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    222 EDUCATION IN FRAN8E.

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    the M munici ghest pal degree authoritie . of He s their , urges " those dearest tlie to whoni nomination domestic the peop interests of le teachers have and committed hy whose tlie guardianshi ,

    daily relations with p their fellow-citizens render them especially apt to appreciate and to understand the characters and talents directed of their

    fellow equalit by previousl -men shall . y It -adopted insure is necessary the rules wisdom , , " which he adds of , their circumscribing , " that elections this choice . " " the be field of

    This y report , , which is silent with regard to the practical carrying out of the changes and the regulations it demands , must be regarded than

    buried rather as a regularl as in a the p y hilosop archives digested hic disquisition system of the for Assembl practical on the witho subject action ut ; of hav and education ing it remained produced , y

    any other effect than that of calling the attention of that body and the The publi bill c broug to the ht subject forward whose in 1794 claims by it M . had Lepelletier set forth Saint . -Fargeau ,

    a Member of the Conventionhas been well described as being made of " enforced regulations , blind equalityvirtual denial of

    the famil up y rights and sentiments ; " , as being , in fact , , " avast system of educational prisons- in which the rude tyranny and the unyielding

    - ideas rigour of of democratic ancient Sparta ri , hts formed . " With a singular a view medley to " the with regeneration the modern of

    leg the islator human proposed race in its in g ph the ysical name powers of republican and its moral libert character yto comp , " the el

    all parents to give up , their children , at the age of five ye , ars , to the Statebwhom they were to be _broLight upforcibly and

    indiscri-, y , of minatel eleven y— — the at the boys cost until of the the age Republic of twelve . Suitable , the girls establishments until the age

    were to be erected for this purpose in all the rural cantons and in each of the sections of the towns ; and in these , according * to the

    tion law provisions of and equality the of the same , the bill , cares same _" all . clothes children At five , the were years same to receive of food age , , the the under same country the instruc sacred will

    receive , the child from the hand of nature ; at twelve years she will return it to society . " bthis billThe

    action The of very the existence mother was of the to be famil limited y tie to is the ignored suckling y of her . infants , ( a service for which the Republic offered a premium ) and to the

    maternal cares of their earliest childhoodand thesetaken , from her in their fifth were to be transported ; into an , establishment

    which was to contain year , " from four to six hundred children , " with " one master to fiftchildren" where they were to be dressed in

    fed " roug _tipon h and vegetables every plain clothing y , fruit , bread " to , " , sleep and water upon , straw " no beds matt , er " and what "to their be

    , previous habits or their peculiar temperaments . Despite the monstrous tanny and absurdity of such a system ,

    yr it is no small honor to its author tliat—at a period when ignorance

    was the rule throughout the greater portion of the nation , when the

    222 Education In Fran8e.

    222 EDUCATION IN FRAN _8 E .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/6/