in the spirit of the new age. 11. The Ministry of Education will include as representatives of the Socialist Party two Ministers, one Under-Secretary, one principal adviser and two assistant advisers. 12. Touch will be kept with champions of the new movement throughout the whole country, and a list will be made of suitable candidates for freshening the body of officials and teachers. 13. The leaving examination from the secondary schools will be transformed, and the number of examinations will be reduced. 14. The Prussian Ministry of Education claims a share of the confiscated Royal castles for the purposes of national education as training schools, boarding schools, model seminaries, museums and national high schools. 15. Physical culture has been deprived of its military character. B. TEACHERS 16. No teacher may in future be compelled to give religious education. 17. It has been proposed to the Ministry of War that all teachers shall be released immediately from their military obligations. 18. Work for the willing! Immediate provision of employment for teachers who return from the field by reducing the size of classes, filling of all vacant posts, and establishment of special courses. 19. The amnesty will be applied to all teachers who have received disciplinary punishment. 20. Teachers who have been punished for their political or religious convictions are to be reinstated. 21. The teachers will have representatives in the Government and in the school administration. The Socialist teacher Menzel has been appointed principal adviser in the ministry of Education. 22. Tried teachers will be appointed to local inspectorships of schools without special examinations. C. UNIVERSITIES 23. Prominent representatives of scientific Socialism and of other tendencies which have hitherto been systematically excluded are to be appointed to university chairs. 24. A system of national high schools is to be built up on large lines, and to be placed in organic connection with existing schools and high schools. 25. The reorganization of the technical high schools will be effected in close connection with the universities. 26. The social, legal, and financial position of the assistant teachers in universities (Privatdozenten) is to be raised. 27. Freedom of doctrine in the universities is to be rid of its last fetters. 28. Professorial chairs and research institutes for sociology will be established. D. GENERAL CULTURE 29. The theaters will be put under the Ministry of Education. The theater censorship has been abolished. 30. Opportunity for work, and relief where necessary, will be given to unemployed artists and writers on their return from the field. 31. The system of appointments will be reformed in association with the organizations of artists of every school. 32. The Royal theaters will become national theaters, and the Court orchestras will become national orchestras. A few days after the issue of these thirty-two points Herr Hänisch published a further communication, which shows that he is anxious to guard against the accusation that he is abolishing religious education altogether. His intention seems to be that time shall be set apart for religious education; that teachers who are willing to do so shall continue to give religious education; and that the local clergy shall be permitted either to give religious education themselves in the schools, or to employ the regular teachers to give it. attitude toward, 42; the voca- gious education and the war, 197; Efficiency, 25, 155 Elementary schools, 217 et seq. de- Engel, quoted, 27, 33, 34 English, translation English, 71; Faculties, there are none, 92, 111 et seq.; in warring, 123 Fichte, 1 Finley, 213 Fisher, Herbert, 212 Flexner, 170 lem of educational psychology,' Future, the future, 270 Germany, 209; the Germans, 216; Grammar, its origin, 61; its diffi- Hadley, 178 Haldane, quoted, 185 Hamilton, Sir William, 105 et seq., 133 Hancock, 122 Harvard University, 3 Hewlett, Maurice, quoted, 37 Ideals, 2 et seq.; of education, there is but one, 26 James, 80; quoted, 85, 160 Foch, Ferdinand, quoted on ob- Japan, 190 Formal discipline, the doctrine of, Jones, Sir Henry, quoted, 19 Juvenal, quotation from, 32 Keyser, quoted, 100 et seq.; 105, 133 | Nazianzen, Gregory, quoted, 180 Labor, its problems, 269 Language, does not impart thought, 14 Objective, the objective, 249 et seq.; Organizing, 229 Pan-Germanism, 201 Philosophy, 220 Latin, 71; translation English, 71; Pascal, quoted, 109 et seq. its mental training, 72 Lessons, must be simplified, 67; Plato, on clinging to eternal life, 30; reason for studying, 103; the Quintilian, quoted, 38; 164 Reading, its value, 20; 152, 218 tion, 235 et seq.; 256, of the course Religion, 198; that of Israel, 202 Religious education, 197, 204, 206 Rugg, quoted, 84, 85, 125; 143, Sabatier, quoted, 205 et seq. School year, 226, 267 Shooting, 253 Music, a most important subject, 25 Shorey, 166; quoted, 167, 169; 172 et seq. National Education Association, Sleight, 86; quoted, 89; 125, 127 |