The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-08
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Provisions Ter II aucssssH. =
It appears from ofieial returns, that The
STATE OF Maine has larger proportion Of
childrsn as school than any other State or
country; that Denmark has larger proper
ton than the United States, aud that the UNI
ted States exceeds all other countries.
These results. though founded upon official
data, only approximate. As far as the various
sections Of this country are concerned. the ac-
tuai results, because they do not take into nc
count the greater or less time each scholar is
at school. Moreover, there is no report OF the
children ia the Southern States educated at
home by private tutors, which, in consequences
OF the population being scattersd, Is immense
~ greater, In proportion to the whole. than IN
other parss Of the Union. TheaveraEe annual
term Of education ., the South 10 much larger
than at the North, In conseQ aeuce OF wnne
labor being required in indastrfai penua
.Judgs TucKRR remarks that "tne SOCIAL in'ss's
courss OF the South compensates TO some ELS
tent for its want Of schools. Ine people afS
taught 10 think and 10 converse, and the re-
unions which are SO frequent, are the occasions
of interchanging opinions and of dinasing in.
telligence." fst~
Mr.. PoRrsR, in his Progress of Great Bri-
tain, has some remarks upon the deficiency OF
actual information, which often exists among
those who are capable of reading and writing,
q position which he illustrates by incontro-
vertibis statistics and facts. ..s @eaans
The DOE ular idea In the United States, that
In the Old World the despotic governments
oppose education, 10 not - common now a. AZ
was In former times. On the contrary, II be-
came evident long ato 70 the sagscious rulers
Of Europe. that II would be no more possible
TO shut out The light Of intelligence and know
ledge frsm the minds Of their subjects than 1t
would be to set limits to the ocean, and so they
wisely resolved TO take in to their own hands
this powerful engine of instruction and make
education an auxiliary instead OF An antago-
nistic pc yer. The school system which pre-
walls at this day throughout Germany was
substan TALLY adopted In Wertemburg in 1859,
in Saxony in 1860, in Hesse in 1865, ant in
Braudsnberx still earlier. The duty of gov.
ernment TO co operate with parents In the
education of their children and to provide
against their neglect OF doing so, was recog-
njzed in every State Of Germany before the
beginning Of the present century. IL Prussia
provision is made for the thorough education
of teachers, aud all children between the ages
of seven and fourteen are required to attend
aCnoOi Iegutaiiy. AZ ohoW INV euoAoukuay
ibis system is carried out, in 1916, ont of l22.-
ss7 men in her standing army, only two SOL
diers were found who could not both read and
write. There were at the same time. in the
whole OF Prussia. only two young men in one
hundred, between the ages Of 30 aud D. who
could not read, write and cipher; $4,000
teachers had all been thoroughly educated in
the schools they were to teach; number OF
children between seven and fourteen, 90, :
12i, Of which there were at school 2, 32s, LAG a
hundred and seventeen colleges, with 1894
teachers and s,l74 pupils and seven uniyer.
sities, with 255 professors and ,306 students
The universally of education may be easily
accounted for by the compulsory character Of
the system. The Prussians are marched up to
the tree OF knowledge at the point Of the bay
onet, and there is no backing out. Saxony,
with population of about two millions. has
between ten and twelve thousand common
schools, and more than three hundred thou
sand scholars, besides her university, colleges,
&c. In Austria education is rs universal as
in Prussia, it being rare to find child who
does not attend the primary schools. In
Rome the number of free schools is larger in
proportion to population than in New York,
and they are more numerously attended In
France there are ,s3s primary, schools, be-
sides night and Sunday schools for laborers.
OF the four millions Of scholars, about one
fourth are gra,uitously educated, and two
millions and half pay something. In Den
mark there are AGO primary schools and
$4,000 pupils.