Show THE SUITATT AND EDUCATION He Jbas dono more for the education of frls ipeojxle than all the Sultans who have gone toexora hiim It is true that he does not flavor Christian schools and has jctevfeed sunny new regulations ItO restrIct iOjer influences Perhaps he feels as one of Oils ministers did some years ago v < hen he r picd i to a protest against the closing of a Christian wheel that the p Christens were already far ahead of Xhe Mohaanmedans and must wait until ki K > iairks caught up wdth them But as far es Mohammedan schools are xsoncernwli TVO live In a new era The Eultatr lielieves In education as a mighty 3XW r for tho iijrtiCtlns of life people He has not only filled Constantinople with erthools ot every kind known In I ZvDpedn capitals but he has estab Jsh1 resular system or schools rJ c fJf s ij M throughout the empire and all real estate es-tate as taxed to support them This work was undertaken immediately immedi-ately after the last war and apparently the Sultan was led to realize the importance import-ance of it from what he had learned of the influence > of education upon the Bulgarians But whatever may have first turned his attention to this subject Ms interest In it has steadily increased and the work has been pushed on with unfi3Jgglng zeal He was undaunted by I the fact that he hitd neither teachers l t isihe nor text books Buildings were erected students were collected teachers were appointed and the schools opened Probably such schools have never been seen before but In the reign of universal ignorance there was no one to ridicule them It was a beginning and great progress has been n1ngrpg 1Z made since in supplying text books and improving the teachers Most of the schools are of a very inferior order but their influence is already felt In the country Whether their influence will be altogether in favor of such a government govern-ment as that of AbdulHamid remains to be seenThe Contemporary Review |