402 REPORT— 1897. 



XXXI. — Official Programme for Intermediate Schools, Belgium, 



FROM 1888. 



A. Intermediate Schools. (Three Years' Course.) 



I. General description of the Earth and its divisions. Elementary 

 Geography of Belgium. 



II. Revision of Course I. More advanced Geography of Belgium. 

 General Geography of Europe. 



III. Detailed Geography of Europe. General Geography of other 

 parts of the World. 



B. Athenees Eoyaux. (Seven Years' Course.) 

 (See Dr. Scott Keltie's Report, pp. 150, 151.) 



XXXII. — Programmes in French Lyc^es. 



Classical Side. Ig hour per week in lower forms, 1 hour in higher forms. 



Preparatory Class. 



VIII. Elementary Geography of the five parts of the World. 

 VII. Elementary Geography of France. 



VI. General Geography of the World. Geography of the Mediter- 

 ranean Basin. 



V. Geography of France. 



IV. General Geography. Study of the American Continent. 



III. Africa, Asia, and Oceania. 



II. Europe. 



I. France. 



Modern Side. 1^ hour per week in lowest and highest forms, but only 1 hour 



in 4, 3, and 2. 



VI. Elementary Geography of France. 



V. General Geography. Europe, America. 



IV. Africa, Asia, Oceania. 



III. Europe. — i. General Geography of the Continent ; ii. Descrip- 

 tion of the States ; iii. Summary. 



II. Geography of France. 



I. General Geography. — i. Europe, the Six Great Powers ; ii. The 

 New World; iii. Asia, Oceania and Africa. ^ 



' ' The headings of the syllabus for the first class,' says the official programme, 

 ' have appeared already in those of the preceding classes. The interest of this 

 course rests entirely in the questions the professor chooses to discuss, and the way 

 he puts the most important. They are of every variety. It is not enough to teach 

 the pupils, who are about to become men, what are the leading powers of the 

 present day by their agricultural and industrial products and their commercial 

 activity. No doubt these are important points ; but these are not the only ones 

 that should be compared. An attempt should be made to distinguish the charac- 

 teristic traits of each of the States with which we have dealings, to determine in 

 what measure the land and the people and their racial characteristics have contri- 

 buted to the prosperity and power of a nation, to compare the part played in 

 history by a people with its present condition, to realise what is the actuality on 

 which we should fix our attention in each different part of the world : such are 

 the aims of this course. It should be looked upon as the last chapter in the history 

 of civilisation.' 



