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CONTENTS Introduction : The Sources OF OUR Civilization . . . 3 PART I THE ANCIENT WORLD FOUNDATION ELEMENTS OF OUR WESTERN CIVILIZATION GREECE — ROME — CHRISTIANITY Chapter I. The Old Greek Education I. Greece and its People 15 II. Early Education in Greece 21 Chapter II. Later Greek Education III. The New Greek Education Chapter III. The Education and Work of Rome I. The Romans and their Mission . 39 53 58 60 63 74 II. The Period of Home Education . III. The Transition to School Education IV. The School System as finally established V. Rome's Contribution to Civilization Chapter IV. The Rise and Contribution of Chris- tianity I. The Rise and Victory of Christianity .... 82 II. Educational and Governmental Organization of the Early Church 92 III. What the Middle Ages STARTED with .... lOl PART II THE MEDIyEVAL WORLD THE DELUGE OF BARBARISM; THE MEDIEVAL STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE AND REESTABLISH CIVILIZATION Chapter V. New Peoples in the Empire .... 109 Chapter VI. Education during the Early Middle Ages I. Condition and Preservation of Learning . . .126 Chapter VII. Education during the Early Middle Ages "■•■,» n. Schools established and Instruction provided . .150 xli CONTENTS Chapter VIII. Influences tending toward a Revival OF Learning I. Moslem Learning from Spain l8o II. The Rise OF Scholastic Theology i86 III. Law and Medicine as New Studies 192 IV. Other New Influences and Movements .... 199 Chapter IX. The Rise of the Universities . . .215 PART III THE TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN ATTITUDES THE RECOVERY OF THE ANCIENT LEARNING; THE REAWAKENING OF SCHOLARSHIP; AND THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY Chapter X. The Revival of Learning 241 Chapter XI. Educational Results of the Revival of Learning 263 Chapter XII. The Revolt against Authority . . . 287 Chapter XIII. Educational Results of the Protestant Revolts I. Among Lutherans and Anglicans 306 Chapter XIV. Educational Results of the Protestant Revolts II. Among Calvinists and Catholics 330 Chapter XV. Educational Results of the Protestant Revolts HI. The Reformation and American Education . . . 356 Chapter XVI. The Rise OF Scientific Inquiry , . .379 Chapter XVII. The New Scientific Method and the Schools I. Humanistic Realism 397 II. Social Realism 401 III. Sense Realism 405 IV. Realism and the Schools 416 Chapter XVIII. Theory and Practice by the Middle OF THE Eighteenth Century T. PrK-EiGHTKKNTH-CeNTTTRV FniTrATinMAT THTrmjic-c /l-^Q PREFACE The present volume, as well as the companion volume of Readings, arose out of a practical situation. Twenty-two years ago, on en- tering Stanford University as a Professor of Education and be- ing given the history of the subject to teach, I found it necessary, almost from the first, to begin the construction of a Syllabus of Lectures which would permit of my teaching the subject more as a phase of the history of the rise and progress of our Western civilization than would any existing text. Through such a study it is possible to give, better than by any other means, that vision of world progress which throws such a flood of light over all our educational efforts. The Syllabus grew, was made to include de- tailed citations to historical literature, and in 1902 was published in book form. In 1905 a second and an enlarged edition was issued,^ and these volumes for a time formed the basis for class- work and reading in a number of institutions, and, though now out of print, may still be found in many libraries. At the same time I began the collection of a series of short, illustrative sources for my students to read. It had been my intention, after the publication of the second edition of the Syllabus, to expand the outline into a Text Book which would embody my ideas as to what university students should be given as to the history of the work in which they were engaged. I felt then, and still feel, that the history of education, properly conceived and presented, should occupy an important place in the training of an educational leader. Two things now happened which for some time turned me aside from my original purpose. The first was the publication, late in 1905, of Paul Monroe's very comprehensive and scholarly Text Book in the History of Education, and the second was that, with the expan- sion of the work in education in the university with which I was connected, and the addition of new men to the department, the general history of education was for a time turned over to another to -teach. I then began, instead, the development of that introductory course in education, dealing entirely with ' Syllabus of Lectures on the History of Education, with Bibliographies, ist ed., 302 pp., illustrated, New York, 1902; 2d ed., with classified bibliographies, 358 pp., illustrated^ New York, 1905. viii PREFACE American educational history and problems, out of which grew my Public Education in the United States. The second half of the academic year 1910-11 I acted as visiting Lecturer on the History of Education at both Harvard University and Radcliffe College, and while serving in this capac- ity I began work on what has finally evolved into the present volume, together with the accompanying book of illustrative Readings. Other duties, and a deep interest in problems of school administration, largely engaged my energies and writing time until some three years ago, when, in rearranging courses at the Uiuversity, it seemed desirable that I should again take over the instruction in the general history of education. Since then I have pushed through, as rapidly as conditions would permit, the organization of the parallel book of sources and documents, and the present volume of text. In doing so I have not tried to prepare another history of edu- cational theories. Of such we already have a sufficient num- ber. Instead, I have tried to prepare a history of the progress and practice and organization of education itself, and to give to such a history its proper setting as a phase of the history of the development and spread of our Western civilization. I have especially tried to present such a picture of the rise, struggle for existence, growth, and recent great expansion of the idea of the improvability of the race and the elevation and emancipation of the individual through education as would be most illuminat- ing and useful to students of the subject. To this end I have traced the great forward steps in the emancipation of the intellect of man, and the efforts to perpetuate the progress made through the organization of educational institutions to pass on to others what had been attained. I have also tried to give a proper set- ting to the great historic forces which have shaped and moulded human progress, and have made the evolution of modern state school systems and the world-wide spread of Western civilization both possible and inevitable. To this end I have tried to hold to the main lines of the story, and have in consequence omitted reference to many theorists and reformers and events and schools which doubtless were im- portant in their land and time, but the influence of which on the main current of educational progress was, after all, but small. For such omission I have no apology to make. In their place I have introduced a record of world events and forces, not included in PREFACE IX the usual history of education, which to me seem important as having contributed materially to the shaping and directing of intellectual and educational progress. While in the treatment major emphasis has been given to modern times, I have never- theless tried to show how all modern education has been after all a development, a culmination, a flowering-out of forces and im- pulses which go far back in history for their origin. In a civiliza- tion such as we of to-day enjoy, with roots so deeply embedded in the past as is ours, any adequate understanding of world prac- tices and of present-day world problems in education calls for some tracing of development to give proper background and perspec- tive. The rise of modern state school systems, the variations in types found to-day in different lands, the new conceptions of the educational purpose, the rise of science study, the new functions which the school has recently assumed, the world-wide sweep of modern educational ideas, the rise of many entirely new t>TDes of schools and training within the past century — these and many other features of modern educational practice in progressive nations are better understood if viewed in the light of their proper historical setting. Standing as we are to-day on the threshold of a new era, and with a strong tendency manifest to look only to the future and to ignore the past, the need for sound educational perspective on the part of the leaders in both school and state is given new emphasis. To give greater concreteness to the presentation, maps, dia- grams, and pictures, as commonly found in standard historical works, have been used to an extent not before employed in writ- ings on the history of education. To give still greater concrete- ness to the presentation I have built up a parallel volume of Read- ings, containing a large collection of illustrative source material designed to back up the historical record of educational develop- ment and progress as presented in this volume. The selections have been fully cross-referenced (R. 129; R. 176; etc.) in the pages of the Text. Depending, as I have, so largely on the com- panion volume for the necessary supplemental readings, I have reduced the chapter bibliographies to a very few of the most valuable and most commonly found references. To add to the teaching value of the book there has been appended to each chap- ter a series of questions for discussion, bearing on the Text, and another series of questions bearing on the Readings to be found in the companion volume. In this form it is hoped that the Text X PREFACE will be found good in teaching organization ; that the treatment may prove to be of such practical value that it will contribute materially to reheve the history of education from much of the criticism which the devotion in the past to the history of educa- tional theory has brought upon it; and that the two volumes which have been prepared may be of real service in restoring the subject to the position of importance it deserves to hold, for mature stu- dents of educational practice, as the interpreter of world progress as expressed in one of its highest creative forms. Ellwood p. Cubberley Stanford University, Cal. September 4, 1920 CONTENTS Xlll PART IV MODERN TIMES THE ABOLITION OF PRIVILEGE; THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY; A NEW THEORY FOR EDUCATION EVOLVED- THE STATE TAKES OVER THE SCHOOL Chapter XIX. The Eighteenth a Transition Century I. Work of the Benevolent Despots of Continental Europe II. The Unsatisfied Demand for Reform in France . III. England THE First Democratic Nation .... IV. Institution of Constitutional Government and Re- ligious Freedom in America The French Revolution sweeps away Ancient Abuses 473 478 486 494 498 V. Chapter XX. The Beginnings of National Education I. New Conceptions of the Edltcational Purpose . . 506 II. The New State Theory in France 508 III. The New State Theory in America 519 Chapter XXI. A New Theory and Subject-Maiter for the Elementary School I. The New Theory stated 530 II. German Attempts to work out a New Theory . . 533 ^ — III. The Work and Influence of Pestalozzi . . . 539 IV. Redirection of the Elementary School , . . . 547 Chapter XXII. National Organization in Prussia I. The Beginnings of National Organization . , . 552 II. A State School System at last created . . . 566 Chapter XXIII. National Organization in France and Italy I. National Organization in France 588 II. National Organization in Italy 603 Chapter XXIV. The Struggle for National Organiza- tion in England I. The Charitable-Volunt.\ry Beginnings . . . .613 II. The Period of Philanthropic Effort (1800-33) • • 622 III. The Struggle for National Education .... 633 IV. The Development of a National System .... 644 Chapter XXV. Awakening an Educational Conscious- ness in the United States I. Early National Attitudes and Interests . . . 653 II. Awakening an Educational Consciousness . . . 658 V xiv CONTENTS III. Social, Political, and Economic Influences . . . 667 IV. Alignment of Interests, and Propaganda . . . 672 Chapter XXVI. The American Battle for Free State Schools I. The Battle for Tax Support 676 II. The Battle to Eliminate the Pauper-School Idea . 679 III. The Battle to make the Schools entirely Free . . 684 IV. The Battle to establish School Supervision . . 687 V. The Battle to Eliminate Sectarianism . . . .691 VI. The Battle to Establish the American High School . 695 VII. The State University crowns the System . . . 702 Chapter XXVII. Education becomes a Great National Tool I. Spread of THE State-Control Idea 71 1 II. New Modifying Forces 723 III. Effect of These Changes on Education .... 736 Chapter XXVIII. New Conceptions of the Educational Process I. The Psychological Organization of Elementary In- struction 745 II. New Ideas from Herbartian Sources .... 759 III. The Kindergarten, Play, and Manual Activities . 764 IV. The Addition of Science Study 772 V. Social Meaning of these Changes 779 Chapter XXIX. New Tendencies and Expansions I. Political 7^7 II. Scientific 795 III. Vocational 805 IV. Sociological 812 V. The Scientific Organization of Education . . . 824 Conclusion; The Future 833 Index 841 % LIST OF PLATES Facing 1. The Cloisters of a Monastery, near Florence, Italy . . 140 2. The Library of the Church of Saint Wallberg, at Zutphen, Holland 140 3. Saint Thomas Aqthnas in the School of Albertus Magnus . 190 4. A Lecture on Theology by Albertus Magnus . . . .228 5. Stratford-on-Avon Grammar School 278 6. Educational Leaders in Protestant Germany .... 308 7. The Free School at Harrow 322 8. Map showing the Spread of Jesuit Schools in Northern Territory by the Year 1725 340 9. Two Tablets on the West Gateway at Harvard University 364 10. John Amos CoMENius (1592-1670) 410 11. Pestalozzi Monument at YvERDON 542 12. Fellenberg's Institute at Hofwyl 546 13. Two Leaders in the Regeneration of Prussia .... 568 14. Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) . . . 598 15. John Pounds' Ragged School at Portsmouth .... 618 16. An English Village Voluntary School 618 17. Two Leaders in the Educational Awakening in the United States 690 18. Two Leaders in the Reorganization of Educational Theory 762 LIST OF FIGURES 1. The Greek Conception" of the World 5 2. Ancient Greece and the .^gean World 15 3. The City-State OF Attica 17 4. Distribution of the Population of Athens and Attica, ABOLT 430 B.C. 21 5. A Greek Boy 25 6. An Athenian Inscription 26 7. Greek Writing-Materials 27 8. A Greek Counting-Board 27 9. An Athenian School 29 ID. Greek School Lessons 31 11. Ground-Plan of the Gymnask'm at Ephesos, in Asia Minor 33 12. Socrates (469-399 b.c.) 44 13. Evolution of the Greek University 45 14. The Greek Univers ty World 47 15. The Known World ABOUT 150 A.D 48 16. The Early' Peoples of It.aiy. and the Extension of the Roman Po^-er 53 17. The Principal Roman Roads 54 18. The Great Extent of the Roman Empire . . . .56 19. A Roman Father instructing his Son 59 20. Cato the Elder (234-148 b.c.) 63 21. Roman Writing-Materials 64 22. A Roman Col'nting-Board 65 23. A Roman Primary School 66 24. A Roman School of Rhetoric 70 25. The Roman Voll-ntary Educational System, as finally evolved 72 26. Origin of our .\lphabet 77 27. The Growth of Christianity to the End of the Fourth Century 89 28. A Bishop 96 29. A Benedictine Monk. Abbot, and Abbess 99 30. Showing the Final Division of the Empire and the Church 103 31. A Bodyguard OF Germans no 32. The German Migrations 112 33. The Known World IN Soo 114 34. A German War Chief 115 35. Romans DESTROYING A Gernl^n \'iLLAGE 116 36. A Page OF THE Gothic Gospels 119 37. A Typic.yl Monastery of Southern Europe .... 12S LIST OF FIGURES xvii 38. Bird's-Eye View OF A Medlbval Monastery . . . .130 39. Initial Letter from an Old Manuscript 133 40. A Monk in a Scriptorium 134 41. Charlemagne's Empire, and the Important Monasteries of THE Time 136 42. Where the Danes ravaged England 145 43. An Outer Monastic School 150 44. The Medley al System of Education summarized . . .154 45. A School: A Lesson in Grammar 156 46. An Anglo-Saxon Map of the World 161 47. An Early Church Musician 162 48. A Squire being knighted 168 49. A Knight of the Time of the First Crusade .... 169 50. Evolution of Education during the Early Middle Ages . 175 51. Showing Centers of Moslem Learning 183 52. Aristotle 185 53. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, at Paris 189 54. The City-States of Northern Italy 194 55. Fragment from the Recovered "Digest" of Justinian . 195 56. The Father of Medicine, Hippocrates of Cos .... 197 57. A Pilgrim of the Middle Ages 200 58. A Typical Medleval Town (Prussian) 203 59. The Educational Pyramid 205 60. Trade Routes and Commercial Cities 206 61. Showing Location of the Chief Universities founded be- fore 1600 219 62. Seal of a Doctor, University of Paris 223 63. New College, at Oxford 224 64. A Lecture on Civil Law by Guillaume Benedicti . . . 227 65. Library of the LTniversity of Leyden, in Holland . . . 228 66. A University Disputation 231 67. A University Lecture and Lecture Room 232 68. Petrarch (1304-74) 244 69. Boccaccio (1313-75) 245 70. Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-1511) 249 71. Bookcase and Desk in the Medicean Library at Florence 251 72. Two Early Northern Humanists 253 73. An Early Sixteenth-Century Press 255 74. An Early Specimen of Caxton's Printing 256 75. The World as known to Christian Europe before Colum- bus 258 76. Saint Antoninus and his Scholars 264 77. Two Early Italian Humanist Educators 266 78. Guillaume Bud.^us (1467-1540) 268 79. College de France 269 80. Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522) „ . . 270 81. Johann Sturm (1507-89) 272 xviii LIST OF FIGURES 82. Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536) 274 83. Saint Paul's School, London 276 84. GiGGLESwicK Grammar School 277 85. The Evolution of Modern Studies 281 86. John Wycliffe (i320?-84) 290 87. Religious Warfare in Bohemia 291 88. Showing the Results of the Protestant Revolts . . . 296 89. Huldreich Zwingli (1487-1531) 297 90. John Calvin (1509-64) 299 91. A French Protestant (c. 1600) 301 92. Two Early Vernacular Schools 309 93. The First Page of Wycliffe's Bible 311 94. Luther giving Instruction 313 95. Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558) 314 96. Evolution of German State School Control . . . .319 97. A Chained Bible 321 98. A French School of the Seventeenth Century . . . 332 99. A Dutch Village School 334 100. John Knox (i505?-72) 335 loi. Ignatius de Loyola (1491-1556) 337 102. Plan of a Jesuit Schoolroom ........ 342 103. An Ursuline 346 T04. A School of La Salle at Paris, 1688 349 105. The Brothers of the Christian Schools by 1792 . . . 350 106. Tendencies in Educational Development in Europe, 1500 to 1700 353 107. Map showing the Religious Settlements in America . . 358 108. Homes of the Pilgrims, and their Route to America . . 359 109. New England Settlements, 1660 361 I ID. The Boston Latin Grammar School 362 111. Where Yale College WAS founded 367 112. An Old Quaker Meeting-House and School at Lampeter, Pennsylvania 370 113. Nicholas Kopernik Copernicus) (1473-1543) .... 386 114. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) 387 T15. Galileo Galilei (1564- 1642) 388 116. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 388 117. William Harvey (1578-1657) 389 118. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 390 119. The Loss and Recovery OF the Sciences 393 120. Ren^ Descartes (1596-1650) 394 121. Francois Rabelais (1483-1553) 399 122. John Milton (1608-74) 400 123. Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) 401 124. John Locke (1632-1704) 403 125. An Academie des Armes 404 126. A Sample Page FROM the "Orbis PiCTUs" 414 LIST OF FIGURES xix 127. Part of a Page from a Latin-English Edition of the " Ves- tibulum" 415 128. Augustus Hermann Francke (1663-1727) 419 129. A French School before the Revolution 431 130. A Horn Book 440 131. The Westminster Catechism 442 132. Thomas Dilworth (P-ijSo) 443 133. Frontispiece to Noah Webster's "American Spelling Book" 444 134. Title-Page of Hodder's Arithmetic 445 135. A "Christian Brothers" School 447 136. An English Dame School 448 137. Gravel Lane Charity-School, Southwark 449 138. A Charity-School Girl in Uniform 450 139. A Charity-School Boy in Uniform 451 140. Advertisement for a Teacher to let 452 141. A School Whipping-Post 455 142. An Eighteenth-Century German School 455 143. Children as Miniature Adults 458 144. A Pennsylvania Academy 463 145. Frederick the Great 474 146. Maria Theresa 475 147. Montesquieu (1689-1755) 480 148. Turcot (1727-81) 481 149. Voltaire (1694-1778) 481 150. Diderot (1713-84) 482 151. John Wesley (1707-82) 489 152. Nationality of the White Population, as shown by the Family Names in the Census of 1790 494 153. The States-General in Session at Versailles .... 499 154. Rousseau (1712-78) 508 155. La Chalotais (1701-83) 510 156. RoLLAND (1734-93) 510 157. Count de Mirabeau (1749-91) 513 158. Talleyrand (1758-1838) 513 159. Condorcet (1743-94) 514 160. The Institute of France 515 161. Lakanal (1762-1845) 516 162. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 525 163. The Rousseau Monument at Geneva 531 164. Basedow (1723-90) 535 165. Immanuel Kant (1724- 1804) 537 166. The Scene of Pestalozzi's Labors . • 541 167. Fellenberg (1771-1844) 547 168. The School of a Handworker 556 169. The Kingdom of Prussia, 1740-86 559 170. A German Late Eighteenth-Century School .... 564 XX LIST OF FIGURES 171. DiNTER (1760-1831) 570 172. DiESTERWEG (179O-1866) 57I 173. The Prussian State School System created .... 577 174. An Old Foundation transformed 589 175. Count de Fourcroy (1755-1809) 590 176. Victor Cousin (1792-1 867) 597 177. Outline of the Main Features of the French State School System 598 178. Europe in 1810 604 179. The Unification of Italy, since 1848 608 180. Count of Cavour (1810-61) 609 181. Outline of the Main Features of the Italian State School System 610 182. A Ragged-School Pupil 618 183. Adam Smith (1723-90) 621 184. The Reverend T. R. Malthus (i 766-1 834) 621 185. The Creators of the Monitorial System 624 186. The Lancastrian Model School in Borough Road, South- WARK, London 626 187. Monitors teaching Reading AT "Stations" .... 627 188. Proper Monitorial-School Positions 628 189. Robert Owen (1771-1858) 630 190. Lord Brougham (i 778-1 868) 636 191. An English Village School in 1840 637 192. Expenditure from the Education Grants, 1839-70 . . 639 193. Lord T. B. Macaulay (1800-59) 640 194. Work of the School Boards in providing School Accommo- dations 643 195. The English Educational System as finally evolved . . 649 196. The First Schoolhouse built by the Free School Society IN New York City 661 197. "Model" School Building of the Public School Society . 665 198. Evolution of the Essential Features of the American Public School System 666 199. Dates of the Granting of Full Manhood Suffrage . . 670 200. The First Free Public School in Detroit .... 678 201. The Pennsylvania School Elections of 1835 .... 682 202. The New York Referendum of 1850 685 203. Status of School Supervision in the United States ey 1861 688 204. A Typical New England Academy 696 205. The Development of Secondary Schools in the United States 699 206. The First High School in the United States .... 700 207. High Schools in the United States by i860 .... 701 208. Colleges and Universities established by i860 . . . 704 209. The American Educational Ladder 708 210. The School System of Denmark 713 LIST OF FIGURES xxi 211. The Progress of Literacy in Europe by the Close of the Nineteenth Century 714 212. The School System of the Argentine Republic . . .718 213. The Japanese Two-Class School System 720 214. The Chinese Educational Ladder 721 215. Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-73) 724 216. Charles Darwin (1809-82) 726 217. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) 727 218. Man Power before the Days of Steam 729 219. Threshing Wheat a Century Ago 730 ;20. A City Water-Supply, about 1830 731 221. The Great Trade Routes of the Modern World . . . 733 222. An Example of the Shifting of Occupations .... 734 223. The Philippine School System 740 224. The First Modern Normal School 749 225. Teacher-Training in the United States by i860 . . . 752 226. Evolution of the Elementary-School Curriculum, and of Methods of Teaching 756 227. An "Usher" AND HIS Class 758 228. Redirected Manual Training 771 229. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) 777 230. Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95) 778 231. A Reorganized Kindergarten 781 232. The Peking Union Medical College 804 233. The Destruction of the Trades in Modern Industry . 808 234. School Attendance of American Children, Fourteen to Twenty Years of Age 810 235. Abbe DE l'Ep6e (1712-89) 819 236. The Reverend Thomas H. Gallaudet teaching the Deaf AND Dumb 819 237. Educational Institutions maintained by the State . . 820 238. Karl Georg von Raumer (1783-1865) 825 239. The Established and Experimental Nations of Europe . 835 240. The Educational Problems of the Future . . . , 83S GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the List of Readings and the Supplemental Ref- erences given in the chapter bibliographies, the following works, not cited in the chapter bibliographies, will be found in most libraries and may be consulted, on all points to which they are likely to apply, for additional material: I. GENERAL HISTORIES OF EDUCATION I. Davidson, Thomas. History of Education. 292 pp. New York, 1900. Good on the interpretation of the larger movements of history. *2. Monroe, Paul. Text Book in the History of Education. 772 pp. New York, 1905. Our most complete and scholarly history of education. This volume should be consulted freely. See analytical table of contents. 3. Munroe, Jas. P. The Educational Ideal. 262 pp. Boston, 1895. Contains very good short chapters on the educational reformers. *4. Graves, F. P. A History of Education. 3 vols. New York, 1909-13. Vol. I. Before the Middle Ages. 304 pp. Vol. n. During the Middle Ages. 314 pp. Vol. ni. In Modern Times. 410 pp. These volumes contain valuable supplementary material, and good chap- ter bibliographies. 5. Hart, J. K. Democracy in Education. 418 pp. New York, igi8. An interpretation of educational progress. 6. Quick, R. H. Essays on Educational Reformers. 568 pp. 2d ed., New York, 1890. A series of well-written essays on the work of the theorists in education since the time of the Renaissance. *7. Parker,^ S. C. The History of Modern Elementary Education. 506 pp. Boston, 191 2. An excellent treatise on the development of the theory for our modem elementary school, with some good descriptions of modem practice. II. GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION I. Cubberley, E. P. Syllabus of Lectures on the History of Education. 358 pp. New York. First ed., 1902; 2d ed., 1905. Gives detailed and classified bibliographies for all phases of the subject. Now out of print, but may be found in most normal school ajid college libraries, and many public libraries. XXIV GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY III. CYCLOPEDIAS *i. Monroe, Paul, Editor. Cyclopedia of Education. 