Studies in the History of Education Opinion from the Renaissance / Edition 1

by Simon S. Laurie

Overview

First published in 1969. This volume includes selected historical studies of the various schools of thought and educational opinion. The author looks at the period of transition from the scholastic philosophy and monastic and cathedral schools down to these times, which may be regarded as the beginning of the Modern period, taking in such writings of Vittorino da Feltre, Roger Ascham, Francis Bacon, Comenius, John Milton and John Locke.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138881112
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/07/2015
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 “The Renaissance and the School.”; Chapter I The Renaissance, 1320—1600.; Chapter II The Renaissance and the School–First Period (1320—1450).; Chapter III The Second Period of the Renaissance (1450—1600), Trotzendor;, Sturm;, Neander.; Chapter IV Universities; Chapter V “The Governour,”., Sir Thomas Elyot; Chapter VI Rabelais: Monk, Physician, Curé of Meudon. 1483 (?)—1553.; Chapter VII Roger Ascham, the Humanist 1The quotations which follow are from Bennet’s quarto edition, 1761.;; Chapter VIII The Jesuits.; Chapter IX Montaigne, The French Rationalist, 1533—1592.; Part 2 The Modern Period, From 1600 A.D.; Chapter X The Modern Period, From 1600 A.D.; Chapter XI Comenius, The Sense-Encyclopaedist and Founder of Method 1A memorial address for the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Delivered in Edinburgh and BirminghamThe predecessor of Comenius was the Baconian Wolfgang Ratke, 1571–1635..; Chapter XII John Milton1Born 1608: died 1674. Tractate on Education, published in 1644, and a second edition 1673 at the end of the second edition of the minor poems., The Classical Encyclopaedist.; Chapter XIII John Locke, The English Rationalist.; Chapter XIV John. Locke—continued.; Chapter XV John Locke—concluded.; Chapter XVI Herbert Spencer, The Modern Sense-Realist.;