Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. This work is largely an outgrowth of lectures by the author before extension classes, teacher's institutes, and other informal gatherings in the states of Missouri and Ohio. cf. Pref "Supplementary reading" at end of each chapter John Milton and his 'academy'.--Francis Bacon and the inductive method.--Ratich and his 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 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 education revival.--Herbert Spencer and the relative value of studies