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A quarter of a century ago a distinguished Writer on education exclaimed, Educational science is yet in all the rubbish and disorder of discovery. Locke, in his generation, had exposed some of its humbugs in England Rousseau did his part in France but before Pestalozzi's day, and long after, education in Europe was a sort of quackery. The monitorial systems of Bell and Lancaster had to be carried out in baskets full and buried the Gradgrinds and Ichabod Cranes ceased to be our ideal school masters the three R.'s failed to complete the school curriculum; and an ability to translate in the class-room a well-conned passage from Cicero or Homer ceased to be the acme of the college course. But, although much has been accomplished, a great deal remains to be done. The rubbish has been only partially removed; and we have but just reached the foundations on which education, as a science, rests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
