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Pioneers of modern education 1600-1700 / by John William Adamson...
LIBRA LA116 .A2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adamson, John William, 1857-1947.
- Series:
- Half-title: Contributions to the history of education, III.
- Half-title: Contributions to the history of education, III
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--History.
- Education.
- History.
- Educators.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 285 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : University press, 1905.
- Contents:
- Preface.
- Tables of dates.
- The new philosophy.
- The school-room in the early seventeenth century.
- Bacon and Comenius.
- The great didactic.
- The new pedagogy in London and in Germany.
- The Long parliament: Samuel Hartlib and education.
- Two letters to Hartlib: Milton and Petty.
- "The Reformed school" of John Dury.
- A successful schoolmaster: Hoole.
- The courtly "academies."
- Elementary education.
- St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.
- A.H. Francke and the Pietist schools.
- Conclusion.
- Publications referred to in the text: p.[271]-275. Index.
- OCLC:
- 3550484
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