[CONTENTS.]
| PAGE. | |
| Introduction, | [3] |
| [I. FRANCE.] | |
| Outline of Military System, | [9] |
| System of Military Instruction, | [10] |
| I. Polytechnic School at Paris, | [11] |
| 1. Subject and Methods of Instruction prescribedfor Admission, | [13] |
| 2. Scientific Course in Lycées and otherSchools in reference to, | [49] |
| 3. History, Management, Studies,Examinations, | [55] |
| 4. Public Services, Legal and Military, providedfor by, | [88] |
| 5. Programmes of Lectures and Courses ofInstruction, | [91] |
| II. The Artillery and Engineer School ofApplication at Metz, | [133] |
| III. The Regimental Schools of Practice forArtillery and Engineers, | [221] |
| IV. The Infantry and Cavalry School at St.Cyr, | [225] |
| V. The Cavalry School of Practice at Saumur, | [241] |
| VI. The Staff School at Paris, | [245] |
| VII. The Military Orphan School at LaFleche, | [257] |
| VIII. The School of Musketry at Vincennes, | [259] |
| IX. The Military and Naval Schools of Medicineand Pharmacy, | [261] |
| X. The Naval School at Brest, | [263] |
| XI. The Military Gymnastic School atVincennes, | [265] |
| Remarks on French Military Education, | [273] |
| [II. PRUSSIA.] | |
| Outline of Military System and MilitaryEducation, | [275] |
| I. Outline of Military System, | [281] |
| II. Historical View of Military Education, | [284] |
| III. Present System of Military Education andPromotion, | [293] |
| IV. Examinations; General and Professional for aCommission, | [297] |
| 1. Preliminary or Ensign’s Examination, | [297] |
| 2. Officers’ Examination, | [302] |
| V. Military Schools preparatory to the Officers’Examination, | [310] |
| 1. The Cadet Schools, or Cadet Houses, | [310] |
| 2. The Division Schools, | [321] |
| 3. The United Artillery and Engineers’School, | [325] |
| VI. The School for Staff Officers at Berlin, | [330] |
| VII. Elementary Military Schools forNon-commissioned Officers, | [329] |
| 1. Military Orphan Houses, | [339] |
| Orphan-House at Potsdam, | [340] |
| Orphan-House at Annaburg, | [345] |
| 2. The School Division or Non-commissionedOfficers’ School, | [348] |
| 3. Regimental Schools, | [350] |
| 4. The Noble-School at Liegnitz, | [350] |
| VIII. Remarks on the System of Military Education inPrussia, | [351] |
| Appendix, | [351] |
| The Artillery and Engineer School at Berlin, | [353] |
| The Staff School at Berlin, | [395] |
| [III. AUSTRIA.] | |
| Military System and Instruction | [409-464] |
| I. Schools of non-commissioned officers | [411] |
| II. School for officers | [429] |
| III. Special Military Schools | [436] |
| IV. Staff School at Vienna | [447] |
| V. Reorganization of Military Schools in1868 | [453] |
| VI. Cavalry Brigade School for officers | [463] |
| [IV. BAVARIA, SAXONY,HOLLAND.] | |
| Military System and Schools of Bavaria | [465-480] |
| I. Cadet Corps—War School—Artillery,Engineers, and Staff Schools | [467] |
| II. Military Academy atDresden | [471] |
| III. Military Academyat Breda | [477] |
| [V. ITALY.] | |
| Military System and Schools | [481-500] |
| I. Military Academy at Turin | [483] |
| II. Artillery and Engineer School | [489] |
| III. Staff School and Staff Corps | [492] |
| IV. Regimental School for officers | [494] |
| V. School for Artillery officers | [498] |
| VI. Nautical School at Genoa | [499] |
| [VI. RUSSIA.] | |
| Military System and Schools | [501-514] |
| I. Imperial Staff School at St. Petersburg | [505] |
| [VII. SWEDEN, &c.] | |
| Military System and Schools | [515-516] |
| [VIII. GREAT BRITAIN.] | |
| Military System and Schools | [511-686] |
| I. Council of Military Education | [535] |
| II. Royal Military College at Sandhurst | [557] |
| III. Royal Military Academy at Woolwich | [585] |
| IV. Royal School of Military Engineering atChatham | [595] |
| V. Professional Instruction for officers. | [605] |
| 1. Survey Class at Aldershot. | |
| 2. Advanced Class of Artillery at Woolwich. | |
| 3. School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness | |
| VI. Staff College and Staff appointments | [619] |
| VII. School of Musketry, and Army Schools | [625] |
| VIII. Naval and Navigation Schools | [627] |
| IX. English and other Naval Systems and Schoolscompared | [655] |
| 1. French Naval and Navigation Schools | [659] |
| 2. German Naval and Navigation Schools | [681] |
| [IX. SWITZERLAND.] | |
| Military System and Military Instruction | [687-714] |
| I. Federal Militia—Cantonal CadetSystem—Target Shooting | [689] |
