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EDITOR'S PREFACE. 
 
 It is a pleasure to be able to place before American and 
 English teachers so clear and concise an account of the 
 training of teachers in a foreign country as Dr. Hannakhas 
 kindly consented to prepare for the Educational Mono- 
 graph series. In the United States the provision made 
 for the training of teachers is insufficient and lamentably 
 defective. Our colleges are in large measure to blame for 
 this state of affairs, for they have almost uniformly neg- 
 lected to recognize pedagogics as worthy of a place in the 
 curriculum and so have contributed to the spread of the 
 utterly false notion that any one who possesses a fair 
 knowledge of subject matter is competent to teach it, par- 
 ticularly to young children. Even Hrabanus Maurus with 
 his scienticc plenitiidineni et vitoe 7'ectitjidineiii et eniditionis 
 perfecHonem, had a higher ideal than this. Added to this 
 is the fact that the majority of our normal schools, both 
 public and private, have made pretentions far beyond 
 the knowlege and ability of those engaged in them to 
 support. The result has been a very low standard of profes- 
 sional efficiency and a correspondingly low tone in educa- 
 tional thought and educational journalism. Recently more 
 encouraging signs have appeared and earnest men and 
 women. East and West, are determined that improvement 
 and development must take place. Even to-day this 
 movement is gathering force and will eventually sweep 
 from its track the lingering products of ignorance and big- 
 otry. Dr. Hannak's paper is offered as a contribution to 
 the literature of this movement. 
 
 It has been translated from the German by Edgar D. 
 Shimer, Ph. D., Assistant in Pedagogy in the University of 
 the City of New York, and the Translator's Introduction 
 adds very materially to the value of Dr. Hannak's paper 
 for American readers. 
 
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Dr. Hannak's masterly presentation of the nature, the 
 necessity and the conditions of professional training for 
 public school teachers in Austria is peculiarly pertinent to 
 the vexed question of discriminating and synthetizing the 
 various plans of pedagogic training now in vogue in the 
 United States. Wide comment on the argument and the 
 statement of facts is altogether unnecessary on the part of 
 the translator, the one being logical and cogent, the other 
 clearly detailed in close sequence. He has therefore 
 chosen simply to collate a few relevant facts the need 
 of which thrust itself upon his attention, and to reveal 
 some of the reflections indulged in doing the work of 
 translating, in the hope that better thoughts may be sug- 
 gested or contrary opinions provoked, to the discernment 
 and establishment of truth that shall redound to the well- 
 being of public school teachers in all lands. 
 
 Pedagogically we are in process of evolution, therefore 
 it behooves us to consider carefully the conditions of our 
 own growth and the factors both internal and external 
 necessary to produce a sufficient supply of fully equipped 
 and well-trained teachers for public school work. Argu- 
 ment is no longer necessary to establish the truth that if 
 it is the duty of the state to educate its children it is 
 equally incumbent on it to provide means for the adequate 
 training of the teachers selected to carry out the plans pre- 
 scribed for the development of citizens. As the state sows, 
 so will it also reap. The tendency has been toward large 
 appropriations for our public normal schools. Still the 
 demand for trained teachers has been so pressing that pri- 
 vate institutions have in large measure undertaken the 
 work. Of the 263 normal schools now in existence, 132 
 are under private auspices with about 23,000 students an 
 
Tra^islatoT" s I)itroduction. 5 
 
 nually enrolled and 1300 annual graduates. The 131 public 
 normal schools register 32,000 students and graduate about 
 3000 annually. Nearly all of the states report normal 
 schools as separate institutions or as departments of uni- 
 versities or colleges. It is agreeable to note that the West 
 keeps equal pace with the East in this matter and that 
 within a recent period normal schools have multiplied rap- 
 idly in the South. City normal schools exist in most of 
 the large cities, all of which differ in organization and con- 
 duct according to the varying conditions. Some are 
 strictly professional ; others combine academic and profes- 
 sional courses. There is great difference of opinion as to 
 the proper choice. 
 
 In 1852 the Boston Normal School was organized on the 
 former plan. After a time certain high school studies were 
 introduced and in less than fifteen years the professional 
 training became secondary. In 1872 the school was re- 
 organized on a strictly professional plan and this action 
 was approved by men like Harrington, Kiddle, Harris, 
 Philbrick and others. In 1876 Superintendent Philbrick 
 succeeded in completing an organization which provided 
 professional training in theory and practice for candidates 
 who had completed a high-school course. By connecting 
 with his normal school a large grammar school for boys 
 and a mixed primary school he gained opportunity for giv- 
 ing actual work in the schoolroom as a part of the pupil 
 teacher's course. 
 
