Education in Germany
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Education in Germany is primarily the responsibility of individual German states, with the federal government only playing a minor role.
Sign of different coexisting school types on a school complex in Germany
Classroom furniture from 1900 (left) to 1985 (right)
Pupils of the Gymnasium Nonnenwerth, an all-girls Catholic school in 1960
A forest kindergarten in Düsseldorf
Gymnasium (Germany)
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Gymnasium, in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being Hauptschule and Realschule. Gymnasium strongly emphasizes a
Education in Germany
…secondary education is then partitioned into five subtypes of schools: Gymnasium, Realschule, Hauptschule, Gesamtschule and Sonderschule. One, the Gymnasium, is designed to prepare pupils for higher education and finishes with the final examination, Abitur, after the 12th or 13th year. From 2005 to 2018 a…
The Kolleg St. Blasien in a former Benedictine monastery
The Aloisiuskolleg
Gymnasiasts sailing a rowboat on the Unterelbe in 1959
Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster (1910)