UNIV. OF

THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION

IN ITS

SOCIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS

BY

OTTO WILLMANN, Ph.D.

Authorized Translation from the Fourth German Edition

BY

FELIX M. KIRSCH, O.M.Cap.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME II

ARCHABBEY PRESS, BEATTY, PENNSYLVANIA

AMBORILIAD

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IMPRIMI PERMITTITUR.

FR. HENRICUS KLUEPFEL, O.M.CAP., MIN. Prov.
PITTSBURGI, PA., DIE 3a NOV., 1922.

IMPRIMATUR.

HUGO CAROLUS,

EPISCOPUS PITTSBURGENSIS.

COPYRIGHT, 1922,

BY THE ARCHABBEY PRESS.

Go The Memory

Of The

Late Very Reverend

Doctor Thomas Edward Shields.

Geacher and Friend

1. Conscious and unconscious motives. The instinct to learn, to know,

and to imitate. The instinct is manifested in the child. 2. The longing

for intellectual development. Views of Goethe and W. von Humboldt.

3. The instinctive impulse to teach.

The Indirect Interests.

Chapter II.

1. Material gain and social advantage as objects of education. Ancient,

medieval, and modern views. 2. The relative value of the material

and social gains. Their importance for organizing the system of edu-

cation. 3. The influence of the imitative impulse may be bad or good.

The Cultural Interest...

Chapter III.

1. Relationship between learning and personality among primitive peoples

and among the Greeks. The cultural interest as related to art, language,

science, and life. 2. The opposition between practical efficiency and

cultural education. The conflict between school and life. The prin-

ciple of humanism and of formal education.

The Moral Motives.

Chapter IV.

1. The interaction between the cultural interest and the moral striving.

Greek and oriental views. 2. Agreements and disagreements among

educationists. 3. The socio-ethical motives as evaluated among dif-

ferent peoples.

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