UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9163, 22 July 1895, Page 4

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Signor Marini, in the Auiologia Nuora, gives some tables respecting University education in the divers States of Europe ia the year 1892-93. According to his figures. Italy is the most richly endowed with Uni. versities of any, having one Alma Mater for every 1,436,114 inhabitants. Thea comes Sweden and Norway, with one for every 1,750,000 inhabitants. Spain is the third most highly educated nation in Europe, according to this reckoning, having one Uni. versity tor every 1,755,563 inhabitants. Germany and France are on a far lower educational level, having respectively one University for 2,471,423 and for 2,556,183 inhabitants. England is still more benighted, with only one University for the mental alimentation of no less than 4,143,002 Britons. So that, according to these figures, Spain, in the matter of higher education, is far ahead of Germany, France, and England, which, as Euclid says, U absurd. The elements of size of each University, and the standard of education in it, must be established ere any judgment own be formed. No information is forthcoming as to the latter, whilst the former, though it merely amounts to the counting of heads, brings Italy much below England in the proportion of its University-trained inhabitants. Iv England there is one in every 1512, and in Italy one in every 1756. Huh. Gary has one in every 3009, although in the table above mentioned she stands higher than England as providing more University opportunities. So tho size of the University makes a difference already, and If (fee quality of the teaching were compared, tha difference might be bigger still. But will anybody pretend that the intellectual level of a nation can be measured by its Univer. sities?