STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1472, sig. 109-4/1226

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3 the word school so far exclusively a place of knowledge transfer or at best of education through teaching, so does not involve the actual community education. If in Germany community educational institutions, which were more than mere school homes, have been preserved, such as in school pforta or in Ilfeld, it is called "higher school with boarding school" according to the public higher school. However, such an expression marks the fact that the whole of the newer education and teaching system is more or less at the level of scientific education (which is already strongly challenged by Niezsche as a basis for education). "The scholar-historical treatment of all things was considered to be the essential of teaching and education in school, "as if there were no obligations for the present and the future! "But we need educational places in which "predominance must not be recognized" (Niezsche). The aim of the National Political Educational Institutions is now to place the education of young people from the level of scientific education to that of a genuine education, i.e., a vocational education which is as complete as possible as possible by all human forces, in a fixed community which, as a political education, is always a type-setting and team-forming education. Peoples and classes of people with historical creative power, who were interested in young people for the state-supporting class, have always resorted to the community education of young people out of political instinct or political knowledge, such as Sparta and England, the Catholic Church and the Prussian Officers' Corps. The German history of the last centuries knows a whole series of ideological and political movements and powers, which have all tried to use by establishing community educational institutions a type-shaped offspring, which should be the bearer of their ideas and powers. There were the Protestant-humanist boarding schools such as Schulpforta and Ilfeld, Grimma and Meißen, which had grown up from absolutist state raison d'être, the institutions of the Pietist movement such as the