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Show sixty-seven universities in Latin r America. Academically they are I based upon the Facultad (faculty) f which is often composed of sever- t al oscuelas (schools) specializing 1 in related branches within scope E, of each faculty. To these are at- I tached institutes (institutes) for P.. research. Typical of this is the t National University of Buenos Aires, which has faculties of law, & medical science, philosophy and I letters, agronomy and economics. There are schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, obstetrics, commerce and architecture. Latin ;.. Americans have a great penchant i for medicine and law and there have been cases when fifty per cent of the students enrolled in a certain university were studying either of those subjects. Foreign- i ers wishing to enroll for credit i in a university are required to submit a high school diploma or its equivalent. In the field of education the order or-der of factors again does not always al-ways alter the product. A doctor may be turned out by the Univer- ;". sity of Havana, for instance, by different methods than one who has just been pronounced an M. D. ' by Harvard Medical School, but when these two men meet and get together on a postgraduate course they will most probably discover that their knowledge has much in common. SCHOOL SYSTEM IN LATIN AMERICA DIFFERS FROM U. S. By Pan American Union The North American student's great interest in the other Americas Ameri-cas and his growing desire to go down and study in Latin America in order to get acquainted with his south-of-the-border neighbors is sometimes hampered- by realization realiza-tion that the Latin American academic system is vastly different differ-ent from that of the United States. If a high-school graduate in Latin America enters the University directly di-rectly without an intermediate course, what is the position of an American college student who seems to be neither fish nor fowl according to those scholastic standards? If there is no college, what is its equivalent? While it is difficult to treat Latin Lat-in America as a massive whole, and while there is a great difference differ-ence in background, the pattern of educational organizations in the other twenty republics may be said to be basically the same. "North American culture has been predominantly influenced by northern nor-thern Europe but that of South America shows the influence of southern Europe, including that of France." The fact that the European Euro-pean curriculum was more like theirs than the American, is probably prob-ably one of the factors that has led Latin American students for many years to study in Europe in preference to the United States. "The Latin American educational system comprises briefly, an elementary ele-mentary school of from five to six years in length and a secondary secon-dary school of another five to six years, making a total of ten to twelve years of preparation before entering the uninversity". The primary pri-mary schools are better and more abundant in towns and villages than in rural sections. The children child-ren attending these schools study quite a variety of subjects and it is often the only schooling they get for student mortality between the primary and secondard schools is greater than between the secondary sec-ondary and the univresity. The equivalent of the American high school is known in Latin America by different names: colcgio, liceo, escucla media or institute in Spanish; Span-ish; gymnasio or collegio in Portuguese, Portu-guese, and lycee or college in the French. The high school course is intended to give the pupils an idea of all fields of knowledge. This makes a student intelligent on a great many subjects but does not develop their reasoning powers as much as is desirable. Little attention atten-tion is paid to dead languages, the modern ones taking the place of Greek and Latin. At the end of the full course the degree of Bachelor of Letters or Eachelor of Science is conferred so that at the age of from sixteen or eighteen the student stu-dent has had a total schooling of from ten to twelve years and has received his bachelor's degree." This explains the reason why college, the step between high-school high-school and a university, is nonexistent. non-existent. The higher level of secondary sec-ondary education leads on natur-xally natur-xally to higher education. There are |