ABSTRACT
The financial and political troubles which began in 1876 eventually brought about the deposition of Isma‘il Pasha on 26th June, 1879. ‘Ali Pasha Ibrahim suggested an increase in the number of Primary Schools, an improvement in the standard and the granting of school certificates, which, up till then, had not been given. ‘Ali Pasha proposed that the ambitious and costly programme should be financed by the people through the village headmen and local government boards. The report dealt with the Special Schools: it was recommended that, since Egypt was an agricultural country, a School of Agriculture was essential. Arabic should be taught with the special object of training the students in the use of legal language and in composition. The strong points of the European schools were admitted, namely, the teaching of foreign languages, European calligraphy, arithmetic, geometry, drawing, history and geography, but the weak point was the teaching of Arabic.
