REPORT OF MR. HINTON.
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employers, and the employers are authorized to found schools for that purpose. But it is an absolute condition that all such schools shall provide the full amount and quality of education required by law, and otherwise fulfil all »the obligations prescribed by the General School Code. Every school, whether private or public, is subject to the inspection of the state. In places where a special trade-school exists, the employer is bound to send his apprentices to it.
“In addition to the subjects of instruction above enumerated, every child is simultaneously provided religious instruction in the creed in which he or she is born. The local ecclesiastical authorities or notables of the church or religious community to which each child belongs, are entitled, and indeed bound by law to provide competent teachers for this purpose; but this religious instruction, which is altogether denominational, and on a footing of impartial equality for all sects, is kept by the state carefully apart from the secular education, which is in every case obligatory, and with which it is, in no case, allowed to interfere.”
These primary schools are of three grades, respectively of three, four and six classes. The course of instruction in primary schools of four classes, is extended in one direction into the Gymnasia, and in the other into the Real or Practical Schools. On the Gymnasia rests the University, and* all tlie special schools in which language and its associated culture predominates. On the Real or Practical Schools rest the Polytechnic Institute, and all the special schools in which mathematics and the natural sciences are taught, in connection with the great industries of the nation.
But all the scholars cannot reach the Universities or the Bolytechnic Institute. The majority are needed for workmen. As is indicated in the General School Code, it is possible for the young artisan to pursue a course of studies adapted to his wants, and fitted to help him on further yet, if there be the right stuff in him. The further instruction of lads after leaving school and entering into apprenticeship, is carried on with the assistance and special inspection of Chambers of Commerce and local associations of tradesmen. The instruction is given on Sundays and holidays—except high feasts—and in the morning and evening of other -days. It is not confined to a review of the rudimentary studies, but 18 extended to higher arithmetical calculations, book-keeping,