STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1718, sig. 109-4/1473

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16 provide textbooks, promote performance, provide support, etc. All this is accepted as self-evident. However, the school's efforts are often in vain if the Sohüler does not learn at home, if he is unprepared and comes to school without any tasks, if it prefers to press itself or if it is even placed in opposition to the school and its requirements. Thus, the youth gets an impossible and fatal impression of the work at all. What is the point of such a young person, who wants to seem more expressive than he is and who knows no lasting work, but only phrase and impression. How will these engineers, chemists, doctors, teachers, men, women, mothers once bear their responsibility? How should the level of German performance be maintained or even increased? This is not possible without honest small work in the smallest class and HJ unit. Let us also bear in mind that in our area the Czech middle and specialized schools are given the best student material in their classes through the strict selection of the recent years, that the Czech youth, for fear that they could carry out their personal, professional, national existence, are working under the highest pressure and are learning and trying to balance it by performance or skill, which has lost its power-political influence. If it is also in our hands to use these Czechs, etc. where we need them, then the German who stands above them must undoubtedly be superior to them in his knowledge and ability. But how do we get these men for these tasks in the ongoing development? The second reason for the detention of young people and the growing decline in activity are the conditions in the school home. From the messages of the pupils and complaints of the parents a clear picture of the unsustainable conditions emerges. Student homes are today a quite necessary institution. Many fathers are in the field, the mothers are often working, the school home must therefore still represent the parents for its educational task. However, this is not a game, because finally it is our German youth, which is formed there. In addition, the independent tasks of the homes in Bohemia and Moravia, whose national political significance has to stand in the foreground. A very large part of the pupils in the home visited Tachechian schools two years ago.