HewroteareportonhisreturntoGermanywhichpraisedhighlythewaythatmathematicsteachingwasorganisedinFrance,buthewascriticaloftheFrenchhavingsuchastrongemphasisontheapplicationsofmathematicsratherthan,whatCrellebelievedin,theimportanceofmathematicallearninginitsownright.Crellewrote(seeforexample):

He wrote a report on his return to Germany which praised highly the way that mathematics teaching was organised in France, but he was critical of the French having such a strong emphasis on the applications of mathematics rather than, what Crelle believed in, the importance of mathematical learning in its own right. Crelle wrote (see for example ):

Pumpsthatsolveproblems

Pumps that solve problems

CountedinacensusinFonager,Grding,Denmark

Counted in a census in Fonager, Grding, Denmark

AmongtheotherchildreninthecharityschoolwasalittleJewishgirl,cleverandgood-infact,thebrightestofthemall.Buttherewasoneclassshecouldnotattend,theonewherereligionwastaught,forshewasinaChristianschool.
Among the other children in the charity school was a little Jewish girl, clever and good-in fact, the brightest of them all. But there was one class she could not attend, the one where religion was taught, for she was in a Christian school.