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

Author: Frank Pierrepont Graves
Publisher: New York, NY : Macmillan Co., 1912.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frank Pierrepont Graves
OCLC Number: 38755734
Notes: This work is largely an outgrowth of lectures by the author before extension classes, teacher's institutes, and other informal gatherings in the states of Missouri and Ohio.
Description: ix, 289 p.
Contents: 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 education revival --
Herbert Spencer and the relative value of studies.
Responsibility: by Frank Pierrepont Graves.

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