A Brief Course in the History of Education

activities æsthetic Alcuin Aristotle Athenian basis became Boethius Cassiodorus cation character characteristic chief child Christian Church Cicero classical Comenius conception of education conduct culture curriculum dialectic discipline dominant early educa element elementary emphasis ephebic formal given grammar Greek education Greek language gymnastic hence humanistic ideal ideas important individual influence institutions instruction intel intellectual interests Isocrates John the Scot knowledge language later Latin learning literary literature logical master means ment method Middle Ages modern monasteries monastic monasticism monks moral movement nature Old Greek organization palæstra period Petrarch philosophical physical Plato political possessed practical principles Quintilian Reformation religion religious Renaissance rhetorical Roman education Roscellinus Saracen scholastic scholasticism schools sciences scientific sixteenth century social society Socrates sophists Spartan spirit subjects teachers teaching tendency term thought tion tional treatise universities virtue writings youth