[Transcriber’s Notes: This e-text contains a translation of Herbart’s “Umriss pädagogischer Vorlesungen”, the main text of which is divided into numbered paragraphs. The numbers in the Index are references to these paragraphs. De Garmo’s annotations are indented in this e-text by two spaces. Herbart’s own annotations have the run-in heading “Note” and are indented by four spaces. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and small-capped text by =equal signs=.] OUTLINES OF EDUCATIONAL DOCTRINE [Illustration: Publisher’s logo] OUTLINES OF EDUCATIONAL DOCTRINE BY JOHN FREDERICK HERBART _TRANSLATED BY_ ALEXIS F. LANGE, =Ph.D.= =Associate Professor of English and Scandinavian Philology, and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Letters, University of California= _ANNOTATED BY_ CHARLES DE GARMO, =Ph.D.= =Professor of the Science and Art of Education, Cornell University= New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., =Ltd.= 1904 _All rights reserved_ =Copyright=, 1901, =By= THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1901. Reprinted June, 1904. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE The reasons for translating and annotating Herbart’s “Outlines” are, first, to present to the English-speaking public Herbart’s latest, and also his most complete, work on education; and, second, to note to some extent at least the advances made in educational thought since Herbart laid down his pen. Herbart’s educational writings are distinguished by two marked characteristics: 1, their helpfulness in actual teaching; and 2, their systematic completeness. The thoughtful reader can see the bearing of each part upon all the others; the purposes of education are so completely correlated with the means, that, whether the topic under discussion be apperception or interest or methods of teaching or school government or moral training or the presentation of a particular study, the reader is never at a loss to see the relation of this part to the whole.