Education
The Ægean peninsula was the great reservoir of ancient civilization into which the cultural stream of every nation around the Mediterranean had its outlet and from which all subsequent ages of Europe have drawn. Therefore without an understanding of the Greek ideas and ideals...
The Ægean peninsula was the great reservoir of ancient civilization into which the cultural stream of every nation around the Mediterranean had its outlet and from which all sub...
2. CHAPTER II.The movement for the new Christian education, identified with the Reformation, the effort to establish and spread the new realistic learning, represented by Bacon, were struggli...
3. CHAPTER III.When the second greatest educational work in the seventeenth century appeared in 1693, the world was only a generation and a half older than when it saw the “Great Didactic.” Wh...
4. CHAPTER IV.The limitation of the Lockean philosophy of education is the limitation of his personality. His practical, utilitarian, and rationalistic pedagogy may be good for making an effi...
5. CHAPTER V.The revolutionary ideas contained in Rousseau’s works shook the whole social structure of France so violently that his educational theories were unable to make any systematic an...
6. CHAPTER VI.It was on January 14, 1789, in the desolate town of Stanz, “alone, destitute of all tools of teaching, alone!--superintendent, bursar, steward, and even maidservant, in a half-r...
7. CHAPTER VII.Fichte considered himself the true interpreter and successor of the Königsberg philosopher. This is by no means saying that he was the best expositor of the latter’s theories. T...
8. CHAPTER VIII.James Munroe writes in his “The Educational Ideal”: “Practical yet dreamy, scientific yet credulous, analytic yet mystical, filled with fancies, symbols, extravagances, exuberan...
9. CHAPTER IX.Pestalozzi found the most original successor of his educational reform in the intuitive mind of Froebel; the work of education as a benevolent and intelligent assistance to the...
10. Part II.11. Part III. Pädagogische Abhandlungen. Dichert, Leipzig, 1894.12. CHAPTER X.Spencer introduces no new ideas into the history of pedagogy. His treatise is little more than a new version of the Rousseauean and Pestalozzian ideas. But foreign ideas, as suc...
13. CHAPTER XI.Hegel never actually wrote or lectured on education as such, although, according to Rosenkranz, he intended to write what he significantly called “_Staatspädagogik_.” This slowl...
14. CHAPTER XII.In a country like America, where people have flocked from all corners of the world, each with his own ideas, beliefs, and ambitions, it is natural that the main concern of the l...