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    EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 369

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    preference "being based on tlie greater thoroughness of the instruction iven in the formerand the additional guarantee supposed to

    Toe as was afforded g once b remarked y the fact to that , nie , while hy the the intelli teachers gent of head the of Free one Schools of the ,

    schools I visited , may introduce into their establishments any schoolbooks , no matter how inferior , on which the authors allow them a

    per centage of a few sous per copy , the books in use in the Public Schools , as also the methods of teaching employed in them , are

    prescribed by an order of the Supreme Council of Public Instruction , issued annuallbthat : body . As admission to the Communal

    Schoolsin all the y town y s in France , is virtually gratuitous , although the letter , of the law prescribes a certain payment , parents above

    a certain social level can only obtain admission for their children ba special ermission : and ason the one handthe system of

    payment y , in p the urban Primary Schools , , has fallen comp , letely into disuse , while , on the other , it would be evidently unjust for parties ,

    abundantly able to pay for the education of their children , to avail themselves of institutions created expressly , and at the public

    expense , for the advantage of the less favored portion of the _conmiunity , the parents of pupils thus exceptionally admitted to a Primary

    School usually adopt the expedient of offering additional " bourses " for the benefit of the poorer scholars ; and thus it often happens that

    several other ten-pound prizes are bestowed in a school , in addition to those provided by the Municipality .

    For male pupils of the Primary Schools who give evidence of talent such as to justify their aspiring to employments of a higher character

    than mere manual labor , two Secondary Schools have been founded . In the first of these , & Ecole Super ieure Turgot , they go through with

    a complete course of study , destined to fit them for the higher walks of industry and commerce , and comprising French Literature ,

    various branches of Practical Science , and two modern languages , at . the choice of the il . In this institution they remain three years ,

    during which period pup they are maintained entirely by tlie State . The second of these supplementary schools is tlie College Chaptal _,

    for the reception of pupils wishing to enter the learned professions . The course of study is the same as in the Ecole ' Turgot , with the

    addition of Greek and Latin . The pupils remain in this institution for enter On -Bye the leaving years Central , these supported School establishments hy ; those the State from , the . the pup College ils from Chaptal the Ecole take Turgot the

    bachelor's degree , and enter the Polytechnic School . The road to learning , with all its resulting advantages , is thus

    freely opened to boys of the very humblest rank , who , passing upwards by a different , but equally direct approach , find themselves

    at length admitted into the same great schools that constitute the latest educational stages of the sons of the wealthiest classes , and

    standing side by side with the latter in the acquisition of the

    highest branches of knowledge .

    Education In France. 369

    EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 369

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/9/