Well, until the 70s the French schools on which the Prussian were based were admirable for the education you got there.
And the Prussian model wasn't so bad either: after all illiteracy rates in France and Germany are below the ones in the United States...
What the problem is everywhere today is that, in a world that has changed, schools haven't changed as much....
"Well, until the 70s the French schools on which the Prussian were based were admirable for the education you got there. "
You totally missed the point about the Prussian school legacy.
The Prussian school system was not founded for teaching and instruction, it was founded for indoctrination. The fact that the public schools in the U.S. are doing so little teaching and instruction now but they are still doing indoctrination and trying to solve all of society's ills hearkens back to the roots of the public school system, i.e., the Prussian model of indoctrination and societal change.