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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Common School in a Country parish. Huskvarna. (Jönköping län).
On behalf of the State, such inspection and control is further performed by
its Common School Inspectors. These are appointed for a limited time (fi
years) by the government. They are at present 46 in number, and have each
a greater or smaller district assigned to them. If the inspector finds defects in
the schoolmatters of his district, he reports the case to the school board. If
this leads to no result, he may further report to the diocesan board. When a
new common school building is to be erected, he should express his views
regarding its location as well as the suitableness of its rooms and playground. An
important part of the functions of school inspectors is to investigate the petitions of
school boards for State grants and to testify that the conditions for such grants
are fulfilled by the districts.
For each of the first five years of their inspectorship the inspectors ought
to submit brief reports of their work to their diocesan boards. After the sixth
year they are to give fuller accounts to the Ecclesiastical Department. These
accounts are printed and distributed to the diocesan boards and to all the school
boards to serve for their guidance in the discharge of their duties.
Teachers at common schools are either common school or infant school
teachers (see above under Schools). The former are partly male and
partly female, the latter almost exclusively female. Male and female
teachers have about the same rights and duties.
The competency of common school teachers is acquired by passing
an examination at some State seminary for common school teachers. In
Stockholm, where infant school classes are not regarded as distinct schools,
instruction is imparted in them exclusively by female teachers with this
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