THE

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION;

OR, THE

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING.

IN FIVE PARTS.

PART I. ON METHOD AS APPLIED TO EDUCATION.

PART II. ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL FACULTIES.
PART III. ON THE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF DIFFERENT METHODS AND
SYSTEMS OF INSTRUCTION.[

PART IV. ON THE APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO THE
VARIOUS BRANCHES OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.

PART V. ON SCHOOL ORGANIZATION AND DISCIPLINE.

BY T. TATE, F. R. A. S.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COL. FRANCIS W. PARKER.

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NOTE TO THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

No English book on education has been oftener called for than this
during the past five years; but as the original edition was exhausted and
the publishers did not replace it, copies have been wholly unattainable.
Accordingly, I have re-printed it at Col. Parker's desire and from a copy
lent me by him, following the English edition exactly, even to the paging.
but reducing the price to $1.50 per copy. It is not, however, stereotyped
and only one thousand copies have been printed.

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NOTE TO THE SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.

The publisher confesses that he lacked faith when Col. Parker asked
him to reprint a book like this for American teachers, and the original
edition of a thousand copies was published more as a favor to Col. Parker
than in the hope that it would ever be sold.

But a general awakening to the necessity of pedagogical reading, and
especially the establishment of Teachers' Reading Circles all over the
country, with lists of books to be read by every member has aroused an
unprecedented call for standard works on teaching. In nearly every such
list this work has been one of the first selected,-as, for instance, in New
York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Illinois, and other States. To meet this
demand the present edition has been prepared. By the use of more
open type the number of pages is increased from 330 to 400, and the book
can now be supplied in any quantities ordered.

Copyright, 1884, 1885, by C. W. BARDEEN.

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PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

I venture to present an extract from the Quincy Report of 1878 and '79. "The principles of instruction that I am trying to make the foundation of all the teaching in Quincy were long since discovered and established. With a few exceptions in minor points, all the eminent writers upon philosophical teaching, from Bacon to Spencer, have explained these principles and urged their application in practice. There has been no famous teacher for the last two hundred years who does not owe his fame to the application of them. * * * * It may be asked, 'If these principles are so simple, and supported by such high authority, why are they not well known to the thousands of intelligent teachers in this state?' I will answer indirectly by stating a fact. Until within a short time the best standard works upon education were not to be found on the richly loaded shelves of the book-dealer in our American Athens."

Happily a change has taken place in the educational world within the last few years.

"I sell twenty-five books on education now to one I sold five years ago," is the report of one of the most prominent booksellers in Boston.