5 vols. New York, 1911-13. The most important Cyclopaedia of Education in print. Contains ex- cellent articles on all historical points and events, with good selected bib- liographies. A work that should be in all libraries, and freely consulted in using this Te.xt. Its historical articles are too numerous to cite in the chapter bibhographies, but, due to the alphabetical arrangement and good cross-referencing, they may be found easily. *2. Encylopcedia Britannica. nth ed., 29 vols. Cambridge, igio-ii. Contains numerous important articles on all types of historical topics, and excellent biographical sketches. Should be consulted freely in using this Text. IV. MAGAZINES *i . Barnard's American Journal of Education. Edited by Henry Barnard. 31 vols. Hartford, 1855-81. Reprinted, Syracuse, 1902. Index to the 31 vols, published by the United States Bureau of Education, Washington, 1892. A wonderful mine of all kinds of historical and educational information, and should be consulted freely on all points relating to European or American educational history. In the chapter bibliographies, as above, the most important references are indicated with an asterisk (*). THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION INTRODUCTION THE SOURCES OF OUR CIVILIZATION The Civilization which we of to-day enjoy is a very complex thing, made up of many different contributions, some large and some small, from people in many different lands and different ages. To trace all these contributions back to their sources would be a task impossible of accomplishment, and, while specific parts would be interesting, for our purposes they would not be im- portant. Especially would it not be profitable for us to attempt to trace the development of minor features, or to go back to the rudimentary civilizations of primitive peoples. The early de- velopment of civilization among the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Egyptians, or the American Indians all alike present features which to some form a very interesting study, but our western civilization does not go back to these as sources, and con- sequently they need not concern us in the study we are about to begin. While we have obtained the alphabet from the Phcenicians and some of our mathematical and scientific developments through the medium of the Mohammedans, the real sources of our present- day civilization lie elsewhere, and these minor sources will be referred to but briefly and only as they influenced the course of western progress. The civilization which we now know and enjoy has come down to us from four main sources. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Christians laid the foundations, and in the order named, and the study of the early history of our western civilization is a study of the work and the blending of these three main forces. It is upon these three foundation stones, superimposed upon one an- other, that our modern European and American civilization has been developed. The Germanic tribes, overrunning the bound- aries of the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries, added another new force of largest future significance, and one 4 HISTORY OF EDUCATION which profoundly modified all subsequent progress and develop- ment. To these four main sources we have made many additions in modern times, building an entirely new superstructure on the old foundations, but the groundwork of our civilization is com- posed of these four foundation elements. For these reasons a history of even modern education almost of necessity goes back, briefly at least, to the work and contributions of these ancient peoples. Starting, then, with the work of the Greeks, we shall state briefly the contributions to the stream of civilization which have come down to us from each of the important historic peoples or groups or forces, and shall trace the blending and assimilating processes of the centuries. While describing briefly the educa- tional institutions and ideas of the different peoples, we shall be far less concerned, as we progress down the centuries, with the educational and philosophical theories advanced by thinkers among them than with what was actually done, and with the last- ing contributions which they made to our educational practices and to our present-day civilization. The work of Greece lies at the bottom and, in a sense, was the most important of all the earlier contributions to our education and civilization. These people, known as Hellenes, were the pioneers of western civilization. Their position in the ancient world is well shown on the map reproduced opposite. To the East lay the older political despotisms, with their caste-type and in- tellectually stagnant organization of society, and to the North and West a little-known region inhabited by barbarian tribes. It was in such a world that our western civilization had its birth. These Greeks, and especially the Athenian Greeks, represented an entirely new spirit in the world. In place of the repression of all individuality, and the stagnant conditions of society that had characterized the civilizations before them, they developed a civilization characterized by individual freedom and opportunity, and for the first time in world history a premium was placed on personal and political initiative. In time this new western spirit was challenged by the older eastern type of civilization. Long foreseeing the danger, and in fear of what might happen, the little Greek States had developed educational systems in part de- signed to prepare their citizens for what might come. Finally, in a series of memorable battles, the Greeks, led by Athens, broke the dread power of the Persian name and made the future of this INTRODUCTION 5 new tyipe of civilization secure. At Marathon, Salamis, and Platasa the fate of our western civilization trembled in the bal- ance. Now followed the great creative period in Greek life, dur- ing which the Athenian Greeks matured and developed a litera- ture, philosophy, and art which were to be enjoyed not only by themselves, but by all western peoples since their time. In these Hnes of culture the world will forever remain debtor to this small but active and creative people. A-fnalchium Mare Fig. I. The Early Greek Conception of the World The World accordinj? to Hecataeus, a geographer of Miletus, Asia Minor. Hecataeus was the first Greek traveler and geographer. The map dates from about 500 B.C. The next great source of our western civilization was the work of Rome. Like the Greeks, the Romans also occupied a penin- sula jutting southward into the Mediterranean, but in most re- spects they were far different in type. Unlike the active, imagina- tive, artistic, and creative Greeks, the Romans were a practical, concrete, unimaginative, and executive people. Energy, person- ality, and executive power were in greatest demand among them- 6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The work of Rome was political, governmental, and legal — not artistic or intellectual. Rome was strong where Greece was weak, and weak where Greece was strong. As a result the two peoples supplemented one another well in laying the foundations for our western civilization. The conquests of Greece were intel- lectual; those of Rome legal and governmental. Rome absorbed and amalgamated the whole ancient world into one Empire, to which she gave a common language, dress, manners, religion, literature, and political and legal institutions. Adopting Greek learning and educational practices as her own, she spread them throughout the then-known world. By her political organiza- tion she so fixed Roman ideas as to law and government through- out the Empire that Christianity built firmly on the Roman foundations, and the German barbarians, who later swept over the Empire, could neither destroy nor obliterate them. The Ro- man conquest of the world thus decisively influenced the whole course of western history, spread and perpetuated Greek Ideas, and ultimately saved the world from a great disaster. To Rome, then, we are indebted most of all for ideas as to gov- ernment, and for the introduction of law and order into an unruly world. In all the intervening centuries between ancient Rome and ourselves, and in spite of many wars and repeated onslaughts of barbarism, Roman governmental law still influences and guides our conduct, and this influence is even yet extending to other lands and other peoples. We are also indebted to Rome for many practical skills and for important engineering knowledge, which was saved and passed on to Western Europe through the medium of the monks. On the other side of the picture, the recent great World War, with all its awful destruction of life and property, and injury to the orderly progress of civilization, may be traced di- rectly to the Roman idea of world empire and the sway of one imperial government, imposing its rule and its culture on the rest of mankind. Into this Roman Empire, united and made one by Roman arms and government, came the first of the modern forces in the ancient world — that of Christianity — the third great foundation element in our western civilization. Embracing in its early development many Greek philosophical ideas, building securely on the Roman governmental organization, and with its new mes- sage for a decaying world, Christianity forms the connecting link between the ancient and modern civilizations. Taking the INTRODUCTION 7 conception of one God which the Jewish tribes of the East had developed, Christianity changed and expanded this in such a way as to make it a dominant idea in the world. Exalting the teach- ings of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the future life, and the need for preparation for a hereafter, Christianity introduced a new type of religion and offered a new hope to the poor and oppressed of the ancient world. In so doing a new ethical force of first importance was added to the effective ener- gies of mankind, and a basis for the education of all was laid, for the first time, in the history of the world. Christianity came at just the right time not only to impart new energy and hopefulness to a decadent ancient civilization, but also to meet, conquer, and in time civilize the barbarian hordes from the North which overwhelmed the Roman Empire. A new and youthful race of German barbarians now appeared upon the scene, with resulting ravage and destruction, and anarchy and ignorance, and long centuries ensued during which ancient civili- zation fell prey to savage violence and superstition. Progress ceased in the ancient world. The creative power of antiquity seemed exhausted. The digestive and assimilative powers of the old world seemed gone. Greek was forgotten. Latin was cor- rupted. Knowledge of the arts and sciences was lost. Schools disappeared. Only the Christian Church remained to save civili- zation from the wreck, and it, too, was almost submerged in the barbaric flood. It took ten centuries partially to civihze, educate, and mould into homogeneous units this heterogeneous horde of new peoples. During this long period it required the strongest energies of the few who understood to preserve the civilization of the past for the enjoyment and use of a modern world. Yet these barbarian Germans, great as was the havoc they wrought at first, in time contributed much to the stream of our modern civilization. They brought new conceptions of individual worth and freedom into a world thoroughly impregnated with the ancient idea of the dominance of the State over the individual. The popular assembly, an elective king, and an independent and developing system of law were contributions of first importance which these peoples brought. The individual man and not the State was, with them, the important unit in society. In the hands of the Angles and Saxons, particularly, but also among the Celts, Franks, Helvetii, and Belgae, this idea of individual free- dom and of the subordination of the State to the individual has 8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION borne large fruit in modern times in the self-governing States of France, Switzerland, Belgium, England and the English self- governing dominions, and in the United States of America. After much experimenting it now seems certain that the Anglo- Saxon type of self-government, as developed first in England and further expanded in the United States, seems destined to be the type of government in future lo rule the world. It took Europe almost ten centuries to recover from the ef!"ects of the invasion of barbarism which the last two centuries of the Roman Empire witnessed, to save itself a little later from Moham- medan conquest, and to pick up the lost threads of the ancient life and begin again the work of civilization. Finally, however, this was accomplished, largely as a result of the labor of monks and missionaries. The barbarians were in time induced to settle down to an agricultural life, to accept Christianity in name at least, and to yield a more or less grudging obedience to monk and priest that they might thereby escape the torments of a world to come. Slowly the monasteries and the churches, aided here and there by far-sighted kings, worked at the restoration of book? and learning, and finally, first in Italy, and later in the nations evolved from the tribes that had raided the Empire, there came a period of awakening and rediscovery which led to the development of the early university foundations, a wonderful revival of ancient learn- ing, a great expansion of men's thoughts, a great religious awak- ening, a wonderful period of world exploration and discovery, the founding of new nations in new lands, the reawakening of thf= spirit of scientific inquiry, the rise of the democratic spirit, and the evolution of our modern civilization. By the end of the eleventh century it was clear that the long battle for the preservation of civilization had been won, but it was not until the fourteenth century that the Revival of Learning in Italy gave clear evidence of the rise of the modern ^irit. By the year 1 500 much had been accomplished, and the new modern questioning spirit of the Italian Revival was making progress in many directions. Most of the old learning had been recovered; the printing-press had been invented, and was at work multiply- ing books; the study of Greek and Hebrew had been revived in the western world; trade and commerce had begun; the cities and the universities which had arisen had become centers of a new life ; a new sea route to India had been found and was in use ; Colum- bus had discovered a new world; the Church was more tolerant INTRODUCTION 9 of new ideas than it had been for centuries ; and thought was be- ing awakened in the western world to a degree that had not taken place since the days of ancient Rome. The world seemed about ready for rapid advances in many directions, and great progress in learning, education, government, art, commerce, and inven- tion seemed almost within its grasp. Instead, there soon opened the most bitter and vindictive religious conflict the world has ever known; western Christian civilization was torn asunder; a century of religious warfare ensued; and this was followed by other centuries of hatred and intolerance and suspicion awak- ened by the great conflict. Still, out of this conflict, though it for a time checked the or- derly development of civilization, much important educational progress was ultimately to come. In promulgating the doctrine that the authority of the Bible in religious matters is superior to the authority of the Church, the basis for the elementary school for the masses of the people, and in consequence the education of all, was laid. This meant the creation of an entirely new type of school — the elementary, for the masses, and taught in the native tongue — to supplement the Latin secondary schools which had been an outgrowth of the revival of ancient learning, and the still earlier cathedral and monastery schools of the Church. The modern elementary vernacular school may then be said to be essentially a product of the Protestant Reformation. This is true in a special sense among those peoples which embraced some form of the Lutheran or Calvinistic faiths. These were the Ger- mans, Moravians, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Danes, Dutch, Walloons, Swiss, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenots, and the English Puritans. As the Renaissance gave a new emphasis to the development of secondary schools by supplying them with a large amount of new subject-matter and a new motive, so the Reformation movement gave a new motive for the education of children not intended for the service of the State or the Church, and the development of elementary vernacular schools was the result. Only in England, of all the revolting countries, did this Protestant conception as to the necessity of education for salva- tion fail to take deep root, with the result that elementary edu- cation in England awaited the new political and social and in- dustrial impulses of the latter half of the nineteenth century for its real development. The rise of the questioning and inferring spirit in the Italian lo HISTORY OF EDUCATION Renaissance marked the beginnings of the transition from mediae- val to modern attitudes, and one of the most important out- growths of this was the rise of scientific inquiry which in time followed. This meant the application of human reason to the investigation of the phenomena of nature, with all that this eventually implied. This, slowly to be sure, turned the energies of mankind in a new direction, led to the substitution of inquiry and patient experimentation for assumption and disputation, and in time produced a scientific and industrial revolution which has changed the whole nature of the older problems. The scientific spirit has to-day come to dominate all lines of human thinking, and the applications of scientific principles have, in the past cen- tury, completely changed almost all the conditions surrounding human life. Applied to education, this new spirit has transformed the instruction and the methods of the schools, led to the crea- tion of entirely new types of educational institutions, and intro- duced entirely new aims and methods and purposes into the edu- cational process. From inquiry into religious matters and inquiry into the phenomena of nature, it was but a short and a natural step to inquiry into the nature and functions of government. This led to a critical questioning of the old established order, the rise of new types of intellectual inquiry, the growth of a consciousness of national problems, and the bringing to the front of questions oi political interest to a degree unknown since the days of ancient Rome. The eighteenth century marks, in these directions, a sharp turning-point in human thinking, and the end of mediaeval- ism and the ushering in of modern forms of intellectual liberty. The eighteenth century, too, witnessed a culmination of a long series of progressive changes which had been under way for cen- turies, and the flood time of a slowly but steadily rising tide of protest against the enslavement of the intellect and the limita- tion of natural human liberties by either Church or State. The flood of individualism which characterized the second half of the eighteenth century demanded outlet, and, denied, it rose and swept away ancient privileges, abuses, and barriers — religious, intellectual, social, and political — and opened the way for the marked progress in all lines which characterized the nineteenth century. Out of this new spirit was to come the American and the French Revolutions, the establishment of constitutional liberty and religious freedom, the beginnings of the abolition of privilege, INTRODUCTION il the rise of democracy, a great extension of educational advan- tages, and the transfer of the control of the school from the Church to the State that the national welfare might be better promoted thereby. Now arose the modern conception of the school as the great constructive instrument of the State, and a new individual and national theory as to both the nature and the purpose of education was advanced. Schools were declared to be essentially civil af- fairs; their purpose was asserted to be to promote the common welfare and advance the interests of the political State; minis- ters of education began to be appointed by the State to take over and exercise control; the citizen supplanted the ecclesiastic in the organization of education and the supervision of classroom teaching; the instruction in the school was changed in direction, and in time vastly broadened in scope; and the education of all now came to be conceived of as a birthright of the child of every citizen. Since the middle of the nineteenth century a great world move- ment for the realization of these new aims, through the taking- over of education from religious bodies and the establishment of state-controlled school systems, has taken place. This move- ment is still going on. Beginning in the nations which were earliest in the front of the struggle to preserve and extend what was so well begun by little Greece and Imperial Rome, the state- control conception of education has, in the past three quarters of a century, spread to every continent on the globe. For ages a Church and private affair, of no particular concern to govern- ment and of importance to but a relatively small number of the people, education has to-day become, with the rise and spread of modern ideas as to human freedom, political equality, and in- dustrial progress, a prime essential to the maintenance of good government and the promotion of national welfare, and it is now so recognized by progressi'/e nations everywhere. With the spread of the state-control idea as to education have also gone western ideas as to government, human rights, social obligations, political equality, pure and applied science, trade, industry, transportation, intellectual and moral improvement, and human- itarian influences which are rapidly transforming and modern- izing not only less progressive western nations, but ancient civili- zations as well, and along the lines so slowly and so painfully worked out by the inheritors of the conceptions of human free- 12 HISTORY OF EDUCATION dom first thought out in Httle Greece, and those of political equality and government under law so well worked out by an- cient Rome. Western civilization thus promises to become the dominant force in world civilization and human progress, with general education as its agent and greatest constructive force. Such is a brief outline sketch of the history of the rise and spread and progress of our western civilization, as expressed in the history of the progress of education, and as we shall trace it in much more detail in the chapters which are to follow. The road that man has traveled from the days when might made right, md when children had no claims which the State or parents were bound to respect, to a time when the child is regarded as of first importance, and adults represented in the State declare by law that the child shall be protected and shall have abundant educa- tional advantages, is a long road and at times a very crooked one. Its ups and downs and forward movements have been those of the progress of the race, and in consequence a history of edu- cational progress must be in part a history of the progress of civilization itself. Human civilization, though, represents a more or less orderly evolution, and the education of man stands as one of the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race of which mankind is capable. It is such a development that we propose to trace, and, having now sketched the broader outlines of the treatment, we next turn to a filling-in of the details, and begin with the Ancient World and the first foundation element as found in the little City-States of ancient Greece. PART I THE ANCIENT WORLD THE FOUNDATION ELEMENTS OF OUR WESTERN CIVILIZATION GREECE — ROME — CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER I THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION I. GREECE AND ITS PEOPLE The land. Ancient Greece, or Hellas as the Greeks called their homeland, was but a small country. The map given below shows the JEgesLTi world superimposed on the States of the old Northwest Territory, from which it may be seen that the Greek mainland was a little less than half as large as the State of Illinois. Greece proper was about the size of the State of West Virginia, but it was 60 100 150; «_ ,' Fig. 2. Ancient Greece and the ^gean World Superimposed on the East-North-Central Group of American States, to show rela- tive size. Dotted lines indicate the boundaries of the American States — Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, etc. All of Greece will be seen to be a little less than half the size of the State of Illinois, the ^gean Sea about the size of the State of Indiana, and Attica not quite so large as two average-size Illinois counties. 1 6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION a much more mountainous land. No spot in Greece was over forty miles from the sea. Attica, where a most wonderful intel- lectual life arose and flourished for centuries, and whose contri- butions to civilization were the chief glory of Greece, was smaller than two average-size Illinois counties, and about two thirds the size of the little State of Rhode Island.^ The country was sparsely populated, except in a few of the City-States, and prob- ably did not, at its most prosperous period, contain much more than a million and a half of people — citizens, foreigners, and slaves included. The land was rough and mountainous, and deeply indented by the sea. The climate and vegetation were not greatly unlike the climate and vegetation of Southern California. Pine and fir on the mountain-slopes, and figs, olives, oranges, lemons, and grapes on the hillsides and plains below, were characteristic of the land. Fishing,^agriculture, and the raising of cattle and sheep were the important industries. A temperate, bracing climate, short, mild winters, and a long, dry summer gave an opportunity for the de- velopment of this wonderful civilization. Like Southern Cali- fornia or Florida in winter, it was essentially an out-of-doors country. The high mountains to the rear, the sun-steeped skies, and the brilliant sea in front were alike the beauty of the land and the inspiration of the people. Especially was this true of Attica, which had the seashore, the plain, the high mountains, and everywhere magnificent views through an atmosphere of remarkable clearness. A land of incomparable beauty and charm, it is little wonder that the Greek citizen, and the Athenian in particular, took pride in and loved his country, and was willing to spend much time in preparing himself to govern and defend it. The government. Politically, Greece was composed of a num- ber of independent City-States of small size. They had been set- tled by early tribes, which originally held the land in common. Attica, with its approximately seven hundred square miles of territory, was an average-size City-State. The central city, the surrounding farming and grazing lands, and the coastal regions all taken together, formed the State, the citizens of which — city- residents, farmers, herdsmen, and fishermen — controlled the ^ The average size of an Illinois county is 550 square miles, or an area 22X25 miles square. The State of West Virginia contains 24,022 square miles, and Rhode Island 1067 square miles. Rhode Island would be approximately 30X36 miles square, which would make Attica approximately 20X36 miles square in area. