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 PART III. ON THE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF DIFFERENT METHODS PART IV. ON THE APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS PART V. ON SCHOOL ORGANISATION AND DISCIPLINE BY T. TATE, F.R.A.S. AUTHOR OF VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORKS PREFACE. THIS work is the result of the labour and reflection of many years; it, in fact, embodies the experience of my life as a practical educator. It contains an exposition of all the leading principles upon which my other works on education have been written ; and in order to understand, fully, the drift and purpose of the one, the teacher must study the expositions and principles of the other. Wherever I have adopted the ideas of others, I have always, to the best of my recollection, made a due acknowledgment of the obligation. I am not acquainted with any work which really treats of the philosophy of education in connection with the practice of it. Our books on education are either too purely speculative, or too exclusively empirical, and, so called, practical. My most earnest desire is, that this work may be |