 The St. Louis Normal School also became strictly pro- 
 fessional in 1880 and is provided in like manner with a 
 school of observation and practice. 
 
 In the New York and Philadelphia Normal Schools 
 academic and special training are pursued, inasmuch as 
 these cities have no high schools for girls. Superin- 
 tendent Philbrick's observation in his annual report of 1876 
 shows this great educator's power of foresight. He said 
 "In the New York and Philadelphia schools where the 
 
6 Translator s Introduction. 
 
 general education and the special training are carried on 
 simultaneously we observe the gradual evolution of the 
 distinctively professional department, composed of the 
 post-graduate pupils. As soon as such a department is 
 clearly differentiated as is the case with the normal de- 
 partment of the San Francisco school, it only remains to 
 place this department under a competent master wholly 
 devoted to its management and training, and we have the 
 realization of the ideal type of the normal school." 
 
 Wherever academic training is entered upon in normal 
 schools, pupils are admitted at fourteen years of age though 
 their special training does not begin until two years later, 
 the course being from two to four years in length. In the 
 other class of schools women are not admitted until six- 
 teen, nor men until seventeen years of age, the course 
 extending from one to two years. Supterintendent An- 
 drew S. Draper of New York State is of the opinion that 
 less time should be* spent with foundation work, that no 
 pupil should be received unless fairly educated and that 
 larger results might be accomplished by confining the 
 work to special training in methods and practice. 
 
 This running outline of a few main points concerning 
 our normal schools may serve to throw side light upon the 
 detailed statement of facts by Hannak regarding the train- 
 ing of teachers in Austria in general and in his admirably 
 planned Pddagogiiim in particular. 
 
 The teachers' Seminaries in Germany spoken of by Dr. 
 Hannak require all candidates to make special preparation 
 for admission. In Prussia pupils are admitted at seventeen 
 and not above twenty-four. The first year is devoted to 
 bringing the students into intellectual harmony, no prac- 
 tice being allowed in the annexed schools. The second 
 class pursues the regular schedule and enters upon prac- 
 tice work. Both these classes spend twenty-four hours 
 weekly in their own lessons. The third class studies four- 
 teen hours a week and each member must spend not less 
 
Translatoj-'s Introduction. 7 
 
 than six nor more than ten hours a week in practice work 
 covering all the studies of their schedule. At the end of 
 this course the student who passes the examination re- 
 ceives a provisional certificate. From two to five years 
 later upon a second examination he may receive a full 
 certificate. 
 
 In Saxony candidates are admitted directly from the 
 public schools at fourteen years of age, but the first three 
 years' course covers the preparatory course required in 
 Prussia for admission to the seminary. 
 
 Dr. Hannak, it will be noticed, lays great stress upon 
 post-graduate work and insists upon further self-develop- 
 ment on the part of the teacher. How this can be accom- 
 plished by the teacher who is at the same time engaged in 
 actual teaching, is lucidly set forth. The distinct claim is 
 made that the Pddagogiimi is an institution unique of its 
 kind, differing widely from the training colleges attached 
 to the universities of Germany. Dr. Stoy, late the lec- 
 turing professor and principal of the Training College at 
 the University of Jena, insisted that reform of schools is 
 impossible without a reform of the training system for 
 teachers. Under his influence the government in 1876 
 re-organized this training college according to Dr. Stoy's 
 plan, in which there is evident recognition of the impor- 
 tance of preventing any further breach between the teach- 
 ers of the lower and the higher schools, a state of affairs 
 so lamentable in Great Britain, but which is likely to be 
 healed over when training colleges are affiliated to the 
 universities as they have been in Germany. It may be 
 profitable to compare the following courses, by Dr. Stoy, 
 with the outline given by Dr. Hannak. 
 
 "First Course, — Principles and theory: (i) In order 
 to avoid and prevent all mechanical cramming and super- 
 ficial varnish in the place of a thorough education, the 
 training college student has to work his way through the 
 whole system of philosophic pedagogics. Thus he be- 
 
8 Translator s Introduction. 
 
 comes acquainted with the leading ideas and aims for 
 teaching work, discipline and health. (2) He has to study 
 psychology to enable him to find the proper ways and 
 means of dealing with his pupils. (3) In order to find ex- 
 amples and models for his vocation he also studies the 
 history of education. 
 
 "Second Course. — Practical training: (i) The practi- 
 cal application of theory consists in the training college 
 student's learning how to control himself in his didactic 
 intercourse with the pupils. (2) For this purpose a com- 
 plete school of several classes or forms must be attached 
 to the training college. (3) Every student is directed and 
 guided in his teaching work in one special form and later 
 on in all the forms and all the branches gradually. (4) 
 Every student works out a plan or programme for every 
 lesson he is going to give and hands it over to the 
 principal for approval. (5) During the class work other 
 students and the principal himself are present. (6) The 
 teaching work done in the classes is thoroughly criticised 
 in special conferences by the principal and others who 
 have attended. (7) In this manner every student is taught 
 how to criticise not only others, but himself as well and 
 thus he turns theory into siicciun et s anguinem." 
 
