CHAPTER IX

A GREAT EDUCATIONALIST

_A Review_

We look to Germany for educational reform—Herbartian thought the most advanced on the Continent—Comparison with P.N.E.U. thought—The development of the ‘faculties’—We, like Herbart, discard the ‘faculties’—Pervasiveness of dominant ideas—The Zeitgeist—The child’s schoolmasters—A noble piety—A mediæval conception of education—The family principle—Uncertainty as to the purpose of education—Some attempts to fix—Herbart’s theory, ethical—Obscurity of psychology—Two luminous principles, 91