The Placer herald., 1872-08-31
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN ITALY.
Military and Naval Schools.

In the kingdom of Italy eleven Of these schools
are maintained by the general government; eight
are intended to prepare yonng men for officers
and non-commissioned officers of the army, and
three to prepare men for the navy
The military institutions are of three GRADES
Superior institutions, secondary institutions and
gratuitous schools for the sons of soldiers At
tached to these are two Normal schools. one for
the infantry and one for the cavalry The num-
Der OF students IN these schools in 1868 was
l,757, viz; i'll the superior school AIS; in the
secondary, 232; in the gratuituous school, 597;
and in the Normal schools, 5l3 In the superi-
OK secondary and Normal schools. the course of
study lasts three years; but in the gratuitous,
only two. In these schools the discipline ap-
pears indeed, to be rather rigid, as the number
of punishments inflicted in them during the year
in question, amounted in all to S,721 of which
126 are denominated rigorous punishments for
grave offences, and S,595 minor punishmcnts for
offenses of a less henous character, in addition
to which three of the students were expelled for
bad conduct, 81 wero taken back by their parents
for causes not assigned and absconded The
mortality among the students in these schools
must, we think, be considered very great, for in
the year mentioned, six died and twenty-one had
80 be removed on account of i'll health The
i,unober employed in these institutions bears
large proportion to the number of students re-
ceving in struction there, and, indeed, is vastly
in excess of anything of the kind we have ever
heard of be1,pre. The number of officers and
non-commission,od officers employed being 523;
professors and teaci. .ers, 1885, and book-keepers.
This will give an aver,, ,,ge OF little more than
20 of the students to each professor or teacher.
NAVAL SCHOOLS.
The naval schools are three in number, and
the course of instruction in them LISTS four years
n all The number Of teachers is 92, of whom
46 are naval officers. In the departni ent OF
science and litelat IRE there are SO professors,
and in the school Of technology and naval tao
tics military instructors are employed to the
number of thirty. The number of students in
these schools in 1868 was 2i0, az nearly between
u and 20 years of age. The table of statistics
of the naval schools is rather meagrG, and the
only information Of any interest to our reade1s
49, can further present is the fact that in the
naval schools al Naples and Genoa eight lnoutie
s1- scent ir college 7N1 tour 3u ship br,r,' |
jlnn1 'hs rir-i tnret >elrs bil tarug "a, las, |
e-i sH uonths ou,y ~. -u.n,iu the. iu>tju
ion. aui tne uttuiera at a.. rh'. " -com>
fA7i IN Italy th.cr tea .nd ao,..set ieaei,u4
ire considered II bur little benoit unless COM
hinei with practical training. sod .spoiience
roeuLAS SCHOOLS OF AIRS. TRADES hrc.
IN the begin NJ of the year 1870, there were
$. >r
schools of this description, almost al for males |
They were attended by 1851 students. these
institutions are benevolent in character and W, re
estabi she'd by private and municipal associa-
tions, the government in some instances having |
granted small subsidies when 1t lay in its power |
The common aim of all these schools is to give |
some elementary instructions to the working |
classes which will be useful in their different |
trades. SO far as regards the working man, the |
higher branches are entirely dsregarded by this
people, for the kind of education, that in its |
opinion is most suitable for mechanic, is that
which is best Accommodated to his circumstances; |
and so, accordingly, Pope aptly expresses it,
has "his knowledge measured to his state and
place" The synopsis Just given of technical
education in Italy gives room for rehec- |
tons which Will, no doubt, greatly contribute to
the knowledge of the extreme care bestowed by |
this country on the education of the people at
large first of its consuls secondly, its military
and naval officers; thirdly, its merchants and
men of business, and lastly, through inferior
degree, of the entire masses of the kingdom. In
view of these patent facts may we not arrive at
the conclusion that Italy is now shaking OF that
effeminacy which various causes, among them an
over delicate taste for the fine arts have. for
long time past, wrought upon her, and that she
is again about to re-enter a sterner manhood; |
that she is emerging from that indolent and
apathetic condition to which she has, for full
seventeen centuries, been degenerating; and
may we not indulge even in the hope that when
the Italian public mind shall have sufficiently
cultivated its understanding and shall have ag-
gregatcd sufficient amount Of knowledge. which
circumstances warrant it is now engaged in, that
the true type as well as the true descendants of
her, who once boasted she was mistress of the
world, shall again weld the pen and the sword
with a like renown as did her ancestors in the
days of the Caesars, the days of her poetry. her
literature, her prowess and her glory.
Concluded
THE quarterly meeting of the County Board of