 If we reflect that the teacher's seminaries in Germany 
 are directed by men thus specially trained it becomes 
 obvious that Dr. Stoy's systematic course is extended even 
 to the lower schools. 
 
 But there can be no question that all civilized communi- 
 ties are reaching the conclusion that teachers of every 
 grade should have every privilege of attaining high scho- 
 lastic attainments and also the proper recognition, in the 
 bestowal of degrees, from a certifying power able to make 
 the title teacher a significant and worthy endowment and 
 one not to be too easily obtained. 
 
 To those readers of this monograph that are familiar 
 with the German language it would doubtless be interest- 
 
Translator s Introduction. 9 
 
 ing to look at the school statistics for Austria contained 
 in the ''OesterreicJiische Statistik" or the ''Statistik der Un- 
 terrichts-Anstalteu!' The public elementary and Burgh- 
 er schools, — the latter supported by corporate districts 
 and not by the state at large, — number almost sixteen 
 thousand with about fifty thousand teachers and two and a 
 half million pupils. In seven thousand schools German 
 is the language of instruction, in four thousand Czech- 
 Slavonian, in fifteen hundred Ruthenian, in one thousand 
 Polish, in the rest Italian, Slavonian, Servo-Croatian, 
 Roumanian and Magyar, and in about five hundred the 
 languages are mixed. These figures are significant. 
 
 There are in Vienna seventy public elementary schools 
 for boys, seventy-two for girls, and twenty-four for both 
 sexes. The attendance was seventy-five thousand in round 
 numbers. It is notable that of the 1530 teachers 1059 are 
 males. 
 
 The new Austrian school law referred to, took effect 
 May 2, 1883 after a debate occupying thirteen animated 
 sessions of the Reichsrath. The contest was over two 
 articles, the one lessening the period of obligatory attend- 
 ance and the other making public school offices open to all 
 citizens who have obtained proper legal qualifications. It 
 prescribes that only those teachers may be selected as 
 principals who have also obtained a qualification to give 
 religious instruction in the denominations to which the 
 majority of the scholars of the schools of which they are 
 to have charge belong, taking the average of the previous 
 five years. In estimating this average scholars of the 
 different evangelical creeds shall be regarded as belonging 
 to one denomination. 
 
 This article was stubbornly fought by the Liberals and 
 the anti-clerical press. It was passed in the upper house 
 by a majority of three. The edition of the Freie Pdda- 
 gogische Blatter for May 5, 1883 was confiscated by the 
 government authorities because it contained an article re- 
 flecting on the new law. 
 
lO Translator s Introduction. 
 
 According to the census of 1880 the Roman Catholics 
 formed 91.35 per cent, of the total population, the Jews 4.54, 
 the Greek orientals 2.23, the Evangelicals 1.81, and other 
 confessions .07 per cent. 
 
 The foregoing different facts and opinions have been 
 furnished merely as a partial reflex of the translator's mind 
 whilst engaged in studying and discussing with others the 
 various points of interest in this MONOGRAPH. 
 
 This beautiful gem of pedagogical description by Dr. 
 Hannak is certainly worthy of a richer setting than the 
 translator is able to give. It should be viewed in the full 
 light of the history of pedagogy. To present completely 
 the status of professional training in foreign countries alone 
 would transcend the limits of this introduction, as it would 
 the power of the translator. What he has written, he has 
 written under the strong impulse of a fond hope that in 
 every large city of his native land, there may yet be found 
 a Hannak and a Pddagogiiim to stir the honest pride of 
 our elementary teachers and inspire them with renewed 
 zeal for self-development and a more complete consecra- 
 tion to the holy work of training a child. 
 
The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 The profession of teaching perhaps more than any other, 
 requires for its pursuit proper and adequate training. The 
 teacher transmits the culture of the present to the genera- 
 tions of the future. As this culture is conceived as con- 
 stantly widening and deepening, its transmitter must keep 
 pace with it if he would be worthy of his high calling. A 
 proper training for teachers in higher institutions is so well 
 provided for at present, that they may safely be passed by 
 without consideration. In the first place, their preparation 
 is thorough, since it is only after the completion of the 
 entire course of eight years at a Gymnasium — or of seven 
 years at the Ober-RealscJuile — that a student can, at about 
 eighteen years of age, enter the University or the Techni- 
 cal School and there devote four or five years more to 
 mastering the subject of his choice. This training may be 
 made both special and very complete, since it is usual in 
 the higher institutions of learning to assign to special 
 teachers related groups of subjects. Moreover the Seniina- 
 ria for philology, history and allied topics, and the physical 
 and chemical institutes, exist at all Universities to foster 
 the special talents of their members. At the compara- 
 tively mature age of twenty-three — sometimes twenty-five 
 — the candidate enters the schools and undertakes instruc- 
 tion for the first time. For the first year he is on trial and 
 under the supervision both of a special teacher and of the 
 director,of the school who acquaint him with school meth- 
 
