The Development of Individualism. The Harmonization of the Individual and Society.
PLATE FIG. OPPOSITE PAGE 1. 1. Elders explaining to young men of an Australian tribe at the ‘initiatory ceremonies’ 8
2. A Hindu school in the open air, with the village schoolmaster teaching boys to write on a strip of palm leaf with an iron stylus 8
2. 3. The _palæstra_ in education at Athens 14 4. The _didascaleum_ in education at Athens 14
6. Scene at a ludus or Roman elementary school 36
5. 9. The temple of wisdom; an allegorical representation of the mediæval course of study 72
6. 10. The lecture in mediæval universities 80
11. The disputation in mediæval universities 80
7. 12 and 13. Preliminaries and termination of a combat in the education of chivalry 86
14. Boys playing tournament with a ‘quintain’ or dummy man 86
8. 15. Apprenticeship training in a gild 92
16. Gild school at Stratford, where Shakespeare learned ‘little Latin and less Greek’ 92
9. 17. Great English Public Schools: Winchester and Eton 120
10. 18. Education of the Jesuits: Jesuit College at Regensburg and diagram of a Jesuit schoolroom 136
11. 19. School of the Christian Brothers at Rouen 146
20. A Protestant school in a German village of the sixteenth century 146
12. 21. A page from the _Orbis Pictus_ of Comenius, illustrating a lesson on a trade 170
13. 22. Town school at Dedham (Massachusetts) with watch-tower, built in 1648 198
23. Boston Latin School, founded in 1635 198
24. The buildings of Harvard College, erected in 1675, 1699, and 1720 198
14. 25. The child as a miniature adult 228
32. The first ‘academy’ founded by Benjamin Franklin at Philadelphia in 1750 268
34. The ‘table of units’ of Pestalozzi 282
18. 35. Court of Fellenberg’s Agricultural Institute 298
36. General view of Fellenberg’s schools and workshops 298
20. 41. The first high school, established at Boston in 1821 332
42. The University of Michigan in 1855 332
21. 43. ‘The Carpenter’ from Froebel’s _Mother Play_ 360
In text. 48. Diagram of German education 380
In text. 49. Diagram of French education 392
In text. 50. Diagram of English education 392
In text. 55. Diagram of vocational education of boys in 424 Germany
24. 56. Indian house constructed in Dewey’s experimental school 436