Education, Germany, early 19th century

From early 19th century, one of the characters in Budenbrooks talks about the new education system:

"Practical ideals - well --h'm -- they don't appeak to me in the least.... We have trade schools and technical schools and commercial schools springing up on every corner; the high schools and the classical education suddenly turns out to be all foolishness, and the whole world thinks of nothing but mines and factories and making money...That's all very fine, of course. But in the long run pretty stupid, isn't it? ... I don't know why, but it irritates me like the deuce... I don't mean, Jean, that the July Monarchy is not an admirable regime..."