Organisation of the Higher Girls’ Schools. 383
knowledge is acquired mostly in teachers’ seminaries, many of which,
aowever, are not government establishments, but under municipal or
private control. According to the regulations in force in Prussia, the
examination of the elementary female teachers is distinguished from
that of the teachers in the intermediate and higher Girls’ Schools, by
the fact that for the latter the acquirements in history and German
literature extend somewhat further, and that French and English are
added as subjects of examination. Also a special examination can be
passed in these subjects. For the elementary female teachers Eng-
lish, as a subject of instruction, is optional, French obligatory, but
they are not required to be examined in them. As an introduction
to the seminary there are in Prussia a few preparatory schools with
a two years’ course. Other States have also for female teachers pre-
paratory institutions of the same character as those for the male
teachers.
The curriculum of the three years’ seminary courses for female
teachers in the intermediate and higher Girls’ Schools in Prussia is
the following.
Religion . .
German :
French . .
English . .
Arithmetic .
distory . .
Geography . . . . .
Natural History and Physics
Pedagogyl) .
Drawing . . .
Writing?)
Needlework
Singing3)
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1) Besides one weekly hour of attendance at class teaching, and 5 groups of semin-
ary practice with pupils.
» 1/, hour = 1 hour every fortnight.
3) There are three weekly hours of piano. violin, and organ, in which the semin-
irv pupils take part alternatelv.