The Late Evolution in Prussia, in Its Relationship to the University and the School
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ISBN10: 1151432520
ISBN13: 9781151432520
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781151432520
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... THE GARDEN SUBSEQUENT TO THE REVOLUTION. Immediately subsequent to the Revolution of 1848, Curtman was so completely in despondence, that he seemed inclined to take refuge for a time, in the dreary creed, that the maladies of the school were incurable, and the problem of the regeneration of society insoluble. He says, My former enthusiasm for schools and public instruction, has now, through a thousand experiences, been sadly reduced; the revolution of 1848 has revealed to me and to others, the ideal nature and imperfection of the medium, through which we were wont to contemplate the school-world in Germany. This disenchantment exerted such a depres sing influence in me, that I was for a time inclined to consider my calling suicidal and vain. And again, in the introduction to his work, on the Reform of the School, he says, Indeed the years 1848 and 1849, these providential and annihilating judgments on many a well-built human scheme, have removed the veil of imagined glory, with which the German school was self-bedecked in mine eyes, and have left nothing but a withered apparition in its place. Again he says, -- It must be confessed, however painful, that the German school-system has had its day of visitation, and has been found wanting; to say the least, the expectations of its friends have been sadly disappointed. What is there that the advocates of the school have not promised on its behalf. Go to! it was said, you will empty the prison-house, you will produce a moral and intelligent population, the teacher of the school will have the future in his hands, he will give refine ment to humanity; and in these acclamations the author coincided. But alas? these paroxysms of admiration have been dispelled by the storm; the deformed reality is now before...