एम्फसिस ऑफ़ understanding

The tendency in German pedagogical thinking is based an oldtradition . Compared with the French System,For instance, German educators have long emphasized genuine
understanding in the sense of independent assimilation rather than the mere memorizing of exam matter. This method of teaching, which trains student to take an thr
active part and the method of examplary learing which by taking specially selected
examplary learing, which by taking specially selected examples give a student through grounding in the nature and method of a particular branch of science and thus enables him to fill in the Gaps himself if need be, are the work of German pedagogues and eductional theorists.
The last years have been seen the almost universal abolition of the so- called dwarf schools. It is no longer permissible to put childern of different age groups into one classroom with one teacher supervising them . The children from smaller villages are taken by the school bus to larger settlements so that they can be instructed in an adequate school system. The aim is to give every child of basic schooling age the same chance for good education.
The elementary school in the old sense, in which more than 80 percent of the children between the age of 6 and fourteen remained and which was denominationally organized, is gone, too. Now every child, after four years of basic schooling , gets
the opportunity to attend a school providing secondary education. The Realschule
and Gymnasium are complemented by a Hauptscule(Main School) for those children who are not gifted enough for the Realschule and GYMNASIUM but who are never to less
to recieve well organized and differntiated instructions in various subjects e.g
a foreign language (English).This new type of school has five grades so that the
compulsory education will no longer be limited to eight but nine(4+5). The Hauptschule is to be large enough to allow three tracks so that the students can be divided according to their ability . Each subject is to be taught by specially trained teachers instead of all- round teachers who are supposedly equally good at everything.