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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    While, for a length of time, other nations possessed a population well and liberally in- structed, France, so much before them in many other respects, remained in this one point far behind. The great bulk of her population was plunged in ignorance; the impulse, however, when given, was not long of being universally felt, and the reproach that was once justly made disadvantages, as compared with the system of Mutual In- struction :—“ Elies (the schools of charity,) procurent au peuple l’instruction que nous desirons generaliser en France ; mais l’inconvenient de ce systeme est de couter beaucoup plus cher, et d’instruire trois fois moins vite que l’en- seignement mutuel; et d’ailleurs les freres ne marchent jamais que trois a trois, la plupart des petites villes ou des villages seraient prives d’instruction, s’ils devaient seuls etre charges de l’enseignement primaire. Cependant toutes les communes paient leur part des impots; les cliefs-lieux des departements recjoivent deja assez d’avantages particu- liers, pour ne pas leur accorder exclusivement ceux de l’education. La methode d’enseignement mutuel au contraire peut s’appliquer partout; les frais sont a la portee de toutes les communes. Les progres sont plus rapides : les parents sont done moins long-temps prives des travaux auxquels leur enfants se livrent des leur jeune age. Journal des Prisons, Hospices, ifyc. par M. Apperl, No 8, p. 329.