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AN ICELANDIC SCHOOL

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 6.

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AN ICELANDIC SCHOOL.

THE only high school in Iceland is at Seykjasik, and it has been in operation for over a year. The principal subjects taught are Icelandic in its grammar and literature, Danish, English, Slojd wood carving, arithmetic, and singing, to which from two to eight hours a week are devoted; but the foremost place in the educational system is given to tailoring, by which the hours from ten to two are occupied during four days a week. This is because there are no tailors in Iceland, and that the women must make the men's clothes as well as their own. Cooking is also practically taught.—Chicago Herald.