12 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 ods and discipline. Only after satisfactorily completing 
 this year of probation, is the candidate given a permanent 
 appointment. Any further training is left to experience. 
 Confined to a single subject, or group of allied sub- 
 jects, proficiency is gained rapidly. Marked assistance is 
 afforded by the funds which all of the Real Schools, Gym- 
 nasia and higher special schools have for the purpose of 
 purchasing the more expensive books of reference in the 
 various departments of instruction and the newly devised 
 appliances and apparatus for demonstration and instruc- 
 tion. There are also societies formed by the teachers of 
 the higher or intermediate^ schools, and their members 
 sensibly stimulate and instruct each other by the discus- 
 sion of practical educational topics and also by discourses 
 and essays which are frequently published. Then too the 
 Gymnasia and Real Schools publish annual reports or 
 programmes in which are contained, besides information 
 concerning the work and development of the institution, 
 one or two scientific discussions on pedagogic subjects by 
 members of the faculty. Since all the professors are in 
 turn called upon to assist in the preparation of this pro- 
 gramme, it acts as a spur to keep each one doing some 
 original work in his own department, the result of which 
 is to be promulgated when his turn comes to edit the 
 annual publication. 
 
 Finally, the government supports two journals — the 
 ZeitscJirift filr das Gytnnasialwasen and the Realschtile — 
 in which original papers, official orders and documents, 
 reviews of new books, and the discussions of questions of 
 didactics find a place. In 1887 the societies of teachers 
 just referred to, established a journal of their own — Mit- 
 theilungen der Mittelschtile — which is growing rapidly in 
 favor. 
 
 For the teachers in elementarv schools, however, no 
 
 1 In Austria the Gymnasia and Real Schools are known as Intermediate Schools. 
 
TJiC Training of Teachers in Austria. 13 
 
 such favorable conditions prevail as for training teachers 
 for advanced work. 2 
 
 Candidates for elementary school work come at about 
 fifteen years of age, with a very meagre preparation — ob- 
 tained either in the lower classes of the Gymnasia or Real 
 Schools, or in the Burger Schools, which are merely the 
 higher classes of an elementary school with more efficient 
 instruction — to the Training Schools, where for four years 
 they receive both theoretical and practical preparation for 
 the« life-work. When we consider that these students 
 must be instructed in numerous and varied subjects, and 
 that they must be led to an apprenticeship in teaching by . 
 model and practice lessons and by criticisms on their at- 
 tempts, it must be confessed that neither the time at our 
 command nor the acquirements of the students themselves 
 are sufficient to give them the thorough and substantial 
 training that we desire. And this is so despite the fact that 
 such training is not less necessary for elementary than for 
 higher teachers — in point of fact, it is even more necessary 
 for the former. It is in contact with the elementary school 
 that the great masses of the population come, and it is 
 from the elementary school teacher that the majority must 
 get the only instruction they will ever receive. Under the 
 circumstances it would seem that we are justified in de- 
 manding of public opinion and of the government that the 
 elementary teachers shall have further opportunities for 
 improvement presented to them, especially since their 
 work begins at the early and immature age of twenty. 
 Indeed, in Austria a movement has already been begun, 
 and some legislation secured, for the purpose of providing 
 a more complete and symmetrical training for the elemen- 
 tary teachers. 
 
 As one means of compelling the younger teachers to 
 improve themselves a system of examinations has been 
 
 2 Whatever is said of elementary school-masters is true also of elementary school-mis- 
 tresses. Their privileges and duties are the same. 
 
