Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Origins; 2. The rise of universities; 3. The education of chivalry; 4. The great pestilence; 5. The beginning of popular instruction; 6. The new learning; 7. Humanism; 8. The Reformation; 9. Luther, Sturm, Cordier; 10. The man of action and the new philosopher; 11. Ecclesiastical politics and public education; 12. Eighteenth-century theory; 13. Eighteenth-century practice; 14. The voluntary system of elementary education; 15. Secondary and higher education, 1800–60; 16. The establishment of a national elementary system; 17. 'Organize your secondary education!'; 18. A national system of education founded; Index.

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This 1919 book addresses the history of education in England from the 4th century AD to the early years of the 20th century.