3 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

branch of school and college studies in Germany, to
the exclusion or neglect of humane branches had encouraged
 that systematized worship of brute force, with
its inevitable issue in a brutal defiance of the usages of
humanity,” has given the following figures from the timetables
 of the Prussian Ministry of Education.

Hours of Teaching in the Gymnasien.

Latin and Greek
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History and Geography
Gymnastics . .
Mathematics . .
Science . .

This time-table shows clearly that those who are
anxious to stimulate the reform of public school teaching
at home are just those who wish to avoid German
curricula and methods.