A Short History of Education (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Short History of Education The present work, then, attempts to set forth brie¿y the pro gress of English educational institutions, taking account of such domestic and foreign conditions as have had a direct bearing upon English education. All western education to-day bears the impress of two great powers, the Roman Empire and the Christian Church, and through these a third power, the intellectual life of Greece, has operated. The fact gives a certain unity to the education of Christendom which is the more striking in times when the various nations were less self-conscious than they are to-day. The earlier chapters of the book are therefore less specifically English than the later. But, beginning with the fifteenth century, the narrative becomes increasingly English in its survey, it closes at the opening of the twentieth century. The references which have been freely given in the footnotes do not of course fully discharge the author's debt to others, who are indeed too many for separate mention. But students of English education will recognize that the book owes much to the late Arthur Francis Leach, who was one of the first to make us under stand that the History of Education is not coincident, point for point, with the history of Opinions concerning what education ought to be. Nor is it constituted by a loosely-knitted collection of biographies of eminent theorizers or practical teachers, however inspiring to their readers these biographies may chance to prove. Mr Leach did very much by his own writings and by his editorial labours to reveal the past of our educational institutions, to correct mistakes as to their history and to help students to trace the process of educational development. The author believes that this is not only a truer view of what constitutes the history of education, but that it is also a much more instructive one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.