42 Prussia and the German System of Education. 



and is allowed to officiate either as a private tutor or as a 

 village teacher. But if he can not obtain this diploma, he is 

 obliged to continue to act as an assistant teacher until hecan 

 do so. Seminar Director Dr. Otto, the principal of the 

 normal college, and a member of the board of examiners, 

 assured me, that it was a common thing for candidates 

 to be examined four or five times, before they succeeded 

 in obtaining a teachers' diploma. When they have at last 

 succeeded, they, as well as those who obtained the diploma 

 marked " excellent " in the first examination, are eligible 

 as teachers. 



The school committee of the different parishes elect 

 their own teachers. The only condition, to which this 

 right is subjected is, that they may not elect any person, 

 who has not obtained a diploma of competence from the 

 board of examiners. 



4. City Trade School. 



The City Trade School is to give a more appropriate edu- 

 cation for the mechanic arts and higher trades then can be 

 had through the courses of classical schools. It is a great 

 point gained, when the principle is admitted that different 

 kinds of education are suited to different objects in life ; 

 and such an admission belongs to an advanced stage of 

 education. As a consequence of a general sentiment of 

 this kind, numerous schools for the appropriate instruc- 

 tion of those not intended for the learned professions grow 

 up by the side of the others. 



Third Class. 



Physics. Electricity and magnetism, with experiments. 

 Two hours. Chemistry. Water and non-metallic bodies 

 with experiments. Two hours. 



