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Charities for Children in the City of Mexico

Charities for Children in the City of Mexico

Steelman, Albert Judson

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General World History

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ISBN10: 115156026X
ISBN13: 9781151560261
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... A Charity School of the Old Type--Continued. The friars who first arrived in the country instructed the natives in a wide range of matters. For a long time the general education of the period was open to the Indian and Spaniard alike. The sixteenth century was marked by great educational activity which started at the Capital and spread in ever widening circles until the closing years of the eighteenth century. The new kingdom of knowledge seems to have been accepted by the natives in place of the lost empire of imaginary greatness. The newly acquired art of printing enabled the Indian scholars to translate and publish for practical use the teachings of the Church in the language of the people, and at the same time to rescue from oblivion whatever was available of the history of the tribes. The natives had made alarming progress in all departments of knowledge. The more selfish and ignorant among the ruling classes in church and state began to think it was useless, and even dangerous, to teach the Indians Latin. It would be better, they said, to give their scholarships to Spanish youths. In 1795 the Viceroy, Branciforte, declared that the catechism was all the people needed. They began to be left in ignorance. The business of education fell into neglect. Many provinces were without higher schools, and sent their sons to the Capital, or to Spain. In 1799 there were only six hundred students in eight colleges in the City of Mexico where there had been thousands. Teachers were few and poorly equipped. However by the close of the eighteenth century the scholarship endowment of the Vizcainas had gone well past the half million mark. But most of it ($531,000) was destined to go a long journey to the Royal Treasury of Spain to help in the Napoleonic wars, and...

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