This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V HOME AND SCHOOL Of course the Prussian schoolmasters know all this and deplore it. Dr. Boehm of Berlin, whom I have quoted already,1 says it would follow as a natural consequence from the recent abolition of the Leaving Certificate (AbschlussprUfung) at the end of the sixth year that no boy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V HOME AND SCHOOL Of course the Prussian schoolmasters know all this and deplore it. Dr. Boehm of Berlin, whom I have quoted already,1 says it would follow as a natural consequence from the recent abolition of the Leaving Certificate (AbschlussprUfung) at the end of the sixth year that no boy should enter a Higher school with nine classes unless he has at least the intention of going on to the end, and unless his talents and circumstances in life justify him in proposing to do so. So far as he is personally concerned, Dr. Boehm is strongly in favour of the proposal made by several educational authorities not to grant the privilege of one year's service as a volunteer to pupils of the Higher schools until they get their Certificate of Maturity, except in exceptional circumstances. He says, however, that it is impossible in practice, and the 'See p. 113. reason he gives is instructive. It is that, if it were adopted, at least half of the Higher schools in the large towns would have to be turned into Intermediate schools with a six years' curriculum, while the smaller towns would be in a sorry plight, seeing that they would not have enough pupils either for a Higher school or a Realschule. Observe what this means. The Higher school is maintained in many places by the municipality, and, where this is so, the ratepayers naturally wish that as much of the expense as possible should be covered by the fees. Now the only way in which pupils in sufficient numbers can be attracted to such schools is by the privileges attached to attendance on them. It is for the sake of these, and not for the sake of the education they give, that parents send their sons to the Higher schools, so it comes to this, that they are too expensive a luxury unless...
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