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Dates: during 1873-1873
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You have asked me to send you some information upon the subject of our national system of education. I will do so in all simplicity. I shall not perhaps give you any original views upon the question, but I shall try to give you a clear idea of the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

It is possible, in view of the ideas which then obtained, that we might have affected the antique, and formed our citizens in the mould of Sparta or of Rome, instead of making French citizens, imbued with the principles of modern civilization.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Napoleon was a soldier, and he regarded France in the light of a vast army. Thus it happens that we have those barracks that are called colleges, and those half-military uniforms with which the students are afflicted. It is even a subject of gratitude that they were not also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

The council is differently constituted, the church element being now represented as well as the laity. Nevertheless, the system itself has undergone no essential change since the year 1808, when Napoleon I. instituted it. Now that we have become acquainted with the organization of the University, and the relation to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

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