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Title: On education in Germany, and the importance of vital godliness as a primary qualification in teachers
Keywords: Education -- Germany
School management and organization
School improvement programs
Religion -- Study and teaching
Social stability
Issue Date: 1849
Publisher: Macintosh
Citation: (1849). On education in Germany, and the importance of vital godliness as a primary qualification in teachers. Melitensia Miscellanea Collection (Melit-Misc. vol. 81.2). University of Malta Library, Melitensia Special Collections.
Abstract: Education in Germany.
Until within a recent period, an unaccountable degree of indifference and ignorance prevailed among the higher classes in this country concerning popular education. The management, of the village school was very generally intrusted to some brokendown tradesman, or ignorant dame; and it was not unusual to consider the instruction of the poor as a fit occupation for those whose deficient capacity afforded them no chance of success in any other pursuit. These times are, however, happily passing away, and the public are beginning to feel convinced that the prosperity and safety of a country are essentially connected with the sound intellectual and moral education of the mass of the people.
The great progress made of late years in our practical knowledge of the constitution of the human mind, has led to the adoption of more rational principles in the cultivation of its faculties. Improvements have, consequently, been introduced in the methods of teaching, which have already raised the work of education in several countries of Europe from the condition of an ignorant empirical routine, to the rank of a deeply interesting science; and the vocation of the schoolmaster to that of an important and honourable profession. Considerable progress has been recently made in this country in the same direction; and, in order that the people may reap the full benefit of this new state of things, it is only required that the public should awaken to the necessity of increasing the amount of remuneration, hitherto deplorably small, given to schoolmasters, and of making it such as is indispensable to secure the services of persons of good talent and competent knowledge... [Excerpt]
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129972
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