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Great educators of three centuries; their work and its influence on modern education
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- Creator
- by Frank Pierrepont Graves..
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- English
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- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1929
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- ix, 289 pages ; 20 cm
- OCLC
- ocm10603977
- This work is largely an outgrowth of lectures by the author before extension classes, teachers' institutes, and other informal gatherings in the states of Missouri and Ohio. cf. Pref.
- "Supplementary reading" at end of each chapter.
- John Milton and his 'academy'.--Francis Bacon and the inductive method.--Ratich and his 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