Show EDUCATION IN TURKEY At Al present only 50 per pcr cent of tho the population i under nde the tho most flattering estimate can tread 1 and and write About f 5 r per pcr cent of tho of-tho the total number of boys ind 1 per cent of tho girls in in the country attend school Of these nearly th the tho half haf are il tho rolls of western in in- st Obligatory public education was one of of ol ti tho J rBt laws as enacted by the time now new parliament Night schools were opened in largo large argo centers where Turkish and aDd other sum were taught freo of charge Native NativO contributors came camo forward forward for- for ward and endowed small establishments a a. a thing which was nov noyer r known before In Jn Lebanon ono one man wan gave trave all his for for- tune tune- tuno thousand dollars dollars to to the tho f Uld ITla mannin of t i IsmaIl small local lal al school I f In Tn fT T Jerusalem r i four I native natio young men twO 1 two Christians and two put r put their heads together toI to to- I gether I and the tho result W was that they I own one ouo quo of the most popular schools in inthe inthe the he city The same sarno things thinAs happened in in Jaffa Beirut and aud other center centers The old ola mission schools of England and amI America arc alO bein being severely put to tho the t test st and many of these have Juno ha hato hud had to change their co course o r in order to meet with modern requirements requirements- People eople arc arn now ready to n pay y for education Prom Froni 50 so to fo 75 17 is the tho aYera average o cost ta of board and tuition at ordinary schools whereas I. I at colleges such as as is tho the Syrian Protestant college for in- in in j stance the cost ost runs run up to to 11 HO a per pcr Shibly Jamal in the Christian I Herald |