Show SENDS TEACHERS TO PUPILS italy revere reverses the orde ordee of thing things so that education may be spread recent plan to educate her mountain folk la Is already in operation according to the rome correspondent of tho the new ne york sun sim ae As the shepherds of the abruzzi could not be brought to school teachers were sent to them the percentage of illiterates among the inhabitants of the abruzzi has always been very high and sta show that despite the fact that many schools have been opened in the towns and villages within the last five years 68 per cent of the tion Is still illiterate some members of the board of education feared that the general spread of education among the peasantry would tend to a decline of r IA grous faith others put forth the theory that tho the inhabitants of the abruzzi had been ignorant and unlettered tor for centuries and consequently had bad lost the aptitude to learn prof emiddo Agostin agostinoni ont discovered the real cause he ile noticed that the government schools in the towns and villages were not well attended not because the oya were not willing to go to them but because they could not the majority of the inhabitants of the abruzzi are shepherds and spend nine months out of every year in the mountains living in huts and lending tending their flocks prof Agostin agostinone ont suggested to the ministry of public instruction the plan which has haq now been adopted as an experiment peri ment instead of having schools with teach tench era ers and empty benches why not send the teachers up to the mountains where the boys are and hold classes there therel the plan pleased some influential members of the board of education and 15 teachers were furnished with horses and instructed to ride out every day and beat the country for pu pils wherever they found boys or men willing to learn they were to stop and teach the 15 traveling teachers have their hands full as to their great surprise they found that the shepherds shep herda young wd old are not only willing to learn to read and write but that they are very quick and intelligent youths companion |