Prussia and the German System of Education. 



47 



Table Showing the Number of Hours op Recitation per Week, op 

 each Class, in the Subjects taught in the Royal Real School 

 op Berlin. 



Subjects of Study. 



Latin, . . . 

 French, . 

 English,. 

 German,. 



Religion, , 



Mathematics,* . . . 

 Natural History,. , 



Physics, 



Chemistry, 



Geography, 



History, 



Drawing,, 

 Writing, . 

 Singing,.. 



Total,. 



4 

 4 

 2| 2 

 3 3 



36 



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20 



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 15 



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Proportion of other 

 studies to German 

 in the 



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 0.7 



0.8 



0.6 

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0.5 

 0.3 



0.4 

 0.3 

 0.6 



3 

 0.9 



1.0 



0.8 

 1.6 

 0.1 

 0.2 



0.5 



0.7 



0.4 

 0.3 

 0.6 



Pupils who enter this school between five and seven 

 years of age, and go regularly through the elementary 

 classes, are prepared at ten to pass to its higher classes, or 

 to enter the lowest of the gymnasium. It is thus after 

 the fifth class that a comparison of the two institutions 

 must begin. The studies of the real school proper, and 

 of the gymnasium, have exactly the same elementary basis, 

 and they remain so far parallel to each other that a pupil, 

 by taking extra instruction in Greek, may pass from the 

 lower third class of the former to the lower third of the 

 latter. This fact alone is sufficient to show that the real 



* Including arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry. 

 + These numbers include the entire course. 



