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...boarding-school - But never mind, perhaps some day you 'll know...
...University crew will be substantially the same as last year. Among the candidates - in fact, the only one who is professedly so - is a member of the Law School. It is to be regretted that there is so little interest exhibited among the lower classes. Not only have none of them supplied any candidates, but, in addition, the subscriptions, particularly from the Freshman Class, have been miserably small. It has been one of the most cherished wishes of the University that a new crew should take their place at the next regatta, but that appears now to be impossible...
...Brittany. I maintain, therefore, that it is not in the number of teachers that we are deficient. And yet we are in reality behind the other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every 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...
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...
...rarely remains a teacher, because he has few chances of advancement, and is almost sure to die of hunger. Consequently, capable men are not found in the corps of instructors. In regard to others, they are obliged, in order to live to take up other employments outside of their school. Thus they become frequently secretaries of the mayor, and on Sunday sing in the church. They are, therefore, under the surveillance of the mayor and dependent upon the cure. But what is still worse, the instruction itself is wholly at the discretion and subject to the approbation of the cure...