Excerpt from Outlines of Educational History

Definition. - Educatio, the Latin word from which our word education is derived, is used by Cicero to represent the earth as the educator and nourisher of all things. Tacitus uses educare to mean the nursing of infancy, but he limits the use of educatio to training. Quintilian, the ablest educational author among the Latins, and who was very precise in the use of words, applies educatio to preparatory instruction, hut uses insstitutio to represent what we call academic instruction.

Modern Conceptions. - Among modern conceptions, that which was embodied in the ideal of the founders of the Prussian national system has been the most popular among recent writers, and perhaps the least satisfactory. By them education is stated to bo "the harmonious and equable evolution of the human powers." (See Bain's Education as a Science.) All correct definitions of training must refer to Plato, who said, "Good education is that which gives to the body and to the soul all the perfection of which they are capable."

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