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   Abitur
   (from the article `education`) ...or national board of education (1787); and one of his colleagues, Friedrich Gedike, was instrumental in introducing the school-leaving examination ... ...result of the initiative of Humboldt that the methods of Pestalozzi were introduced into the teachers` seminarie...
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   Abitur
   Abitur (from Latin abire "leave, go off") is a designation used in Germany, Finland and Estonia for final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling (see also for Germany Abitur after twelve years). The Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschul...
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