Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1913 — LONDON SCHOOLS. [ARTICLE]

LONDON SCHOOLS.

In Some Ways the American System, Though Bigger, is Inferior. London schools have school sittings, New York 689,959, not aU occupied in either case. London baa 5,038 men teachers and 12.431 women to 2,740 men and 15,651 women in New York. As these latter figures apparently include some duplication in evening schools London’s teaching fonce is proportionately much stronger, especially in men. The smaller number of pupils in London means partly that more of the children of the moderately well to do there attend private schools, partly that the children of* the London poor leave school for work at an earlier average age. Though the New York system Is bigger It is behind London In some respects, according to the American Educational Review. That city has four open air schoolstfor mentally and physically defective children, who are apparently already well looked after, as they should be In every city.