Excerpt from Outline History of Education
An outline history of education or of any other subject should always be used in conjunction with original works or with a more discursive book on the same subject. No outline can take the place of a more extended treatise or of original works. The present outline is no exception to this rule. The student should read some books by Herbart, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Spencer, Comenius, Rousseau, Locke, Rabelais, or other writers. He should also read some good history of education of which there are now quite a few. Among others, the following suggestions might be of aid:
I. Try to apply in the classroom as much of the educational theory and practice as possible. Much of what is given by Herbart, Froebel, Pestalozzi, Comenius, and others is still of great practical value.
II. Organise the different suggestions given by any author and try to discover stages of development, interconnection, and interdependence. For example, show how the different topics treated under Herbart and the Herbartians develop naturally out of the Herbartian scheme of consciousness and ideas.
III. Compare a series of educational works and show relationships. Find resemblances and differences. Take any topic and work it through a number of educational theories and practices. Compare, for example, the ideas of self-activity or of doing as presented by Froebel, Comenius, and Herbart. Compare the different aims of education of writers or teachers of the same period, or of different periods.
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