14 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 devised. After completing the course at the Training 
 School and after passing the preliminary examination 
 which admits the candidate to his profession, he must 
 work at least two years in a public school before he is 
 admitted to the examination which determines his fitness 
 for general teaching. This examination is held by a spe- 
 cial commission appointed for the purpose. By them he 
 is examined on the best methods of teaching the subjects 
 prescribed for the elementary schools, on the subject- 
 matter of the curriculum itself, and on the regul-ations 
 concerning school organization and discipline. For the 
 teacher who is content to remain always in the elementary 
 schools no examination beyond this is necessary. The 
 majority, however, desire to secure appointments in Burger 
 or secondary schools, and for eligibility to these a further 
 examination is prescribed. For this three groups of sub- 
 jects are offered — the philological and historical, the sci- 
 entific, and the mathematical and technical groups — and 
 of these the candidate must choose one. He must prove 
 to the satisfaction of his examiners that he possesses the 
 knowledge of the subjects in the group chosen by him, 
 necessary to enable him to teach them in the Burger 
 Schools, and must also be able to show that he is well 
 posted on technical pedagogic questions. In fact he must 
 have a good knowledge not only of pedagogy and its 
 history, especially since the sixteenth century, but also of 
 psychology and logic. If the examination for an elemen- 
 tary school certificate seems more practical than this, it 
 must be admitted that this is of a more scientific charac- 
 ter, while it by no means overlooks questions of method. 
 
 These examinations make it plain whether or not the 
 teacher can give evidence of possessing any culture ; but 
 of the value and nature of this culture, and as to whether 
 it has been gained at the Training School or by private 
 study, the examinations can say nothing. It may fairly 
 be said, however, that the knowledge gained at the Train- 
 
TJie Training of TcacJiers in Austria. 15 
 
 ing School is quite sufficient to enable one to pass the 
 examinations to teach in the elementary schools ; but that 
 of the teacher in the Burger Schools demands are made 
 far in excess of anything that the curriculum of the Train- 
 ing Colleges can satisfy. But many inducements exist, 
 and some of them have found a place in the law, which 
 attract the teachers to move forward in their profession 
 and not remain content with what they have been taught 
 at the Training School. 
 
 Uaiquestionably, for the teacher, as for members of any 
 other profession, the reading of scientific and special works 
 which bear directly on his specialty are an excellent means 
 of improvement. As the recompense of the teacher is 
 not sufficient to enable him to purchase for his private 
 collection the numerous books, old and new, relating to 
 public school teaching, a district library is provided for 
 each school district.^ 
 
 Still the funds allotted for this purpose are not sufficient 
 to purchase all the books that are necessary; and often the 
 distance of many of the teachers from the library is too 
 great and the mode of administration too complicated to 
 produce the best results. 
 
 A further means of self-improvement is afforded by the 
 various conferences. Nearly a century ago, in the reign 
 of Emperor Leopold II. (1790-1792), such conferences were 
 planned ; but it was not until the year 1848 that they were 
 really in existence, and they were definitely organized by 
 the new public school law of 1869. 
 
 There are both official conferences prescribed by law, 
 and also such teachers' institutes as take place by the 
 voluntary gathering together of the teachers. The official 
 conferences comprise local, district, and provincial confer- 
 ences of teachers. The local conferences take place in 
 every school where a number of teachers are employed. 
 
 3 The Austrian crown lands are divided for public school purposes, into school dis- 
 tricts corresponding to poUtical divisions. 
 
1 6 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 and, as a rule, they are held every month. The district 
 conferences of the teachers are called together at least 
 once each year by the district school board, and all the 
 teachers of the district must appear at them. The provin- 
 cial conference of teachers is called by the provincial 
 school board, and delegates are sent to it from all the 
 districts of .the province. At these conferences the exter- 
 nal and internal relations of the schools are discussed. 
 Yet since at the district and the provincial conferences the 
 wishes of the school officers receive great consideration, 
 the strictly pedagogic and didactic subjects do not always 
 occupy a prominent place on the programme. 
 
 There are, however, quite independently of the influence 
 of the government, teachers' assemblies held which in- 
 clude either the teachers of a district, or of an entire 
 province, or sometimes several provinces. As a rule, the 
 societies of teachers manage these gatherings. In them 
 there is a freer expression of opinion than in the official 
 conferences. In the decade between 1870 and 1880 the 
 conferences of all the teachers of the empire were adding 
 very materially to the full discussion of school matters. 
 Since the feeling between the two nationalities has become 
 so intense in Austria, these gatherings have limited them- 
 selves to German teachers, and are therefore generally 
 called "German Teachers' Gatherings." 
 
 The same means which the conferences of teachers offer 
 for the training of teachers the teachers' societies, already 
 mentioned, also guarantee. Their number has increased 
 steadily since the entrance of constitutional life into Aus- 
 tria. One of the oldest is the society called VolksscJndc, 
 in Vienna ; the Pddagogische Gesellschaft in Vienna, is 
 distinguishing itself by its important publications. In such 
 unions, which hold their sessions frequently during the 
 year, scientific discourses are delivered, pedagogic and 
 didactic questions are discussed, books and means of in- 
 struction are reviewed, and sometimes newly invented 
 
The Training of Teachers in Austria. 17 
 
 apparatus and materials for object-lessons are exhibited. 
 If too frequent and too great stress is laid upon the mere 
 care of special interests in these societies, they lose the 
 value which they would otherwise possess for the improve- 
 ment of their members. 
 
