Books by Paul Monroe

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CONTENTSPrimitive Peoples: Education in Its Simplest FormOriental Education. Education as Recapitulation: China as a TypeThe Greek People: The Liberal EducationThe Romans: Education as Training for Practical LifeThe Middle Ages: Education as DisciplineThe Renaissance and the Humanistic EducationThe Reformation, Counter Reformation and the Religious Conception of EducationRealistic EducationThe Disciplinary Conception of Education: John LockeThe Naturalistic Tendency in Education: RousseauThe Psychological Tendency in EducationThe Scientific Tendency in EducationThe Sociological TendencyConclusion: The Present Eclectic Tendency

This book is a classic in the field of the history of education. It contains the autobiography of Thomas Platter (the memoirs of a shepherd turned academic 1499-1582) and a discussion of his life and times. Written in 1572 but not published until the eighteenth century, it furnishes the best known account of the life of the wandering student of the later middle ages. To quote from Platter: "In the school of St. Elizabeth, indeed, at one time, nine Baccalaureates read at the same hour, in the same room. The Greek language was not yet anywhere in the land. Similarly, no one yet had printed books; the preceptor alone had a printed Terence. What one read must first be dictated, then defined, then construed, and then only could he explain it; so that the bacchants had to carry home great, miserable books when they went away."