“Art. 2. In these schools children receive their earliest physical, moral, and intellectual education, the best adapted to develop in them republican manners, love of country, and taste for labor.
“Art. 3. They learn to speak, read, and write the French language.
“They are taught the acts of virtue which most honor free men, and particularly the acts of the French Revolution most fit to give them elevation of soul, and to make them worthy of liberty and equality.
“They acquire some notions of the geography of France.
“The knowledge of the rights and duties of the man and the citizen is brought within their comprehension through examples and their own experience.
“They are given the first notions of the natural objects that surround them, and of the natural action of the elements.
“They have practice in the use of numbers, of the compass, the level, weights and measures, the lever, the pulley, and in the measurement of time.
“They are often allowed to witness what is done in the fields and in workshops; and they take part in these employments as far as their age permits.”
But the bill of Romme was not put in operation. The Convention presently decided on a revision of the decree it had passed, and the bill of Bouquier was substituted for the bill of Romme.