 One important aspect of the teachers* training is the art 
 of instruction. We do not call pedagogy an art without 
 reason, since for instruction as well as for education a 
 certain finish and skill in the application of theory is 
 requisite. This art is not to be learned from books and 
 lectures, but through the living example. Therefore, we 
 emphasize as an important means of education and train- 
 ing, the observation of the teaching of other persons, or 
 the visitation of good schools. In this respect there is 
 little opportunity offered to the Austrian teacher after he 
 has entered upon the practice of his profession. Only by 
 travel, undertaken at his own expense, can he succeed in 
 observing many other teachers at their work. There is an 
 exception in Vienna where the young teacher is appointed 
 as assistant to the head-master, and as such occasionally 
 attends his lessons. 
 
 Finally, among the plans for training teachers there is 
 to be mentioned the Biirger-School Teachers' Course, 
 which was called into existence by the Imperial Depart- 
 ment of Public Instruction in the year 1886. Since the 
 aim of the institutions for the training of teachers was 
 lowered, especially by the innovation in the school law of 
 the year 1883, the preparation at these institutions is not 
 sufficient for candidates for positions in Burger (Secondary) 
 Schools. Therefore, in most Teachers' Training Schools, 
 courses were established in which the teachers who desire 
 to qualify themselves for the Burger Schools can receive 
 an adequate training. These are evening courses which in 
 ten weeks' instruction each year, have to teach, first of all, 
 what the candidate requires in one group of studies, in 
 order to pass the examination appointed for Biiurger School 
 
1 8 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 certificate. Theoretical instruction stands in the fore- 
 ground ; only so far as practicable and as a secondary 
 matter, are practice lessons also given in these schools. 
 
 From the shortness of the time devoted to these courses, 
 it is natural, though not justifiable, to conclude that these 
 are cramming schools for the Burger School Teachers' 
 examinati;ons. 
 
 Over against these official and non-official arrangements 
 for the training of teachers, which pay especial regard to 
 one or the other side of the teachers' profession, the great 
 city of Vienna possesses in the Pddagogium, an institution, 
 which seeks to pay attention to every side of the teachers' 
 training. This is an institution, unique of its kind, not only 
 in Austria, but perhaps in the whole of Europe. It is true 
 there are pedagogic seminaries at the universities in Ger- 
 many ; these are intended, however, for the students of 
 the university, therefore, primarily, for candidates for the 
 higher positions, and only in special cases can the public 
 school teachers seek and find their training there. An 
 institution organized exclusively with regard to the needs 
 of the public school teachers and exclusively intended for 
 their training does not exist outside of Vienna. 
 
 Owing to the peculiar nature of this institution a closer 
 description will be of interest. When by the adoption of 
 the constitution in the year i86i public life in Austria re- 
 ceived new dignity,- men thought also of promoting public 
 school affairs, which since the time of the French wars had 
 made np substantial progress. Especially did the repre- 
 sentatives of the city of Vienna concern themselves with 
 the promotion of their public school interests. Convinced 
 that the well-being of the public schools depends upon the 
 culture of the teachers, they had in view as early as 1864, 
 the establishment of a teachers' seminary. In 1866 this 
 plan was again taken up, but so altered that not a teach- 
 ers' seminary, but a Training School for Teachers was to 
 be established. After protracted negotiations with the 
 
77^1? Training of Teachers in Austria. 19 
 
 government, its consent to this establishment was obtained 
 and Dr. Frederick Dittes, director of the Gotha Seminary 
 was called to undertake its organization. The institution 
 organized by him received the name Pddagogium, and 
 was opened in the autumn of 1868. The course comprised 
 three years in which, besides the theoretical instruction of 
 the students, their practical ability as teachers in the 
 practice school was also given consideration. In general, 
 the prsn of the German Seminary was taken as a model. 
 Still, at the Pddagogium there was no manner of compul- 
 sory attendance ; each participant could follow the whole 
 series of lectures and practice exercises, or he could elect 
 to attend only single lectures. Moreover, since teachers 
 already having had experience visited the Training School, 
 the aim of the instruction was set higher than is the case 
 in the German teachers' seminaries. The Pddagogium 
 soon won for itself a reputation reaching far beyond the 
 boundaries of Austria, and was frequently sought by teach- 
 ers from south-eastern Europe. 
 
