Selekta

This article covers the selecta in schools of learning. For Selekta at elementary schools, see Selekta (Hamburger Schulform) .

Selekta (sc. Classis, Latin , exquisite class ), a school class at scholars' schools in which the most excellent students of the top level sat and were prepared for study at the university ; the students in such a class were called Selektaner .

While the Selekta was no longer common at German grammar schools by the middle of the 19th century , the Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt had such a class, whose pupils enjoyed the advantage of joining the army not as ensigns , but immediately as officers , until the First World War .

See also : Ludwig von Estorff

Individual evidence

1. ^ Society for German Educational and School History (ed.): Monumenta Germaniae paedagogica, Berlin: A. Hofmann & Co, [etc.], 1896, p. 335.