ABSTRACT
The Social Democrats, not content with the struggle for economic goods, also aspired to influence education. At the beginning of the nineteenth century education was neo-humanist and showed aristocratic tendencies. It has been mentioned before that the problem of education and upbringing was one of the most important objects of speculation as well as of practical action in modern German development. The idea of humanity has been understood by German thought to a great extent as this problem. Philosophy of nature characteristically occupied the crucial point in the development of the German will for education and knowledge when from the thirties of the nineteenth century a decisive change took place in the latter. The new specialized technical as well as military education was not only to comprehend the whole man, but was to include as great a number of men as possible.
