HARD-WORKED SCHOOLBOYS.

Mataura Ensign, 24 July 1906, Page 1

HARD-WORKED SCHOOLBOYS.

The Chilli's.' school children have instilln| into them ut an curly age bubits of liui'd, steady study. At thence of live n Ijoy begins) his' schooling. At daylight lie rises, and, utter dressing ns quickly us possible, lie sturts breakfustless to school. lie is given a tusk, ami after it is completed he is allowed an hour for breukfust. Again, later, he has an hour for luncheon, but he is at his study nearly twelve hours a day, seven days a week. J All (he tinv, when he is not reciting his lessons, he is studying aloud ut, the top of his voice." He is under the eye of his master both in school and on his way (o und from school. The lad is taught rudimentary astron-. otny. physics, und naturul history, but gnat stress is put upon writing and* his literary studies. "A Thousand Letters." a poem, is. the study that forms the backbone of his literary education. In it are taught (he duties of children to purents, and all such matters. Whatever the study may be—history, classics, or science—every lesson is learned and repeated word for word.