48 Prussia and the German System of Education. 



schools must be institutions for secondary instruction, since 

 the pupils have yet three classes to pass through after 

 reaching the point just referred to. It serves also to 

 separate the real schools from, the higher burgher schools, 

 since the extreme limit of the courses of the latter, with 

 the same assistance in regard to Greek, only enables the 

 pupil to reach the lower third class of the gymnasium. 

 In general, a pupil would terminate his studies in the real 

 school at between sixteen and eighteen years of age. The 

 difference between the subjects of instruction in the real 

 school and the Frederick William gymnasium, consists in 

 the omission in the former of Greek, Hebrew, and phi- 

 losophy, and the introduction of English and chemistry. 

 The relative proportions of time occupied in the same 

 subjects in the two schools, will be seen by comparing the 

 two columns next on the right of the numbers for the 

 seventh class, in the table just giveu. The first of these 

 columns contains the proportion of the number of hours 

 per week devoted to the different subjects in the six classes 

 of the real school above the elementary, the number of hours 

 devoted to the German being taken as unity ; and the 

 second, the same proportion for six classes of the gymna- 

 sium, beginning with the lowest, the same number of 

 hours being taken as the unit, as in the preceding column. 



6. Frederick William Gymnasium of Berlin. 



The numbers attached to the names of the different 

 classes, in the following programme, show the number of 

 hours of study per week in the regular branches in which 

 the division of classes takes place. In like manner, the 

 numbers attached to the several subjects of study show 

 how many hours are occupied per week in each of the 

 subjects by the several classes. 



