Excerpt from The Training of Teachers for Secondary Schools in Germany, and the United States

It is just one hundred years since Prussia consciously and seriously faced the problem of providing adequate training for the teachers of her higher schools and, under the leadership of William von Humboldt, sketched the broad, statesmanlike policy which it has been the work of a century to develop. The specific forms which the problem has taken at different times within this period find striking analogy in the United States to-day. We cannot adopt in toto German means and methods, - the social and political ideals of the two nations are so different as to make such action impossible even if it were desirable; but we can carefully study them and adapt them to our needs, thus profiting by the century of thought and experience which have made the German schools the most famous hi the world.

It is the purpose of this book, first, to describe as concretely as possible the standards and institutions which exist in Germany to-day for the training of teachers in the higher or secondary schools, giving enough of their history to show their evolution during the past century; second, in the light of Germany's experience, to discuss a standard and a plan for the training of teachers in American high schools.

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