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 17 government. There were in all some twenty of these City-States in mainland Greece, the most important of which were Attica, of which Athens was the central city; Laconia, of which Sparta was the central city; and Boeotia, of which Thebes was the central city. Some of the States developed democracies, of which class Athens became the most notable example, while some were gov- erned as oligarchies. Of all the different States but few played any conspicuous part in the history of Greece. Of these few Attica stands clearly above them all as the leader in thought and art and the most progressive in government. Here, truly, was a most wonderful people, and it is with Attica that the student of the history of education is most concerned. The best of all Greece was there. The Httle City-States of Greece, as has just been said, were independent States, just like modern nations. While all the Greeks regarded them- selves as tribes of a single family, descended from a com- mon ancestor, Hellen, and the bonds of a common race, lan- guage, and religion tended to unite them into a sort of brotherhood, the different City- States were held apart by their tribal origms, by narrow polit- ical sympathies, and by petty laws. A citizen of one city, for example, was an alien in another, and could not hold property or marry in a city not his own. Such attitudes and laws were but natural, the time and age considered. Sometimes, in case of great danger, as at the time of the Persian invasions {4g2-^'jg B.C.), a number of the States would combine to form a defensive league ; at other times they made war on one an- other. The federal principle, such as we know it in the United States in our state and national governments, never came into play. At different times Athens, Sparta, and Thebes aspired to the leadership of Greece and tried to unite the little States into a Hellenic Nation, but the mutual jealousies and the extreme indi Scale of Miles Fig. 3. The City-State of Attica 1 8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION vidualism of the people, coupled with the isolation of the States and the difficulties of intercommunication through the mountain passes, stood in the way of any permanent union. ^ What Rome later accomplished with relative ease and on a large scale, Greece was unable to do on even a small scale. A lack of capacity to unite for cooperative undertakings seemed to be a fatal weakness of the Greek character. The people. The Greeks were among the first of the European peoples to attain to any high degree of civilization. Their story runs back almost to the dawn of recorded history. As early as 3500 B.C. they were in an advanced stone age, and by 2500 B.C. had reached the age of bronze. The destruction of Homer's Troy dates back to 1200 B.C.. and the Homeric poems to iioo B.C., while an earlier Troy (Schliemann's second city) goes back to 2400 B.C. This history concerns the mainland of Asia Minor. By 1000 B.C. the southern peninsula of Greece had been colonized, between 900 and 800 B.C. Attica and other portions of upper Greece had been settled, and by 650 B.C. Greek colonization had extended to many parts of the Mediterranean.- The lower part of the Greek peninsula, known as Laconia, was settled by the Dorian branch of the Greek family, a practical, forceful, but a wholly unimaginative people. Sparta was their most important city. To the north were the Ionic Greeks, a many-sided and a highly imaginative people. Athens was their 1 The nearest analogy we have to the Greek City-States exists in the local town governments of the New England States, particularly JNIassachusetts, and the local county-unit governmental organizations of a number of the Southern States, though in each of these cases we have a state and a federal government above to unify and direct and control these small local governments, which did not exist, except tempo- rarily, in Greece. If an area the size of West Virginia were divided into some twenty independent counties, which could arrange treaties, make alliances, and declare war, and which sometimes united into leagues for defense or offense, but which were never able to unite to form a single State, we should have a condition analogous to that of main- land Greece. 2 A sea-faring people, the Greeks became to the ancient Mediterranean world what the English have been to the modern world. Southern Italy became so thickly set with small Greek cities that it was known as Magna Gracia. On the island of Sicily the city of Syracuse was founded (734 B.C.), and became a center of power and a home of noted Greeks. The city of Marseilles, in southern France, dates from an Ionic settlement about 600 B.C. The presence of another seafaring people, the Phoenicians, along the northern coast of Africa and southern and eastern Spain, probably checked the further spread of Greek colonies to the westward. The city of Gyrene, in northern Africa, dates from about 630 B.C. Greek colonists also went north and east, through the Dardanelles and on into the Black Sea. (See map. Figure 2.) Salonica and Constantinople date back to Greek colonization. Many of he colonies reflected great honor and credit on the motherland, and served to .-rfrp-^H Greek manners, language, and religion over a wide area. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 19 chief city. In the settlement of Laconia the Spartans imposed themselves as an army of occupation on the origmal inhabitants, whom they compelled to pay tribute to them, and established a military monarchy in southern Greece. The people of Attica, on the other hand, absorbed into their own body the few earlier set- tlers of the Attic plain. They also established a monarchy, but, being a people more capable of progress, this later evolved into a democracy. The people of Attica were in consequence a some- what mixed race, which possibly in part accounts for their greater intellectual ability and versatility.^ It accounts, though, only in part. Climate, beautiful surround- ings, and contact with the outside world probably also contrib- uted something, but the real basis underneath was the very su- perior quality of the people of Attica. In some way, just how we do not know, these people came to be endowed with a superior genius and the rather unusual ability to make those progressive changes in living and government which enabled them to make the most of their surroundings and opportunities, and to advance while others stood still. Far more than other Greeks, the people of Attica were imaginative, original, versatile, adaptable, pro- gressive, endowed with rare mental ability, keenly sensitive to beauty in nature and art, and possessed of a wonderful sense of proportion and a capacity for moderation m all things. Only on such an assumption can we account for their marvelous achievements in art, philosophy, literature, and science at this very early period in the development of the civilization of the world. Classes in the population. Greece, as was the ancient world in general, was built politically on the dominant power of a ruling class. In consequence, all of course could not become citizens of the State, even after a democracy had been evoK^ed. Citizen- ship came with birth and proper education, and, before 509 B.C., foreigners were seldom admitted to privileges in the State. Only a male citizen might hold office, protect himself in the courts, own land, or attend the public assemblies. Only a citizen, too, could participate in the religious festivals and rites, for religion was an affair of the ruling famihes of the State. In consequence, family, rehgion, and citizenship were all bound up together, and educa- 1 It is the great mixed races that have counted for most in history. The strength of England is in part due to its wonderful mixture of peoples — Britons, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Northmen, to mention only the more important earlier peo- ples which have been welded together to form the English people, 20 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tion and training were chiefly for citizenship and reHgious (moral) ends. Even more, citizenship everywhere in the earher period was a degree to be attained to only after proper education and prelim- inary military and political training. This not only made some form of education necessary, but confined educational advantages to male youths of proper birth. There was of course no purpose in educating any others.^ From Figure 4 it will be seen what a small percentage of the total population this included. Educa- tion in Greece was essentially the education of the children of the ruling class to perpetuate the rule of that class. Attica almost alone among the Greek States adopted anything approaching a liberal attitude toward the foreign-born ; in Sparta, and generally elsewhere in Greece, they were looked upon with deep suspicion. As a result most of the foreign residents of Greece were to be found in Athens, or its neighboring port city (the Piraeus), attracted there by the hospitality of the people and the intellectual or commercial advantages of these cities. After Athens had become the center of world thought, many foreigners took up their residence in the city because of the importance of its intellectual life. Foreigners, though, they remained up to 509 B.C. (See page 40.) Only rarely before this date, and then only for some conspicuous act of patriotism, and by special vote of the citi- zens, was a foreigner admitted to citizenship. Unlike Rome, which received those of alien birth freely into its citizenship, and opened up to them large opportunities of every kind, the Greeks persist- ently refused to assimilate the foreign-bom. Regarding them- selves as a superior people, descended from the gods, they held themselves apart rather exclusively as above other peoples. This kept the blood pure, but, from the standpoint of world usefulness, it was a serious defect in Greek Hfe.^ Beneath both citizens and foreign residents was a great founda- tion mass of working slaves, who rendered all types of menial and intellectual services. Sailors, household servants, field workers, ^ Athens, however, permitted the children of foreigners to attend its schools, particularly in the later period of Athenian education. 2 "When I compare the customs of the Greeks with these (the Romans), I can find no reason to extol either those of the Spartans, or the Thebans, or even of the Athenians, who value themselves the most for their wisdom; all who, jealous of their nobihty and communicating to none or to very few the privileges of their cities . . . were so far from receiving any advantage from this haughtiness that they became the greatest sufferers by it." (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his Roman Antiguities, book II, chap, xvii.) THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 21 clerks in shops and offices, accountants, and pedagogues were among the more common occupations of slaves in Greece. Many of these had been citizens and learned men of other City-States or coimtries, but had been carried off as captives in some war. This was a common prac- tice in the ancient world, slavery being the lot of alien conquered people almost without exception. The composition of Attica, just before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.) is shown in Figure 4. The great number of slaves and foreigners is clearly seen, even though the citizenship had by this time been greatly extended. In Sparta and in other City-States somewhat similar conditions prevailed as to num- bers,^ but there the slaves (Helots) occupied a lower status than in Athens, being in reality serfs, tied to and being sold with the land, and having no rights which a citizen was bound to respect. Education, then, being only for the male children of citizens, and citizen- ship a degree to be attained to on the basis of education and training, let us next see in what that education consisted, and what were its most- prominent characteristics and results. Fig. 4. Distribution of the Population of Athens and Attica, about 430 b.c. (After Gulick) II. EARLY EDUCATION IN GREECE Some form of education that would train the son of the citizen for participation in the religious observances and duties of a citi- zen of the State, and would prepare the State for defense against outward enemies, was everywhere in Greece recognized as a public necessity, though its provision, nature, and extent varied in the different City-States. We have clear information only as to Sparta and Athens, and will consider only these two as types. Sparta is interesting as representing the old Greek tribal training, ^ In Sparta the number of citizens was still less. At the time of the formulation of the Spartan constitution by Lycurgus (about 850 B.C.) there were but 9000 Spartan families in the midst of 250,000 subject people. This disproportion in- creased rather than diminished in later centuries. 22 HISTORY OF EDUCATION from which Sparta never progressed. Many of the other Greek City-States probably maintained a system of training much like that of Sparta. Such educational systems stand as undesirable examples of extreme state socialism, contributed little to our Western civilization, and need not detain us long. It was Athens, and a few other City-States which followed her example, which presented the best of Greece and passed on to the modern world what was most valuable for civilization. I . Education in Sparta The people. The system of training which was maintained in Sparta was in part a reflection of the character of the people, and in part a result of its geographical location. A warlike people by nature, the Spartans were for long regarded as the ablest fighters in Greece. Laconia, their home, was a plain surrounded by mountains. They represented but a small percentage of the total population, which they held in subjection to them by their mili- tary power. ^ The slaves (Helots) were often troublesome, and were held in check by many kinds of questionable practices. Education for citizenship with the Spartans meant education for usefulness in an intensely military State, where preparedness was a prerequisite to safety. Strength, courage, endurance, cunning, patriotism, and obedience were the virtues most highly prized, while the humane, literary, and artistic sentiments were ne- glected (R. i). Aristotle well expressed it when he said that " Sparta prepared and trained for war, and in peace rusted like a sword in its scabbard." The educational system. At birth the child was examined by a council of elders (R. i), and if it did not appear to be a promising child it was exposed to die in the mountains. If kept, the mother had charge of the child until seven if a boy, and still longer if a girl. At the beginning of the eighth year, and until the boy reached the age of eighteen, he lived in a public barrack, where he was given little except physical drill and instruction in the Spar- tan virtues. His food and clothing were scant and his bed hard. Each older man was a teacher. Running, leaping, boxing, wres- tling, mihtary music, military drill, ball-playing, the use of the spear, fighting, stealing, and laconic speech and demeanor con- ' The Austrian-Magyar combination, which held together and dominated the many tribes of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, is an analogous modern situa- tion, though on a much larger scale. / THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 23 stituted the course of study. From eighteen to twenty was spent in professional training for war, and frequently the youth was publicly whipped to develop his courage and endurance. For the next ten years — ■ that is, until he was thirty years old — he was in the army at some frontier post. At thirty the young man was admitted to full citizenship and compelled to marry, though con- tinuing to live at the public barrack and spending his energies in training boys (R. i). Women and girls were given gymnastic training to make them strong and capable of bearing strong chil- dren. The family was virtually suppressed in the interests of defense and war.^ The intellectual training consisted chiefly in committing to memory the Laws of Lycurgus, learning a few selections from Homer, and listening to the conversation of the older men. As might naturally be supposed, Sparta contributed httle of anything to art, literature, science, philosophy, or government. She left to the world some splendid examples of heroism, as for example the sacrifice of Leonidas and his Spartans to hokl the pass at Thermopylae,^ and a warning example of the brutaHzing effect on a people of excessive devotion to military training. It is a pleasure to turn from this dark picture to the wonderful (for the time) educational system that was gradually developed at Athens. 2. The old Athenian education Schools and teachers. Athenian education divides itself nat- urally into two divisions — the old Athenian training which pre- vailed up to about the time of the close of the Persian Wars (479 B.C.) and was an outgrowth of earMer tribal observances and practices, and later Athenian education, which characterized the 1 Two Greek poems illustrate the Spartan mother, who was said to admonish hei sons to come back with their shields, or upon them. The first is: "Eight sons Daementa at Sparta's call Sent forth to fight: one tomb received them all. No tears she shed, but shouted, 'Victory! Sparta, I bore them but to die for thee.' " The second: "A Spartan, his companion slain, Alone from battle fled: His mother, kindling with disdain That she had borne him, struck him dead; For courage and not birth alone In Sparta testifies a son." "Go, tell at Sparta, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to her laws, we lie." (Epitaph on the three hundred who fell at Thermopyte.) 24 HISTORY OF EDUCATIONf .. V. period of maximum greatness of Athens and afterward. We shall describe these briefly, in order. The state miHtary socialism of Sparta made no headway in more democratic Attica. The citizens were too individuahstic, and did their own thinking too well to permit the establishment of any such plan. While education was a necessity for citizen- ship, and the degree could not be obtained without it, the State nevertheless left every citizen free to make his own arrangements for the education of his sons, or to omit such education if he saw fit. Only instruction in reading, writing, music, and gymnastics were required. If f anaily pride, and the sense of obligation of a parent and a citizen were not sufficient to force the father to edu- cate his son, the son was then by law freed from the necessity of supporting his father in his old age. The State supervised edu- cation, but did not establish it. The t eacher s were private teachers, and derived their livelihood from fees. These naturally varied much with the kind of teacher and the wealth of the parent, much as private lessons in music or dancing do to-day. As was common in antiquity, the teachers occupied but a low social position (R. 5), and only in the higher schools of Athens was their standing of any importance. Greek literature contains many passages which show the low social status of the schoolmaster. ^ Schools were open from dawn to dark. The school discipline was severe, the rod being freely used both in the school and in the home. There were no Saturday and Sunday holidays or long vacations, such as we know, but about ninety festival and other state holidays served to break the continuity of instruction (R. 3). The schoolrooms were provided by the teachers, and were wholly lacking in teaching equipment, in any modem sense of the term. However, but little was needed. The instruction was largely individual instruction, the boy com- ing, usually in charge of an old slave known as a pedagogue, to re- _3r^ ceive or recite his lessons. The teaching process was essentially a telling and a leamin s-'b>''~h£ a . rt pro cedure. For the earlier years there were two schools which boys at- ' An Athenian saying, of a man who was missing, was: "Either he is dead or has become a schoolmaster." To call a man a schoolmaster was to abuse him, according to Epicurus. Demosthenes, in his attack on ^Eschines, ridicules him for the fact that his father was a schoolmaster in the lowest type of reading and writing school. "As a boy," he says, "you were reared in abject poverty, waiting with your father on the school, grinding the ink, sponging the benches, sweeping the room, and doing the duty of a menial rather thani of a freeman's son." ! Lucian represents kings a . being forced to maintain themseves in hell by teaching reading and writing. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 25 From sixteen to tended — the music and literary school, and a school for physical training. Boys probably spent part of the day at one school and part at the other, though this is not certain. They may have attended the two schools on alternate days. eighteen, if his parents were able, the boy attended a state-supported gymnasium, where an advanced type of physical train- ing was given. As this was preparatory for the next two years of army service, the gymnasia were supported by the State more as preparedness measures than as educa- tional institutions, though they partook of the nature of both. Early childhood. As at Sparta the in- fant was examined at birth, but the father, and not a council of citizens, decided whether or not it was to be "exposed" or preserved. Three ceremonies, of ancient tribal origin, marked the recognition and acceptance of the child. The first took place five days after birth, when the child was carried around the family hearth by the nurse, followed by the, household in procession. This ceremony, followed by a feast, was designed to place the child forever under the care of the family gods. On the tenth day the child was named by the father, who then formally recognized the child as his own and committed himself to its rearing and education. The third ceremony took place at the autumn family festival, when all chil- dren born during the preceding year were presented to the father's clansmen, who decided, by vote, whether or not the boy or girl was the legitimate and lawful child of Athenian parents. If approved, the child's name was entered on the registry of the clan, and he might then aspire to citizenship and inherit property from his parent (R. 4) . Up to the age of seven both boys and girls grew up together in the home, under the care of the nurse and mother, engaging in much the same games and sports as do children anywhere. From the first they were carefully disciplined for good behavior and for the establishment of self-control (R. 3), After the age of seven the boy and girl parted company in the matter of their education, the girl remaining closely secluded in the home (women and chil- Fic. 5. A Greek Boy 26 HISTORY OF EDUCATION dren were usually confined to the upper floor of the house) and being instructed in the household arts by her mother, while the boy went to different teachers for his education. Probably many girls learned to read and write from their mothers or nursesTand the daughters of well-to-do citizens learned to spin, weave, sew, and embroider. Music was also a common accomplishment of women. ^ The school of the grammatist. A Greek boy, unlike a mod- em school child, did not go to one teacher. Instead he had at least two teachers, and sometimes three. To the grammatist, who was doubtless an evolution from an earlier tribal scribe, he went to learn to read and write and count. The grammatist repre- sented the earliest or primary teacher. To the music teacher, who probably at first taught reading and writing also, he went for his instruction in music and literature. Finally, to the palcBstra he went for instruction in physical training (R. 3). Reading was taught by first learning the letters, then syllables, and finally words.- Plaques V''''5tN rr'l D Ob F i KA I TOJ Lti: on which was written, of baked earth the alphabet like the more modem* horn- book (see Figure 130), were frequently used.^ The ease with which modern children learn to read was unknown in Greece. Reading was very dif- ficult to learn, as accentuation, punctuation, spacing between words, and small letters had not as yet been introduced. As a result the study required ^ Women were not supposed to possess any of the privileges of citizenship, be- longing rather to the alien class. They lived secluded lives, were not supposed to take any part in public affairs, and, if their husbands brought company to the house, they were expected to retire from view. In their attitude toward women the Greeks were an oriental rather than a modern or western people. 2 "We learn first the names of the elements of speech, which are called grammata; then their shape and functions; then the syllables and their affections; lastly, the parts of speech, and the particular mutations connected with each, as inflection, number, contraction, accents, position in the sentence; then we begin to read and write, at first in syllables and slowly, but when we have attained the necessary cer- tainty, easily and quickly." (Dionysiusof Halicarnassus, Z)c Cow/'o.y. Verb.axp 25.) * Fragments of a tile found in Attica have stamped upon them the syllables ar, bar, gar; er, her, ger; etc. A bottle-shaped vase has also been found which, in addi- tion to the alphabet, contains pronouncing exercises as follows: bi-ba-bu-he zi-za-zu-ze pi-pa-pu-pe gi-ga-gn-ge mi-nia-mit-nie etc. MO 1 A lA P f < F n P YT ANE YC N E 6^-i i.-' E JA A KP FT A< IT fj Mc iiMHNO-s: TH I I Ffs -./r H :? y I \' Fig. 6. An Athenian Inscription A decree of the Council and Assembly, dating from about 450 B.C. Note the dii^- culty of trying to read, without any punc- tuation, and with only capital letters. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 27 Fig. 7. Greek Writing-Materials much time,^ and much personal ingenuity had to be exercised in determining the meaning of a sentence. The inscription shown in Figure 6 will illustrate the difficulties quite well. The Athenian accent, too, was hard to acquire. The pupil learned to write by first tracing, with the I stylus, letters £ut in wax tablets, and later by copy- ing exercises set for him by his teacher, using the wax tablet and writing on his knee. Still later the pupil learned to write with ink on papyrus or parchment, though, due to the cost of parchment in ancient times, this was not greatly used. Slates and paper were of course unknown in Greece. There was little need for arithmetic, and but little was taught. Arithmetic such as we teach would have been impossible with their cum- brous system of notation.