V. TRAINING COLLEGES FOR ELEMENTARY 
TEACHERS. 
The elementary teachers receive their professional education in 
preparatory institutions and seminaries. In some States there are 
only seminaries without separate preparatory schools, but in such the 
seminary course lasts all the longer, as a rule six years. In Prussia 
both the preparatory institutions and the seminaries have three classes 
with a one year’s course each, and the curriculum of the two estab- 
lishments has been uniformly regulated as an organic whole. The 
pupils entering the preparatory institutions must have passed the 
prescribed time in the elementary school, that is to say, must have 
reached the age of fourteen. But instead of the elementary school, 
Preparatory Seminar 
Training-Schools eminaries 
Subjects 
CL III CL II! CLI CL Il CLL II] CLI 
Religion . . . . . . . .. 
Ferman Lo. o.oo. o.oo... o.oo... 
French or English . . . . . . . . 
TSOIF + + ¢ 2» « wc 6 7 + 5 2 « « 
Arithmetic (Mathematics) . . . 
Elem. Geometry . . . . 
Nat. Philosophy . . . 
Geography . . . . 
Writing . . . . . . 
Drawing . . . . . 
Gymnastics . . . . 
Pedagogy . . . . . 
Method of Teaching 
leaching in Class . 
\gricult. Instruction 
iy 
2 
3 
4 
5 
0 
2 
/ 
2 
3 
3 
(4)%) 
AF 
3 
3 
2 
2 
3 
2 
*) In connection with the teaching in other subjects of instruction.