REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR 1897-98. VOLUME 1. CONTAINING PART I. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. (b) The seventeenth century. National and new education.. Modern French education-academies for the nobles.. Instruction in German; Duke Ernest (the pious) of Gotha. Private schools..................... (e) The eighteenth century. Evolution of the modern university Gymnasia (classical schools) to the middle of the eighteenth century. The German school system; potent influences Francke and Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia |