Rural Education in France Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...50 of the old pupils, according to one set of statistics the religious schools will apparently have gained 50 pupils during the year whereas the real truth is that the number of pupils under religious teaching has diminished by 50. This is, perhaps, best shown by the statistics for the schools. For whereas since 1882 the lay public and private Lave grown from 5(5,210 to 64,042 in 1897, the religious schools, public and private, have diminished from 19,425 to 18,451. In the period between 1891-1897 the number of pupils under religious teachers has fallen 35,881 (includes Algeria). The total number of pupils in primary and higher primary education in 1897 for all France under religious teachers in the State schools was 405,825, and in the private schools 1,197,620, or a See page 39 and note on page 149. grand total of 1,003,451, against 3,823,700 in the lay schools. This does not, however, include the maternal schools. If the pupils in these be added to the above, we. find there are 1,955,199 children under religious teachers, against 4,175,050 under lay instructors. Excluding the maternal schools, there are only 430,720 boys in the Congreganistes schools, against 2,282,948 in the lay schools. According to their own-statistics, the Christian Brotherhood have in France 1,003 schools, with 10,042 teachers and 215,320 pupils. It is worth noting that their schools are managed by regions. The competition between the State and religious schools, which The Com cannot bo altogether an evil, is very keen. I was present at a j"1TM friendly discussion on the subject between a religious teacher and sutenml an official representative of lay education. The frere complained of religious the violent recruitment carried on by the mayor, his adjoints, ands all who bore of...