Education In A Prussian Town Classic Reprint

Download or read book Education in a Prussian Town (Classic Reprint) written by Herbert Macartney Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Education in a Prussian Town This brochure reproduces a paper which was read last winter before the Dublin Education Society; and the phraseology in some respects, I fear, bears traces of its oral origin. In itself, the paper can hardly be regarded as worthy of print; but the quotations from British and German authorities, with which I have fortified and illustrated my own observations, may perhaps confer on it a vicarious usefulness. It is an attempt to picture the education in a typical German town. We have in English many treatises on German education; but the only detailed study of any city, so far as I know, is the excellent report of Mr. Andrew on the Elementary Schools of Berlin and Char-lottenburg. But the educational equipment of a capital city is necessarily "sui generis." Wiesbaden, on the other hand, may I think be regarded as educationally typical. For thus attempting to picture the education of a typical town in the paradise of education no apology (apart from the defects of the execution) is needed. It is now universally recognised that the more we know of the details of educational practice in other countries the better. From (for instance) the late Federal Conference on Education no lesson emerged more clearly than that our duty is to observe, report and compare: observe what others do, report what is observed, compare what is reported. Education can never be largely an experimental science; its observational character is world-wide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.