^ Only the elements of counting were taught, the Greek using his fingers or a counting- board, such as is shown in Figure 8, to do his simple reckoning. Great importance of reading and literature. After the pupil had learned to read, much attention was given to accentuation and articulation, in or- der to secure beautiful reading. Still more, in reading or reciting, the parts \Yere acted out. The Greeks were a nation of actors, and the recitations in the schools and the acting in the theaters gave plenty of opportunity for expression. There were no schoolbooks, as we know them. The master dictated, and the pupils wrote down, or, not uncom- ^ "Learning to read must have been a difficult business in Hellas, for books were written only in capitals at this time. There were no spaces between the words, and no stops were inserted. Thus the reader had to exercise his ingenuity before he could arrive at the meaning of a sentence." (Freeman, K. J., Schools of Hellas, p. 87.) ^ The Greeks had no numbers, but only words for numbers, and used the letters of the Greek alphabet with accents over them to indicate the words they knew as numbers. Counting and bookkeeping would of course be very difficult with such a system. Five Times Unity Thou Bands • •0 Hun dreds 999 Te ns • • • Un its #••0 Fig. 8 A Greek Counting-Board Pebbles of different size or color were used for thousands, hun- dreds, tens, and units. Their position on the board gave them their values. The board now shows the total 15,379. 28 HISTORY OF EDUCATION" monly, learned by heart what the master dictated. Ink and parchment were now used, the boy making his own schoolbooks. Homer was the first and the great reading book of the Greeks, the Iliad and the Odyssey being the Bible of the Greek people. -ThHrfollowed Hesiod, Theognis, the Greek poets, and the fables of i5isop.' Reading, declamation, and music were closely inter- related. To appeal to the emotions and to stir the will along moral and civic lines was a fundamental purpose of the instruc- tion (R. 5). A modern writer well characterizes the ancient instruction in literature in the following words: By making the works of the great poets of the Greek people the material of their education, the Athenians attained a variety of objects difficult of attainment by any other one means. The fact is, the an- cient poetry of Greece, with its finished form, its heroic tales and char- acters, its accounts of peoples far removed in time and space, its man- liness and pathos, its directness and siniplicity, its piety and wisdom, its respect for law and order, combined with its admiration for personal initiative and worth, furnished, in the hands of a careful and genial teacher, a material for a complete education such as could not well be matched even in our own day. What instruction in ethics, politics, social life, and manly bearing could not find a fitting vehicle in the Homeric poems, not to speak of the geography, the grammar, the literary criticism, and the history which the comprehension of them involved? Into what a wholesome, unsentimental, free world did these poems introduce the imaginative Greek boy! What splendid ideals of manhood and womanhood did they hold up for his admiration and imitation! From Hesiod he would learn all that he needed to know about his gods and their relation to him and his people. From the elegiac poets he would derive a fund of political and social wisdom, and an impetus to patriotism, which would go far to make him a good man and a good citizen. From the iambic poets he would learn to express with energy his indignation at meanness, feebleness, wrong, anc tyranny, while from the lyric poets he would learn the language suit- able to every genial feeling and impulse of the human heart. And in reciting or singing all these, how would his power of terse, idiomatic expression, his sense of poetic beauty and his ear for rhythm and music be developed ! With what a treasure of examples of every virtue and vice, and with what a fund of epigrammatic expression would his memory be furnished! How familiar he would be with the character and ideals of his nation, how deeply in sympathy with them! And all 1 "These poems, especially Homer, Hesiod, and Theognis, served at the same time for drill in language and for recitation, whereby on the one hand the memory was developed and the imagination strengthened, and on the other the heroic forms of antiquity and healthy primitive utterances regarding morality, and full of homely common sense, were deeply engraved on the young mind. Homer was regarded not merely as a poet, but as an inspired moral teacher, and great portions of his poems were learned by heart. The Iliad and the Odyssey were in truth the Bible of the Greeks." (Laurie, S. S., Pre-Christian Education, p. 258.) A Lesson in Music and Language Explanation: At the right is the paidagogos; he is seated, and turns his head to look at his pupil, who is standing before his master. The hitter holds a writing-tablet and a stylus; he is perhaps correcting a task. At the left a pupil is taking a music lesson. On the wall are hung a roll of manuscript, a folded writing-tablet, a lyre, and an unknown cross-shaped object. A Lesson in Music and Poetry Explanation: At the right sits, cross-legged, the paidagogos, who has just brought in his pupil. The boy stands before the teacher of poetry and recites his lesson. The master, in a chair, holds in his hand a roll which he is unfolding, upon which we see Greek letters. Above these three figures we see on the wall a cup, a lyre, and a leather case of flutes. To the bag is attached the small box containing mouth- pieces of different kinds for the flutes. Farther on a pupil is receiving a lesson in music. The master and pupil are both seated on seats without backs. The master, with head erect, looks at the pupil who, bent over his lyre, seems absorbed in his y^laying. Above are hanging a basket, a lyre, and a cup. On the wall is an inscrip- tion in Greek. Fig. 9. An Athenian School From a cup discovered at Caere, signed by the painter Duris, and now in the Museum of Berlin) 30 HISTORY OF EDUCATION • this was possible even before the introduction of letters. With this event a new era in education begins. The boy now not only learns and declaims his Homer, and sings his Simonides or Sappho; he learns also to write down their verses from dictation, and so at once to read and to write. This, indeed, was the way in which these two (to us) fundamental arts were acquired. As soon as the boy could trace with his finger in sand, or scratch with a stylus on wax, the forms of the letters, and combine them into syllables and words, he began to write poetry from his master's dictation. The writing-lesson of to-da}^ was the reading, recitation, or singing-lesson of to-morrow. Every boy made his own reading book, and, if he found it illegible, and stumbled in reading, he had only himself to blame. The Greeks, and especially the Athenians, laid the greatest stress on reading well, reciting well, and singing well, and the youth who could not do all three was looked upon as uncultured. Nor could he hide his want of culture, since young men were continually called upon, both at home and at more or less public gatherings, to perform their part in the social entertain- ment. ^ The music school. The teacher in this school gradually separ- ated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school. In his functions he suc- ceeded the wandering poet or minstrel of earlier times. Music teachers were common in all the City-States of Greece. To this teacher the boy went at first to recite his poetry, and after the thirteenth year for a special music course. The teacher was known as a citharist, and the instrument usually used was the seven-stringed lyre. This resembled somewhat our modern guitar. The flute was also used somewhat, but never grew into much favor, partly because it tended to excite rather than soothe, and partly because of the contortions of the face to which its playing gave rise. Rhythm, melody7-aud_the feeling_for measure anc time were important in instruction, whose office was to soothe, purge, and harmonize man within and make him fit for moral instruction through the poetry with which their music was ever associated. Instead of being a distinct art, as with us, and taught by itself, music with the Greeks was always subsidiary to the expression of the spirit of their literature, and in aim it was for moral- training ends.^ Both Aristotle and Plato advocate state 1 Davidson, Thos., Aristotle, pp. 73-75. 2 Plutarch later expressed well the Greek conception of musical education in these words: "Whoever be he that shall give his mind to the study of music in his youth, if he meet with a musical education proper for the forming and regulating his inclinations, he will be sure to applaud and embrace that which is noble and gen- erous, and to rebuke and blame the contrary, as well in other things as in what belongs to music. And by that means he will become clear from all reproachful actions, for now having reaped the noblest fruit of music, he may be of great use. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 31 control of school music to insure sound moral results. Inferior as their music was to present-day music, it exerted an influence over their lives which it is difficult for an American teacher to appreci- ate. The first lessons taught the use of the instrument, and the sim- ple chants of the religious services were learned. As soon as the pupil knew how to play, the master taught him to render the works of the great lyric poets of Greece. Poetry and music to- The Singing Lesson The boy is singing, to the accompani- ment of a flute. On the wall hangs a bag of flutes. Fig. 10. Greek School Lessons The Literature Lesson The boy is reciting, while the teacher follows him on a roll of manuscript. gether thus formed a single art. At thirteen a special music course began which lasted until sixteen, but which only the sons of the more well-to-do citizens attended. Every boy, though, learned some music, not that he might be a musician, but that he might be musical and able to perform his part at social gatherings and participate in the religious services of the State. Profes- sional playing was left to slaves and foreigners, and was deemed unworthy a free man and a citizen. Professionalism in either music or athletics was regarded as disgraceful. The purpose of. both activities was harmonious personal development, which the Greeks believed contributed to moral worth. \ The palaestra; gymnastics. Very unlike our modem educa- tion, fully one half of a boy's school life, from eight to sixteen, was given to sports and games in another school under different teach- not only to himself, but to the commonwealth; while music teaches him to abstain from everything that is indecent, both in word and deed, and to observe decorum, temperance, and regularity." (Monroe, Paul, History of Education, p. 92.) / 32 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ers, known as the palcEstra. The work began gradually, but by fifteen had taken precedence over other studies. As in music, harmonious physical development and moral ends were held to be of fundamental importance. The standards of success were far from our modern standards. To win the game was of little significance; the important thing was to do the part gracefully and, for the person concerned, well. To attain to a graceful and dignified carriage of the body, good physical health, perfect con- trol of the temper, and to develop quickness of perception, self- possession, ease, and skill in the games were the aims — not mere strength or athletic prowess (R. 2). Only a few were allowed to train for participation in the Olympian games. The work began with children's games, contests in running, and ball games of various kinds. J^eportment • — how to get up, walk, sit, and how to achieve easy manners — was taught by the mas- ters. After the pupils came to be a little older there was a definite course of study, which included, in succession: (i) leaping and jumping, for general bodily and lung development; (2) running contests, for agility and endurance; (3) throwing the discus,^ for arm exercise; (4) casting the javelin, for bodily poise and coordi- nation of movement, as well as for future use in hunting ; (5) boxing and wrestling, for quickness, agility, endurance, and the control of the temper and passions. Swimming and dancing were also in- cluded for all, dancing being a slow and graceful movement of the body to music, to develop grace of motion and beauty of form, and to exercise the whole human being, body and soul. The minuet and some of our folk-dancing are our nearest approach to the Greek type of dancing, though still not like it. The modern part- ner dance was unknown in ancient Greece. The exercises were performed in classes, or in small groups. They took place in the open air, and on a dirt or sandy floor. They were accompanied by music — usually the flute, played by ia paid performer. A number of teachers looked after the boys, .examining them physically, supervising the exercises, directing the work, and giving various forms of instruction. The gymnasial training, sixteen to eighteen. Up to this point the education provided was a private and a family affair. In the home and in the school the boy had now been trained to be a gen- tleman, to revere the gods, to be moral and upright according to Greek standards, and in addition he had been given that training ^ Aflat circle of polished bronze, or other metal, eight or nine inches in diameter. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 33 in reading, writing, music, and athletic exercises that the State required parents to furnish. It is certain that many boys, whose parents could ill afford further expense for schooling, were allowed to quit the schools at from thirteen to fifteen. Those who ex- pected to become full citizens, however, and to be'aTpaJt ofthe government and hold olhce, were required to continue until twenty years of age. Two years more were spent in schooling, largely athletic, and two years additional in military service. Of this additional training, if his parents chose and could afford it, the State now took control. ¥jIJ/f^///J/^^/N/ir//)>>>ii,,iu,i„,, ,,,,„,,,,,„,,, t>iini n.i»>,}>>>nif/ ^ Fig. II. Ground-Plan of the Gymnasium AT Ephesos, in Asia Minor Explanation: A, B, C, pillared corridors, or portico; D, an open space, possibly a palaestra, evidently intended to supply the peristylium; E, a long, narrow hall used for games of ball; F, a large hall with seats; G, in which was suspended a sack filled with chaff for the use of boxers; H, where the young men sprinkled themselves with dust; /, the cold bath; A', where the wrestling-master anointed the bodies of the contestants; L, the cooling-off room; M, the furnace-room; N, the vapor bath; 0, the dry-sweating apartment; P, the hot bath; Q, Q', rooms for games, for the keepers, or for other uses; R, R', covered stadia, for use in bad weather; S, S, S, S, S, rows of seats, look- ing upon T, the uncovered stadium; U, groves, with seats and walks among the trees; V, V, recessed seats for the use of philosophers, rhetoricians^ and others. 34 HISTORY OF EDUCATION For the years from sixteen to eighteen the boy attended-a state gymnasium, of which two were erected outside of Athens by the State, in groves of trees, in 590 B.C. Others were erected later in other parts of Greece. Figure 1 1 shows the ground plan of one of these gymnasia, and a study of the explanation of the plan will re- veal the nature of these estabhshments. The boy now had for teachers a number of gymnasts of ability. The old exercises of the palcestra were continued, but running, wrestling, and boxing were much emphasized. The youth learned to run in armor, while wrestling and boxing became more severe. He also learned to ride a horse, to drive a chariot, to sing and dance in the public choruses, and to participate in the public state and religious processions. Still more, the youth now passed from the supervision of a fam- ily pedagogue to the supervision of the State. For the first time in his life he was now free to go where he desired about the city; to frequent the streets, market-place, and theater; to listen to debates and jury trials, and to witness the great games; and to mix with men in the streets and to mingle somewhat in public affairs. He saw little of girls, except his sisters, but formed deep friendships with other young men of his age.^ Aside from a re- quirement that he learn the laws of the State, his education during this period was entirely physical and civic. If he abused his Hb- erty he was taken in hand by public officials charged with the supervision of public morals. He was, however, still regarded as a minor, and his father (or guardian) was held responsible for his public behavior. The citizen-cadet years, eighteen to twenty. The supervision of the State during the preceding two years had in a way been joint with that of his father; now the State took complete control. At the age of eighteen his father took him before the proper au- thorities of his district or ward in the city, and presented him as a candidate for citizenship. He was examined morally and physi- cally, and if sound, and if the records showed that he was the legitimate son of a citizen, his name was entered on the register of ^ "There were no home influences in Hellas. The men-folk lived out of doors. The young Athenian from his sixth year onward spent his whole day away from home, in the company of his contemporaries, at school or palaestra, or in the streets. When he came home there was no home life. His mother was a nonentity, living in the woman's apartments; he probably saw little of her. His real home was the palaestra, his companions his contemporaries and his paidagogos. He learned to disassociate himself from his family and associate himself with his fellow citizens. No doubt he lost much by this system, but the solidarity of the State gained-" (Freeman, K. J., Schools of Hellas, p. 2S2.) THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 35 his ward as a prospective member of it (R. 4). His long hair was now cut, he donned the black garb of the citizen, was presented to the people along with others at a pubhc ceremony, was publicly armed with a spear and a shield, and then, proceeding to one of the shrines of the city, on a height overlooking it, he solemnly took_the^.p,hehic -oath : I will never disgrace these sacred arms, nor desert my companion in the ranks. I will fight for temples and public property, both alone and with many. I will transmit my fatherland, not only not less, but greater and better, than it was transmitted to me. I will obey the magistra tes who may at any time be in power. I will observe both the existing laws and those which the people may unanimously hereafter make, and, if any person seek to annul the laws or to set them at naught, I will do my best to prevent him, and will defend them both alone and with many. I will honor the religion of my fathers. And I call to witness Aglauros, Enyalios, Ares, Zeus, Thallo, Auxo, and Hegemone. He was now an Ephebos, or citizen-cadet, with still two years of severe training ahead of him before he could take up the full duties of citizenship. The first year he spent in and near Athens, learning to be a soldier. He did what recruits do almost every- where — drill, camp in the open, learn the army methods and dis- cipline, and march in public processions and take part in religious festivals. This first year was much like that of new troops in camp being worked into real soldiers. At the end of the year there was a public drill and inspection of the cadets, after which they were sent to the frontier. It was now his business to come to know his country thoroughly — Jts^topqgraphy, roads, springs, seashores, and mountain passes. He also assisted in enforcing law and order throughout the country districts, as a sort of a state constabulary or rural police. At the end of this second year of practical train- ing the second examination was held, the cadet was now admitted to full citizenship, and passed to the ranks of a trained citizen in the reserve army of defense, as does a boy in Switzerland to-day (R. 4). Results under the old Greek system. Such was the educa- tional system which was in time evolved from the earlier tribal practices of the citizens of old Athens. If we consider Sparta as representing the earlier tribal education of the Greek peoples, we see how far the Athenians, due to their wonderful ability to make progress, were able to advance beyond this earlier type of prepa- ration for citizenship (R. 5). Not only did Athens surpass all 36 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Greece, but, for the first time in the history of the world, we find rhere, expressing itself in the education of the young, the modern ^ western, individualistic and democratic spirit, as opposed to the deadening caste and governmental systems of the East. Here first we find a free people living under political conditions which favored liberty, culture, and intellectual growth, and using their liberty to advance the culture and the knowledge of the people (R. 6). •^ Here also we find, for the first time, the thinkers of the State \ deeply concerned with the education of the youth of the State, and viewing education as a necessity to make life worth living and , secure the State from dangers, both within and without. To pre- pare men by a severe but simple and honest training to fear the gods, to do honest work,, to despise comfort and vice, to obey the laws, to respect their neighbors and themselves, and to reverence the wisdom of their race, was the aim of this old education. The schooling for citizenship was rigid, almost puritanical, but it pro- duced wonderful results, both in peace and in war.^ Men thus trained guided the destinies of Athens during some two centuries, and the despotism of the East as represented by Persia could not defeat them at Marathon, Salamis, and Platasa. The simple and effective curriculum. The simplicity of the curriculum was one of its marked features. In a manner seldom witnessed in the world's educational history, the Greeks used their religion, literature, government, and the natural activities of young men to impart an education of wonderful effectiveness.^ The subjects we have valued so highly for training were to them unknown. They taught no arithmetic or grammar, no science, no drawing, no higher mathematics, and no foreign tongue. Music, the literature and religion of their own people, careful physical training, and instruction in the duties and practices of citizenship constituted the entire curriculum. ^ "No doubt the Athenian public was by no means so learned as we moderns are; they were ignorant of many sciences, of much history, — in short of a thousand results of civilization which have since accrued. But in civilization itself, in mental power, in quickness of comprehension, in correctness of taste, in accuracy of judg- ment, no modern nation, however well instructed, has been able to equal by labored acquirements the inborn genius of the Greeks." (MahafTy, J. P., Old Greek Education.) ^ The great institutions of the Greek City-State were in themselves highly educa- tive. The chief of these were: 1. The Assembly, where the laws were proposed, debated, and made. 2. The Juries, on which citizens sat and where the laws were applied. 3. The Theater, where the great masterpieces of Greek literature were performed. 4. The Olympian and other Games, which were great religious ceremonies of a literary as well as an athletic and artistic character, and to which Greeks from all over Hellas came. 5. The city life itself, among an inquisitive, imaginative, and disputatious people. THE OLD GREEK EDUCATION 37 _lt-EKas an education by doing; not one of learning .from books. That it was an attractive type of education there is abundant testimony by the Greeks themselves. We have not as yet come to value physical education as did the Greeks, nor are we nearly so successful in our moral education, despite the aid of the Chris- tian religion which they did not know. It was, to be sure , class education, and hmited to but a small fraction of the total popu- lation. In it girls had no share. There were many features of Greek life, too, that are repugnant to modem conceptions. Yet, despite these limitations, the old education of Athens still stands as one of the most successful in its results of any system of edu- cation which has been evolved in the history of the world. Con- sidering its time and place in the history of the world and that it was a development for which there were nowhere any precedents, it represented a very wonderful evolution. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Why are imaginative ability and many-sided natures such valuable characteristics for any people? 2. Why is the abihty to make progressive changes, possessed so markedly by the Athenian Greeks, an important personal or racial character- istic? 3. Are the Athenian characteristics, stated in the middle of page 19, charac- teristics capable of development by training, or are they native, or both? 4. How do you explain the Greek failure to achieve political unity? 5. Would education for citizenship with us to-day possess the same defects as in ancient Greece? Why? Do we give an equivalent training? 6. Which is the better attitude for a nation to assume toward the foreigner — the Greek, or the American? Why? 7. Why does a state mihtary socialism, such as prevailed at Sparta, tend to produce a people of mediocre intellectual capacity? 8. How do you account for the Athenian State leaving literary and musical education to private initiative, but supporting state gymnasia? 9. Would the Athenian method of instruction have been possible had all children in the State been given an education? Why? 10. How did the education of an Athenian girl differ from that of a girl in the early American colonies? 11. Why did the Greek boy need three teachers, whereas the American boy is taught all and more by one primary teacher? 12. Contrast the Greek method of instruction in music, and the purposes of the instruction, with our own. 13. How could we incorporate into our school instruction some of the im- portant aspects of Greek instruction in music? 14. What do you think of the contentions of Aristotle and Plato that the State should control school music as a means of securing sound moral instruction? 15. Does the Greek idea that a harmonious personal development contrib utes to moral worth appeal to you? Why? 38 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 1 6. Contrast the Greek ideal as to athletic training with the conception of athletics held by an average American schoolboy. 17. Contrast the education of a Greek boy at sixteen with that of an Ameri- can boy at the same age. 18. Contrast the emphasis placed on expression as a method in teaching in the schools of Athens and of the United States. 19. Do the needs of modern society and industrial life warrant the greater emphasis we place on learning from books, as opposed to the learning by doing of the Greeks? 20. Compare the compulsory-school period of the Greeks with our own. If we were to add some form of compulsory miHtary training, for all youths between eighteen and twenty, and as a preparedness measure, would we approach still more nearly the Greek requirements? 21. Explain how the Athenian Greeks reconciled the idea of social service to the State with the idea of individual liberty, through a form of education which developed personahty. Compare this with our American ideal. 