The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western CivilizationCubberley, Ellwood Patterson
History
The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Education -- History
QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. From the selection from Rashdall (154), what do you infer as to the
effect of the Reformation on the schools? What kind of schools does
Rashdall describe as existing?
2. Contrast the vernacular style of the Bible (155) with the Ciceronian.
3. Characterize the three extracts (156-58) from Luther.
4. How advanced was the ground taken by Luther (158)? Would we accept the
logic of his argument to-day?
5. Just what do the Hamburg (159) and Brieg (160) _Ordnungen_ indicate?
6. Compare Melanchthon's Saxony Plan (161) with Sturm's (137) and the
French Collège de Guyenne (136), and grade the three in order of
importance.
7. Show the close similarity of the Würtemberg plan of 1559-65 (162) and a
modern German state school system.
8. How advanced for the time was the work of Duke Ernest of Gotha (163)?
9. What kind of a school attitude is indicated by the close supervision of
English teachers, as described in 164 and 165?
10. What would be the natural effect on the teaching occupation of such
legislation as the Act of Uniformity (166)?
11. Compare the form of license of an elementary teacher (168) with a
modern form. What have we added and omitted?
12. What do the statutes regarding prayers (169) indicate as to the nature
of the grammar schools of the time?
13. Characterize the educational importance of the translations of the
Bible into the native tongues (170).
14. What are the marked features of the refounding act (172) for
Canterbury cathedral school? What improvements are indicated?
15. State the steps in the development (173) of the English Poor-Law of
1601, just what the law provided for (174), and just what elements
necessary to the creation of a state school system were incorporated into
it.
SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES
* Adams, G. B. _Civilization during the Middle Ages_
Barnard, Henry. _German Teachers and Educators_.
Francke, Kuno. _Social Forces in German Literature_.
* Good, Harry E. "The Position of Luther upon Education," in _School and
Society_, vol. 6, pp. 511-18 (Nov. 3, 1917).
* Montmorency, J. E. G. de. _State Intervention in English
Education_.
* Montmorency, J. E. G. de. _The Progress of Education in England_.
Painter, F. V. N. _Luther on Education_.
Paulsen, Fr. _German Education_.
Richard, J. W. _Philipp Melanchthon, the Protestant Preceptor of
Germany_.
Woodward, W. H. _Education during the Renaissance_.
CHAPTER XIV
EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLTS
II. AMONG CALVINISTS AND CATHOLICS
3. _Educational work of the Calvinisms_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account