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educational sloyd.
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existing, and also for establishing special sloyd schools where the subject
should be exclusively taught. At first these efforts received financial
support from private persons interested in the cause, but before long
public recognition was accorded in the shape of grants from the national
exchequer and from local authorities, i. e. county councils and provincial
agricultural societies. From the first-named source the financial aid
came in the first instance indirectly, being paid over by the Academy
of Agriculture to the provincial agricultural societies for distribution.
Otto Salomon.
In 1877 the Riksdag voted the sum of 15 000 kronor for the
furtherance and encouragement of sloyd teaching for boys. At that date there
were some 80 schools at which sloyd was being taught, and each such
school received an annual grant of 75 kronor; in 1911 the number of
classes in receipt of state aid of this character was 5 400. The subject is
not as a rule a compulsory one that all boys have to take, nor are the
systems of sloyd teaching in use at the various schools by any means
uniform in all particulars. — The total grant voted by the Riksdag in
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