Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . from a scientific point ofview, the gardens are of little or no value. Probably ascientist could find in some of the gardens for the cultivationand sale of flowers just as valuable material as he couldhere. Let us hope that under the new regime the necessityof studying the tropical flora will be realised. Education in Havana and in all Cuba is in a very prim-itive condition—old-fashioned, theoretical syste
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . from a scientific point ofview, the gardens are of little or no value. Probably ascientist could find in some of the gardens for the cultivationand sale of flowers just as valuable material as he couldhere. Let us hope that under the new regime the necessityof studying the tropical flora will be realised. Education in Havana and in all Cuba is in a very prim-itive condition—old-fashioned, theoretical systems are gen-eral, and the lack of practical applications of the differentsubjects taught is greatly felt. This difficulty is mainly dueto the fact that the Government has hitherto controllededucation in all its branches, and, far from applying to itsimprovement the receipts from other sources, it has at-tempted to arrange matters in such a way that the bulk ofthe expense should be borne by a portion of those receivinginstruction. In the last Cuban budget the revenue frommatriculation fees alone reached $90,000. These fees arepaid by students of all schools which are not free. If to. Havana H7 this the other items, as, for example, examination fees and inscription of certificates, are added, the receiptswill probably reach $150,000, nearly two-thirds of the totalsum of $247,000 yearly appropriated for public instructionin the same budget. Under Spanish Government control all teaching is dividedinto three classes: first, or primary instruction; second, orelementary instruction; and professions. To follow thesecourses, a student must have matriculated and passed theexaminations of the preceding ones, either in Spain or aSpanish Government college, no foreign titles being re-spected. There is only one examination required to passfrom first to second instruction; the third instruction, how-ever, is a five years course, divided as follows:First year: Latin and Spanish grammar, geogr
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