History of Education

Each state in the United States has its own independent system of education; there is no national system. In 1867 Congress established a National Bureau of Education, the functi...

=Literature.=--_Church_, Bacon; _Macaulay_, Essays; _Spofford_, Library of Historical Characters; _Lord_, Beacon Lights; _Montagu_, Life of Bacon; _Barnard_, English Pedagogy; _...

=Literature.=--_De Guimps_, Pestalozzi, his Life and Works; _Kruesi_, Life, Work, and Influence of Pestalozzi; _Quick_, Educational Reformers; _Von Raumer_, Life and System of P...

=Literature.=--_White_, Eighteen Christian Centuries; _Taylor_, History of Germany; _Draper_, Intellectual Development of Europe; _Guizot_, History of Civilization; _Lord_, Beac...

=Literature.=--_H. M. Skinner_, The Schoolmaster in Literature, The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire; _Gill_, Systems of Education; _Quick_, Educational Reformers; _Williams_,...

Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father was a watchmaker, and upon him devolved the education of the boy, as the mother died in childbirth. Rousseau's...

=Literature.=--_Spofford_, Library of Historical Characters; _Symonds_, Renaissance in Italy; _Reeve_, Petrarch; _Macaulay_, Essays; _Warner_, Library of the World's Best Litera...

=Literature.=--_Martin_, The Chinese; _Clarke_, Ten Great Religions; _Houghton_, Women of the Orient; _Doolittle_, Social Life of the Chinese; _Johonnot_, Geographical Reader; _...

=Literature.=--_Draper_, Intellectual Development of Europe; _Durrell_, A New Life in Education; _Dyer_, Modern Europe; _Fisher_, History of the Reformation; _Guizot_, History o...

Cicero was born B.C. 106, of noble parents. As a boy he had the advantage of the best schools and teachers that Rome could furnish. Later he studied at Athens, under the greates...

The educational work of Luther and Melanchthon bore remarkable fruit. Luther had urged parents to see to it that their children should be educated, and had appealed to magistrat...

=Literature.=--_Bryce_, The Holy Roman Empire; _Bury_, The Roman Empire; _Church_, Pictures from Roman Life and Story; _Clarke_, Ten Great Religions; _Gibbon_, Decline and Fall...

We have traced the historical development of education to the present time. It now remains for us to examine briefly the educational systems of a few leading countries, in order...

=Administration.=--France, like Germany, has a minister of education who sits in the cabinet of the president. The work of his office is divided into three departments, _higher_...

=Literature.=--_Bryce_, Holy Roman Empire; _Guizot_, History of Civilization; _Lord_, Beacon Lights; _Sheppard_, Fall of Rome; _Draper_, Conflict between Religion and Science; _...

The name of Basedow is connected with what is known as the _Philanthropinic_ experiment. He was born at Hamburg, his father being a wigmaker. Not being appreciated in his home,...

=Literature.=--_Bulkley_, Plato's Best Thoughts; _Schwegler_, History of Philosophy; _Morris_, Historical Tales; _Curtius_, History of Greece; _Lord_, Beacon Lights; _Spofford_,...

We have already seen that the early Christians were obliged to endure great hardships and surmount great difficulties in securing education for their children. Indeed, during th...

=Literature.=--_Maspero_, Egyptian Archaeology; _Wilkinson_, The Ancient Egyptians; _Stoddard's_ Lectures; Myers, Ancient History; _Routledge_, The Modern Wonders of the World;...

=Literature.=--_Marshman_, History of India; _Ragozin_, Vedic India; _Spofford_, Library of Historical Characters; _Butler_, Land of the Veda; _Houghton_, Women of the Orient; _...

=Literature.=--_Williams_, History of Modern Education; _Quick_, Educational Reformers; _Bryce_, The Holy Roman Empire; _Andrews_, Institutes of General History; _Fisher_, Histo...

Pietism is the name of a movement in Germany which sought to revive spiritual life in the Lutheran Church. In that church, religion had become purely a matter of intellect, inst...

=Literature.=--_Lange_, Collected Writings of F. Froebel; _Kriege_, Friedrich Froebel; _Bowen_, Froebel and Education by Self-activity; _Herford_, The Student's Froebel; _Froebe...

=Literature.=--_Hosmer_, Story of the Jews; _Clarke_, Ten Great Religions; _Durrell_, New Life in Education; _Myers_, Ancient History; Stoddard's Lectures; _Lord_, Beacon Lights...

The Perioeci and the helots, with the love of freedom characteristic among the Greeks, chafed under their yoke of subjugation, and eagerly watched for opportunities for revolt....

=Literature.=--_De Garmo_, Herbart and the Herbartians; _Felkin_, Introduction to Herbart; _Van Liew_, Life of Herbart and Development of his Pedagogical Doctrines; Yearbooks of...

