Show PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN FRANCE american ideas and methods are beng introduced the people who rebel against the closing of the catholic schools and the sending of their children to the public schools are those who know absolutely nothing about the latter they think they will have tuition to pay for now in many public schools here even the schoolbooks are provided and great facilities are given to bright scholars in the way of scholarships whereby they may con dinue their education in the higher schools ignorant parents and there are many such in countries like brit tany imagine that the government will teach their children to be atheists it Is needless to say that par ants will have as much freedom in bringing up their children in any bellg ion they please as in america saya a correspondent in the brooklyn eagle the french authorities have an eye on the american systems ot public education and copy them as tar as they are able taking into cons tion the idiosyncrasies 0 their people during the republic untold sums ot money have been for the build ing and the establishing ot public schools for the organization of 11 brailes for the running of night schools and after all that trouble and expense if there are people who like the bretons refuse progress and en ought not the govern ment compel them to obeys it Is like holding the nose of a sick child to force it to swallow a medicine which will save its life |