Note 7 — Chapter II · INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION

Since the above paragraph was written I have consulted a very able Professeur de Faculté and Latin examiner on this Question du Latin. He says: “The young men who come up for examination have an imperfect knowledge of Latin, and the standard of attainment falls lower and lower. The remedy that I should propose would be to reduce to fifteen the number of lycées where Latin and Greek are taught. In those fifteen lycées I would maintain a really high standard of genuine scholarship. That would be sufficient for all the real scholars that the country wants, and then the teaching in the ordinary lycées, being relieved of false pretension about Latin and Greek, might itself become genuine in other ways.”