"Don't be a cowed slave - go to a government school. Or we will throw you in jail. Besides, you know you are to stupid to educate your own child."
Sounds like they just wanted obedient cowed slaves.
What do a couple of pocket battleships know about education, anyway?
(grin). Actually, the Scharnhorst and the Geneisenau were considered to be full-fledged battleships. The pocket battleships were the Admiral Graf Spee, the Admiral Scheer, and the Lutzow (formerly the Deutschland).
The difference was in displacement, main battery armaments, and armor. The pocket battleships had significantly lower displacements (about the same as heavy cruisers) and had only 6 nine-inch guns in the main battery. The Scharnhorst and the Geneisenau had 9 nine-inch guns. The heavy cruisers of the era had eight-inch guns, so the difference is somewhat a matter of judgement or semantics.