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), chaps. XII-XIV;
Monroe, _Text-book_ (Macmillan, 1905), chap. VI. An interesting
interpretation of the Renaissance both in Italy and the North is found
in Adams, G. B., _Civilization during the Middle Ages_ (Scribner,
1894), chap. XV. An account of the movement, including its educational
aspects in Italy, is found in Burckhardt, J., _Civilization of the
Renaissance in Italy_ (Sonnenschein, London, 1892; Macmillan), vol.
I, especially part III; Symonds, J. A., _Renaissance in Italy_ (Holt,
Scribner), vol. II, especially chaps. III-VIII; or Symonds’ _Short
History of the Renaissance_ (Holt, 1894), especially chaps. I and
VII, and IX-XI. Woodward, W. H., gives us a vivid account of the
educational work of _Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators_
(Cambridge University Press, 1897), and of _Erasmus concerning
Education_ (Cambridge University Press, 1904), and of _Education
during the Renaissance_ (Cambridge University Press, 1906) as a whole.
_Peter Ramus and the Educational Reformation of the Sixteenth Century_
(Macmillan, 1912), by Graves, F. P., furnishes some idea of conditions
in France. _The Italian Renaissance in England_ (Columbia University
Press, 1905), especially chap. I, is succinctly described by Einstein,
L.; and an account of Colet and St. Paul’s School can be found in
Barnard, H., _English Pedagogy_, second series, pp. 49-117.
CHAPTER XIII
EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCES OF THE REFORMATION
OUTLINE
Luther’s educational positions are most fully revealed in his
well-known _Letter_ and _Sermon_. He holds that education should
prepare for citizenship, and should be state-supported, and these
recommendations were somewhat embodied in actual schools by his
associates.
Zwingli was killed before he could greatly influence education,
but the educational institutions of Calvin spread rapidly through
Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Puritan England, and Scotland.
In England Henry VIII and Edward VI confiscated the property of
some three hundred monastic and other ecclesiastical schools, but
subsequently many of these were refounded.
The Jesuit colleges were organized to extend Catholic Christianity.
The lower colleges were humanistic, and the higher taught
‘philosophy’ and theology. The teachers were trained, and the
methods, though _memoriter_ and emulative, were effective. The
influence of the Jesuit colleges was phenomenal, but they have
failed to meet new conditions.
The Port Royalists held that reason was more important than memory,
but, while their ‘little schools’ stressed vernacular, logic, and
geometry, they offered nothing beyond the best elements in the
education of the past.
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