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. 1877 Excerpt: ...in Egypt was again reduced to the elementary curriculum of the mosque colleges and primary schools. Said Pasha, more liberal, re-opened several of the special seminaries, and munificently assisted the foreign schools in Cairo and Alexandria, which, as we shall see, have rendered good service to Egyptian education, but ...
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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. 1877 Excerpt: ...in Egypt was again reduced to the elementary curriculum of the mosque colleges and primary schools. Said Pasha, more liberal, re-opened several of the special seminaries, and munificently assisted the foreign schools in Cairo and Alexandria, which, as we shall see, have rendered good service to Egyptian education, but he lacked the energy to prosecute the reform begun by his father; and at his death in 1863 the medical school in Old Cairo was the only one of the Government academies in at all prosperous operation. Like his predecessor, too, he had done nothing whatever to improve the condition of the old Arab primary schools, which remained as the Mamlouks--it might be said the Saracens--had left them. In the matter of public instruction, therefore, as in much else, the present Viceroy, on his accession, found before him a wide field for reforming activity, and he soon disclosed a policy of working it, not merely in the interest of the army, but of the whole population. The military academies were reorganised on a basis of much greater efficiency than under Mehemet Ali, with the result, it may be here mentioned--as fuller description of these army schools does not properly fall within the scope of this chapter--that except such as were commissioned during the preceding reigns, there is not now an illiterate officer in the Egyptian army, nor is even a corporal promoted from the ranks without a knowledge of at least the "three Rs." A brief sketch of the three systerns of scholastic machinery now at work in Egypt, over and above these military academies, will convey some idea of what has been done thus far for popular education. These are (1) the schools established and wholly or in part supported by the Government; (2) the old mosque colleges and Ar...
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NY 1877 first edition. Henry Holt. Hardcover royal octavo., 417pp., foldout map. Ex-library with all usual library markings; front inner hinge cracking; end papers worn and chipped. Text clean, lightly and evenly toned. Map is VG. Binding nice and secure. no dj. Reading Copy. Sold as is.