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enter the lowest class, or the lowest of the preparatory school, at
their sixth year, and pass through a nine or ten years’ course. In
Prussia the normal duration of the course is nine years, but with the
addition of an extra class with optional subjects. According to the
Prussian regulations of 1894, the time-table is the following.
Lower Division
Middle Division | Upper Division
Class
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xX vin | vi
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vi (Vv: Iv | ur
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1. Religion .
2. German . .
3. French . .
4. English . .
5. Arithmetic .
6. History . .
7. Geography .
8. Natural
Science . . 2] 12
9. Drawing . . 2110 (8)
10. Writing . . —- 70)
11. Needlework . 2| 14
12. Singing . . ! 212 (18)
13. Gymnastics . 18 (12)
total | 18 | 20 | 22 928 130 30 | 30 | 30 |30! 238
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Two pedagogical points of view have specially determined the
arrangement of the curriculum. In the selection and treatment of
the whole of the subjects of instruction stress is to be laid on what
is practical and stimulating. Hence, particularly, and more so
than had been the case before, the circumstances of the present
time are to be considered. Summaries with a number of names and
dates, that have no personal or stimulating interest, and that can be
received by the memory only in a mechanical way, are most strictly
to be avoided. This applies especially to the teaching of history. the
principal features of which are the following.
In classes IV and V: episodes from German history down to
modern times, German sagas. In class III: the main facts of Greek
and Roman history, with particular attention to intellectual life, as
much as possible in the form of object-lessons, especially in connection
with Greek art during the Periclean, with Roman civilisation during
‘he Augustan, ace. Romans and Germans. In class II: German history