ABSTRACT
In accord with his father's wish to have him eventually assume the directorship of the business school, Walter Wertheimer pursued an education in business practice rather than the liberal arts. Specialized preparation for academic and professional careers was complemented by and based on a foundation of classic liberal education. By 1902, Max Wertheimer had received a thorough elementary education and a classical secondary education in Prague, and had attended the university in his home town for eight semesters, five in law and three in philosophy. Max continued attending classes at the University of Wurzburg for several months after he completed his Ph.D. dissertation. But the culmination of his formal education was the preparation and defense of that dissertation, a direct outgrowth of the work he had begun several years earlier with Klein at the University of Prague.
