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402:"We know a lot about the ideological basis of Salzmann's school, because he outlined it in a detailed prospectus published in 1785. He began by stating that for the last fifteen years, people had been waking up to the fact that much of the 'wretchedness and misery' in the world had been caused by a misspent education. Like the other philanthropists, he was keenly aware of being an innovator. He chose the village of Schnepfenthal because, he said, it was 'not situated so close to the city that it could be badly influenced by it, yet it was close enough to allow the pupils to associate with upright, enlightened and cultivated people'." 139: 22: 342:
In addition to compulsory education in English and German, students in 6th grade choose from Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. Latin is taught in year 5, and the student may continue studying Latin throughout his education at the Salzmannschool, if he wishes. In year 8, students must choose from French,
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founded the school in 1784, with the intention to focus on languages, practical work and physical exercise. Salzmann was an influential theorist in childhood education, and his treatise 'Elements of Morality' was translated into the English language by the 18th century British feminist philosopher
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were also integral to the founding of the school. Leopold III was a noted liberal and social reformer, who also supported the founding of the first Jewish newspaper in Germany.
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Italian, Russian, and Spanish. 9th grade students have to choose among three of those four languages again, depending on which language they began studying in year 8.
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It is amongst a handful of government supported schools specifically catering to the academically talented in Germany, along with institutions such as
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Since its early days, the school was internationally known as a pioneer in education and was visited by many pedagogues and intellectuals including
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J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
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Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort: Compiled Under the Direction of Her Majesty the Queen
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built it into the world's largest publisher of science, technology and medicine journals;
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Ferdinand Springer, businessman who inherited a four-employee firm and with his father
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Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, Rotterdam University professors,
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Christian Paulsen, law professor, politician and Danish nationalist
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Some of the people who have taught or studied there include
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The support of the Freemasons of Gotha and the patronage of
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Public boarding school in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany
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was acquired by BC Partners in 2013 for €3.3 billion.
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Waltershausen
Thuringia
Coordinates
50°53′0″N 10°34′26″E / 50.88333°N 10.57389°E / 50.88333; 10.57389
boarding school
Co-educational

Pforta
Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte Schwäbisch Gmünd
Thuringian Forest
Waltershausen
Gotha
Reinhardsbrunn
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
Mary Wollstonecraft
Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christoph Martin Wieland

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