PRINCIPLES, METHODS, ORGANIZATION, AND EMINENT EDUCATIONISTS. BY JOHN, GILL, PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, NORMAL COLLEGE, CHELTENHAM, T. THE Notes to the present Edition have been revised throughout, and a few passages unnoticed in former editions have been explained. The references to Keightley's Mythology have been replaced by short notes, which will be found to contain what is necessary for the understanding of the. text. Where more information is required, the Classical Dictionary may be consulted. April, 1876. PREFACE. IN the year 1852, the Syllabus for Students in Training Colleges, issued by the Committee of Council on Education, required that they should be instructed in the Systems of Education that had been in use in this country. It thus became the Author's duty, in that and following years, to explore the field, and to give lectures in the course thus opened out to him. Gradually his course shaped itself into the form in which it is presented in this volume. At the request of the Bishop of Tasmania, then Principal of the Training Colleges, Cheltenham, some of these lectures appeared at intervals in the Papers for the Schoolmaster. The whole course is now offered in a more permanent form, at the request of many of the Author's former pupils. But another consideration has had weight. School Education has to become a Science. One means to this end is to gather and examine what has been done by those who have been engaged therein, and whose position or success right to be heard. Nor these alone. employed, if not in it, yet about it. at its present standpoint, is the result has given them a Others have been School education, of many agencies, |