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Title: History of Education

Author: Levi Seeley

Release Date: February 2, 2009 [EBook #27963]

Language: English

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HISTORY

OF

EDUCATION

BY

LEVI SEELEY, PH. D.

PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY IN THE NEW JERSEY
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL

_REVISED EDITION_

NEW YORK : CINCINNATI : CHICAGO

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1904, BY

LEVI SEELEY.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

HIST. OF EDUCATION

PREFACE

The importance of a knowledge of the history of education was never so
fully recognized as at the present time. Normal schools and teachers'
colleges give this subject a prominent place in their professional
courses, superintendents require candidates for certificates to pass
examination in it, and familiarity with it is an essential part of the
equipment of every well-informed teacher. The history of education
portrays the theories and methods of the past, warns of error and
indicates established truth, shows difficulties surmounted, and
encourages the teacher of to-day by examples of heroism and consecration
on the part of educators whose labors for their fellow-men we discuss.
To the teacher this study is a constant help in the schoolroom, the
trials of which are met with the added strength and inspiration from
contact with great teachers of the past.

No text-book can be said to contain the last word upon any subject.
Least of all can such a claim be made for a history of education, which
aims to trace the intellectual development of the human race and to
indicate the means and processes of that evolution. Any individuals or
factors materially contributing thereto deserve a place in educational
history. As to which of these factors is the most important, that is a
question of choice, upon which, doubtless, many will differ with the
author. Some educators, whose claims to consideration are unquestioned,
have bee