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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cost of living there is no higher than here, while the tuition here will almost pay the passage across and back...
...might unite, rent a room, and have what little cooking was necessary done in it by some one who should come and do the work and furnish the meals to the students in their rooms. The cost of such a manner of boarding would not equal what many now pay, nor, on the other hand, would it preclude ale, and perhaps claret, from men of moderate means. Dinner could be served in Memorial Hall for the whole College, and supper either furnished in the same manner as breakfast, or, if preferred, a man could prepare his own tea, toast...
...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 amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization...
...ordinarily are neglected by the teacher. Their comrades, too, know their position, and either despise them or reproach them on account of their poverty. It is, in fact, a humiliating favor. For this reason it is now proposed to do away with this list of children who don't pay and make instruction free to all. But even were education obligatory and free, we still should not occupy a very high position among enlightened nations. And that this is the case is not due solely to the fact that the peasant does not like school, not knowing the value...
Fathers have nothing to do with the teachers that the government allots them. The communes have no supervision over him. All that is asked of them is to pay him. If the commune does not appoint its schoolmaster, has it, at least, the right to supervise the instruction that he gives? O, that would be an enormity! Does a peasant know anything about education? It is indeed his child who is to be educated, but the state knows better than the father what is for the child's interest. The state is more than a father to us. And thus...