22. The Greek schoolboy had no long summer vacation, as do American children. Is there any special reason whv we need it more than did they? 23. Do we believe that virtue can be taught in the way the Hellenic peoples did? Do we carry such a belief into practice? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 1. Plutarch: Ancient Education in Sparta. 2. Plato: An Athenian Schoolboy's Life. 3. Lucian: An Athenian Schoolboy's Day. 4. Aristotle: Athenian Citizenship and the Ephebic Years. 5. Freeman: Sparta and Athens compared. 6. Thucydides: Athenian Education summarized. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Describe and characterize the Laws which Lycurgus framed for Spartan training (i). 2. Describe and characterize the instruction of the Irens at Sparta. Com- pare with the training given among the best of the American Indian tribes (i). 3. Contrast the type of education given an Athenian and a Spartan boy, as to nature and purpose and character (i and 2). 4. What degree of State supervision of education is indicated by Plato (2)? By Freeman (5)? 5. Compare an Athenian school day as described by Lucian (3) with a school day in a modern Gary-type school. 6. Compare the Ephebic years of an Athenian youth (4) with those of a Spartan youth (i). 7. What were some of the chief defects of Athenian schools (5)? 8. What was the position of the State in the matter of the education of youth (5)? 9. What were the great merits of the Athenian educational and political system of training (6) ? (For Supplemental References, see following chapter.) CHAPTER 11 LATER GREEK EDUCATION III. THE NEW GREEK EDUCATION Political events: The Golden Age of Greece. The Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.) has long been considered one of the "decisive battles of the world." Had the despotism of the East triumphed here, and in the subsequent campaign that ended in the defeat of the Persian fleet at Salamis (480 B.C.) and of the Persian army at Plataea (479 B.C.), the whole history of our western world would have been different. The result of the war with Persia was the triumph of this new western democratic civilization, prepared and schooled for great national emergencies by a severe but effec- tive training, over the uneducated hordes led to battle by the au- tocracy of the East. This was the first, but not the last, of the many battles which western democracy and civihzation has had to fight to avoid being crushed by autocracy and despotism. Marathon broke the dread spell of the Persian name and freed the more progressive Greeks to pursue their intellectual and pohtical development. Above all it revealed the strength and power of the Athenians to themselves, and in the half century following the most wonderful political, literary, and artistic development the world had ever known ensued, and the highest products of Greek civili- zation were attained. Attica had braved everything for the com- mon cause of Greece, even to leaving Athens to be burned by the invader, and for the next fifty years she held the position of politi- cal as well as cultural preeminence among the Greek City-States. Athens now became the world center of wealth and refinement and the home of art and literature (R. 7), and her influence along cultural lines, due in part to her mastery of the sea and her grow- ing commerce, was now extended throughout the Mediterranean world. From 479 to 431 B.C. was the Golden Age of Greece, and '' dur- ing this short period Athens gave birth to more great men — poets, artists, statesmen, and philosophers — than all the world beside had produced ^ in any period of equal length." Then, ^ The culmination came in what is known as the Age of Pericles, who was the master mind at Athens from 450 to 431 B.C. During the fifth century B.C. such 40 HISTORY OF EDUCATION largely as a result of the growing jealousy of military Sparta, came that cruel and vindictive civil strife, known as the Pelopon- nesian War, which desolated Greece, left Athens a wreck of her former self, permanently lowered the moral tone of the Greek peo- ple, and impaired beyond recovery the intellectual and artistic life of Hellas. For many centuries Athens continued to be a center of intellectual achievement, and to spread her culture throughout a new and a different world, but her power as a State had been im- paired forever by a revengeful war between those who should have been friends and allies in the cause of civilization. Transition from the old to the new. As early as 509 B.C. a new constitution had admitted all the free inhabitants of Attica to citizenship, and the result was a rapid increase in the prestige, property, and culture of Athens. Citize nship wa snow open to the commercial_classes^nd no longer restricted to a small, prop- erly born, and properly educated class. Wealth now became im- portant in giving leisure to the citizen, and was no longer looked down upon as it had been in the earlier period. After the Pelo- ponnesian War the predominance of Attica among the Greek States, the growth of commerce, the constant interchange of em- bassies, the travel overseas of Athenian citizens, and the presence of many foreigners in the State all alike led to a tolerance of new ideas and a criticism of old ones which before had been unknown. A leisure class now arose, and personal interest came to have a larger place than before, with a consequent change in the earlier conceptions as to the duty of the citizen to the State. Literature lost much of its earlier religious character, and the religious basis of morality ^ began to be replaced by that of reason. Philosophy was now called upon to furnish a practical guide for life to replace the old religious basis. A new philosophy in which "man was the measure of all things" arose, and its teachers came to have large followings. The old search for an explanation of the world of matter ^ was now replaced by an attempt to explain the world of ideas and emotions, with a resulting evolution of the sciences of names as Themistocles and Pericles in government, Phidias and Myron in art, Herodotus and Thucydides in historical narrative, ^Eschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in tragic drama, and Aristophanes in comedy, graced Athens. 1 With the Greeks, morality and the future life never had any connection. ^ The early Greek philosophers tried to explain the physical world about them by trying to discover what they called the "first principle," from which all else had been derived. Thales (c. 624-548 B.C.), the father of Greek science, had concluded that water was the original source of all matter; Anaximenes (c. 588-524 B.C.), that air was the first principle; Heraclites (c. 525-475 B.C.), fire; and Pythagoras (c. 580- 500 B.C.), number. LATER GREEK EDUCATION 41 philosophy, ethics, and logic. It was a period of great intellectual as well as political change and expansion, and in consequence the old education, which had answered well the needs of a primitive and isolated community, now found itself but poorly adapted to meet the larger needs of the new cosmopolitan State. ^ The result was a material change in the old education to adapt it to the needs of the new Athens, now become the intellectual center of the civilized world. Changes in the old education. A number of changes in the character of the old education were now gradually introduced. The rigid drill of the earlier period began to be replaced by an easier and a more pleasurable t>-pe of training. Gymnastics for personal enjoyment began to replace drill for the service of the State, and was much less rigid in type. The old authors, who had rendered important service in the education of youth, began to be replaced by more modem writers, with a distinct loss of the earlier religious and moral force. New musical instruments, giving a softer and more pleasurable effect, took the place of the seven- stringed lyre, and complicated music replaced the simple Doric airs of the earlier period. Education became m uch more indi- vidual, literary, and theoretical. Geometry and drawing were introduced as new studies. Grammar and rhetoric began to be studied, discussion was introduced, and a certain gHbness of speech began to be prized. The citizen-cadet years, from sixteen to twenty, formerly devoted to rather rigorous physical training, were now changed to school work of an intellectual tj'pe. New teachers ; the Sophists. New teachers, known as Sophists, who professed to be able to train men for a political career,^ began to offer a more practical course design ed to prep areboysJor_the ^ "There was now demanded ability to discuss all sorts of social, political, eco- nomic, and scientific or metaphysical questions; to argue in public in the market- place or in the law courts; to declaim in a formal manner on almost any topic; to amuse or even instruct the populace upon topics of interest or questions of the day; to take part in the many diplomatic embassies and political missions of the times — the ability, in fact, to shine in a democratic society much like our own and to con- trol the votes and command the approval of an intelligent populace where the function of printing-press, telegraph, railroad, and all modem means of communica- tion were performed through public speech and private discourse, and where the legal, ecclesiastical, and other professional classes of teachers did not exist." (Mon- roe, Paul, History of Education, pp. 109-10.) 2 The importance of a political career in the new Athens will be better vmder- stood if we remember that the influence on public opinion to-day exerted by the pulpit, bar, public platform, press, and scholar was then concentrated in the public speaker, and that the careers now open to promising youths in science, industry, commerce, politics, and government were then concentrated in the political career. It must also be remembered that the Greeks had always been a nation of speakers, Wth the content and the form of the address being important. 42 HISTORY OF EDUCATION newer type of state service. These in time drew many Ephebe-? into their private schools, where the chief studies were on the content, form, and practical use of the Greek language. Rhetoric and grammar before long became the master studies of this new period, as they were felt to prepare boys better for the new politi- cal and intellectual life of Hellas than did the older type of train- ing. In the schools of the Sophists boys now spent their time in forming phrases, choosing words, examining grammatical struc- ture, and learning how to secure rhetorical effect. Many of these new teachers made most extravagant claims for their instruction (R. 8) and drew much ridicule from the champions of the older type of education, but within a century they had thoroughly es- tablished themselves, and had permanently changed the character of the earlier Greek education. By 350 B.C. we find that Greek. school education had been differentiated into three divisions, as follows: 1. Primary education, covering the years from seven or eight to thirteen, and embracing reading, writing, arithmetic, and chant- ing. The teacher of this school came to be known as a grani- malist. 2. Secondary education, covering the years from thirteen to sixteen, and embracing geometry, drawing, and a special music course. Later on some grammar and rhetoric were introduced into this school. The teacher of this school came to be known as a gram- maticus. 3. Higher or university education, covering the years after sixteen. The flood of individualism. This period of artistic and intel- lectual brilliancy of Greece following the Peloponnesian War marked the beginning of the end of Greece politically. The war was a blow to the strength of Greece from which the different States never recovered. Greece was bled white by this needless civil strife. The tendencies toward individualism in education were symptomatic of tendencies in all forms of social and politica) life. The philosophers — Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle — proposed ideal remedies for the evils of the State, ^ J3ut in vain. The old ideal of citizenship died out. Service to the State be- ' Each of these philosophers proposed an ideal educalional system designed to remedy the evils of the State. Xenophon (c. 410-362 B.C.), in his Cyropcrdia, pur- porting to describe the education of Cyrus of Persia, proposed a Spartan modifica' tion of the old Athenian system. Plato (429-348 B.C.), in his Republic, proposed an aristocratic socialism as a means of securing individual virtue and state justice. Ht first presents the super-civic man, an ideal destined for great usefulness among the Christians later on. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), in his Ethics, and in his PoliUcs, out- lined an ideal state and a system of education for it. LATER GREEK EDUCATION 43 came purely subordinate to personal pleasure and advancement. Irreverence and a scoffing attitude became ruling tendencies. Family morality decayed. The State in time became corrupt and nerveless. Finally, in 338 B.C., Philip of Macedon became master of Greece, and annexed it to the world empire which he and his son Alexander created. Still later, in 146 B.C., the new world power to the west, Rome, conquered Greece and made of it a Roman province. Though dead politically, there now occurred the unusual spec- tacle of "captive Greece taking captive her rude conqueror," and spreading Greek art, literature, philosophy, science, and Greek ideas throughout the Mediterranean world. It was the Greek higher learning that now became predominant and exerted such great influence on the future of our world civilization. It remains now to trace briefly the development and spread of this higher learning, and to point out how thoroughly it modified the thinking of the future. New schools ; Socrates. In the beginning each Sophist teacher was a free lance, and taught what he would and in the manner he thought best. Many of them made extraordinary efforts to attract students and win popular approval and fees. Plato repre- sents the Sophist Protagoras as saying, with reference to a youth ambitious for success in political life, "If he comes to me he will learn that which he comes to learn." At first the instruction was largely individual, but later classes were organized. Isocrates, who lived from 436 to 338 B.C., organized the instruction for the first time into a well-graded sequence of studies, with definite aims and work (R. 8). He shifted the emphasis in instruction from training for success in argumentation, to training to think clearly and to express ideas properly. His pupils were unusually success- ful, and his school did much to add to the fame of Athens as an intellectual center. From his work sprang a large number of so called Rhetorical Schools, much like our better private schools and academies, offering to those Ephebes who could afTord to attend a very good preparation for participation in the public life of the period. In contrast with the Sophists, a series of schools of philosophy also arose in Athens. These in a way were the outgrowth of the work of Socrates. Accepting the Sophists' dictum that "man is the measure of all things," he tried to turn youths from the baser individualism of the Sophists of his day to the larger general 44 HISTORY OF EDUCATION truths which measure the life of a true man. In particular he tried to show that the greatest of all arts — the art of living a good life — called for correct individual thinking and a knowledge of the right. " Know thyself " was his great guiding principle. His emphasis was on the problems of everyday morality. Frankly accepting the change from the old education as a change that could not be avoided, he sought to formulate a new basis for edu- cation in personal morality and virtue, and as a substitute for the old training for service to the State. He taught by conversation, engaging men in argument as he met them in the street, and show- ing to them their ignorance (R. 9). Even in Athens, where free jpeech was enjoyed more than anywhere else in the world at that time, such a shrewd questioner would naturally make enemies, and in 399 B.C. at the age of seventy-one, he was con- demned to death by the Athenian popu- lace on the charge of impiety and corrupt- ing the youth of Athens. Socrates' greatest disciple was a citizen of wealth by the name of Plato, who had abandoned a political career for the charms of philosophy, and to him we owe our chief information as to the work and aims of Socrates.' In 386 B.C. he founded the Academy, where he passed almost forty years in lecturing and writing. His school, which formed a model for others, consisted of a union of teachers and students who possessed in common a chapel, hbrary, lecture-rooms, and living- rooms. Philosophy, mathematics, and science were taught, and women as well as men were admitted. Other schools of importance in Athens were the Lyceum, founded in 335 B.C. by a foreign-bom pupil of Plato's by the name of Aristotle, who did a remarkable work in organizing the known knowledge of his time; ^ the school of the Stoics, founded by Zeno in 308 B.C. ; and the school of the Epicureans, founded by Epicurus in 306 B.C. Each of these schools offered a philosophical solution 1 "It is bej'-ond all conception what that man espied, saw, beheld, remarked, observed." (Goethe.) "One of the richest and most comprehensive geniuses that has ever appeared — a, man beside whom no age has an equal to place." (Hegel.) "Aristotle, Nature's private secretary, dipping his pen in intellect." (Eusebius.) Fig. 12 Socrates (469-399 b.c.) (After a marble bust in the Vatican Gallery, at Rome) LATER GREEK EDUCATION 45 of the problem of life, and Plato and Aristotle wrote treatises on education as well. Each school evolved into a form of religious brotherhood which perpetuated the organization after the death of the master. In time these became largely schools for expound- ing the philosophy of the founder. The University of Athens. Coincident with the founding of these schools and the political events we have previously recorded, certain further changes in Athenian education were taking place. The character of the changes in the education before the age of sixteen we have described. As a result in part of the development of the schools of the Sophists, which were in themselves only SOPHISTS ^ ^nCt2^t^ 5th C. B,C. "^i^... *^^|-\^ PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS 386-306 B.C. RHETORICAL SCHOOLS 4th and 3rd Cs. B.C. ^^ UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS About 200 B.C. Fig. 13. Evolution op the Greek University attempts to meet fundamental changes in Athenian life, the edu- cation of youths after sixteen tended to become literary, rather than physical and military. The Ephebic period of service (from eighteen to twenty) was at first reduced from two years to one, and after the Macedonian conquest, in 338 B.C., when there was no longer an Athenian State to serve or protect, the entire period of training was made optional. The Ephebic corps was now opened to foreigners, and in time became merely a fashionable semi-military group. Instead of the military training, attendance at the lectures of the philosophical schools was now required, and attendance at the rhetorical schools was optional. Later the philosophical schools were granted public support by the Athe- nian Assembly, professorships were created over which the Assem- bly exercised supervision, the rhetorical and philosophical schools were gradually merged, the study years were extended from two to six, or seven, a form of university Hfe as regards both students and 46 HISTORY OF EDUCATION professors was developed, and what has since been termed "The University of Athens" was evolved. Figure 13 shows how this evolution took place. As Athens lost in political power her citizens turned their atten- tion to making their city a center of world learning. This may be said to have been accompHshed by 200 B.C. Though Greece had long since become a Macedonian province, and was soon to pass under the control of Rome, the so-called University of Athens was widely known and much frequented for the next three hundred years, and continued in existence until finally closed, as a center -of pagan thought, by the edict of the Roman-Christian Emperor, Justinian, in 529 a.d. Though reduced to the rank of a Roman provincial town, Athens long continued to be a city of letters and a center of philosophic and scientific instruction. Spread and influence of Greek higher education. Alexander 'the Great rendered a very important service in uniting the west- ■em Orient and the eastern Mediterranean into a common world •empire, and in establishing therein a common language, literature, philosophy, a common interest, and a common body of scientific knowledge and law. It was his hope to create a new empire, in which the distinction between European and Asiatic should pass •away. No less than seventy cities were established with a view to holding his empire together. These served to spread Hellenic 'Culture. Greek schools, Greek theaters, Greek baths, and Greek institutions of every type were to be found in practically all of them, and the Greek tongue was heard in them all. With Alex- ander the Great the history of Greek life, culture, and learning merges into that of the history of the ancient world. Everywhere throughout the new empire Greek philosophers and scientists, architects and artists, merchants and colonists, followed behind the Macedonian armies, spreading Greek civilization and becom- ing the teachers of an enlarged world. ^ " Greek cities stretched from the Nile to the Indus, and dotted the shores of the Black and the Caspian seas. The Greek language, once the tongue of a petty people, grew to be a universal language of culture, spoken even by barbarian lips, and the art, the science, the literature, the principles of politics" and philosophy, developed in isolation ^ "As Alexander passed conquering through Asia, he restored to the East, as garnered grain, that Greek civiHzation whose seeds had long ago been received from the East. Each conqueror in turn, the Macedonian and the Roman bowed before conquered Greece and learnt lessons at her feet." (Butcher, S. H., Some Aspects of the Greek Genius, p. 43.) LATER GREEK EDUCATION 47 by the Greek mind, henceforth became the heritage of many nations." ^ Greek universities were established at Pergamum and Tarsus in Asia Minor; at Rhodes on the island of that name in the JEgean; and at the newly founded city of Alexandria in Egypt. Antioch, in Syria, became another im- portant center of Greek influ- ence and learning. A large library was developed at Pergamum, and it was here that writing on prepared skins of animals^ was be- gun, from which the term "parchment "(originally " per- gament") comes. It was also at Pergamum that Galen (born c. 130 A.D.) organized what was then known of medical science, and his work remained the standard treatise for more than a thousand years. Rhodes became a famous center for instruction in oratory. During Roman days many eminent men, among whom were Cassius, Ctesar, and Cicero, studied oratory here. Mingling of Orient and Occident at Alexandria. The most famous of all these Greek institutions, however, was the Univer- sity of Alexandria, which gradually sapped Athens as a center of learning and became the mtellectual capital of the world. The greatest library of manuscripts the world had ever known was collected together here.