 In the year 1874 the organization of the Austrian Teach- 
 ers' Training Schools followed. They were planned after 
 the manner of the German seminaries. By this step the 
 culture of the teaching profession was materially raised. 
 Previously the Teachers' Training School embraced only 
 a two years' course ; since 1874, a four years' course. The 
 candidates prepared at these schools have come away 
 with fuller knowledge, clearer insight, and greater skill 
 in school methods. The Pddagogium had to consider this 
 changed state of affairs. It had placed before it, there- 
 fore, the necessity of reorganization in order to meet the 
 wants of the more cultivated teachers now visiting it. 
 This reorganization took place in 1881. As Dr. Dittes had 
 resigned. Dr. Emil Hannak, director of the seminary 
 established at Wr.-Neustadt, and previously engaged un- 
 der Dr. Dittes at the Pddagogium, was called to the head 
 of the institution and entrusted with the management of 
 
20 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 the same. The reorganization took place with the coope- 
 ration of a commission from the common council of the 
 city of Vienna. 
 
 The first point to be kept in mind was that the training 
 of the teachers should follow two directions ; on the one 
 hand, the teacher should improve himself in his profession, 
 therefore, he must complete and round out his knowledge 
 in that department in which he is engaged in teaching ; on 
 the other hand, he should extend the foundations of his 
 general training received at the Teachers' Training School. 
 This first extension of his training will increase his effi- 
 ciency in the school, but the second will assist greatly in 
 his self-development, inasmuch as it extends his horizon, 
 furnishes his mind, ennobles his nature, and forms his 
 character. In consequence, it elevates his social standing 
 and thus tends to increase his efficiency in ofifice, since the 
 more highly cultivated teacher enters upon his responsible 
 undertaking at all events with more understanding and 
 tact than the less cultivated. 
 
 Since the Pddagogimn drew its attendants from the 
 teachers who had been prepared in the Teachers' Training 
 Schools, the plan of instruction had to be so arranged as 
 to bring it into intimate union with that of these Schools, 
 and to complete or extend the latter wherever gaps had 
 been left, or where the need for completion or extension 
 was felt. In order to have due regard to every side of the 
 needed training, the practical development had to be 
 separated from the theoretical. And because the aim of 
 the instruction in one or the other direction could not be 
 lowered but had to be considerably raised, it appeared to 
 be necessary to increase the time for training. Therefore, 
 two years were appointed for the course in methodology 
 and likewise two years for the scientific course. As far 
 as the organization of the course in methodology is con- 
 cerned, besides logic, the principles of instruction, psy- 
 chology and the principles of education, there are taught 
 
The Training of Teachers in Austria. 21 
 
 general didactics and special methods in all the prescribed 
 school subjects with the exception of religion. It is self- 
 evident that these subjects can be taught with greater 
 compass and penetration than is the case at the Training 
 Schools, since, on the one hand, the culture and the matu- 
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 greater time allowed for the instruction. At least one 
 hour per week for the whole year is allotted to each sub- 
 ject. Only singing, turning and sewing are restricted to 
 one hour a week for a term. Moreover, the methods in 
 language, in mathematics, and in drawing are divided into 
 two courses of a year each. The first course treats of pure 
 method, the second gives the general didactics in so far 
 as it is dependent on the matter to be taught. 
 
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 account of the value which the observation of another's 
 power to teach has for self-improvement, one hour weekly 
 for visitation was designated in every annual course. The 
 students have, therefore, the opportunity of learning to 
 know sixteen different teachers and of observing how they 
 treat the different subjects in the different grades. Here- 
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 of which is certainly not to be underrated. Then follow- 
 ing these hours of visitation come the trial lessons of the 
 students themselves. These too are of no slight value. 
 The established teacher is engaged in his own school in 
 only one class, perhaps most frequently in the elementary 
 class. He has therefore no opportunity to gain experience 
 in teaching in higher classes. The practice at the Pdda- 
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 yet denied that practice in any form of activity increases 
 the quality of the work done in that form of activity. But 
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 in attendance. The teachers come from different institu- 
 tions and brinsr with them varied methods of instruction. 
 
22 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 Those who attend the practice lessons learn to know 
 of these different ways of treating single subjects and 
 thus have still more material which they can, with some 
 thought, work into their own practice. If we count thirty- 
 five trial and thirty-five model lessons, those students who 
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 different subjects in the different grades. 
 
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 have followed in the model lessons ; and then furnish a 
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 teachers and such other students as were present at the 
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 determined upon, the question arose as to the faculty that 
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 into the best connection, and also each one of the teachers, 
 since only a restricted sphere was laid out for his special 
 study, could easily master it and easily grasp all the 
 details that might come under his notice. The instruction 
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 interrupted by the exposition of separate parts and the 
 mention of important or newly-appearing pedagogic and 
 didactic books, and by the ensuing discussions. Although 
 the training at the Pddagogium is to be its own end, yet 
 
TJie Training of Teachers in Austria. 23 
 
 this methodical course as it is now organized can also 
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 to pass the various examinations to test a teacher's fitness 
 for the common schools. 
 
