Great educators of three centuries
Subtitle: their work and its influence on  modern education.
Edition: [1st AMS ed.]
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Educators.; Education -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
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."
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.