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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HIGHER EDUCATION IN GERMANY If we wish to understand this struggle between Kultur and Humanism, the first thing we have to do is to get an idea of what the German system of Higher education really is. Information on the subject is easily accessible,1 though to judge fromthe extraordinary statements that appear from time to time in the press and elsewhere, few people know where to look for it. It will be best to limit ourselves to the system in force at the present time in Prussia, though it must always be remembered that statements which are true of Prussia do not necessarily hold good of the other states of the Empire. I shall not say much of the history of the system, though of course it cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of the process by which it came to be what it is. Historical explanations are apt, however, to confuse the student who is new to the subject, and are more in place after he has a clear idea of the contemporary facts. I shall therefore confine what I have to say to the Prussian system as it has existed since the beginning of the twentieth century, with only a few necessary hints as to the earlier stages. 11 am thinking chiefly of the Special Reports on Educational Subjects issued by the Board of Education. See especially vols. 9 and 20. There is a handy work by Prof. Lexis of Gottingen, which has been translated into something resembling English by Dr. G. J. Tamson under the title of A General View of the History and Organssation of Public Education in the German Empire (Berlin, 1904). It is an epitome of the larger work prepared by Lexis for the St. Louis Exposition. Matthew Arnold's book Higher Schools and Universities in Germany (first edition, 1868) is only of historical interest now. We are brought down to the end of the nin...
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