The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-21
All About the Schools, Colleges and
Modern Atherlians
By Frank Carpenter
Teachers Wages in Greece.

Teachers age in Greece.
The salaries Of the school teachers
here are exceedingly low, while the
requirements as to their education are
high. The director Of a primary
school now receives about $50 a
month. and If the director is a M
this sum is cut down to $24. Women
are not popular as school teachers,
and the girl teacher loses social caste.
as some Of the Greeks look down upon
ladies who must work for their bread.
AS the schools rise the wages or teach
$50 a month and the directors OF the
gymnasiums get from $40 to $40 a
month. In the higher schools the ex-
penses Of students are very low. In
the university the tuition for the four
is only 1928, with an ex-
animation fee Of $50 for the legal
n medical branches. A diplom COTS
$40. and one can, outside his living
expenses, go through college for a total
Of about $3.50. ] am told that the
education in the higher schools is ex-
cellent, and that it compares tavora~
bly, with that OF u own academies
and colleges.
schools For Girls.
AS to the education Of the girls. 1t
is not so general as that for boys.
Only about one-sixth of the primary
school are girls schools; n the mum
Der who frequent them is und~r 4o,ooo.
The girls do not, as a rule, go 70
school with the boys, I'D sach sex
had i; town schoolhouse. There are
some advanced schools for females
The best is the Arsakeion, the head
of which is here at Athens, with
branches at Patras. Larissa and Corfu.
The Arsakeion is the Smith, Vassar,
Wellesley or Bryan Nawr Of Greece. 1t
has altogether about 1000 students,
of whom 1900 are in the branch here
at Athens. This lumber includes,
however, the kindergarten and day
scholars as we'll as those Of the col
lege proper.
During m stay l have gone through
this institution. It is a training college
flor teachers as well, n 1t has a
three-year normal course. One Of the
compulsory studies is music. as are
also sewing and hOuseWOrk. The
courses are so varied that a ~iri may
go in at six years and graduate at
something like twenty, having a com
| plete education according to the Greek
standard. I am surprised at the
knowledge of the classics shown by
these girls. They are taught ancient
Greek, and they can read Huentiy
Homer. Plato and XenophOn. The
older girls speak, read and write
French and not a few English.
AS to the fees of the ArSakelOn, they
/ SoNs 10y &
to IS a month, and boarders only $2O
a month which includes everything,
rooms, meals and even the books. l
was taken through the school by the
| daughter OF a directress, a beautiful
| girl of The Greek type.
Thirteen Hundred Greek Maidens.
I wish I could show you these 1900
Grecian maidens whom / saw at this
Vassar Of Athens. The girls of this
country are notably handsome. and
those Of the Arsakelon, coming out
OF the well-to-do classes of the peo-
pie, would be esteemed fine looking in
any part Of the world. They have
fine forms, kept SO by the compulsory
gymnastics, rosy cheeks from the
pure air OF the Mediterranean, and
features as classic as those of the
speak a Greek which is more refned
tina the modern Greek heard on the
streets. They read the classics at
night, and little ones Of twelve and
thirteen mouth HeIodotus and Homer.
Indeed, the way the modern Greek
girl talks strikes every stranger as
somewhat unchnny. 1t makes one
think of the remarks of the AHleri-
can woman as to the ~precocity Of the
Parisian: wv ny, in Paris. even the
smallest children talk French
The Hill school for Girls.
Another remarkable female school
here at Athens was founded by an
American missionary just about eighty
years ago. This is the Hill School for
Girls, one of the most popular III
Greece and now under government
regulations. 1t contains about 200
pupils. of whom more than cne-third
are boarders. The ages range from
six to seventeen, and the students
come from different parts Of the oun
try. All are taught modern Greek,
French and English. and also the reg
ular studies of our schools at home.
The school does not proselytiZe nor
interfere with the religion of the pu-
pits. 1t has a Greek church connect
ed with it. where a practical sermon
is preached every Sunday.
An American ArCheOlogical School.