| II. Federal Instruction ofofficers—experience of 1870 | [710] |
| [X. UNITED STATES.] | |
| Military System and Schools | [713-940] |
| A. Military Education for Land Service | [715] |
| I. National Military Academy at West Point | [721] |
| II. Special Artillery School at FortressMonroe | [819] |
| III. Military element in State Schools | [825] |
| IV. Individual and Corporate Institutions | [838] |
| V. Military Drill in Public Schools | [865] |
| B. Naval and Navigation Schools | [887] |
| I. United States Naval Academy at Annapolis | [897] |
| II. School of Naval Construction and MarineEngineering | [937] |
| III. Instruction for the Mercantile Marine | [939] |
| General Review of Military System andSchools | [945] |
Errata for Table of Contents:
VIII. GREAT BRITAIN.
VIII GREAT BRITAIN.
V. ... 2. Advanced Class of Artillery at Woolwich.
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[MILITARY SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION.]
An account of the Military and Naval Schools of different countries, with special reference to the extension and improvement, among ourselves, of similar institutions and agencies, both national and state, for the special training of officers and men for the exigencies of war, was promised by the Editor in his original announcement of “The American Journal and Library of Education.” Believing that the best preparation for professional and official service of any kind, either of peace or war, is to be made in the thorough culture of all manly qualities, and that all special schools should rest on the basis, and rise naturally out of a general system of education for the whole community, we devoted our first efforts to the fullest exposition of the best principles and methods of elementary instruction, and to improvements in the organization, teaching, and discipline of schools, of different grades, but all designed to give a proportionate culture of all the faculties. We have from time to time introduced the subject of Scientific Schools—or of institutions in which the principles of mathematics, mechanics, physics, and chemistry are thoroughly mastered, and their applications to the more common as well as higher arts of construction, machinery, manufactures, and agriculture, are experimentally taught. In this kind of instruction must we look for the special training of our engineers, both civil and military; and schools of this kind established in every state, should turn out every year a certain number of candidates of suitable age to compete freely in open examinations for admission to a great National School, like the Polytechnic at Paris, or the purely scientific course of the Military Academy at West Point, and then after two years of severe study, and having been found qualified by repeated examinations, semi-annual and final, by a board composed, not of honorary visitors, but of experts in each science, should pass to schools of application or training for the special service for which they have a natural aptitude and particular preparation.
The terrible realities of our present situation as a people—the fact that within a period of twelve months a million of able bodied men have been summoned to arms from the peaceful occupations of the office, the shop, and the field, and are now in hostile array, or in actual conflict, within the limits of the United States, and the no less alarming aspect of the future, arising not only from the delicate position of our own relations with foreign governments, but from the armed interference of the great Military Powers of Europe in the internal affairs of a neighboring republic, have brought up the subject of Military Schools, and Military Education, for consideration and action with an urgency which admits of no delay. Something must and will be done at once. And in reply to numerous letters for information and suggestions, and to enable those who are urging the National, State or Municipal authorities to provide additional facilities for military instruction, or who may propose to establish schools, or engraft on existing schools exercises for this purpose,—to profit by the experience of our own and other countries, in the work of training officers and men for the Art of War, we shall bring together into a single volume, “Papers on Military Education,” which it was our intention to publish in successive numbers of the New Series of the “American Journal of Education.”