Beginnings in Industrial Education; And Other Educational Discussions (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER IN BAVARIA1 In Bavaria, as in Prussia, permission to visit schools must be sought from the government. My experience in this matter was interesting and may be instructive to others ? as it was to me. On November 20, 1904, through the Consul- General of the United States at Munich, I applied to the Bavarian Minister of Education and Religion for permission to visit schools of all grades and kinds in Munich and vicinity. In the course of a week my document was sent to the consul-general, accompanied by the notification that, henceforth, permission to foreigners to visit Bavarian schools could be granted only if the particular schools to be visited were designated in advance; general permission to visit schools could not, hereafter, be granted. I had asked for a document that would secure admission to country schools as well as city schools, but, for reasons that 1 did not then understand, but which I came to discover later, the minister did notinclude a permit to rove about at will among rural schools. 1 Printed in the Boston Transcript, December 30, 1907. I went accordingly to the headquarters of the provincial government in Munich and by rare good fortune encountered one of the most efficient and agreeable of the provincial school inspectors, Mr. Klaus Brixle, by whose good offices I secured within a few days a permit to visit country schools, and subsequently many other favors, as will presently appear. My new document read as follows: ? Provincial Government of Upper Bavaria, Department of the Interior, Your request of yesterday to inspect the buildings and equipment of the elementary schools and to observe the instruction therein, in the Province of Upper Bavaria, outside Munich, and to visit the private schools for ...