Education: In France

Latin and Greek, much to the disgust of the Socialists, have won in France. Léon Bérard, Minister of Public Instruction, has pronounced them compulsory in his new national curricula.

But to allay Socialist anger he has also decreed that sewing, knitting, weaving and saddlery shall be equally compulsory. Before receiving diplomas, girls must know how to mend their frocks; boys, their shoes.

Thus ends a two-year debate in the French chambers of Parliament. The old teaching won; but advocates of domestic science and manual training have entered, as it were, a pin point.