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 heavens. 
 
 In History it is for the first time possible in this institu- 
 tion to discuss with adequate comprehension the practical 
 
24 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
 connection of events and the different directions of human 
 culture. At the same time by direction to the sources 
 and by independent reading and reference to individual 
 original works, not only is the instruction enlivened, but 
 also the self-activity of the students is aroused and their 
 knowledge deepened. 
 
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 required to teach mechanics, logarithms and calculations 
 connected therewith, quadratic equations of one or more 
 unknown quantities and the higher equations based upon 
 quadratics, the binomial theorem, variation, permutation 
 and combination, and probabilities; also trigonometry, and 
 pure geometry. This large amount of material necessitat- 
 ed an increase in the number of hours to four weekly. 
 There remained only two hours in the second course 
 for stereometry, in which however trigonometry can be 
 applied. 
 
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 ly. One year Zoology is taught with special emphasis to 
 the somatology of man; the next year mineralogy is taken 
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 practised. 
 
 Natural Philosophy treats in the first course chemistry 
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 in the laboratory three hours weekly. 
 
 Drawing is taught in two courses after the essential part 
 of projection has already been passed over in the meth- 
 
The Training of Teachers in Austria. 25 
 
 odological course. Besides the drawing of objects in 
 perspective and in light and shade, and of heads from 
 models, attention is given polychrome, the drawing of 
 topographical plans and the representation of simple ob- 
 jects in architectural and mechanical drawings. In addi- 
 tion to this, two hours a week are devoted to form study 
 consisting of modeling from ornaments, objects of nature 
 and plastic charts. 
 
 French, the only foreign language taught at the Pdd- 
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 Besides these lectures, with which also practical exer- 
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 than two thousand works, procured with regard to the 
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 and practical exercises in science, offer to the students the 
 opportunity to develop themselves both practically and 
 theoretically. 
 
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 part of the world far from his own home, calls the attention 
 of the friends of the schools and of culture in general to 
 this institution, and as opportunity offers makes prominent 
 
26 The Training of Teachers in Austria. 
 
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 Bottle, both filled with Pomeroy's Extra Heavy Pure Cum Arabic 
 
 These are the Best that can be had. 
 
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 119 Fnlion Street, 
 
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 Nei^ York 
 
 (College for the Training of Teachers, 
 9 University Place, New York City. 
 
 A two-years' Course leading to the degree of Bachelor 
 
 of Pedagogy. 
 
 Manual Training a Special Feature. 
 
 Cmirses for Special Students in Drawing, Domestic 
 
 Economy, Slojd, and the Kindergarten. 
 
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 Send for Circular of Information. 
 
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 Registrar of the College for 
 
 the Training of Teachers, 
 
 9 University Place, New York City. 
 
CROSBY'S V ITALIZED PHOSPHITES 
 
 From the Nerve-giYing Principles of the Ox^brain and 
 the Embryo of the Wheat and Oat, 
 
 For twenty years has been the standard remedy with 
 physicians who best treat nervous and mental diseases. 
 
 It aids in the bodily, and wonderfully in the mental, 
 growth of children. There is nothing that so well de- 
 velops the growth and regularity of the teeth and assures 
 sound and wholesome teeth for after life. For the cure 
 of nervousness and brain-fatigue, nervous dyspepsia and 
 sleeplessness, it has been used and recommended by 
 Bishop Potter, Bishop Stevens, President Mark Hopkins, 
 Professor J. C. Draper, Sinclair Tousey, Bismarck, Glad- 
 stone, and thousands of the world's best brain-workers 
 
 It i!$ a Vital Phosphate and not a Laboratory Phosphate. 
 
 58 f ■ 25tli St, N. Y. For sale liy Drnrols, or sent liy mail, $1. 
 
 Prepared according to the directions of Prof. E. N. Horsford. 
 
 Especially recommended for Dyspepsia, Nervousness, 
 
 Exhaustion, Headache, Tired Brain, and all 
 
 Diseases arising from Indigestion 
 
 and Nerve Exhaustion. 
 
 This is not a compounded "patent medicine," bnt a preparation of the phosphates 
 and phosphoric acid in the form required by the system. 
 
 It aids digestion without injury, and is a beneficial food and tonic for the brain and 
 nerves. 
 
 It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only, and agrees with such stimulants 
 as are necessary to take. 
 
 De.icriptive pamphlet free. 
 
 Rninforil Chemical Work;), Providence, R. I. 
 
 BE\VARE OF SUBSTITUTES A.ND IMITATIONS. 
 
 CAUTION.— Be sure the word " HORSFORD'S " is printed on the label. 
 All others are spurious. Never sold in bulk. 
 
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