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Title: The History of Pedagogy

Author: Gabriel Compayré

Translator: William Harold Payne

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Language: English

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THE

History of Pedagogy.

BY

GABRIEL COMPAYRÉ,

Deputy, Doctor of Letters, and Professor in the Normal School
of Fontenay-aux-Roses.

TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,
NOTES, AND AN INDEX
,

BY

W. H. PAYNE, A.M.,

Chancellor of the University of Nashville, and President of the
State Normal College; late Professor of the Science and the
Art of Teaching in the University of Michigan.

BOSTON:

D. C. HEATH & COMPANY.

1889.


Copyright, Sept. 30, 1885,

By W. H. PAYNE.


J. S. Cushing & Co., Printers, Boston.


TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE
Translator’s Prefacev-vii
Introductionix-xxii
ChapterI.—Education in Antiquity1-16
ChapterII.—Education among the Greeks17-42
ChapterIII.—Education at Rome43-60
ChapterIV.—The Early Christians and the Middle Age61-82
ChapterV.—The Renaissance and the Theories of Education in the Sixteenth Century.—Erasmus, Rabelais, and Montaigne83-111
ChapterVI.—Protestantism and Primary Instruction.—Luther and Comenius112-137
ChapterVII.—The Teaching Congregations.—Jesuits and Jansenists 138-163
ChapterVIII.—Fénelon164-186
ChapterIX.—The Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century.—Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke187-211
ChapterX.—The Education of Women in the Seventeenth Century.—Jacqueline Pascal and Madame de Maintenon212-231
ChapterXI.—Rollin232-252
ChapterXII.—Catholicism and Primary Instruction.—La Salle and the Brethren of the Christian Schools253-278
Chapter XIII.—Rousseau and the Émile278-310
ChapterXIV.—The Philosophers of the Eighteenth Century.—Condillac, Diderot, Helvetius, and Kant311-339
ChapterXV.—The Origin of Lay and National Education.—La Chalotais and Rolland340-361
ChapterXVI.—The Revolution.—Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Condorcet362-389
ChapterXVII.—The Convention.—Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau, Lakanal, and Daunou390-412
ChapterXVIII.—Pestalozzi413-445
ChapterXIX.—The Successors of Pestalozzi.—Frœbel and the Père Girard446-477
ChapterXX.—Women as Educators478-507
ChapterXXI.—The Theory and Practice of Education in the Nineteenth Century508-534
ChapterXXII.—The Science of Education.—Herbert Spencer, Alexander Bain, Channing, and Horace Mann535-570
Appendix571-575
Index577-598