^ It is said to have numbered over 700,000 volumes. These included Greek, Jewish, Egyptian, and Oriental works. In connection with the library was the museum, where men of letters and investigators were supported at royal expense. These two constituted an institution so like a university that it has been given that name. Alexandria became not only a ^ Webster, D. H., Ancient History, p. 302. ^ Previous to this, paper had been made from the papyrus plant, but Egypt, having forbidden its export, necessity again became the mother of invention. ' With this exception, never before the ItaHan Renaissance was there such interest in collecting books. Almost every book written in antiquity was gathered here, and the library at Alexandria became the British Museum or the Bibliotheque Nationale of the ancient world. Every book entering Egypt was required to be brought to this library. Fig. 14 The Gre-ek University World 48 HISTORY OF EDUCATION great center of learning, but, still more important, the chief min- gling place for Greek, Jew, Egyptian, Roman, and Oriental, and here Greek philosophy, Hebrew and Christian religion, and Ori- ental faith and philosophy met and mixed. It was this mingled civilization and culture, all tinged through and through with the Greek, with which the Romans came in contact as they pushed their conquering armies into the eastern Mediterranean (R. lo). Character of Alexandrian Learning. The great advances in knowledge made at Alexandria were in mathematics, geography, and science. The method of scientific investigation worked out by Aristotle at Athens was introduced and used. Instead of spec- ulating as to phenomena and causes, as had been the earlier Greek practice, observation and experiment now became the rule. UNKNOWN LAND Fig. 15. The Known World about 150 a.d. A map by Ptolemy, geographer and astronomer at Alexandria. Compare this with the map on page 4, and note the progress in geographical discovery which had been made during the intervening centuries. Euclid (c. 323-283 B.C.) opened a school at Alexandria as early as 300 B.C., and there worked out the geometry which is still used in our schools. Archimedes (287-212 B.C.), who studied under Euclid, made many important discoveries and advances in me- chanics and physics. Eratosthenes (226-196 B.C.), librarian at Alexandria, is famous as a geographer ^ and astronomer, and made ^ He founded the science of geography. Before his time Greek students had concluded that the world was round, instead of flat, as stated in the Homeric poems. By careful measurements he determined its size, within a few thousand miles of its actual circumference, and predicted that one might sail from Spain to the Indies along the same parallel of latitude. LATER GREEK EDUCATION 49 some studies in geology as well. Ptolemy (b. ?; d. 168 a.d.) here completed his Mechanism of the Heavens {Syntaxis) in 138 a.d., and this became the standard astronomy in Europe for nearly fif- teen hundred years, while his geography was used in the schools until well into the fifteenth century. The map of the known world, shown in Figure 15, was made by him. Hipparcus, the Newton of the Greeks, studied the heavens both at Alexandria and Rhodes, and counted the stars and arranged them in constel- lations. Many advances also were made in the study of medicine, the Alexandrian schools having charts, models, and dissecting rooms for the study of the human body. The functions of the brain, nerves, and heart were worked out there. Except in science and mathematics, though, the creative ability of the earlier Greeks was now largely absent. Research, organi- zation, and comment upon what had previously been done rathei was the rule. Still much important work was done here. Books were collected, copied, and preserved, and texts were edited and purified from errors. Here grammar, criticism, prosody, and mythology were first developed into sciences. The study of archaeology was begun, and the first dictionaries were maae. The translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek was begun for the benefit of the Alexandrian Jews who had forgotten their 'jiother tongue, this being the origin of the famous Septuagint ^ version of the Old Testament. It is owing to these Alexandrian scholars, also, that we now possess the theory of Greek accents, and have good texts of Homer and other Greek writers. Alexandria sapped in turn. In 30 B.C. Alexandria, too, came under Roman rule and was, in turn, gradually sapped by Rome. Greek influence continued, but the interest became largely philo- sophical. Ultimately Alexandria became the seat of a metaphys- ical school of Christian theology, and the scene of bitter religious controversies. In 330 a.d., Constantinople was founded on the site of the earlier Byzantium, and soon thereafter Greek scholars transferred their interest to it and made it a new center of Greek learning. There Greek science, literature, and philosophy were preserved for ten centuries, and later handed back to a Europe just awakening from the long intellectual night of the Middle Ages. In 640 A.D. Alexandria was taken by the Mohammedans, and the university ceased to exist. The great library was de- stroyed, furnishing, it is said, "fuel sufficient for four thousand ^ From the tradition that seventy scholars labored on it. 50 HISTORY OF EDUCATION public baths for a period of six months," and Greek learning was extinguished in the western world. Our debt to Hellas. As a political power the Greek States left the world nothing of importance. As a people they were too in- dividualistic, and seemed to have a strange inabihty to unite for political purposes. To the new power slowly forming to the west- ward — Rome — was left the important task, which the Greek people were never able to accomplish, of uniting civilization into one political whole. The world conquest that Greece made was intellectual. As a result, her contribution to civilization was artistic, literary, philosophical, and scientific, but not political. The Athenian Greeks were a highly artistic and imaginative rather than a practical people. They spent their energy on other matters than government and conquest. As a result the world will be forever indebted to them for an art and a literature of incomparable beauty and richness which still charms mankind ; a philosophy which deeply influenced the early Christian religion, and has ever since tinged the thinking of the western world; and for many important beginnings in scientific knowledge which were lost for ages to a world that had no interest in or use for science. So deeply has our whole western civilization been tinctured by Greek thought that one enthusiastic writer has exclaimed, — "Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." ^ (R. ii.) In education proper the old Athenian education offers us many lessons of importance that we of to-day may well heed. In the emphasis they placed on moral worth, education of the body as well as the mind, and moderation in all things, they were much ahead of us. Their schools became a type for the cities of the entire Mediterranean world, being found from the Black Sea south to the Persian Gulf and westward to Spain. When Rome became a world empire the Greek school system was adopted, and in modi- fied form became dominant in Rome and throughout the prov- inces, while the universities of the Greek cities for long furnished the highest form of education for ambitious Roman youths. In this way Greek influence was spread throughout the Mediter- ranean world. The higher learning of the Greeks, preserved first at Athens and Alexandria, and later at Constantinople, was finally handed back to the western world at the time of the Italian Revival of Learning, after Europe had in part recovered from the effects of the barbarian deluge which followed the downfall of Rome. ^ Henry Sumner Maine. LATER GREEK EDUCATION 51 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Try to picture what might have been the result for western civiHzation had the small and newly -developed democratic civilization of Greece been crushed by the Persians at the time they overran the Greek peninsula. 2. Do periods of great political, commercial, and intellectual expansion usually subject old systems of morality and education to severe strain? Illustrate. 3. Why was the change in the type of Athenian education during the Ephebic years a natural and even a necessary one for the new Athens? 4. Do you understand that the system of training before the Ephebjc years was also seriously changed, or was the change largely a re-shaping and extension of the education of youths after sixteen? 5. Were the Sophists a good addition to the Athenian instructing force, or not? Why? 6. How may a State establish a corrective for such a flood of individualism as overwhelmed Greece, and still allow individual educational initiative and progress? 7. Do we as a nation face danger from the flood of individualism we have encouraged in the past? How is our problem Hke and unlike that of Athens after the Peloponnesian War? 8. What is the place in Greek life and thought of the ideal treatises on edu- cation written by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle, after the flood of individualism had set in? 9. In what ways was the conquest of Alexander good for world civilization? ID. Of what importance is it, in the history of our western civilization, that Greek thought had so thoroughly permeated the eastern Mediterranean world before Roman armies conquered the region? 11. Picture for yourself the great intellectual advances of the Greeks by contrasting the tribal preparedness-type of education of the early Greek States and the learning possessed by the scholars of the University at Alexandria. 12. Compare the spread of Greek language and knowledge throughout the eastern Mediterranean world, following the conquests of Alexander, with the spread of the English language and ideas as to government throughout the modern world. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 7. Wilkins: Athens in the Time of Pericles. 8. Isocrates: The Instruction of the Sophists. 9. Xenophon: An Example of Socratic Teaching. 10. Draper: The Schools of Alexandria. 11. Butcher: What we Owe to Greece. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Characterize the many educational influences of Athens, as pictured by Wilkins (7). 2. Were the evils of the Sophist teachers, which Isocrates points out (8), natural ones? Compare with teachers of vocal training to-day. 52 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 3. What would be necessary for the proper training of one for eloquence? Could any Sophist teacher have trained any one? 4. Would it be possible to-day for any one city to become such a center of the world's intellectual life as did Alexandria (10)? Why? 5. Could the Socratic method (9) be applied to instruction in psychology, ethics, history, and science equally well? Why? To what class of sub- jects is the Socratic quiz applicable? 6. How do you account for the fact that the wonderful promise of Alexan- drian science was not fulfilled? 7. State our debt to the Greeks (11). SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES The most important references are indicated by an * * Bevan, J. O. University Life in Olden Time. * Butcher, S. H. Some Aspects of the Greek Genius. * Davidson, Thos. Aristotle, and Ancient Educational Ideals. * Freeman, K. J. Schools of Hellas. Gulick, C. B. The Life of the Ancient Greeks. * Kingsley, Chas. Alexandria and her Schools. Laurie, S. S. Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Education. * Mahaffy, J. P. Old Greek Education. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. I. Walden, John W. H. The Universities of Ancient Greece. Wilkins, A. S. National Education in Greece in the Fourth Century, B.C. CHAPTER III THE EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME I. THE ROMANS AND THEIR MISSION Development of the Roman State. About the time that the Hellenes, in the City-States of the Greek peninsula, had brought their civilization to its Golden Age, another branch of the great Aryan race, which had previously settled in the Itahan peninsula, had begun the creation of a new civilization there which was destined to become extended and powerful. At the beginning of Growth of Rome up to .201 B.C. At 609 B.C. At end of Latin War. 338 B.C. By 264 B.C. By 201 B.C. Fig. i6. The Early Peoples of Italy, and the Extension of the Roman Power In 509 B.C. Attica opened her citizenship to all free inhabitants, and half a century later the Golden Age of Greece was in full swing. By 338 B.C. Greece's glory had departed. Philip of Macedon had become master, and its political freedom was over. By 264 B.C. the center of Greek life and thought had been tra.nsferred to Alexandria, and Rome's great expansion had begun. 54 HISTORY OF EDUCATION recorded history we find a number of tribes of this branch of the Aryan race settled in different parts of Italy, as is shown in Figure 1 6. Slowly, but gradually, the smallest of these divisions, the Latins, extended its rule over the other tribes, and finally over the Greek settlements to the south and the Gauls to the north, so that by 201 b.c. the entire Italian peninsula had become subject to the City-State government at Rome. By a wise policy of tolerance, patience, conciliation, and assim- ilation the Latins gradually became the masters of all Italy. Un- like the Greek City-States, Rome seemed to possess a natural genius for the art of government. Upon the people she con- quered she bestowed the great gift of Roman citizenship, and she attached them to her by granting local government to their towns and by interfering as little as possible with their local manners, speech, habits, and institutions. By founding colonies among them and by building excellent military roads to them, she insured her rule, and by kindly and generous treatment she bound the different Italian peoples ever closer and closer to the central government at Rome. By a most wonderful un- derstanding of the psychology of other peoples, new in the world before the work of Rome, and not seen again until the work of the English in the nineteenth cen- tury, Rome gradually assimilated the peoples of the Italian peninsula and in time amalgamated them into a single Roman race. In speech, customs, manners, and finally in blood she Romanized the different tribes and brought them under her leadership. Later this same process was extended to Spain, Gaul, and even to far-off Britain. A concrete, practical people. The Roman people were a con- crete, practical, constructive nation of farmers and herdsmen (R. 14), merchants and soldiers, governors and executives. The whole of the early struggle of the Latins to extend their rule and absorb the other tribes of the peninsula called for practical rulers — warriors who were at the same time constructive statesmen and executives who possessed power and insight, energy, and Fig. 17 The Principal Roman Roads EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 55 personality. The long struggle for political and social rights,^ carried on by the common people (plebeians) with the ruling class (patricians), tended early to shape their government along rough but practical lines,^ and to elevate law and orderly procedure among the people. The later extension of the Empire to include many distant lands — how vast the Roman Empire finally be- came may be seen from the map on the following page — called still more for a combination of force, leadership, tolerance, pa- tience, executive power, and insight into the psychology of subject people to hold such a vast empire together. Only a great, creative people, working along very practical lines, could have used and used so well the opportunity which came to Rome ^ to create a great world empire. The great mission of Rome. Had Rome tried to impose her rule and her ways and her mode of thought on her subject people, and to reduce them to complete subjection to her, as the modern German and Austrian Empires, for example, tried to do with the peoples who came under their control, the Roman Empire could never have been created, and what would have saved civilization ^ This struggle of the common people (plebeians) for an equal place with the ruling class (patricians) before the law, in religious matters, and in politics, covered two and a half centuries, the old restrictions being broken down but gradually. The most important steps in the process were: 509 B.C. Magistrates forbidden to scourge or execute a Roman citizen without giving him a chance to appeal to the people in their popular assembly. This " right of appeal" was regarded as the Magna Charta of Roman liberty. 494 B.C. Plebeian soldiers granted officers of their own (Tribunes) to protect them against patrician cruelty and injustice. 451-449 B.C. Laws must be written — Code commission appointed. Result, the Laws of the Twelve Tables (R. 12); these mark the beginning of the great Roman legal system. 445 B.C. Intermarriage between the two orders legalized. 367 B.C. Right to hold ofl&ce granted, and one of the Consuls elected each year to be a plebeian. 250 B.C. By this date the distinctions between the two orders had disappeared; patricians and plebeians intermarried and formed one compact body of citizens in the Roman State. ' "The scholar who compares carefully the Greek constitutions with the Roman will undoubtedly consider the former to be finer and more finished specimens of political work. The imperfect and incomplete character which the Roman consti- tution presents, at almost any point of its history, the number of institutions it exhibits which appear to be temporary expedients merely, are necessary results of its method of growth to meet demands as they rose from time to time; they are evidence, indeed, of its highly practical character." (Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, 2d ed., p. 20.) ' The same opportunity came to Athens after the Persian Wars and to Sparta after the Peloponnesian War, but neither possessed the creative power along polit- ical and governmental lines, or the tolerance for the ideas and feelings of subject peoples, to accomplish anything permanent. Rome succeeded where previous States had failed because of her larger insight, tolerance, patience, and constructive power. Fig. 1 8. The Great Extent of the Roman Empire The map shows the Roman Empire as it was by the end of the first century a.d., and the tribes shown beyond the frontier are as they were at the beginning of the fourth century a.d. It was 2500 miles, air Une, from the eastern end of the Black Sea to the western coasts of Spain, 1400 miles from Rome to Palestine, and iioo miles from Rome to northern Britain. To maintain order in this vast area Rome depended on the loyalty of her subjects, the strength of her armies, her military roads, and a messenger service by horse, yet throughout this vast area she imposed her law and a unifieci government for centuries. EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 57 from complete destruction durir>"' the period of the barbarian invasions is hard to see. In Rome treated her subjects as her friends, and not as conquered peoples; led them, to see that their interests were identical with hers; gave them large local inde- pendence and freedom in government, under her strong control of general affairs ; opened up her citizenship ^ and the line of pro- motion in the State to her provincials; ^ and won them to the peace and good order which she everywhere imposed by the ad- vantages she offered through a common language, common law, common coinage, common commercial arrangements, common state service, and the common treatment of all citizens of every race.^ In consequence, the provincial was willingly absorbed into the common Roman race * — absorbed in dress, manners, religion, political and legal institutions, family names, and, most impor- tant of all, in language. As a result, race pride and the native tongues very largely disappeared, and Latin became the spoken language of all except the lower classes throughout the whole of the Western Empire. Only in the eastern Mediterranean, where the Hellenic tongue and the Hellenic civilization still dominated, did the Latin language make but little headway, and here Rome had the good sense not to try to impose her speech or her culture. Instead she absorbed the culture of the East, while the East ac- cepted in return the Roman gcvernment and Roman law, and Latin in time became the language of the courts and of govern- ment. Having stated thus briefly the most prominent characteristics of the Roman people, and indicated their great work for civiliza- tion, let us turn back and trace the development of such educa- 1 Caesar extended Roman citizenship to certain communities in Gaul and in Sicilj', and 'began the further extension of the process of assimilation by taking the con- quered provincial into citizenship in the Empire. This was carried on and extended by succeeding Emperors until finally, in 212 a.d., Roman citizenship was extended to all free-bom inhabitants in all the provinces. ^ For example, Balbus, a Spaniard, was Consul in Rome forty years before the Christian era, and another Spaniard, Nerva, had become Emperor before the close of the first century a.d. Many commanders in the armj' and governors in the provinces were provincials by birth. * Roman citizenship was much more than a mere name. A Roman citizen could not be maltreated or punished without a legal trial before a Roman court. If ac- cused in a capital case he could always protect himself from what he considered an unjust decision by an "appeal to Caesar"; that is, to the Emperor at Rome. The protection of law was always extended to his property and himself, wherever in the Roman Empire he might live or travel. * Both literature and inscriptions testify abundantly to the affectionate regard in which Roman rule was held. The rule may have been far from perfect, judged from a modern point of view, but it was so much better and so much more orderly than anything that had gone before that it was accepted in "U quarters. 58 HISTORY OF E>)UCATION tional system as existed among them, see in what it consisted, how it modified the life and ha^:'' . •' thinking of the Roman peo- ple, and what educational organization or traditions Rome passed on to western civilization. II. THE PERIOD OF HOME EDUCATION The early Romans and their training. In the early history oi the Romans there were no schools, and it was not until about 300 B.C. that even primary schools began to develop. What edu- cation was needed was imparted in the home or in the field and in the camp, and was of a very simple type. Certain virtues were demanded — modesty, firmness, prudence, piety, courage, seri- ousness, and regard for duty — and these were instilled both by precept and example. Each home. was a center of the religious life, and of civic virtue and authority. In it the father was a high priest, with power of life and death over wife and children. He alone conversed with the gods and prepared the sacrifices. The wife and mother, however, held a high place in the home and in the training of the children, the marriage tie being regarded as very sacred. She also occupied a respected position in society, and was complete mistress of the house (R. 17). The religion of the city was an outgrowth of that of the home. Virtue, courage, duty, justice — these became the great civic vir- tues. Their religion, both family and state, lacked the beauty and stately ceremonial of the Greeks, lacked that lofty faith and aspiration after virtue that characterized the Hebrew and the later Christian faith, was singularly wanting in awe and mystery, and was formal and mechanical and practical ^ in character, but it exercised a great influence on these early peoples and on their conceptions of their duty to the State. The father trained the son for the practical duties of a man ^ Every house was protected from the evil spirits of the outside world by Janus, and had its sacred fire presided over by Vesta. Every house had its protecting Lares. The cupboard where the food was stored was blest by and under the charge of the Penates. The daily worship of these household deities took place at the family meal, the father offering a little food and a little wine at the sacred hearth. Every house father, too, had his guardian Genius, whose festival was celebrated on the master's birthday. In a similar fashion the State had its temples, its sacred fire and votive offerings, and various divinities ruled the elements and sent or withheld success. Almost every activity in life was presided over by some deity, whom it was necessary to propitiate before engaging in it. Davidson says, with reference to the practical nature of their religion, that "While the Athenians rejoiced before their gods, the Romans kept a debtor and creditor account with theirs, and were very anxious that the balance should be on the right side." / EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 59 Fig. 19. A Roman Father INSTRUCTING HIS SON (From a Roman Sarcophagus) and a citizen; the mother trained the daughter to become a good housekeeper, wife, and mother. Morality, character, obedience to parents and to the State, and whole-hearted service were em- phasized. The boy's father taught him to read, write, and count. Stories of those who had done great deeds for the State were told, and martial songs were learned and sung. After 450 B.C. every boy had to learn the Laws of the Twelve Tables (R. 12), and be able to explain their meaning (R. 13). As the boy grew older he fol- lowed his father in the fields and in the public place and listened to the con- versation of men.^ If the son of a pa- trician he naturally learned much more from his father, by reason of his larger knowledge and larger contact with men of affairs and public business, than if he were the son of a plebeian. Through games as a boy, and later in the exercises of the fields and the camps, the boy gained what physical training he received. - Education by doing. It was largely an education by doing, as was that of the old Greek period, though entirely different in character. Either by apprenticeship to the soldier, farmer, or statesman, or by participation in the activities of a citizen, was the training needed imparted. Its purpose was to produce good fathers, citizens, and soldiers.^ Its ideals were found in the real and practical needs of a small State, where the abihty to care for one's self was a necessary virtue. To be healthy and strong, to 1 "Among our ancestors," saj's Pliny, "one learned not only through the cars, but through the eyes. The young, in observing the elders, learned what they would soon have to do themselves, and what they would one day teach to their successor." 2 Such careful physical training as was given in a Greek palastra and gymnasium would have been regarded by the Romans as most effeminate. Unlike the Greeks, who strove for a harmonious bodily development, the Romans exercised for useful- ness in war. Cicero exclaims, with reference to Greek gymnasial training: "What an absurd system of training youth is exhibited in their gymnasia! What a frivo- lous preparation for the labors and hazards of war!" ' Macaulay, in his Horalius, describes the results of the education of this early period as follows: "Then none were for the party, But all were for the State; And the rich man loved the poor, And the poor man loved the great. Then lands were fairly portioned And spoils were fairly sold; For the Romans were like brothers I In the brave days of old." 6o HISTORY OF EDUCATION reverence the gods and the institutions of the State, to obey his J parents and the laws, to be proud of his family connections and his I ancestors, to be brave and efficient in war, to know how to farm \ or to manage a business, were the aims and ends of this early train- \ing. It produced a nation of citizens who wilhngly subordinated themselves to the interests of the State, ^ a nation of warriors who brought all Italy under their rule, a calculating, practical people who believed themselves destined to become the conquerors and rulers of the world, and a reserved and proud race, trained to govern and to do business, but not possessed of lofty ideals or large enthusiasms in life (Rs. 15, 16). III. THE TRANSITION TO SCHOOL EDUCATION Beginnings of school education. Up to about 300 B.C. educa tion had been entirely in the home, and in the activities of the fields and the State. It was a period of personal valor and stern civic virtue, in a rather primitive type of society, as yet but httle in contact with the outside world, and little need of any other type of training had been felt. By the end of the third century B.C., the influence of contact with the Greek cities of southern Italy and Sicily (Magna GrcEcia), and the influence of the extensive con- quests of Alexander the Great in the eastern Mediterranean (334- 323 B.C.), had begun to be felt in Italy. By that time Greek had become the language of commerce and diplomacy throughout the Mediterranean, and Greek scholars and tradesmen had begun to frequent Rome. By 303 B.C. it seems certain that a few private teachers had set up primary schools at Rome to supplement the home training, and had begun the introduction of the pedagogue as a fashionable adjunct to attract attention to their schools. These schools, however, were only a fad at first, and were patron- ized only by a few of the wealthy citizens. Up to about 250 B.C., pX least, Roman education remained substantially as it had been in the preceding centuries. Reading, writing, declamation, chanting, and the Laws of the Twelve Tables still constituted the subject-matter of instruction, and the old virtues continued to be emphasized. By the middle of the third century B.C. Rome had expanded its 1 "The Romans," says the historian, Wilhelm Ihne, "were distinguished from all other nations, not only by the extreme earnestness and precision with which they conceived their law and worked out the consequences of its fundamental principles, but by the good sense which made them submit to the law, once established, as an absolute necessity of political health and strength. It was this severity in thinking and acting which, more than any other cause, made Rome great and powerful." iule tc include — "^ 7- and Was ^a-'^^^^^^^^S itself politiailly from a little rural City- State intcTq 1 Empire, with large world relationships. A knowl- edge of Gi^fek now came to be demanded both for diplomatic and for business reasons, and the need of a larger culture, to corre- spond will the increased importance of the State, began to be felt by the realthier and better-educated classes. Greek scholars, broughtin as captured slaves from the Greek colonies of southern Italy, foon began to be extensively employed as teachers and as sec^etffies. Abcit 233 B.C., Li\ius Andronicus, who had been brought to R(jm( as a slave when Tarentum, one of the Greek cities of south- ern laly, was captured,^ and who later had obtained his freedom, macfe a translation of the Odyssey into Latin, and became a teacher of Jatin and Greek at Rome. This had a wonderful effect in dev^'loping schools and a literary atmosphere at Rome. The Od'ssey at once became the great school textbook, in time sup- planting the Twelve Tables, and literary and school education nov rapidly developed. The Latin language became crystallized inform, and other Greek works were soon translated. The be- gimings of a native Latin literature were now made. Greek h^her schools were opened, many Greek teachers and slaves ofered instruction, and the Hellenic scheme of culture, as it had p€viously developed in Attica, soon became the fashion at Rome. Changes in national ideals. The second century B.C. was even rrore a period of rapid change in all phases and aspects of Roman lie. During this century Rome became a world empire, annexing S>ain, Carthage, Illyria, and Greece, and during the century that fdlowed she subjugated northern Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Caul to the Elbe and the Danube (see Figure 18). Rome soon b-came mistress of the whole Mediterranean world. Her ships pied the seas, her armies and governors ruled the land. The iitroduction of wealth, luxuries, and slaves from the new prov- iices, which followed their capture, soon had a very demoralizing iifiuence upon the people. Private and public religion and moral- ly rapidly declined; religion came to be an empty ceremonial; ^ The lot of a captive in war, everj'where throughout the ancient world, was to \i taken and sold as a slave by his captors. Many educated Greeks were thus taken 1 the capture of Greek cities in southern Italy and sold as slaves in Rome. These vere let out by their masters as teachers of the new learning. Even the thrifty Dato, who vigorously opposed the new learning on principle, was not averse to per^ "itting his educated Greek slaves tn conduct schools and thus add to his private (52 HISTOL ^ OF EDUCATION livorce became common; \,ealth and influence ru.