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The article focuses on the education systems of Germany and Great Britain. According to the author, who has been the observer from the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the recent developments in the British education system presents a fascinating spectacle. The dismantling of elements which he had seen as patterns of the British liberality and democracy was also perceived by him. The observer sympathizes with the infuriated reactions of his liberal colleagues in Great Britain and their protest against Thatcherism in education. Nevertheless, at the same time the observer from the FRG cannot but regard their annoyance as a manifestation of an insular limitation of their horizons. It is further noted in the article that the British education system as a whole, however has attracted only little attention in the ERG, comprehensive descriptions of education in Great Britain, accessible to a wider public are virtually non-existent. The author finally comes out with the conclusion that the present British interest in the education system of the FRG has one distinctly recognizable motive.