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Primitive peoples. Education in its simplest form.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 1 –10

With primitive peoples practical education is unorganized and is provided for through direct imitation of adult by child. Theoretical education consists in transmitting to the younger generation the general body of knowledge or the animistic beliefs which constitute their interpretation of life's...

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Oriental education. Education as recapitulation.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 11 –27

Transition from primitive society to the earlier stages of civilization is marked by the substitution of a political for a genetic organization of society and by the formation of a written language and a literature. The political organization of society indicates that individuality is now...

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The Greeks. The liberal education.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 28 –80

The Greeks first worked out the various aspects of personality and strove in their education to produce the development of these in the individual through education. The full attainment of this purpose was secured through a long historical evolution. During the Homeric period Greek ideals were...

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The Romans: Education as training for practical life.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 81 –100

The Roman contribution to civilization was the practical one of institutions as means for realizing ideals or social purposes. Consequently they contributed to education much less of permanent value than did the Greeks. On the other hand, they furnish the best illustration of the practical...

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Middle Ages: Education as discipline.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 101 –159

The dominant influence during the Middle Ages was the Christian religion. Christianity offered a solution of the Greek social and educational problem in the principle of Christian love or charity, which harmonized the individual and the social factors. This solution was found in the moral instead...

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The Renaissance and humanistic education.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 160 –188

The Renaissance was primarily a movement in individualism. The characteristic features of the period were the attempts to overthrow the various forms of authority, in Church, State, industrial and social organizations, intellectual and educational life, dominant during the Middle Ages. In the...

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The reformation, the counter-reformation and the religious conception of education.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 189 –214

The Reformation was the Renaissance in the North, directed toward reforms in society and in the Church. It had both a moral and an intellectual or theological phase. In this latter respect it exalted the use of individual judgment. Consequently the division of the Church was unavoidable, since...

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Realistic education.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 215 –253

The realistic movement is the development of the interest in nature found in the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. During the seventeenth century this interest received philosophical and scientific formulation. At this time modern science and modern philosophy began....

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The disciplinary conception of education. John Locke.

Monroe, Paul

Pages: 254 –272

Social changes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries destroyed the practical bearing of the narrow humanistic education. Educational, religious, psychological and professional views united in demanding its perpetuation. This resulted in the formulation of the disciplinary conception of...

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