THE EDUCATIONAL CODE OF THE PRUSSIAN NATION, IN ITS PRESENT FORM. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECISIONS OF THE COMMON RECENT LEGISLATION. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. نے EDITOR'S PREFACE. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."-PROVERBS XXV. 11. THE daily press teems at this juncture with letters treating of the vexed question of national education; with inquiries as to what is and should be that education's aim; with suggestions as to the best method for its attainment; with complaints of the ever-increasing costliness of the Education Act passed in 1870; with well-authenticated statements of the total failure of the Department's enactments to meet the educational requirements of the various grades of the population for whom it legislates,-I mean the working classes. We English, it is herein made manifest, talk more and know less of what education is than any of the peoples of Western Europe, or than that of the 248879 a 3 |
