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and I was convinced , from the results which were under my own eyes , that a thorough knowledge of that *\ btem would well repay the British puhlic for any trifling expense that a commission of well informed men , sent out for the purpose of investigation , mi g ht incur . With this view 1 sat down to ojive those g < neral facts which mi ght show to his Majest y ' s Government , and to the people of England , what an immense , extraordinary , and interesting piece of mechanism the system of education in Germany ieally is ; hoping thus to prove to them that it was worthy of deeper attention than has been hitherto
given to it , and that there were many other states , the educational institutions of which are much more applicable to our own land than any which have been displayed in M . Cousin ' s brilliant but hurried view of those existing in Prussia . "—Introduction , p . 3 . The letters have another object , which is thus briefl y announced . —
* ' I then proceeded , led on by the natural connexion of the one subject with the other , to touch upon the present state of sound and instructive literature in England , as compared with the same on the continent . "—Introduction , p . 6 . On each of these points Mr . James has furnished us with information and suggestion , both interesting and important He has given a description of the system of education in Frankfort , in the Grand Duchy of Baden , in Nassau , Wurtemberg ,
and Bavaria , comprising , as they do , all the varieties of commercial and agricultural , of Protestant and Catholic states . It is impossible in a short compass to give any idea of the details ; the book itself must be read , in order to understand them . Perhaps a very slight outline of the plan pursued in one state , may nerve as an illustration of the whole , and shew that education is given to the people of Germany on a very magnificent scale , though it cannot with any degree of clearness do more . Perhaps Nassau is the best state that can be chosen for this purpose , Education in there compulsory , and every child not supplied with other means of instruction must enter one of the primary schools at six years of age , and continue under a course of studies for eight years . The whole
expense , both of the primary , and of two higher grades of schools is defrayed by the state . The course , beginning at the elementary brunches of teaching , which in Germany always include singing and gymnastics , goen on to ancient and modern languages ; mathematics and various branches of science ; history , drawing , intellectual and moral philosophy , and
universally throughout Germany—religion , which is taught by the clergyman of that persuasion to which the child ' s parents may belong . The whole number of scholars in Nassau is jivcrsiged atone to six of the population , seventyseven ti > each teacher , and ninety-eight to each school . All the books used arc appointed by law . An inspector and regularly
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The Educational Institutions qf Germany - 31
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/31/
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