A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
Graves, _During the Transition_ (Macmillan, 1910), chap. XVIII; and
_Great Educators of Three Centuries_ (Macmillan, 1912), chaps. II,
IV, and VI; Monroe, _Text-book_ (Macmillan, 1905), pp. 461-501. The
following works are standard for the authors mentioned: Adamson, J. W.,
_Pioneers of Modern Education_ (Macmillan, 1905), chap. III (Bacon);
Barnard, H., _German Teachers and Educators_, pp. 343-370 (Ratich);
Fowler, T., Bacon’s _Novum Organum_ (Oxford, Clarendon Press); Laurie,
S. S., _John Amos Comenius_ (Bardeen, Syracuse, 1892); Monroe, W. S.,
_Comenius_ (Scribner, 1900); and Quick, R. H., _Educational Reformers_
(Appleton, 1896), chap. IX (Ratich) and X (Comenius). An account of
sense realism is afforded by Adamson, _op. cit._, chap. I, and of its
effect upon the schools by Barnard, _op. cit._, pp. 302-317, and by
Paulsen, F., _German Education_ (Scribner, 1908), pp. 117-133.
CHAPTER XVI
FORMAL DISCIPLINE IN EDUCATION
OUTLINE
Locke is often classed with the advocates of realism or of
naturalism, but the keynote to his thought is ‘discipline.’ This
is to be obtained in intellectual training through mathematics; in
moral training, through the control of desires by reason; and in
physical training, through a ‘hardening process.’
Locke has, therefore, often been viewed as the great advocate
of the theory of formal discipline, according to which certain
subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any
direction, and should be studied by all.
This doctrine has greatly influenced education, but in the late
nineteenth century there was a decided reaction from it. Recently
this extreme reaction has been modified, and a position taken with
which Locke’s real attitude would seem to be in harmony.
[Sidenote: Often classed as an early realist, a sense realist, or a
naturalist.]
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