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...depend largely for their popularity upon the prominence which is given to them on set occasions. The boat-house and the ball-field lie outside of our daily course, and if not reminded of them we are apt to forget their existence. But books are in our hands every day, and by daily use we grow fond of them. The love of learning is of slow growth, the result of constant mental improvement, and cannot be hurried by artificial stimulants...
...COMMUNICATION, which, unfortunately, we have no room to print in full, calls attention to the arctic temperature of our recitation-rooms on Monday mornings, disagreeable alike to the tutor and the pupils, and making our early recitations a severe penance after our enjoyment of domestic bliss the day before. It is well known that cold sharpens the temper and blunts the intellect, and we agree with the writer in thinking it would be well to have fires lighted in the furnaces Sunday afternoons, - unless, indeed, our janitors are deterred by religious scruples...
This is the hour of day that I love best...
...commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred francs a year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot themselves read, they cannot write, and yet they have lived, eaten, even amassed a little wealth, and perhaps have bought a piece of land. Very well; what need of learning...
This antipathy is, if anything, a greater cause of ignorance than the expense which schooling involves. Our instruction, it is true, is not free. Yet very few can allege poverty as the cause of their ignorance. Besides the fact that a son a day is not a large sum to find, every year the prefect makes out a list of the indigent; that is to say, that in each village there are ten, fifteen, or twenty-five children who receive their education free. This system, it must be admitted, has several faults. These objects of charity go to school generally...