Great educators of three centuries
Subtitle: their work and its influence on modern education
By: by Frank Pierrepont Graves
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1912
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Notes: This work is largely an outgrowth of lectures by the author before extension classes, teachers' institutions, and other informal gatherings in the states of Missouri and Ohio -- cf. Pref.

"Supplementary reading" at end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: John Milton and his "academy."; title: Francis Bacon and the inductive method.; title: Ratich and his educational claims.; title: Comenius and his great didactic.; title: John Locke and education as discipline.; title: Francke and his institutions.; title: Rousseau and naturalism in education.; title: Basedow and the Philanthropinum.; title: Pestalozzi and education as development.; title: Herbart and education as a science.; title: Froebel and the kindergarten.; title: Lancaster and Bell, and the monitorial system.; title: Horace Mann and the American educational revival.; title: Herbert Spencer and the relative value of studies.