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Show oo WHERE RESULT'S ARE OBTAINED. What has made Germany great in preparedness? The schools of that mighty empire. What are the characteristics ot the German school system? First, discipline, disci-pline, second, the children are inured and exercised in learning, and, by that inuring, prepared to assert self-restraint self-restraint and give strict application to work when they enter the broader field of making a livelihood. Tho people of Germany demand that the schools be other than play houses, and experimental hotbeds of fads and fancies. They believe in keeping the children employed, either at their books or in manual training. They will not tolerate anything that smacks of loose methods. Their children are inspired in school with the value of work. The discipline reaches down to the tiniest tot and is never relaxed re-laxed until the child goes out to per form an allotted duty in the great a? fairs of men. nn |