EDUCATION. 



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Education. 



It is well known that education is widely diffused in Germany; still a great 

 deal remains to be done in that respect, especially in Prussia, where the 

 elementary schools, since Eichhorn's advent in 1840, have been surrendered to 

 clerical influences. During this reign of reaction the Seminaries, in which 

 teachers are trained, deteriorated likewise, and many of the masters at present 



Fig. 210. — LcBECK. 



employed in Prussian schools would fail to procure appointments in other states 

 of Germany in which education has fared better. Even as respects the mere 

 knowledge of reading and writing, Wiirttemberg, Saxony, and other states of 

 Central and Southern Germany are ahead of Prussia, but in the intensely Catholic 

 districts of Upper Bavaria ignorance is still rampant.* At the same time the 



* Xumber of recruits unable to read and write (1876-77) : — Posen, 12 93 per cent. ; Prussia proper, 

 8-66 per cent.; Alsace-Lorraine, 3-98 per cent.; Silesia, 2-45 per cent.; Pomerania, 119 per cent.; 

 Bavaria, 0-93 per cent. ; Brandenburg, 0-67 per cent. ; Thuringia, 0-34 per cent. ; Eoyal Saxony, 0-25 per 

 rent ; Baden, 0-16 per cent. ; Hesse, 0-11 per cent. ; Wiirttemberg, 0-03 per cent. 



