A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 441
The Development of Individualism. The Harmonization
of the Individual and Society.
INDEX 447
ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE FIG. OPPOSITE PAGE
1. 1. Elders explaining to young men of an Australian
tribe at the ‘initiatory ceremonies’ 8
2. A Hindu school in the open air, with the
village schoolmaster teaching boys to write on
a strip of palm leaf with an iron stylus 8
2. 3. The _palæstra_ in education at Athens 14
4. The _didascaleum_ in education at Athens 14
3. 5. Roman school materials 36
6. Scene at a ludus or Roman elementary school 36
4. 7. A monk in the _scriptorium_ 56
8. A monastic school 56
5. 9. The temple of wisdom; an allegorical
representation of the mediæval course of study 72
6. 10. The lecture in mediæval universities 80
11. The disputation in mediæval universities 80
7. 12 and 13. Preliminaries and termination of a
combat in the education of chivalry 86
14. Boys playing tournament with a ‘quintain’ or
dummy man 86
8. 15. Apprenticeship training in a gild 92
16. Gild school at Stratford, where Shakespeare
learned ‘little Latin and less Greek’ 92
9. 17. Great English Public Schools: Winchester and
Eton 120
10. 18. Education of the Jesuits: Jesuit College at
Regensburg and diagram of a Jesuit schoolroom 136
11. 19. School of the Christian Brothers at Rouen 146
20. A Protestant school in a German village of
the sixteenth century 146
12. 21. A page from the _Orbis Pictus_ of Comenius,
illustrating a lesson on a trade 170
13. 22. Town school at Dedham (Massachusetts) with
watch-tower, built in 1648 198
23. Boston Latin School, founded in 1635 198
24. The buildings of Harvard College, erected in
1675, 1699, and 1720 198
14. 25. The child as a miniature adult 228
26. A naturalistic school 228
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