What French Children Are Taught

In all French schools there are in use manuals of history, showing the growth and the character of the social, legal and political inatitutions of the nation. Every chüd grows up to comprehend France. He knowa what has been the evolution of the past, and by what stages affairs reached their present condition. He is not likely to be a reactionIst, and endeavor to involve the nation in old experimente, already tried. The fault of all faults in American education is the very small amount of knowledge acquired of the why and the wherefore of existing institutions. Every child should know wlth what difflculty certain constitutioiial provijions were secured, and their relativa value in free govemment. Politica! economy and republican institutions should be studied in elementary f orm by all pupils of 15. At 21 ths boy begins to tinker at public affairs. It would be well if our suffrage were basad on