Excerpt from The System in German SchoolsThe following discussion of certain phases of the German School System and (the lessons that may be drawn from it for the Kentucky schools is in no sense to be taken as seien tific or exhaustive. I should not like to have my ability to write a scientific work judged from this effort. The discus sion is given in order to draw some practical conclusions as to the needs and possibilities of the Kentucky Schools. While I must insist from the first that the German System could in no sense be transferred from the other side and be used here to advantage because social, economic, and political conditions are so radically different in the two countries, yet I do not pretend to disguise the fact or my conviction that our German cousins are very much nearer the solution of a proper educational system than we are on this side. I must likewise admit that after a two years' intimate and care ful study of the German schools, their methods of work and thoroughness have materially influenced my conceptions of Education and the proper ways of educating the people. Whether I have given expression to this change in these pages is a question that the reader may answer for himself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.