Star of the Sea, free-sea lodge in Gdańsk, 07.04.2012
Today, students conflict with the maturity exam. This is an crucial step towards adult life, although, of course, neither the fiveth degree guarantees anything, nor the problems during the exam are the end of the world.
Of course, we encourage urgent work, learning, and setting ourselves high! Who knows, possibly 1 of today's seniors will knock on the door of the Masonic Lodge...
In the meantime, let us take a small closer look at the character of Baron Karl Abraham von Zedlitz (1731-1793), who is recognized as the creator of the concept of the maturity exam.
He was born in the household of the politician Karl Sigismund von Zedlitz at the end of the reign of Frederick Wilhelm I, the celebrated king-soldier. The king in private life was a man of brutal, despotic and heartbreaking devolution, as his daughter Wilhelmina described in a shocking way in her diary.
Prussia was then a military country ruled in the spirit of absolutism, frequently touching murderism. Education was based on a memory mastery of the material, so that a postgraduate of the school would be a device ready to follow the orders of superiors: officials or...
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