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in writing, reading and arithmetic in their free time alongside their professional work. It was housed in a room of Kefer's flat in what is now
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for apprentices who could not by then be released without a school leaving certificate. Through this the training monopoly of guilds was broken, and from then on training was supervised and standardized and by the state. Kefer's proposals for apprenticeship training were actively supported by king
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Max Joseph, Elector, honours the memory of Franz Xaver Kefer, founder and first teacher at the holiday school for artists and craftsmen in Munich with this monument. Thousands of his pupils throughout Europe honour it in their hearts, friends and colleagues of his office with tears. He died on 11
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January 1794. An assistant was also hired to teach at Kefer's expense. Lessons were held hourly in different classes. Two years after the school was founded, the first public final examination took place. Like all later events, it took place in
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In 1800, Kefer became a school inspector for other educational institutions, but continued to work intermittently as a teacher at the holiday school. School attendance was compulsory by law. Kefer's schools, since 1798, became post-secondary
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where through application he developed his musicality. Following this, he studied logic and physics at the Munich Lyceum (a non-degree institution for philosophical and theological studies attached to a grammar school).
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in the presence of the electoral and municipal school commission. Kefer's school was merged in 1798 with the
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Franz Xaver Kefer's tomb opposite the tomb of his friend and fellow educator
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