Brazil and the Brazilians - portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches (1857) (14776512704)

Identifier: brazilbrazilians00kidd (find matches)
Title: Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Kidder, Daniel P. (Daniel Parish), 1815-1891 Fletcher, James C. (James Cooley), 1823-1901
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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e him infinitely superior to the latter. The education of the Brazilian boy is better than that of hissister. There is, however, a great deal of superficiality: he ismade a little old man before he is twelve years of age,—havinghis stiff black silk hat, standing collar, and cane; and in the cityhe walks along as if everybody were looking at him, and as if hewere encased in corsets. He does not run, or jump, or trundlehoop, or throw stones, as boys in Europe and North America. Atan early age he is sent to a collegia, where he soon acquires theFrench language and the ordinary rudiments of education in thePortuguese. Though his parents reside in the city, he boards inthe collegia, and only on certain occasions does he see his father ormother. He learns to write a good hand, which is a universalaccomplishment among the Brazilians; and most of the boys of thehigher classes are good musicians, become adepts in the Latin, andmany of them are taught to speak English with creditable fluency.
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Professores, Collegios, and Schools. 177 The examination was formerly a great anniversary, when the littlefellows were starched up in their stiffest clothes and their mindswere crammed for the occasion. The boys acted their parts, andthe various professores, in exaltation of their office, read or deliveredmemoriter speeches to the admiring parents; and the whole waswound up by some patron of the school crowning with immensewreaths the good boys who stood highest during the session.The collegio then took a vacation of a few weeks, and commencedagain with its boarders, the very young gentlemen students.But these things have greatly changed for the better, and manycollegios are ably conducted. The principals of these establishments, when gifted with goodadministrative capacities, reap large sums. One with whom Iwas acquainted had, after a few years teaching, 20,000$000 (tenthousand dollars) placed out at interest. The professores do notalways reside in the collegio, but teach by the hour