Those American teachers and students who have come in contact with the
ideas of this school have been greatly stimulated.
In such a miscellaneous and many-sided thing as practical education, it
is deeply gratifying to find a clear and definite leading purpose that
prevails throughout and a set of mutually related and supporting
principles which in practice contribute to the realization of this
purpose.
The following chapters cannot be regarded as a full, exact, and
painfully scientific account of Herbartian ideas, but as a simple
explanation of their leading principles in their relations to each
other and in their application to our own school problems.
In the second edition the last chapter of the first edition has been
omitted, while the other chapters have been much modified and enlarged.
The chapter on the Formal Steps is reserved for enlargement and
publication in a separate form.
Normal, Ill., November 4, 1893.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
The Chief Aim of Education
CHAPTER II.
Relative Value of Studies
CHAPTER III.
Nature of Interest
CHAPTER IV.
Concentration
CHAPTER V.
Induction
CHAPTER VI.
Apperception
CHAPTER VII.
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