Excerpt from The Public Primary School System of France: With Special Reference to the Training of Teachers The secondary school which begins normally at nine years i and continues for nine years has always a preparatory section, so that the child may really enter at six or seven years of age and follow work which is of exactly the same nature as that given in the primary schools. Such a child, however, is not receiving primary instruction at all, but secondary. At these secondary schools, the lyce'es and the colleges, there are al ways fees for instruction which vary according to the class and the school. On account of the fees connected with the secondary schools, one naturally finds there a different social class from that in the primary schools, although from my own observation in the elementary departments of the second ary sch-ools I have not found the quality of the instruction at all commensurate with the difference in cost to the pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.