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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 83
The Custom with Regard to Primary Education in Some of the Continental Nations, Existing at the Present Time. — France.*
The Custom with Regard to Primary Education in Some of the Continental Nations, Existing at the Present Time.
France.*
France has made considerable progress during the last ten years in developing primary education in its many different forms—infant elementary primary schools, superior primary schools, apprentices schools, and elementary schools for adults. In order to keep her place in the first ranks of civilized nations, she has made and is still making great efforts to improve her machinery for superior and secondary education, while primary education has become almost universal.
- 1st. Schools founded or maintained by the Communes, or the Department of State. These are called Public Schools (Ecoles publiques).
- 2nd. Schools founded or kept by private individuals, companies, or associations. These take the name of Free Schools (Ecoles libres).
According to law each Commune must organize and maintain one or more primary schools, and furnish the master with a convenient building for his dwelling, as well as a school house for the purposes of teaching.
Each Communal district of 500 souls, or about that number, if not dispensed with by the Council of the Department, must have at least one school for girls.
Primary instruction comprises: Religious and moral instruction, reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic, and the subjects of weights and measures. Besides these it may also comprise other subjects, which are defined.
* Report by Edward Combes, C.M.G., M.P.