Austria : its literary, scientific, and medical institutions : with notes upon the present state of science, and a guide to the hospitals and sanatory establishments of Vienna / by W.R. Wilde.

  • William Wilde
Date:
1843
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Credit: Austria : its literary, scientific, and medical institutions : with notes upon the present state of science, and a guide to the hospitals and sanatory establishments of Vienna / by W.R. Wilde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the chief towns there is, Hkewise, a better grade of distinct female schools, for the children of the middhng classes {fiir gebildete Stande), where they are taught needlework and such other useful arts. AH the elementary and primary schools are under the direction and control of the clergy. The great prin- ciple laid down in the code of pubhc instruction in Austria is thus expressed in the French work from which I quote:—Dans les ecoles elementaires des petites villes, il n'y a que la methode d'enseigner les objets presents pour les ecoles de village qui doit etre plus appropriee aux besoins d'instruction de ces classes qui ont deja plus de fortune, plus de contact avec les habitants des grandes villes, et plus d'affaires et de relations industrielles et commerciales.* The superior Primary Schools, Hawptsckulen, are, as their name implies, of a higher grade, and are distri- buted over a wider area or district. Children are received into these schools at eight years of age, and the course of instruction delivered there carries * De Vinstruction Publigue en Autriche, par un Diplomaie etranger qui a long-temps reside dans ce pays.'' It has been stated, in a late number of the British and Foreign Quarterly Review, that the schools are altogether the weakest side of Austria, and their present organization is the work of a man who loiig enjoyed the confidence, and cruelly abused the weakness of the late emperor. But although the works of Springer and Becher, to which this quotation refers, are not suflSciently explicit upon this portion of the internal arrangement of Austria, yet that to which I have just referred, and whose sources of information are of undoubted authenticity, is, perhaps, one of the most complete works upon the statistics of public instruction in any language or of any country in Europe.
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