A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
A further movement in industrial education has been found in the
establishment of such schools as Carlisle, Hampton, and Tuskegee, which
adopted this training as a solution for peculiar racial problems. But
the original idea of Pestalozzi, to secure redemption through manual
labor, has been embodied in American institutions since 1873, when Miss
Mary Carpenter, the English prison reformer, visited the United States.
Contract labor and factory work in the reformatories then began to be
replaced by farming, gardening, and kindred domestic industries. At the
present time, moreover, the schools for delinquents and defectives in
the New England, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, and most of the Southern
states, have the Fellenberg training, though without much grasp of the
educational principles involved. Finally, there has also been a growing
tendency in the twentieth century to employ industrial training or
trade education for the sake of holding pupils longer in school and
increasing the efficiency of the public system. In so far as it has
tended to replace the more general values of manual training, once so
popular, with skill in some particular industrial process, this modern
movement represents a return from the occupational work started by
Froebel to the philanthropic practice of Fellenberg and Pestalozzi.
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
Graves, _In Modern Times_ (Macmillan, 1913), chap. V; and _Great
Educators_ (Macmillan, 1912), chap. IX; Monroe, _Textbook_ (Macmillan,
1905), pp. 597-622; Parker, _Modern Elementary Education_ (Ginn, 1912),
chaps. XIII-XVI. The _Leonard and Gertrude_ has been well arranged
for English readers in the edition of Eva Channing (Heath, 1896) and
_How Gertrude Teaches Her Children_ has been translated by Lucy E.
Holland and Frances C. Turner (Bardeen, 1898). The standard English
treatises on Pestalozzi are Guimps, R. de, _Pestalozzi, His Aim and
Work_ (Appleton, 1890); Holman, H., _Pestalozzi_ (Longmans, 1908);
Krüsi, H., _Pestalozzi, His Life, Work, and Influence_ (American Book
Co., 1875); Pinloche, A., _Pestalozzi and the Foundation of the Modern
Elementary School_ (Scribner, 1901), and, more recently, Green, J. A.,
_Life and Work of Pestalozzi_ (Clive, London, 1913) and _Pestalozzi’s
Educational Writings_ (Longmans, Green, 1912). Monroe, W. S., has
furnished an interesting _History of the Pestalozzian Movement in the
United States_ (Bardeen, 1907). _The Institutions of De Fellenberg_
were fully described by King, W. (London, 1842); and by Barnard, H.,
in his _American Journal of Education_, vol. III, pp. 591-596; XIII,
323-331; and XXVI, 359-368.
CHAPTER XXIII
DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
OUTLINE
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century a third
period in the educational history of America, marked by further
democratization and a great expansion of public education, appeared.
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