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The Prussian School System

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

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The Prussian School System

It has been quite the fashion to suppose the Prussian school system an absolute model. But a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says the volksschulen are over-crowded and the teachers miserably underpaid. From eighty to three hundred children are often in charge of a boy fifteen to eighteen years old. Most of the teachers are forced to other employments, out of school, to gain a living. The system is probably the best in Europe. But that is far from proving it equal to ours.—The Advance.