Show PERUVIAN SCHOOLS ah la lie Nt lont S bool while passing a school building one of my first days m peru my attention WM attracted by busy hum of voices and upon inquiry I 1 ascertained that this was a for boys and thia busy ham arose from their twylo of studying which a invariably ont loud wo rapped at the open bloor imd tho school arose nd alio director cordially us and showed u through alio building tharo was little to be as compared with your buildings tho only alpar was ft few maps a deiy email blackboard ft teachers desk a long writing desk and several without backs there acro tarco departments or more properly grades the department wax in n room by prini nry itself bill ho other two grades were in the camo room ono occupying each end wo ascertained from alic that ho received a salary of fifty silver holer per and hafl co laborera f forty silver solar each about thirty dollars As the attention of alio was fixed upon us and all work impeded wo nid not dasins to keep them rom their studies or standing longer fo f o we bade adieu to our sli friends and visited tho for sirl was in n adjoining building alio exes arc kept strictly apart in all the schools of peru wo were lindly ro by alio matron who furnished us all tho information wo desired this i chool was in alio midst of recitations and paid little attention to our entrance much to our pleasure alio eliud two ro laborers who acro seated between tho several groups of students apparently doing but probably at no were so were oscr being divisions while tho older acro hearing alic classes recite this is a comman rule here in alie national flioy not only licar alio younger students re cimei but anro also allowed to eunith them us ahry lit alio common modes of punishment arc in alic midst of the group for a long time to be shut up in a dirk or be severely alio teachers aro only hired to oversee alio work and attend to one or two of tho higher classes tho main school books used anns upon lie subject of alic catholic religion reading peruvian lii and geography tharo is no competition in school book f aa every book used in schools throughout peru must bo approved by tho national educational ikird io ird and they adopt only school books written by their countrymen which arc not very numerous their public school buildings aro plain anc atory acobes adobes with a very dinall playground at the back of them the english ciaio four in peru for all clashes of people two in callao and two in lima they leavo ano college the only one ever founded in peru under tho isoard of foreign missions this college lias wyral courses and is in a line prospering conditions condi tionA C ariff in chicago graphic bews yews |