In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections, illustrative of the contents of this chapter, are reproduced:
273. Barnard: The Organizing Work of Frederick William I. 274. Prussia: The School Code of 1763. 275. Prussia: The Silesian School Code of 1765. 276. Austria: The School Code of 1774. 277. Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation. 278. Mann: The Prussian Elementary Teacher and his Training. 279. Dinter: Prussian Schools and Teachers as he found them. 280. Cousin: Report on Education in Prussia. 281. Mann: The Military Aspect of Prussian Education.,
QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. Explain the interest of Frederick William I (273) in elementary education.
2. Characterize, from the Codes of 1763 (274) and 1765 (275), and cite paragraph to show: (a) The type of instruction ordered provided; (b) the type of teacher expected; (c) the character of the attendance required; and (d) the character of the continuation training ordered.
3. Show the similarity in their main lines of the Prussian (274) and Austrian (276) Codes.
4. Would the reasoning of Fichte (277) apply to any crushed nation? Illustrate.
5. Do we select teachers for training as carefully in the United States today as they did in Prussia eighty years ago (278)? Could we?
6. Did such conditions as Dinter describes (279) exist, even later, with us?
7. Was the Prussian school system, as described by Cousin (280), a centralized or a decentralized system?