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368 EDUCATION IN FRANCS.
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4§Kb- ' No. Iii. The A Variety Present O...
. Informed me that , although she had no other aid than that of rnonitresses , chosen among the most forward of her scholars , to assist
her in the daily tuition of two hundred girls , several of her pupils were thus passed every year hy the Examining Committee . | Without attemp ' ting * to enter upon the subject of the relative
value of the Simultaneous and the Mutual Systems , I may remark that the mere stir and excitement caused by the change of
professors in the Boys' Schools , appears to act as a "wholesome stimulus to the _pujDils for it is impossible to pass from the scliool-room of
the girls' department ; into that of the boys ' , without being struck with the greater air of attention and effort visible on the part of the
latter , and which is probably the result , in part at least , of the wider range of lessons , and the frequent change of teachers , in this
department In the Primary . , as in all other educational departments , the
inequality in the provision made for the Instruction of the two sexes is strikingly visible . It is true that the laws prescribe the same
range of studies in the Boys' and Girls' Schools , with the addition of instruction in sewing for the girls . But , as we have seen , this
requisition is not carried into effect , the boys being instructed in various branches which are omitted as unnecessary in many of the
schools for girls . Nor is this all . While no provisionbeyond that of the Primary
Schoolis made for the education of , irlsand no aim offered tc ¦ t heir ambition , no matter what be g their , talent and application
beyond the chance , of becoming may the mistress of a similar school , , abundant facilities are provided for enabling _boj _^ sdistinguished
, hy aptitude and diligence , to acquire all the higher branches of educationand to fit themselves for any career to which their
natural bent may , lead them . First the aids raid encouragements thus bestowed
examong fees clusivel ) of y ten upon pounds boys , , given are every the bourses year by cV the apprentissage Municipal ( apprentice authorities
of each arrondissement _, to the two pupils out of every hundred in the various schools , who have merited this prize by their superior
talent and conductand who are desirous of learning some manual trade . These prizes , , destined to pay for the _apprenticeship ) of their
winnersare awarded by a " Committee of Patronage , " named for , this wat mittee ching purpose also over assisting among their the the young residents bursers - protig of in & s the the until _arrondisscnient choice the exp of iration a m ; aster the of , Com their and
apprenticeship . When , as is usually the case , the master selected receives gratuitously a lad so presented as an apprentice , the amount of the bourse is kept in store for himand is iven to him on the
, g expiration of his apprenticeship , ' as a little help to him in beginning the world on his own account .
Parents of the higher classes not unfrequently send their sons to
ihe Public Primary Schools in preference to the Free Schools y this
368 Education In Francs.
368 EDUCATION IN FRANCS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/8/
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