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), pp. 305-311; and
_Great Educators_ (Macmillan, 1912), chap. VI; Monroe, _Text-book_
(Macmillan, 1905), chap. IX. For a more extended account of Locke, read
his _Thoughts_ and _Conduct_, and Fowler, T., _John Locke_ (Macmillan,
1901). The literature of formal discipline is most extensive and the
subject is still under discussion; but a good summary of all written
up to 1911 is furnished in Heck, W. H., _Mental Discipline and
Educational Values_ (John Lane, New York), and later articles can be
found by consulting the index of _The American Psychological Review_.
In a doctoral dissertation (University of Virginia), _John Locke and
Formal Discipline_, Hodge, F. A., makes it clear that the common
interpretation of Locke as a formal disciplinarian is unfair. The
most typical of the earliest opposition to the disciplinary argument
is probably found in Thorndike, E. L., _Educational Psychology_
(Teachers College, New York, 1910), chap. VIII; the sanest discussion
of the possible transfer of ideals appears in Bagley, W. C.,
_Educative Process_ (Macmillan, 1905), chap. XIII; and the reaction
to the reaction is best portrayed by Angell, Pillsbury, and Judd in
_Educational Review_, vol. XXXVI, pp. 1-43. Lyans, C. K., in his
article upon _Formal Discipline_ (_Pedagogical Seminary_, vol. XXI,
pp. 343-393) makes a most careful analysis of the interpretations of
the defenders and opponents of the theory, and gives a very thorough
discussion of transfers.
CHAPTER XVII
EDUCATION IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
OUTLINE
The schools of the American colonies closely resembled those of
the European countries from which the colonists came, and were
influenced by the various religious conceptions of education that
were current in each case. In general, where the Calvinistic
attitude prevailed, the colonies attempted universal education, but
where the Anglican communion dominated, the aristocratic ideal of
education was in evidence.
Three types of colonial school organization appeared: (1) _laissez
faire_ in Virginia; (2) ‘parochial’ in New Netherlands; and (3)
governmental activity in Massachusetts. The South generally
followed the same plan as Virginia, and New York (after the English
occupation) and Rhode Island also developed on this basis. The
other Middle and New England colonies followed the parochial and
governmental patterns respectively.
[Sidenote: The seventeenth century a period of ‘transplantation of
schools.’]
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