Classical Humanism and the Challenge of Modernity Debates on Classical Education in 19th-century Germany

"Tatsächlich gelingt es van Bommel mit seiner Studie, die Forschungsperspektive auf den Neuhumanismus substantiell zu erweitern. [...] [es] handelt sich bei van Bommels Studie um einen wichtigen und originellen Beitrag zur Geschichte der humanistischen Bildung und des altsprachlichen Unterrichts, die eine zahlreiche und angeregte Leserschaft finden sollte."
Stefan Kipf in: Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, LXIX. Band, Juli/Oktober 2016, 3./4. Heft: 253-256

"This study obviously is interesting for those with a theoretical interest in the history of education: it adds a valuable facet to the prior corpus of scholarly work, which had mostly focused on academia and neglected the situation in schools. Yet it also gives Classics teachers fascinating insights into where what they are doing is coming from, why it is the way it is, and in what ways they might adapt their pedagogical approaches if they want to."
Antonia Ruppel in: BMCR 2015.11.19