Grandmarks in Education

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Excerpt from Grandmarks in Education: Paper Read Before the St. Louis Teacher's Association Great men are the brazen tablets on which a time inscribes a record of what it was, and accomplished, and then passes away into silent eternity. Ages vanish, and are forgotten if they find not a voice strong enough to speak to the generations of following epochs, through the din and roar of fleeting centuries. In Education as well as in nature, we are apt to ignore what is great and small, important or less important, if we live exclusively in what is near and immediate. Pedantry is the result of looking closely at the detail, without connecting it with great principles. To discern what is great in education, we mast not only know its details, but must be able to view it from a distance that gives independence and impartiality to our judgment. For this end we must study not only the history of education in its great teachers, but also ascertain how it reflects itself in the minds of great men who are the exponents of their times. While Goethe was not a teacher, his educational views are well worthy of attention, as those of the representative man of his time. Goethe's early educational views are the expression of a century that was the most fertile in educational theory, of a time that was frantic with educational excitement, the time of Roussean. In Roussean the educational movement that had begun with the Reformation, and had been continued by Montaigne and Locke found a vehement and thrilling utterance. What Roussean felt and Goethe understood was but a sequel to the educational movement of the time of the Reformation, when the Middle ages rose from their knees to begin the work of the new day. 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.