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Volltext: Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

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than for special instruction ; nor was the Organization of the Im- 
provement Schools calculated to make them the hotbecl of art- 
industrial instruction, while the Sunday Free Schools were totally 
inadequate. The Royal Industrial Institution hasmore of the char- 
acter of a technical school, and the Royal Academy of Art is given 
to art exclusively, so that even from this side little was to be 
expected for art-industry. 1 
By the Plan of Re-organization of March 21,1870, the complete 
course of the Prussian Industrial Schools was extended to three 
years, and the modern languages were incorporated into the plan 
of instruction. In consequence of more rigorous conditions of 
admission, the aim of instruction was elevated for most of the 
subjects, and linear drawing especially profited by these new 
arrangements. Generally speaking, the schools retained the char- 
acter of technical schools, which is quite plainly expressed in the 
preamble of the Plan of Re-organization. It says: “ The youth 
entering upon industrial life must be able to examine the progress 
of other nations in the departments of technology and of industry, 
and to put this progress to use in his own interest, as well as in 
that of the community. To this end it is necessary that he should 
have attained a knowledge of the French and English languages, 
sufficient at least to enable him correctly to understand the works 
written in them. The physical conditions of the earth’s surface, 
its relation to the aquatic, vegetable, and animal world, must not 
be unknown to him. Finally, he needs an insight into the history 
of the development of nations and of states, into their intercourse, 
and their commercial relations with each other.” 
It is apparent, that these higher industrial institutions are not 
intended for the education of the working people, but that they 
are only fitted to offer to the wealthier classes the opportunity for 
general improvement in harmony with the spirit of the times. The 
Organization of preparatory classes, as “ Lower Industrial Schools,” 
is left to the respective communes wherever it may be necessary. 
Art Schools and Industrial Schools of a more comprehensive kind are 
at present to be found in Prussia only in Berlin, Dantzic, Breslau, 
1 Concerning the condition of art-industrial instruction in Prussia up to the 
year 18«>, coinpare: “The Advancement of Art-Industry in England, and the 
Position of this Questxon in Germany,” by Dr. H. Schwabe, part iii. p. 188, &c.
	        
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