Essays on Educational ReformersQuick, Robert Hebert
History
Essays on Educational Reformers
Quick, Robert Hebert
Education -- History; Educators
Saint-Cyran an “Evangelical” 175
Short career of the Little Schools 176
Saint-Cyran and Locke on Public Schools 177
Shadow-side of Public Schools 178
The Little Schools for the few only 179
Advantages of great schools 180
Choice of masters and servants. Watch and pray 181
No rivalry or pressure. Freedom from routine 182
Study a delight. Reading French first 183
Literature. Mother-tongue first 184
Beginners’ difficulties lightened 185
Begin with Latin into Mother-tongue 186
Sense before sound. Reason must rule 187
Not Baconian. The body despised 188
Pedagogic writings of Port-Royalists 189
Arnauld. Nicole 190
Light from within. Teach by the Senses 191
Best teaching escapes common tests 192
Studying impossible without a will 193
Against making beginnings bitter 194
Port-Royal advance. Books on Port-Royal 195
Rollin, Compayré, &c. 196
=Chapter XII.—Some English Writers before Locke= 197-218
Birth of Realism 198
Realist Leaders not schoolmasters 199
John Brinsley. Charles Hoole 200
Hoole’s Realism 201
Art of teaching. Abraham Cowley 202
Authors and schoolmasters. J. Dury 203
Disorderly use of our natural faculties 204
Dury’s watch simile 205
Senses, 1st; imagination, 2nd; memory, 3rd 206
Petty’s battlefield simile 207
Petty’s realism 208
Cultivate observation 209
Petty on children’s activities 210
Hand-work. Education for all. Bellers 211
Milton and School-Reform 212
Milton as spokesman of Christian Realists 213
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