Great educators of three centuries their work and its influence on modern education.

Main Author: Graves, Frank Pierrepont, 1869-1956.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : AMS Press, 1971.
Physical Description: ix, 289 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st AMS ed.
Subjects:
Item Description: Reprint of the 1912 ed.
"Largely an outgrowth of ... lectures before extension classes, teachers' institutes, and other informal gatherings in the States of Missouri and Ohio."
Includes bibliographies.
John Milton and his "academy."--Francis Bacon and the inductive method.--Ratich and educational claims.--Comenius and his great didactic.--John Locke and education as discipline.--Francke and his institutions.--Rousseau and naturalism in education.--Basedow and the Philanthropinum.--Pestalozzi and education as development.--Herbart and education as a science.--Froebel and the kindergarten.--Lancaster and Bell, and the monitorial system.--Horace Mann and.
the American educational revival.--Herbert Spencer and the relative value of studies.
John Milton and his "academy."--Francis Bacon and the inductive method.--Ratich and educational claims.--Comenius and his great didactic.--John Locke and education as discipline.--Francke and his institutions.--Rousseau and naturalism in education.--Basedow and the Philanthropinum.--Pestalozzi and education as development.--Herbart and education as a science.--Froebel and the kindergarten.--Lancaster and Bell, and the monitorial system.--Horace Mann and the American educational revival.--Herbert Spencer and the relative value of studies.
Physical Description: ix, 289 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographies.