight difficulty , this monotony of routine extending its influence too often to ils the men Not

    tal condition of the teacher as well as to that of her pup . - withstanding seem to be tolerabl this disadvantage y satisfactory , the ; average girls who attainments have had of the no latter other

    instruction than that of the school , being frequently carried forexaminations ward by the mistress for the Teacher so successfull ' s Di y loma as to at be the able Sorbonne to pass . their The p

    mistress of one of the largest of the Primary Schools of Paris

    Education 3 In France. 367

    EDUCATION 3 IN FRANCE . 367

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/7/