Great educators of three centuries : their work and its influence on modern education /
Frank P. Graves.
- 1st ed.
- New York : AMS Press, 1971.
- ix, 289 p. ; 23 cm.
"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-Retich 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 Philanthropium.-Pestalozzi 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.