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Excerpt from The Educational Ideas of Pestalozzi and Fröbel
I AM becoming more and more convinced that an author has no right to preface his work by an apology. If he thinks he could do better than he has done, he should keep his belief or his work - to himself.
But education is a peculiar subject. Everyone here has an opinion, yet the wisest of our educators are the most con vinced that nearly all the Opinions expressed - their own in cluded - are of extremely limited value, possessing, perhaps, a little relative truth, but none of an absolute and final kind. One who has the best of opportunities of knowing and is himself a constructive worker, frankly avows that there are scarcely three teachers of mark in England who work on the same lines our study of education is in its Of real authority there is so little that the most eminent educationalist in Germany, and, perhaps, in the world, has just been declared to be an unknown man in England; only one leading scholastic bookseller in Manchester had previously heard of his name, did not keep his books in stock, and had to refer to London catalogues to ascertain the titles of his works, and which of them had been translated into english.1l Mr.
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I AM becoming more and more convinced that an author has no right to preface his work by an apology. If he thinks he could do better than he has done, he should keep his belief or his work - to himself.
But education is a peculiar subject. Everyone here has an opinion, yet the wisest of our educators are the most con vinced that nearly all the Opinions expressed - their own in cluded - are of extremely limited value, possessing, perhaps, a little relative truth, but none of an absolute and final kind. One who has the best of opportunities of knowing and is himself a constructive worker, frankly avows that there are scarcely three teachers of mark in England who work on the same lines our study of education is in its Of real authority there is so little that the most eminent educationalist in Germany, and, perhaps, in the world, has just been declared to be an unknown man in England; only one leading scholastic bookseller in Manchester had previously heard of his name, did not keep his books in stock, and had to refer to London catalogues to ascertain the titles of his works, and which of them had been translated into english.1l Mr.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Frank Herbert Hayward
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ISBN - 9780331563061
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 137
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Frank Herbert Hayward
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ISBN - 9781333406646
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Page Count - 139
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