The German School Shanghai (German: Deutsche Schule Shanghai, Chinese: 上海德国学校) is a private school which was established in 1995 for expatriate German pupils. With ca. 1300 pupils the school is the largest German School in China and the largest of its kind worldwide.
Academics are based on education in Germany, finishing with the Abitur.
The school contains:
- Kindergarten
- one-year preschool
- four-year elementary school (Grundschule)
- eight-year secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium)
The German School Shanghai (DSS) and the French School of Shanghai (LFS) built a new combined "EuroCampus" for their students, completed in 2005.
In September 2007 the PudongCampus was opened, which is a branch of the DSS.
Famous quotes containing the words german, school and/or shanghai:
“Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long- winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse variety among Germans—forgive me the fact that even Goethe’s prose, in its mixture of stiffness and elegance, is no exception, being a reflection of the “good old time” to which it belongs, and a reflection of German taste at a time when there still was a “German taste”Ma rococo taste in moribus et artibus.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)