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Excerpt from An American Teacher's Year in a Prussian Gymnasium: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching For three years past an exchange of secondary school teachers has been carried on between Prussia and the United States. Each autumn ten or twelve Prussian teachers come to secondary schools or colleges in the United States and a similar number of American secondary teachers go to Gym nasien in Prussia. The arrangement for the assignment of American teachers to the German schools is in the hands of the Prussian Minister of Instruction. The details for selec tion of American teachers and for the assignment of Prussian teachers are in the hands of the President of the Carnegie Foundation. Secondary schools and secondary school teachers in the United States have not appreciated at its full value the oppor tunity thus offered to an American teacher or to an American school. It is not easy for a foreign teacher to obtain a nearby view of the Prussian Gymnasium. To become, therefore, a member of the teaching staff, to be taken into the entire official and social life of the school is therefore an experience which can not fail to be of the greatest value to the ambitious teacher. Such a teacher returns to his home with new enthusiasm and greatly increased capacity for usefulness. There is, there fore, every reason why the boards of control and the princi pals of high schools should make a generous provision in the case of any teacher who has the ambition and the capacity to undertake such a year's work. Similarly a school seeking to freshen its own methods of teaching will find advantages in welcoming to its corps of teachers for a year a teacher trained in the Prussian school methods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.