=Literature=.--_Sharpless_, English Education; _Craik_, Education and the State; _Barnard_, English Pedagogy; _Clark_, The State and Education; _Gill_, Systems of Education; _Ba...

=History.=--The ideals of Athens--educational, political, and moral--were in direct contrast to those of Sparta. At Athens, love of liberty, love of knowledge, and love of beaut...

=Life and Character.=--Christ was born in Bethlehem, spent his early life at Nazareth, entered upon his ministry when thirty years of age, continued it for three years, and was...

=Political and Historical Conditions.=--The seventeenth century was remarkable for the wars for religious supremacy. The Reformation had challenged the authority of the Church,...

=Literature.=--_Mrs. Mary T. Mann_, Life of Horace Mann; _Hinsdale_, Horace Mann; _Winship_, Horace Mann, the Educator; _Lang_, Horace Mann; _F. W. Parker_, Article in Education...

As Christianity became more powerful; as the Roman nation privately and officially accepted the new religion; as the bishops of the Church came more and more to be recognized as...

The history of education begins with the childhood of the race, and traces its intellectual development step by step to the present time. As such history is academic in characte...

=Literature.=--_Lord_, Beacon Lights; _Lecky_, History of European Morals; _Myers_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _White_, Eighteen Christian Centuries; _Harper_, Book of Facts;...

=Literature.=--_Ferris_, Great Leaders; _Emerton_, Introduction to the Middle Ages; _Guizot_, History of Civilization; _Wells_, The Age of Charlemagne; _Bryce_, The Holy Roman E...

=Literature.=--_Warner_, Library of the World's Best Literature (see article on the Koran); _Johonnot_, Geographical Reader; _Lane-Poole_, Story of the Moors in Spain; _Lord_, B...

=Geography and History.=--Persia lies in the pathway of the great caravans which formerly carried on trade between Europe and India. It consists largely of a high plateau, surro...

Emerton defines feudalism as "an organization of society based upon the absence of a strong controlling power at the center of the State."[41] It marks a step in the reorganizat...

We have seen that the Church had almost entire control of education during the Middle Ages. Through her influence schools were established and maintained, learning was preserved...

=Literature.=--_Fisher_, History of the Reformation; _Lord_, Beacon Lights; _Thalheimer_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _Schwegler_, History of Philosophy; _Seebohm_, Era of the...

=Literature.=--_Dyer_, Modern Europe; _Duruy_, The French Revolution; _Yonge_, Three Centuries of Modern History; _Andrews_, Institutes of General History; _Lord_, Beacon Lights...

=Literature.=--_Davidson_, Education of the Greek People; _Felton_, Ancient and Modern Greece; _Grote_, History of Greece; _Curtius_, History of Greece; _Morris_, Historical Tal...

This period covered the time from the birth of Christ till the Reformation. It included the early centuries of struggling Christianity, in which old customs had to be combated,...

=Literature.=--_Michaud_, The Crusades; _Stubbs_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _Mombert_, Great Lives (see Godfrey); _Myers_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _Guizot_, History of...

=History and Character.=--Alfred became king of the West Saxons in 871 at the age of twenty-three. As a boy he had already shown remarkable energy and ability, and as a man he m...

1. The National Educational Association. 2. The National Bureau of Education. 3. The Quincy Movement. 4. The Herbartian Movement. 5. Child Study. 6. Parents' Meetings. 7. Manual...

1. Bacon. 2. The inductive method. 3. Ratke. 4. His pedagogy. 5. Comenius. 6. The "Orbis Pictus." 7. Summary of his work. 8. Milton. 9. Locke. 10. Fenelon. 11. His pedagogy. 12....

1. Childhood. 2. Schooling. 3. Life purpose. 4. The Christian ministry. 5. The law. 6. Farming. 7. Marriage. 8. At Neuhof. 9. Authorship. 10. At Stanz. 11. At Burgdorf. 12. At Y...

1. Conditions at the beginning of the sixteenth century. 2. The invention of printing. 3. The rulers of the leading countries. 4. Intellectual conditions. 5. Luther. 6. Luther's...

1. Cicero,--life, philosophy, pedagogy. 2. Seneca,--the teacher of Nero, great orator, writer, etc., pedagogical writings. 3. Quintilian,--his school, his "Institutes of Oratory...

1. Geography and history. 2. The home. 3. The Jewish school. 4. Esteem for the teachers. 5. The Schools of the Rabbis. 6. Criticism of Jewish education. 7. The Talmud.

1. Life. 2. Experience as a tutor. 3. As a university professor. 4. His practice school in the university. 5. Writings. 6. His pedagogical work. 7. Work of modern Herbartians.