CHAPTER IX

INFLUENCE OF COMENIUS ON MODERN EDUCATORS

Francke—Early educational undertakings—The institution at Halle—Character of the Pædagogium—Impulse given to modern education. Rousseau—The child the centre of educational schemes—Sense training fundamental—Order and method of nature to be followed. Basedow—Protests against traditional methods—Influenced by the _Émile_—His educational writings—The Philanthropinum. Pestalozzi—Love the key-note of his system—Domestic education—Education of all classes and sexes—The study of nature—Impulse given to the study of geography. Fröbel—His relations to Comenius and Pestalozzi—Educational value of play and principle of self-activity—Women as factors in education. Herbart—Assimilation of sense-experience—Training in character—Doctrine of interest 142