English Translation

45 - 41 - the main reason with which this loan system is fought is the health hazard of the youth, because the same textbook is borrowed over several years again and again to other pupils, it is often in an unworthy state. Here perhaps also a psychological situation plays with. It is hard to deny that the pupils, but also especially the parents, look rather at a good treatment of the school book, if they have to buy it from their own money than if it is borrowed only from the school. Also the thought of the education of the youth to the book is certainly not promoted. No one will deny that one can also enter into a more intimate relationship with a schoolbook. But how can a person, if he receives the book only for a short time? The possibility that the pupil or his parents during the schoolbook purchase from the bookseller also other books be carried out, is underbunk by this loan system. We see that the damage caused by this can affect not only the book trade and book trade as such, but also the whole cultural and intellectual life. Therefore, in a new knowledge of the situation, voices were voiced in the German school book publishing house to get rid of the books of the poor from all the old books.