A general view of the present system of public education in France : and of the laws, regulations, and courses of study in the different faculties, colleges, and inferior schools, which now compose the Royal University of that kingdom : preceded by a short history of the University of Paris before the Revolution / by David Johnston.

  • Johnston, David, 1801-1879.
Date:
1827
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    cation of the poor, has arisen from the intro- duction of the system of mutual instruction. It is a system that has advanced with the most rapid progress in every department of France where it has gained ground, though in some it has done so to a greater extent than in others. The society of elementary instruction, whose labours in establishing a system of primary edu- cation throughout the kingdom have been so great and so successful, has always laid much stress on the advantages and superiority of this method, and, considering all the society has done for the benefit of mankind, it is certainly entitled to the warmest praise of the most in- veterate enemies of mutual instruction, as hav- ing at last introduced what, since the period of the Revolution, numerous laws had attempted, but, from insufficiency and defect of method, without success, a general system, namely, of elementary instruction for the poorer classes of society.'*' '* M. Appert, in speaking of the schools of the Brother- hood of Charity, makes the following remarks upon their