ABSTRACT
With this end in view, Kerschensteiner vigorously set in motion a scheme for the introduction of voluntary classes at the continuation schools, designed to be attended by workers who had already completed their apprenticeship and who were desirous of further vocational or general education. The principles governing the choice of subjects in the curriculum corresponded to those which had played a dominant part in his organization of the ordinary part-time continuation schools, namely, that professional education was to be the root from which all general and civic education should grow. Even the theme of the socalled 'general course' was based on the worker's environment; subjects of instruction included such topics as economic history, history of handicrafts, commercial geography, hygiene, trade instruction, and insurance law and constitutional law.
