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100 SCHOOLS IN PALERMO.
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ins titu i t t ions is for more the especiall education y 1117 of intention irlsI will to merel speak s of all of t the he
schools for boys , that we found the g children , fairly up y in ay all the and subjec disci ts on line which than we E questioned lish boys them wi , th wit th h e less irri idea tabili of t order and
quickness p which belong ng to their , southern natureand y the incapacitof continued effortwhich we in the north , are fond
of saying y is a peculiarity of the , feminine mind . these Althoug schools h the pries t the ts reli take ious little teaching share in t he st mana ri gemen sand t of
occupies a considerable , ye por g tion of each day ' s studies gorou . , In arithmeticthe boys of the third class worked simple sums on
bu the t they te were in , long incapable division of and the ling rule to of three simp with le correctness tions in ;
mental arithmetic . The boys repy in this very class varied ques in age from 9 to 12 and 13 . In the class for the childrenwe found
the master ' s manner of teaching admirable younger . The little , boys geo look g raph y teres very ted nicel and y . It tive was , and very answered pretty to see the a q little uestions fellow in ,
g lowing t more cheeks than , " Roma years , " to , the brig question hten up of What ans cit wer y , wi ht th to be added to the list of towns in the Italian kingdom ? The
w lit tle very man much , who up w in ore politics a uniform . In , the was geograp the son hy book a soldier , which , and been published before 1860 , Palermo also was not included , and
when u ! we Garibaldi asked Wh had y ? t been flushed here t t he l ! itt " le fellow and cried , One thing much struck me , in all the classes , the extreme
am stric cour s tesy t attention with to confess which ; " t Si his the gnori poli masters , teness a littl address e even less w noise the hile b / w 5 oys e & c w . . & c . Si gnori But sent I ,
was ill orry repaid , as the boys were gossi , pping and iidgett p and , exceedinlinattentive . The class-rooms are badllied
with maps gy , slates , & c , and there was not a globe in y any supp part of The the building general . impression left on our minds was one of
hopefulness for the young generation . If in two years so much has been s the e , whole with such character intelli of the t material le m to a w ork modi upon fied , in 20
improved year ; they may , perhaps , even peop be taug y ht that it is not entirely the fault of their king if they are poor , and badly
Jesuits clo At thed the ' , Colleg a larg nd fed e e building . there are in schools the Toledo of the , which same was sort form and erl also y the a
educated training ; school for , the for masters most part , where exceeding 60 young ly well men -looking , are being and
well-dressed young fellows . We were pleased to see some
100 Schools In Palermo.
100 SCHOOLS IN PALERMO .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/28/
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