^^j ^jjg State; laves became very cheap and abundant, and were us^J fgj. almost very type of service. From a land of farmers of suall farms, -turdy and self-supporting, who lived simply, reared ^rge fam- ; ies, feared the gods, respected the State, and made in honest i ving, it became a land of great estates and wealthy i\en, and i.he self-respecting peasantry were transformed into soUiers for 1 jreign wars, or joined the rabble in the streets of Rome.^ Wealth i ecame the great desideratum, and the great avenue to tlis was through the public service, either as army commanders an? gov- f -nors, or as public men who could sway the multitude andcom- ^vand votes and influence. Manifestly the old type of eduction as not intended to meet such needs, and now in Rome, asore- ^ 'ously in Athens, a complete transformation in the systen of t lining for the young took place. The imaginative and creatve :henians, when confronted by a great change in national ide;ls, ■ olved a new type of education adapted to the new needs of he ne; the unimaginative and practical Romans merely adopted at which the Athenians had created. The Hellenization of Rome. The result was the Hellenizaticn the intellectual life of Rome, making complete the Helleniz;- n of the Mediterranean world. After the fall of Greece, in 14S i'. ■ :., a great influx of educated Greeks took place. As the Latii ^K>et Horace expressed it: Captive Greece took captive her rude conqueror, And brought the arts to Latium. So completely did the Greek educational system seem to meet th; needs of the changed Roman State that at first the Greek school-. vvjre adopted bodily — Greek language, pedagogue, higher school: ■'" -hetoric and philosophy, and all — and the schools were ii ity Greek schools but slightly modified to meet the needs o :■-'■. ae. Gymnasia were erected, and wealthy Romans, as well aj . )i;ths, began to spend their leisure in studying Greek and in trying to learn gymnastic exercises. ' 1 time the national pride and practical sense of the Romans 'hese men had h'ttle choice otherwise. Grain from Spain and Africa became . ;ap that a farmer could not raise enough on his small farm to pay his taxes and irt his family, so he was obliged to sell his land to men who turned it into large and sheep ranches. He would not emigrate to the provinces, as Englishmen done to Canada and Australia, but instead went to the cities, where he led £ ■ : ' to-mouth existence in a type of tenement house. It was from such scurcei he Roman mob, demanding free grain and entertainment in return for its was made up. / ■ EDUCATION AND VORK OF ROME 63 led them to open so-called "culture schools" of their own, mod- eled after the Greek, The Latin language then replaced the Greek as the vehicle of instruction, though Greek was still studied extensively, and Rome began the development of a system of private-school instruction possessing some elements that were native to Roman life and Roman needs. Struggle against, and final victory. That this great change in national ideals and in educational practice was accepted without protest should not be imagined. Plutarch and other writers appealed to the family as the center for all true education. Cato the elder, who died in 149 B.C., labored hard to stem the Hellenic tide. He wrote the first Roman book on education, in part to show what education a good citi- zen needed as an orator, husbandman, jurist, and warrior, and in part as a pro- test against Hellenic innovations. In 167 B.C., the first library was founded in Rome, with books brought from Greece by the conqueror Paulus Emilius. In 161 B.C., the Roman Senate directed the Praetor to see "that no philosophers or rhetoricians be suffered in Rome" (R. 20 a), but the edict could not be enforced. In 92 B.C., the Censors issued an edict ex- pressing their disapproval of such schools (R. 20 b). By 100 B.C., the Hellenic victory was complete, and the Graeco-Roman school system had taken form. In 27 B.C., Rome ceased to be a Republic and became an Empire, and under the Emperors the professors of the new learning were encouraged and protected, higher schools were established in the provinces, literature and philosophy were opened as possible careers, and the Greek lan- guage, literature, and learning were spread, under Roman imperial protection, to every corner of the then civilized world. This vic- tory of Hellenic thought and learning at Rome, viewed in the light of the future history of the civilization of the world, was an event of large importance. IV. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS FINALLY ESTABLISHED The ludus, or primary school. The elementary school, known as the Indus, or ludus litcrarmn, the teacher of which was known Fig. 20. Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.) *.._ 64 HISTORY' (v EDUCATION as a ludi magister, was the beginning or primary school of the scheme as finally evolved. This corresponded to the school of the Athenian grammatist, and like it the instruction consisted of reading, writing, and counting. These schools were open to both sexes, but were chiefly frequented by boys. They were entered at the age of seven, sometimes six, and covered the period up tojtwelve. Reading and writing were taught by much the same methods as in the Greek schools, and approximately the same writing materials were used. Something of the same difficulty was experienced also in mas- tering the reading art (R. 2i). Dionysius of Ha- licarnassus, a Greek his- torian who lived in Rome for twenty-two years, during the first century B.C., has left us a clear description of the Roman method of teaching reading: When we learned to read was it not necessary at first to know the name of the letters, their shape, their value in syllables, their differ- ences, then the words and their case, their quantity long or short, their accent, and the rest? Arrived at this point we began to read and write, slowly at first and syllable by syllable. Some time afterwards, the forms being sufficiently engraved on our memory, we read more cursorily, in the elementary book, then in all sorts of books, finally with incredible quickness and without making- any mistake. Fig. 21. Roman Writing-Materials Inkstand, pen, letter, box of manuscripts, wax tablets, stylus. Writing seems rather to have followed reading, and, as in the Greek schools, the pupils copied down from dictation and made their own books (dictata) . Literature received no such emphasis in the elementary schools of Rome as in those of the Greeks, and the palcestra of the Greeks was not reproduced at Rome. Due in part to the practical character of the Roman people, to the established habit of keeping careful household accounts, to the difficulties of their system of calculation,^ to the pracdce * Arithmetic was not easy for the Romans, partly because they had no figure or other sign for zero, partly because they used a decimal system for counting and a duodecimal for their money, and partly because the Roman system of notation EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 65 of finger reckoning, and to the vast commercial and financial interests that the Romans formed throughout the world which they conquered, arithmetic became a subject of fundamental importance in their schools, and much time was given to securing perfection in calculation and finger reckoning.^ Hence it occu- pied a place of large importance in the primary school. An abacus or counting- board was used, similar to the one shown in Figure 22, and Horace mentions a bag of stones {calculi) as a part of a school- boy's equipment. The ludi magister. The ludi magister at Rome held a position even less enviable than that held by the gramrnatist at Athens. "The starveling Greek," who was glad to barter his knowledge for the certainty of a good dinner, was sneered at by many Roman writers. Many slaves were engaged in this type of instruction, bringing in fees for their owners. It was not regarded as of importance that the teachers of these schools be of high grade. The establishment of and attendance at these primary schools was wholly volun- tary, and the children in them probably represented but a small percentage of those of school age in the total population. These schools became quite common in the Italian cities, and in time were found in the provincial cities of the Empire as well. They remained, however, entirely private-adven- (I, V, X, L, C, D, M) did not adapt itself to quick calculation. Try, for example, these simple sums: Add: CCLVII Subtract: LXVIII CIX XXXIV • • • • • • • M C X I c X 1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • e • • • • • • • • • Fig. 22. a Roman counting-b oard Pebbles were used, those nearest the numbered di- viding partition being counted. Each pebble above when moved downward counted five of those in the same division below. The board now shows 8,760,254. Multiply: cxxv XII Divide: XII |CXXXII 1 Finger reckoning (whence digits) with the Romans attained a prominence probably never reached with any other people. Bills and accounts were reckoned up on the fingers, in the presence of the patron. Eighteen positions of the fingers of the left hand stood for the nine units and the nine tens, and eighteen positions of the fingers of the right hand stood for the nine hundreds and the nine thousands. For larger sums, such as ten thousand aad more, various parts of the body were touched. Any one who betrayed, according to Quintilian, "by an uncertain or awkward movement of his fingers, a want of confidence in his calculations," was thought to be but imperfectly trained in arithmetic. 66 HISTORY OF x^D'JCATION ture undertakings, the State doing nothing toward encouraging their establishment, supervising the instruction in them, or requiring attendance at them. They were in no sense free schools, nor were the prices for instruction fixed, as in our private schools of to-day. Instead, the pupil made a present to the master, usu- ally at some understood rate, though some masters left the size of the fee to the liberality of their pupils.^ The pedagogue, copied from Greece, was nearly always an old or infirm slave of the family. The schools were held anywhere — in a portico (see Figure 23), in a shed or booth in front of a house, in a store, or in a recessed Fig. 23. A Roman Primary School (Ludus) (From a fresco found at Herculaneum) This shows a school held in a portico of a house. corner shut in by curtains. A chair for the master, benches for the pupils, an outer room for cloaks and for the pedagogues to wait in, and a bundle of rods (ferula) constituted the necessary equipment. The pupils brought with them boxes containing ^ There was much complaint that parents were slow with their fees, and at times forgot them entirely if the boy did not turn out well. Finally, in the reign of Diocletian (284-305 a.d.), in an effort to relieve the distress of schoolmasters, prices were legally fixed at approximately the equivalent of $1.20 per month per pupil for teaching reading and $1.80 for arithmetic, measured in money values of a decade ago. These were regarded as "hard times prices." EDUCATION ^ANI> WORK OF ROME 67 writing-materials, book-rolls, and reckoning-stones. Schools began early in the morning, pupils in winter going with lanterns to their tasks. There was much flogging of children, and in Martial we find an angry epigram which he addressed to a school- master who disturbed his sleep (R. 23 a). The secondary schools. Secondary or Latin grammar schools, under a grommaticus, and covering instruction from the age of twelve to sixteen, had become clearly differentiated from the primary schools under a hidi magister by the time of the death of Cato, 149 B.C. At first this higher instruction began in the form of private tutors, probably in the homes of the wealthy, and Greek was the language taught. By the beginning of the first century B.C., however, Latin secondary schools began to arise, and in time these too spread to all the important cities of the Empire. Attendance at them was wholly voluntary, and was confined entirely to the children of the well-to-do classes. The teachers were Greeks, or Latins who had been trained by the Greeks. Each teacher taught as he wished, but the schools throughout the Empire^ame to be much the same in character. The course of study consisted chiefly of instruction in grammar and literature, the purpose being to secure such a mastery of the Latin language and Greek and Latin literatures as might be most helpful in giving that broader culture now recognized as the mark of an educated man, and in preparing the young Roman to take up the life of an orator and public ofi&cial (R. 24). Both Greek and Latin secondary schools were in existence, and Quintilian, the foremost Roman writer on educational practice, recommends attendance at the Greek school first. Grammar was studied first, and was intended to develop cor- rectness in the use of speech. With its careful study of words, phonetic changes, drill on inflections, and practice in composing and paragraphing, this made a strong appeal to the practical Roman and became a favorite study. Literature followed, and was intended to develop an appreciation for literary style, elevate thought, expand one's knowledge, and, by memorization and repetition, to train the powers of expression. The method prac- ticed was much as follows : The selection was carefully read first by the teacher, and then by the pupils.^ After the reading the ' "Reading aloud, with careful attention to pronunciation, accent, quantity, and expression, formed an important part of the training in literature of a Latin youth. Correct reading of Latin was a much more difficult art, as practiced, than 68 HISTORY OF EDUCATION selection was gone over again and the historical, geographical, and mythological allusions were carefully explained by the teacher.^ The text was next critically examined, to point out where and how it might be improved and its expressions strength- ened, and much paraphrasing of it was engaged in. Finally the study of the selection was rounded out by a judgment ■ — that is, a critical estimate of the work, a characterization of the author's style, and a resume of his chief merits and defects. The founda- tions were here laid for Grammar and Rhetoric as the great studies of the Middle Ages. Homer and Menander were the favorite authors in Greek, and Vergil, Horace, Sallust, and Livy in Latin, with much use of y^sop's Fables for work in composition. The pupils made their own books from dictation, though in later years educated slave labor became so cheap that the copying and sale of books was organized into a business at Rome, and it was possible for the children of wealthy parents to own their own books. Grammar, composition, elocution, ethics, history, mythology, and geography were all comprehended in the instruction in grammar and litera- ture in the secondary schools. A little music was added at times, to help the pupil intone his reading and declamation. A little geometry and astronomy were also included, for their practical applications. The athletic exercises of the Greeks were rejected, as contributing to immorality and being a waste of time and strength. In a sense these schools were finishing schools for Roman youths who went to any school at all, much as are our high schools of to-day for the great bulk of American children. The schools were better housed than those of the ludi, and the masters were of a better quality and received larger fees. Like the elementary schools, the State exercised no supervision or cor trol over these schools or the teachers or pupils in them. is the reading of English, as all of us well know who learned properly to intone our "Arma virumque cano, Trojce qui primus ah oris IlaUam,fato profugus, Lavinaquc venit." The lack of use of small letters and spacing between the words (R. 21), as well as poor punctuation, also added to the difficulty. 1 A nonsensical minuteness was followed here, and many trivialities were empha- sized. Juvenal tells us, in his Seventh Satire, written about 130 a.d., that "a teacher was expected to read all histories and know all authors as well as his finger ends. That, if questioned, he should be able to tell the name of Anchises' nurse, and the name and native land of the stepmother of Anchemotus — tell how many years Acestes lived — how many flagons of wine the Sicilian king gave to the Phrygians." This reminds us of some of the dissected study of English and Latin until recently given in our colleges and high schools. EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 69 The schools of rhetoric. Up to this point the schools estab- Hshed had been for practical and useful information (the primary schools) or cultural (the grammar or secondary schools). On top of these a higher and professional type of school was next devel- oped, to train youths in rhetoric and oratory, preparatory to the great professions of law and pubhc hfe at Rome.^ These schools were direct descendants of the Greek rhetorical schools, which evolved from the schools of the Sophists. Suetonius ^ tells us that: Rhetoric, also, as well as grammar, was not introduced amongst us till a late period, and with still more difficulty, inasmuch as we find that, at times, the practice of it was even prohibited.^ . . . However, by slow degrees, rhetoric manifested itself to be a useful and honorable study, and many persons devoted themselves to it both as a means of defense and of acquiring a reputation. In consequence, public favor was so much attracted to the study of rhetoric that a vast number of professional and learned men devoted themselves to it; and it flour- ished to such a degree that some of them raised themselves by it to the rank of senators and to the highest offices. These schools, thejteachers of which were known as rhetors, fur- nished a type of education representing a sort of collegiate educa- tion for the period. They were oratorical in purpose, because the orator had become the Roman ideal of a well-educated man (R. 24). During the life of the Republic the orator found many opportunities for the constructive use of his abiUty, and all young men ambitious to enter law or politics found the training, of these schools a necessary prerequisite. They were attended for two or three years by boys over sixteen, but only the wealthier and more aristocratic families could afford to send their boys to them. In addition to oratorical and some legal training, these schools included a further linguistic and literary training, some maithe- ^ Quintilian well states the aim of this higher education when he says that "the man who can duly sustain his character as a citizen, who is qualified for the manage- ment of public and private affairs, and who can govern communities by his counsels, settle them by means of laws, and improve them by judicial enactments, can cer- tainly be nothing else but an orator." 2 In his Lives of Eminent Grammarians and Rhetoricians, chap. r. Suetonius lived from 75 to 160 'a. D., and was an advocate at Rome and private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian. ' There was a general dread of Greek higher learning on the part of the older Romans, and this found expression in many ways. Among these was an edict of the Senate, in i6i B.C., directing the Praetor to see that "no philosophers or rhetori- cians be suffered at Rome" (R. 20), a decree which could not be enforced, and the edict of the Censors, in 92 B.C. (R. 20), expressing their disapproval of the Latin schools of rhetoric. 70 HISTORY OF EDUCATION matical and scientific knowledge, and even some philosophy. The famous "Seven Liberal Arts" of the Middle Ages — Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic; Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronom/^ — all seem to have been included in the instruction of these schools.^ The great studies, though, were the first three Fig. 24. A Roman School of Rhetoric This picture, which has been drawn from a description, shows a much better type of school than that of the Itidi. and some Law, Music being studied largely to help with gestures and to train the voice, Geometry to aid in settling lawsuits re- lating to land. Dialectic (logic) to aid in detecting fallacies, and Astronomy to understand the movements of the heavenly bodies and the references of literary writers.^ There was much work in debate and in the declamation of ethical and political material the fine distinctions in Roman Law and Ethics were brought out, and there was much drill in preparing and delivering speeches and much attention given to the factors involved in the preparation and delivery of a successful oration (R. 25). ^ These seven studies became the famous studies of the church schools of the Middle Ages, with Grammar as the greatest and most important study (see chap. VII ; R. 74). The curriculum of the Middle Ages was a direct inheritance from Rome. 2 See Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, book i, chap, x, 22, 37, and 46. This chap- ter is devoted largely to a description of the use of these studies. ' Sample questions which were debated to bring out the fine distinctions in Roman Law and Ethics were: (a) Was a slave about whose neck a master had hung the leather or golden token (worn by free youths only), in order to smuggle him past the boundary, freed when he reached Roman soil wearing this insignia of freedom? (b) If a stranger buys a prospective draught of fishes and the fisherman draws up a casket of jewels, does the stranger own the jewels? EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME yt These schools became very popular as institutions of higher learning, and continued so even after the later Emperors, by seizing the power of the State, had taken away the inspiration that comes from a love of freedom and had thus deprived the rhetorical art of practical value. The work of the schools then became highly stilted and artificial in character, and oratory then came to be cultivated largely as a fine art.^ Men educated in these schools came to boast that they could speak with equal effectiveness on either side of any question, and the art came to depend on the use of many and big words and on the manners of the stage. Such ideals naturally destroyed the value of these schools, and stopped intellectual progress so far as they con- tributed to it. Much was done by the later Emperors to encourage these schools, and they too came to exist in almost every provincial city in the Empire. Often they were supported by the cities in which they were located. The Emperor Vespasian, about 75 A.D. began the practice of paying, from the Imperial Treasury, the sala- ries of grammarians and rhetoricians - at Rome. Antoninus Pius, who ruled as Emperor from 138 to 161 a.d., extended payment to the provinces, gave to these teachers the privileges of the sena- torial class, and a certain number in each city were exempted from payment of taxes, support of soldiers, and obligations to military service. Other Emperors extended these special privileges (R. 26) which became the basis for the special rights afterwards granted to the Christian clergy (R. 38) and, still later, to teachers in the universities (Rs. 101-04). University learning. Roman 3'Ouths desiring still further training could now journey to the eastward and attend the Greek universities (see Figure 14). A few did so, much as American students in the middle of the nineteenth century went to Germany for higher study. Athens and Rhodes were most favored. Bru- tus, Horace, and Cicero, among others, studied at Athens; Caesar, 1 In the later centuries of the Empire, people went to hear a man who could orate or declaim, as people now do to hear a great political orator, a revivalist preacher, or a popular actor or singer. A form of amusement for distinguished travelers pass- ing through a city was to have some one orate before them. "This power of using words for mere pleasurable effect," says Professor Dill, in his Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, "on the most trivial or the most extravagantly absurd themes, was for many ages, in both West and East, esteemed the highest proof of talent and cultivation." - Each Greek rhetorician in Rome was given one hundred sestertia (about $4000) vearly from the Imperial Treasury, Quintilian probably being one of the first to receive a state salary. HISTORY OF EDUCATION Cicero, and Cassius at Rhodes. Later Alexandria was in favor. In a library founded in the Temple of Peace by Vespasian (ruled 69 to 79 A.D.) the University at Rome had its origin, and in time this developed into an institution with professors in law, medicine, architecture, mathematics and mechanics, and grammar and rhetoric in both the Latin and Greek languages. In this many youths from provincial cities came to study. The lines of instruc- tion represented nothing, however, in the way of scientific investi- gation or creative thought; the instruction was formal and dog- matic, being largely a further elaboration of what had previously been well done by the Greeks. Y Nature of the educational system developed. Such was the educational system which was finally evolved to meet the new cultural needs of the Roman Empire. In all its foundation elements it was Greek. Hav- ing borrowed — conquered one might almost say — Greek re- ligion, philosophy, literature, and learning, the Romans naturally borrowed also the school system that had been evolved to impart this culture. Never before or since has any people adapted so completely to their own needs the system of educational training evolved by another. To the Greek basis some distinctively Ro- man elements were added to adapt it better to the peculiar needs of their own people, while on the other hand many of the finer Greek character- istics were omitted entirely. Having once adopted the Greek plan, the constructive Roman mind organized it into a system superior to the original, but in so doing formalized it more than the Greeks had ever done (R. 19). That the system afforded an opportunity to wealthy Romans to obtain for their children some understanding and appreciation of the culture of the Greek world with which their Empire was is ■« > '5 (Greek Universities) University of Rome (Professor) Law Medicine Architecture Mathematics Grammar Rhetoric 31 J) u Schools of Rhetoric (Rhetor) Grammar Rhetoric Dialectic Law •51 B •0 B u Latin Grammar Schools (Grammaticus) Grammar and Literature 1- a c V a Ludi, or Primary- Schools (fjuii magister) Readitie Writing Reckoning Fig. 25. The Roman Voluntary Educational System, as finally EVOLVED EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 73 now in contact, and answered fairly well the preparatory needs along political and governmental lines of those Romans who could afford to educate their boys for such careers, can hardly be doubted (R. 22). Roman writers on education, especially Cicero (R. 24) and Quintilian (R. 25), give us abundant testimony as to the value and usefulness of the system evolved in the training of orators and men for the public service. In the provinces, too, we know that the schools were very useful in inculcating Roman traditions and in helping the Romans to assimilate the sons of local princes and leaders.