Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-30

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Private schools are but few In Germany
compared TO their number in this country,
ana most parents send their children &c
the government schools. These are
divided into various kinds, according to
the studies and to tho social conditions OF
the acknowledgements, attended by boys
who propose pursuing classic studies: real
schools, devoted TO mathematics and eco.
nomlcal studies rather than to classics
(the word real sudden means essential
economical or polytechnical studies); higher
burger schools (citizens' schoolsl where
the prices for attendance are even smaller
than the very modest ones paid in the two
first named; lower burger schools, for sons
OF still less wealthy people; and, at last.
free schools, whose students pay nothing
The girls have higher daughter schools,
where the instruction and prices are high.
est, though the latter are very moderate,
indeed. Next In rank are the plain
daughter schools: while such young
ladies as cannot pay any school money al
oil attend, like their brothers, those
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SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS.
You see. there is a most orthodox dis
tinction between higher daughters" and
| the girls who must DO satisfied with being
daughters" without tho adjective. There
being but a slight difference between the
extent and number Of studies taught il
either kind OF school, 1t is plain that thy
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judice. The students Of the gymnasia are
never ut peace with those of the real
schools, but admit them to be their equals.
They treat the boys Of the burger schools
with contempt, and this without going
into the details of higher or lower. But
for a gymnasiast TO walk with or talk to a
boy Of a free school, or to have anything
10 DO with him. except fighting, would be
considered by parents. teachers and com
pauions as u~nbecoming and Extensively
low conduct. The girls. too, have pro
nounced opinions as TO the proper sphere
for u higher daughter or for "a lower"
one, or for one who is neither higher nor
lower. but so exceedingly poor as 70 be
called free" Free from pride aud pre-
JUDGE, ! suppose,
A German boy enters the lowest class
Of the gymnasium, called "ScXta." wl5n
he Is about 3 years of age, The n~cxs>l@s
Is called "Quinta." then Quarts ~ Ter
tia, "~Secunda" and "Prima. ~ When he
has toiled through oil Of u SO he tries to
pass tho 7ery difficult ".aoituricntcn ex.
amen" tie has now an exclusive and
thorough education AMI may enter q uni
versity II tie has successfully passed the
examination he 10 then allowed to become
IA soldier That Is % say, he would have
10 join the army anyway. but when be has
attended the gymnasium or real school up
u "~Secunda,' be ,a,ers tho ranks IA a
volunteer, eeing )nly compelled to serve
during II year and III Germany 70 be
forced 10 90 a soldier for no longer than
one year may BE- considered equal to voiun-
teering III any ,ther colntry
RIGOROUS DISCIPLINE.
have uIentioLed he r. POROUS discipline
of German schools This iiscIDiine can be
maintain q )n.y by the 90 Operation Of The
parents WITH he teachers. A well regu
lated system )f reward and punishment.
with n careful surveillance. holds the boys
under control Ii a parent does not agree
with some OF the severe penalties inflicted
upon the boy his son Is apt TO DO expelled
for fear If his undermining the discipline.
School begins about ! q. M AT five min
utes past that hour tho doors are closed
and those who are late are not admitted,
but punished tho next day The boys
await their teachers IN their respective
class rooms. When the teacher enters
they ali rise "a one boy and never think
of sitting down before the teacher motions
them to do so. When he leaves thoy go
through the same ceremony. When a boy
is asked a question lie rises and remains
standing until ne is through. No student
dare 60 omit lifting his cap when meeting
any teacher Of the school on the street.
The teachers of all classes up TO "Tertia"
are furnished with reed or switch, which
Is a cheap and ever ready assistant. A
refractory boy is ordered TO stretch his
hand out, the palm upward. and before he
knows it he has got such u whack us will
beat I'm entire Latin grammar at once into
his head.
1t is not invariably through the hand,
however, that science and literature arc
made TO enter a boys brain. Some teach
ers consider tho ears TO 10 the best me-
dunn. while others give preference to the
boys backs as presenting the broadest
surface. Bad marks are given as the
Gghtsst punishment. with the silent I'M
derstanding that two of them be equal TO
one thrashing. When a boy IS kept in
after schooltime his parents arc at once
notified Of the fact. Not unfrequently a
parent gets a notice that his son is to stay
at school. not for q certain number Of
hours. but Of days. Every school has a
jail. called Career" From one to eight
or more days OF school prison is a punish
ment for graver offenses. If incurred re-
peatedly. the boy is expelled. This pun
ishment deprivcs him from being admitted
to any other public school throughout the
country. While in the school jail the boy
has to pay for his board. He is then "A
charge of the porter or ''custos" Of the
school.-Philadelphia Times.
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