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THE DOCTRINES OF THE GREAT EDUCATORS

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OF THE

GREAT EDUCATORS

BY

ROBERT R. RUSK
M.A. (GLASGOW), B.A. (CAMBRIDGE), Ph.D. (JENA)

PRINCIPAL LECTURER IN THEORY OF EDUCATION TO THE ST. ANDREWS

PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS
EXAMINER IN EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
FORMERLY EXAMINER IN EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1918

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COPYRIGHT

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD

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PREFACE

A HISTORY of Education should explain how educational
doctrines are related to the intellectual and social
tendencies of the times in which they originated, should
expound these doctrines, and should indicate how they
affect educational practice. This work does not profess
to be a History of Education ; it confines itself to an
exposition of the doctrines of a limited number of
representative educators. It does not deal with their
lives. In one respect this is a disadvantage, in another
an advantage. It is a disadvantage in so far as the
lives of the authors frequently help to elucidate their
doctrines; it is an advantage in so far as it enables
us to avoid the argumentum ad hominem fallacy which
is frequently exemplified in Histories of Education.

Students of Education are advised to read the texts
of the authors along with the chapters on the doctrines
here given. For the doctrines of educators only inci-
dentally mentioned in these pages, or entirely omitted
from them, they are referred to such a History of
Education as Monroe's Text-Book. Other readers will
find the chapters designed to give a general idea of
the doctrines of the great educators without recourse
to other works.

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