The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-12
PoPULAR EDOCATIoN IN BAYARI4.

ITS JUSTICE TO THE PROTESTANT MINORITY.
DR.. Kay, graduate of Cambridge Uni
versity, in his work on Social Condition and
Education of the People of Europe" tells us:-
When I was.zs Nuremburg. in the Kingdom
of Bavaria, / asked a poor man whether :hey
obliged him to send his children to school. He
said, 'yes must either send them to school
or educate them at Eome, or / should be hned
very heavily" | said, 81 suppose you don't
like these rules 7" He answered. why not,
sir am very poor man; could not afford
the time to teach my children myself, nor the
expense of paying for their education myself,
the municipal authorities pay all the school
fees for my children, and give them good
clothes to wear at school; both my children
and myself are the gamers by such an AZ
rangement; why should object to 1t |"
"In Ratisbon, Ispent the whole of one day
in company with poor peasant, who acted IA
my guide. ! said to him. Have yon any
good schools here fer your children - He an
swered with an air of sstOnishmeDt, "Ob, dear,
yes, sir: all our children go to school sne law
obhges us TO send them to school, and provides
good schools for them"
"When reached Munich, engaged, accord
ing to my usual custom, a poor man my
guide. asked him to take me to see some of
the schools, where the children of the poor
people were educated, and told him, that did
not wish to visit the best, but the worst
schools in the city. He answered me, Sir,
We have no bad schools here; the government
has done a great deal for our schools, and they
the worst that you know" He answered
again, don't know any poor one, but will
take you TO the one where my own children 90.
| am O poor man, and csnnot afford TO pay
anything for the education of my children, and
many of the children that you will see there.
are like my own, sent to the school at the eG-
pence Of the city.
Accordingly, after passing several large
and handsome schools for primary lnstrI cti"n,
we proceeded to the one, which the children OF
my poor guide attended. 1t was lofty ard
handsome building, four stories high, aud
about 90 feet broad. In the two upper stories,
all the teachers, of whom there were ten edu-
Gated men attached to the institution, resided.
On the lower floors, there were ten CLASS
rooms, cL about 20 feet long, Is broad, and
IA feet high, aud fitted up with parallel rows
of desks maps, drawing. boards, and school
books. Five of these spacious GLASS. rooms
were for the boys, and FIVE for the girls. The
children were all classified according to the
time of en- tering the SCHOOL"
l went first into the second class room. The
children were clean and respectfully dressed,
that could rot believe they were the children
Of poor persons. / expressed my doubt to my
guide. His answer was, MY children are
here, sir - and then turniDg to the teacher, he
requested him to tell me, who were the parents
of the children present. The teacher made the
children stand up one after another, and tell
me, who their parents were. From them
learned, that two were the sODs of counts, one
the son of q physician, one of an officer of the
royal household, one of porter, and Others OF
mechanical artisans, and of laboTeTs, who were
too poor TO pay 1or their cblldrens edncsIon,
and whose children were clothed and educated
at the expense of the town. They all sat at
the same desks. They were all clothed with
equal respectability. In their manners, dress, |
cleanliness, and appearance, could discern no
striking difference.
&" visited priest who directed one of the
large educational establishments in the city. |
He told me that they had established eight |
normal colleges in Bavaria for the education of
and that two of these had been spe-
cially set apart for the education of Protestant
teachers He seemed to make very light Of
all flcuties arising from religions diff |
ferences, and spoke of education az of ma
tional work, which il was necessary to accom-
plish, by the joint efforts OF all religious
parties.
81 remember particularly q visit paid to one
school in Munich, which may be fairly taken
as an example Of all for all the schools in
that city are remarkably good. When 1 en-
tered l did not know anything Sbeut the
children, or to what ranks Of society they be-
ionged. The appearance Of all was 90 clean,
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