LONDON "BOARD SCHOOLS."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3176, 24 April 1879, Page 1

LONDON "BOARD SCHOOLS."

A» English., writer his been sharply criticising the management of the.London publio schools, known- as. the " Board Schools," and produces the following as specimens of the written examinations of some of the scholars. * Where is Turkey P' 'Turkey 'is the capital of Norfolk.' * Where is' Turin ?' * Tureen is the cappittal of Chitier, the peepul there lives on birds nests and has long tails.' ' Oibberalter is the principal town' of Roo'sia.' ' What do you know of the patriarch AbrahamP' /He was thefathecof Lot. and ad tew wives—wun was called Hishmale and t'other, Haygur. He kept wuu at home, and he turned t'other into the desert, where she booame a pillow of salt in the-day time and.SKpiUow-ot, fire at night.' ' What do you know of Joseph P 1 1 Hee wore^A coat of' 'many garments. Hee were chief butler for Faro, and told his dreams. He married Pattiffers daughter, and he led the Gypshana out of bondage to Kana in GFell'lee, and then fell ob his sword and died, ia site of the pfomiss J#ftd. f ' Give me the names of the beats of tbe Old Testament.' " Dovenshire,' Exeter, Littikus, Numbers, Stronomy, Jupiter, Judges, Ruth, &o.' ' What is a miracleP' 'Don't know/ 'Ifyoa 48.W the sun shining overhead at midnight, wfcftt would you call it? 1- -*The moon.' 4 But jf jou were told it was tho, sun P ' I should .say it was a* lie.'"'.- ,?K .[. Another boy in giving his impressions in regard to Moses wrote as 1 follows .—'He was an Egypshin. He lived, jn a hark made of bufl rasters, and he kep a golden oarf, and worshipt brai?en snakes, and he bet nothin but kwabs »n.d manner for forty years. He was kort by the air of fiis ed while riding ttnde* tU« bor of a tree, and he was killed by his sou Absloa, .$* he was a-hanging from the bowl His I eel was pease.' . . . ' What is meant 'by eonscieuce ? [' said a schoolmaster to ti;s ctaM. The almost simultaneous reply of .Half theirnumber, was: 'A hind ward monitor.' An inspector who happened to be present, inquired.^,' and what do you understand by a monitor P' To this au intelligent youth exultingly answered: •AHirondad.'"