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A Policy of Death.
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To teach the children to read forms no necessary part of the
syllabus, and, as a matter of fact, the majority of children pass
through these three years and are thoroughly illiterate at the
end. It is only those children who push themselves forward, as it
were, who get a knowledge of reading outside the regular course.
The former schools used also to have libraries of serviceable
books, which the children were allowed to take home with
them, but now the only books allowed are such as belong to the
Orthodox training, liturgies, legends of saints, &c. When
school children at plat.
the schools are closed, the children soon forget the little
knowledge they have acquired. They take their share of the hard
work in the fields, &c., and have no books at home by which
to keep up their scholarship (?).
Nor are private schools allowed to supply the deficiencies of
the national system. A number of these had been established
by private beneficence in Siberia.—in Tomsk, Omsk,
Krasnoj-arsk, Irkutsk, and Jenesseisk—and were making good progress.
They were delared by a prominent Government newspaper
(Graschdanin, Oct. 9, 1889) to be of revolutionary tendencies ;
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