ITALY: Angry Students

Some time ago Signer Gentile, Minister of Education, hatched a little plot against Italian students. The main features of the plot were: a) to make it obligatory to pass all examinations before being admitted to a higher class, and b) to limit the number of State Schools (not elementary schools) and the number of students to each course.

This severely tried the tempers of the students. The idea of passing exams, especially the exams which they had "flunked," was particularly obnoxious to them, and they said so. The restrictions...

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