Volksschule

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For other similar school systems, see Folkeskole

A Volkschule was an eighteenth century system of state-supported primary schools established in the Habsburg Austrian Empire. Attendance was supposedly compulsory, but a 1781 census reveals that only one fourth of the school-age children attended. At the time, this was one of the only examples of state-supported schooling.

Today, Volksschule is the Austrian equivalent to the German word Grundschule and the Swiss German word Primarschule, i.e. primary school.

[edit] References

Spielvogel, Jackson J., 1999-2000, Western Civilization: Comprehensive Volume (4th Edition), ISBN 0-534-56835-1

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