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Danish Education System is a sophisticated system designed to educate the people of , which was officially implemented in 1536 , the schools were taken over by the Crown , but their purpose was still to prepare the students for theological studies by teaching them to read, write and speak Latin and Greek , although it now was for the benefit of the Protestant Church .

This educational base was maintained nearly unchanged until 1809 , when the old Clergyman's School was transformed in accordance with the spirit of the time into a Humanistic Civil Servant's School which was to "foster true humanity" through immersion in the ancient Greek and Latin cultures combined with some teaching of natural science and modern languages.

In and the mathematics-science line. A division which was the backbone of the structure of the Gymnasium until the year 2005.

In 1903 , Latin and Greek were replaced by English , German , and French as the main subjects of the languages line. At the same time, the 3-year course of the Gymnasium was directly connected the municipal school through the establishment of the Middle School (grades 6-9), which was later on replaced by the real school.

Today, education in Denmark is broken down into six age groups:



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