Excerpt from History of Education: From the Greeks to the Present Time
This book has been prepared especially for the ambitious teacher, the progressive minister the hopeful editor, the diligent student, and the general reader.
The design of the author is to give, in an epitomized form, the history of education from the earliest times to the present, and thus save the reader valuable time and much labor, as well as to direct the student properly in more thorough and detailed research.
This book will embrace a period of more than 2,000 years of educational growth, and will be treated of under the following captions: (1) The Greeks,(2) The Romans, (3) The Middle Ages,(4) The Renaissance,(5) Education in Europe, (6) Education in the United States, (7) Education Among the Negro Race.
While the work is not intended to be in any sense exhaustive, yet the author has endeavored to set forth clearly the salient points in the world's educational progress.
It is the earnest desire of the author that those who read this book may be benefited, if not instructed, by a careful perusal of its pages.
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