Show TEACHING YOUTH OF EGYPT koran an important part of system of education in he ot the egyptian boy s education the koran plays the most important part it Is in fact the foundation of all instruction given it must first of all be committed to memory and the pupil Is taught to read and write each portion as fast as it Is memorized As a mental ulus in the case of juvenile scholars a palm branch judiciously admonis may take the place of our more familiar birch rod while the major ity of the students do not pursue their studies more than five or six years yet many remain much longer fitting themselves for the duties of doctor lawyer or ruler of their countrymen no boy may be admitted before the age of 8 but on the other band ad danced age Is no bar to entrance so it it pleases him the man of mature years may con his tasks beside a youthful classmate As a rule it Is only the boy of the upper class who Is able to avail himself of a prolonged coure of study the poor boy must early in life take up the struggle for existence pou track news |