Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1914 — SPAIN’S EDUCATIONAL SCALE. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN’S EDUCATIONAL SCALE.

In Some Provinces 00 per oent of Population Are Illiterate. The welcome advent of one Spanish child may perhaps, be the cause of a quickened Interest in the welfare of his little compatriots. There is need of it. A contemporary draws attention to s description In Nuestro Tiempo of the present miserable condition of elementary education la Spain.- Senor Jose Roc amors, the writer, says that in the best-educat-ed provinces 40 per oent. of the inhabitants can neither read nor write, while in many provinces the proportion is as high as 60 per oent As the total vote for ednoation only amounts to about £1,100,000 it is not surprising to learn that in the whole es Spain there are not so many teachers as in New York alone, while 120 a year Is reckoned a fair salary. Many of the schools have no furniture; some are even destitute es floors and windows, the children having to stand on the bare earth, while light and air are admitted through the open door.