^ During the days of the Republic the schools were naturally more useful than after the establishment of the Empire, and especiahy after the later Emperors had stamped out many of the political and civic liberties for the enjoyment of which the schools prepared. On the other hand, the schools reached but a small, selected class of youths, trained for only the political career, and cannot be considered as ever having been general or as having educated any more than a small percentage of the future citizens of the State. Many of the important lines of activity in which the Romans engaged, and which to-day are regarded as monuments to their constructive skill and practical genius, such as architectural achievements, the building of roads and aqueducts, the many skilled trades, and the large commercial undertakings, these schools did nothing to prepare youths for. The State, unlike Athens, never required education of any one, did not make what was offered a prepara- tion for citizenship, and made no attempt to regulate either teachers or instruction until late in the history of the Empire. Education at Rome was from the first purely a private-adventure affair, most nearly analogous with us to instruction in music and dancing. Those who found the education ofifered of any value could take it and pay for it; those who did not could let it alone. A few did the former, the great mass of the Romans the latter. For the great slave class that developed at Rome there was, of course, no education at all. Results on Roman life and government. Still, out of this pri- vate and tuition system of schools many capable political leaders and executives came — men who exercised great influence on the ^ "He [Claudius] was also attentive to provide a liberal education- for the sons of their chieftains; . . . and his attempts were attended with such success that they, who lately disdained to make use of the Roman language, were now ambitious of becoming eloquent. Hence the Roman habit began to be held in honor, and the toga was frequently worn." Tacitus's Account of Britain, Agricola, chap. 21. 74 HISTORY OF EDUCATION history of the State, fought out her poHtical battles, organized and directed her government at home and in the provinces, and helped build up that great scheme of government and law and order which was Rome's most significant contribution to future civilization.^ It was in this direction, and in practical and con- structive work along engineering and architectural lines, that Rome excelled. The Roman genius for government and law and order and constructive undertakings must be classed, in impor- tance for the future of civilization in the world, along with the ability of Greece in literature and philosophy and art. ''If," says Professor Adams, "as is sometimes said, that in the course of history there is no literature which rivals the Greek except the English, it is perhaps even more true that the Anglo-Saxon is the only race which can be placed beside the Romans in creative pKJwer and in politics." The conquest of the known world by this practical and constructive people could not have otherwise than decisively influenced the whole course of human history, and, coming at the time in world affairs that it did, the influence on all future civilization of the work of Rome has been profound. The great political fact which dominated all the Middle Ages, and shaped the religion and government and civilization of the time, was the fact that the Roman Empire had been and had done its work so well. V. ROME'S CONTRIBUTION TO CIVILIZATION Greece and Rome contrasted. The contrast between the Greeks and the Romans is marked in almost every particular. The Greeks were an imaginative, subjective, artistic, and idealistic people, with little administrative ability and few practical ten- dencies. The Romans, on the other hand, were an unimagina- tive, concrete, practical, and constructive nation. Greece made its great contribution to world civilization in literature and phil- osophy and art; Rome in law and order and government. The Greeks lived a life of aesthetic enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art, and their basis for estimating the worth of a thing was intellectual and artistic; to the Romans the £esthetic and the 1 England offers us the nearest modern analogy. This was one of the last of the great European nations to establish popular education, but for centuries previous thereto the great private, tuition, grammar schools of England — • Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, and others — together with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, prepared a succession of leaders for the State — men who have steered England's destinies at home and abroad and made her a great world power. EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 75 beautiful made little appeal, and their basis for estimating the worth of a thing was utilitarian. The Greeks worshiped "the beautiful and the good," and tried to enjoy life rationally and nobly, while the Romans worshiped force and effectiveness, and lived by rule and authority. The Greeks thought in personal terms of government and virtue and happiness, while the Romans thought in general terms of law and duty, and their happiness was rather in present denial for future gain than in any immediate enjoyment. As a result the Romans developed no great scholarly or literary atmosphere, as the Greeks had done at Athens. They built up no great speculative philosophies, and framed no great theories of government. Even their literature was, in part, an imitation of the Greek, though possessing many elements of native strength and beauty. They were a people who knew how to accomplish results rather than to speculate about means and ends. Useful- ness and effectiveness were with them the criteria of the worth of any idea or project. They subdued and annexed an empire, they gave law and order to a primitive world, they civilized and Roman- ized barbarian tribes, they built roads connecting all parts of their Empire that were the best the world had ever known, their aque- ducts and bridges were wonders of engineering skill, their public buildings and monuments still excite admiration and envy, in many of the skilled trades they developed tools and processes of large future usefulness, and their agriculture was the best the world had known up to that time. They were strong where the Greeks were weak, and weak where the Greeks were strong. By reason of this difference the two peoples supplemented one another well in the work of laying the foundations upon which our modern civilization has been built. Greece created the intellectual and aesthetic ideals and the culture for our life, while Rome developed the political institutions under which ideals may be realized and culture may be enjoyed. From the Greeks and Hebrews our modern life has drawn its great inspirations and its ideals for life, while from the Romans we have derived our ideals as to government and obedience to law. One may say that the Romans as a people specialized in government, law, order, and constructive practical undertakings, and bequeathed to posterity a wonderful inheritance in governmental forms, legal codes, com- mercial processes, and engineering undertakings, while the Greeks left to us a philosophy, literature, art, and a world culture which 76 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the civilized world will never cease to enjoy. The Greeks were an imaginative, impulsive, and a joyous people; the Romans sedate, severe, and superior to the Greeks in persistence and moral force. The Greeks were ever young; the Romans were always grown and serious men. Rome's great contribution. Rome's great contribution, then, was along the lines just indicated. To this, the school system which became established in the Roman State contributed only indirectly and but little. The unification of the ancient world into one Empire, with a common body of traditions, practices, coinage, speech, and law, which made the triumph of Christianity possible; the formulation of a body of law ^ which barbarian tribes accepted, which was studied throughout the Middle Ages, which formed the basis of the legal system of the mediaeval Church, ana which has largely influenced modern practice; the development of a language from which many modern tongues have been de- rived, and which has modified all western languages; and the perfection of an alphabet which has become the common property of all nations whose civilization has been derived from the Greek and Roman — these constitute the chief contributions of Rome to modern civilization. Roman'city government, too, had been established throughout all the provincial cities, and this remained after the Empire had passed away. The municipal corporation, with its charter of rights, has ever since been a fixed idea in the western world. Roman law, organized into a compact code, and studied in the law schools of the Middle Ages, has modified our modern ideas and practices to a degree we scarcely realize. It was accepted by the German rulers as a permanent thing after they had over- run the Empire, and it remained as the law of the courts wherever Roman subjects were tried. Preserved and codified at Constanti- nople under Justinian in the sixth century, and re-introduced into western Europe when the study of law was revived in the newly founded universities in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, ^ This grew up, as all law grows, by enacted laws and decisions of the courts, and in time came to be an enormous body of law. Lacking the printed law books and indices of to-day, to obtain a knowledge of Roman law became a formidable task. Finally the practical Roman mind codified it, and reduced it to system and order. The Theodosian Code, of 438 a.d., and the Justinian Code, of 52S and 534 a.d., were the final results. These codes were compact, capable of duplication with relative ease, and later became the standard textbooks throughout the Middle Ages. The great importance of these codifications may be appreciated when we know that almost all the original laws and decisions from which they were compiled have been lost. EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 11 Roman law has greatly modified all modern legal practices and has become the basis of the legal systems of a number of modern states.^ Of all the Roman contributions to mod- ern civilization perhaps the one that most completely permeates all our modern life is their alphabet and speech. Figure 26 shows how our modern alphabet goes back to the old Roman, which they obtained from the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and which the Greeks obtained from the still earlier Phoenicians. This alphabet has be- come the common property of almost all the civilized world.- In speech, the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian tongues go back directly to the Latin, and these are the tongues of Mexico and South America as well. The English language, which is spoken throughout a large part of the civ- ilized world, and by one third of its inhab- itants, has also received so many additions from Romanic sources that we to-day scarcely utter a sentence without using some word once used by the citizens of ancient Rome. Among the smaller but nevertheless important contributions which we owe to Rome, and which were passed on to med- iaeval and modern Europe, should be men- ^ The Romanic countries — France, Spain, Italy — have drawn their law most completely from the Jus- tinian Code. Due to Spanish and French occupation of parts of America, Roman legal ideas also entered here, the Louisiana Code of 1824 being Roman in law and technical expressions and spirit, though English in language. Spanish and Portuguese settlement of the South American continent has carried Roman law there. * The Roman alphabet is the alphabet of all North and South America, Australia, Africa, and all of Europe except Russia, Greece, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and a few minor Slavic and Teutonic peoples. In Ger- many and Austria, Roman letters are rapidly super- seding the more difficult German letters in the print- ing of papers and books for the better-educated classes. In India, Siam,.China, and Japan, Roman letters are also being increasingly used. 1 c- a c c 1 «> 6 •D c £ a T3 odern Rom nglish, etc. IERMAJ4 Q. Siu 4 A A A 51 i & B B 25 > c D D D ^ ^ /^ E E Q Y ^ F F Is- C G « e^H BH H H •^ i 1 1 1 J 3 3 %. fc K K ^ I U V^ L 2 W\ Al M M m M A/ N N ^ P PP P ^ 9 9 9Q Q a q PR R R 94 vV ^Z ^S S S r T T T U X w Y V V w 5^ X X X Y z z 3 Fig. 26. Origin of Our Alphabet The German type, like the so-called Old English (see Fig. 4s), illustrates the corruption of letter forms through the copying of manuscripts during the Middle Ages. 78 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tioned certain practical knowledge in agriculture and the me- chanic arts; many inventions and acquired skills in the arts and trades; an organized sea and land trade and commerce; cleared ^nd improved lands, good houses, roads and bridges; great ar- chitectural and engineering remains, scattered all through the provinces; the beginnings of the transformation of the slave into the serf, from which the great body of freemen of modern Europe later were evolved; and certain educational conceptions and prac- tices which later profoundly influenced educational methods and procedure. How large these contributions were we shall appreciate better as we proceed with our history. Of the negative contributions, the most dangerous has been the idea of the rule of one imperial government, which has inspired the autocratic governments of modern Europe to try to imitate the world-wide rule of Imperial Rome. The way paved for Christianity. It was the great civilizing and unifying work of the Roman State that paved the way for the next great contribution to the foundations of the structure of our modern civilization — the contribution of Christianity. Had Italy never been consolidated; had the barbarian tribes to the north never been conquered and Romanized; had Spain and Africa and the eastern Mediterranean never known the rule of Rome; had the Latin language never become the speech of the then civilized peoples; had Roman armies never imposed law and order throughout an unruly world; had Roman governors and courts never established common rights and security ; had Roman municipal government never come to be the common type in the cities of the provinces; had Roman schools in the provincial cities never trained the foreign citizen in Roman ways and to think Roman thoughts ; had Rome never established free trade and intercourse throughout her Empire; had Rome never devel- oped processes and skills in agriculture and the creative arts; had there been no Roman roads and common coinage ; and had Rome not done dozens of other important things to unify and civilize Europe and reduce it to law and order, it is hard to imagine the chaos that would have resulted when the Empire gave way to the barbarian hordes which finally overwhelmed it. Where we should have been to-day in the upward march of civilization, without the work of Rome, it is impossible to say. EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 79 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Contrast the Romans as a colonizing power with the modern Germans. The EngHsh. The French. 2. At what period in our national development did home education with us occupy substantially the same place as it did in Rome before 300 B.C.? In what respects was the education given boys and girls similar? Dif- ferent? 3. What was the most marked advance over the Greeks in the early Roman training? 4. Contrast the education of the Athenian, Spartan, and Roman boy, during the early period in each State. 5. To what extent does early Roman education indicate the importance of the parent and of study of biography in the education of the young? 6. Was the change in character of the education of Roman youths, after the expansion of the Roman State and the establishment of world con- tacts, preventable, or was it a necessary evolution? Why? Have we ever experienced similar changes? 7. As a State increases in importance and enlarges its world contacts, is a correspondingly longer training and enlarged culture necessary at home? 8. What idea do you get as to the extent to which the Latinized Odyssey was read from the fact that the Latin language was crj-stallized in form shortly after the translation was made? 9. What does the rapid adoption of the Greek educational system, and the later evolution of a native educational system out of it, indicate as to the nature of Roman expansion? 10. Was the introduction of the Greek pedagogue as a fashionable adjunct natural? Why? 11. Why is a period of very rapid expansion in a State Kkely to be demorahz- ing? How may the demoralization incident to such expansion be antici- pated and minimized? 12. Why does the coming of large landed estates introduce important social problems? Have we the beginnings of a social problem of this type? What correctives have we that Rome did not have? 13. State the economic changes which hastened the introduction of a new type of higher training at Rome. 14. Was the Hellcnization of Rome which ensued a good thing? Why? 15. How do you account for Rome not developing a state school system in the period of great national need and change, instead of leaving the matter to private initiative? Do you understand that any large percent- age of youths in the Roman State ever attended any school? 16. Why do older people usually oppose changes in school work manifestly needed to meet changing national demands? 17. Compare the difficulties met with in learning to read Greek and Latin. Either and English. 18. How do you account for the much smaller emphasis on literature and music in the elementary instruction at Rome than at Athens? How for the much larger emphasis on formal grammar in the secondary schools at Rome? 19. What subjects of study as we now know them were included in the Roman study of grammar and rhetoric? 20. How do you explain the greater emphasis placed by the Romans on secondary education than on elementary education? 21. What particular Roman need did the higher schools of oratory and rhetoric supply? 8o HISTORY OF EDUCATION 22. What does the exclusive devotion of these schools to such studies indi- cate as to professional opportunities at Rome? 23. How do you account for the continuance of these schools in favor, and for the aid and encouragement they received from the later Emperors, when the very nature of the Empire in large part destroyed the careers for which they trained? 24. Compare Rome and the United States in their attitudes toward foreign- born peoples. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 13. The Laws of the Twelve Tables. 13. Cicero: Importance of the Twelve Tables in Education. 14. Schreiber: A Roman Farmer's Calendar. 15. Polybius: The Roman Character. 16. Mommsen: The Grave and Severe Character of the EarUer Romans. 17. Epitaph: The Education of Girls. 18. Marcus Aurelius: The Old Roman Education described. 19. Tacitus: The Old and the New Education contrasted. 20. Suetonius: Attempts to Prohibit the Introduction of Greek Higher Learning. (a) Decree of the Roman Senate, 161 B.C. {b) Decree of the Censor, 92 B.C. 21. Vergil: Difficulty experienced in Learning to Read. 22. Horace: The Education given by a Father. 23. Martial: The Ludi Magister. (a) To the Master of a Noisy School. {b) To a Schoolmaster. 24. Cicero: Oratory the Aim of Education. 25. Quintilian: On Oratory. 26. Constantine: Privileges granted to Physicians and Teachers. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Give reasons why the Laws of the Twelve Tables (12) were considered of such fundamental importance (13) in the education of the early Roman boy? How do you explain their being supplanted later by the Latinized Odyssey? 2. What does the Farmer's Calendar (14) reveal as to the character of Roman life? 3. Contrast the Roman character (15, 16) with that of the Athenian. 4. Compare the education of a Roman matron, as revealed by the epitaph (17), with that of a girl in later American colonial times. 5. After reading Marcus Aurelius (18) and Tacitus (19), what is your judg- ment as to the relative merits of the old and the new education: (o) as a means of training youths? (b) as adapted to the changed conditions of Imperial Rome? 6. How do you account for the attempts of the conservative officials of the State to prohibit the introduction of Greek higher schools (20 a-b) proving so unsuccessful? 7. Compare the difficulties involved in learning to read Greek (Fig. 6) and Latin (21). Either and English. 8. What type of higher educational advantages does the selection from EDUCATION AND WORK OF ROME 8i Horace (22) indicate as prevailing in Roman cities? Compare with present-day advanced education. 9. What do Martial's Epigrams to the Roman schoolmasters (23 a-b) indi- cate as to the nature of the schools, school discipline, and social status of the Roman primary teacher? D. Do the selections from Cicero (24) and Quintihan (25) satisfy you that oratory was a sufficiently broad idea for the higher education of youths under the Empire? Why? t. What does the decree of Constantine (26) indicate as to the social status of the higher teachers under the Empire? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Abbott, F. F. Society and Politics in Ancient Rome. * Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Anderson, L. F. "Some Facts regarding Vocational Education among the Greeks and Romans"; in School Review, vol. 20, pp. 191-201. * Clarke, Geo. Education of Children at Rome. * Dill, Sam'l. Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire. * Laurie, S. S. Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Education. Mahaffy, J. P. The Silver Age of the Greek World. Ross, C. F. "The Strength and Weakness of Roman Education"; in School atui Society, vol. 6, pp. 457-63. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. i. Thorndike, Lynn. History of Mediceval Europe. Westermann, W. L. Vocational Training in Antiquity; in School Review, vol. 22, pp. 601-10. CHAPTER IV THE RISE AND CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY I. THE RISE AND VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY Religions in the Roman world. As was stated in the preceding chapter (p. 58), the Roman state rehgion was an outgrowth of the reh'gion of the home. Just as there had been a number of fireside deities, who were supposed to preside over the different activities of the home, so there were many state deities who were supposed to preside over the different activities of the State. In addition, the Romans exhibited toward the rehgions of all other peoples that same tolerance and willingness to borrow which they exhibited in so many other matters. Certain Greek deities were taken over and temples erected to them in Rome, and new deities, to guard over such functions as health, fortune, peace, concord, sowing, reaping, etc., were established.^ Extreme tolerance also was shown toward the special religions of other peoples who had been brought within the Empire, and certain oriental divinities had even been admitted and given their place in Rome. Like many other features of Roman life, their religion was essentially of a practical nature, dealing with the affairs of every- day life, and having little or no relation to personal morality." It promised no rewards or punishments or hopes for a future life, but rather, by uniting all citizens in a common reverence and fear of certain deities, helped to unify the Empire and hold it together. After the death of Augustus (14 a.d.), the Roman Senate deified the Emperor and enrolled his name among the gods, and Emperor worship was added to their ceremonies. This naturally spread rapidly throughout the Empire, tended to unite all classes in ^ The Farmer's Calendar, given in the accompanying Booh of Readings (R. 14), illustrates very well the gods and sacrifices for one phase of Roman life. Pctronius, in his Satires, says, "Our country is so full of divinities that it is much easier to find a god than a man." 2 "The chief objects of pagan religion were to foretell the future, to explain the universe, to avert calamity, and to obtain the assistance of the gods. They con- tained no instruments of moral teaching analogous to our institution of preaching, or to the moral preparation for the reception of the sacrament, or to confession, or to the reading of the Bible, or to religious education, or to united prayer for spiritual benefits. To make men virtuous was no more the function of the priest than of the physician," (Lecky, W. E. H., History of European Morals, chap, iv.) CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 83 allegiance to the central government at Rome, and seemed to form the basis for a universal religion for a universal empire. Feeling of need for something more. As an educated class arose in Rome, this mixture of diverse divinities failed to satisfy; the Roman religion, made up as it was of state and parental duties and precautions, lost with them its force; and the religious cere- monies of the home and the State lost for them their meaning. The mechanical repetition of prayers and sacrifices made no appeal to the emotions or to the moral nature of individuals, and offered no spiritual joy or consolation as to a life beyond. The educated Greeks before had had this same feeling, and had in- dulged in much speculation as to the moral nature of man. Many educated Romans now turned to the Greek philosophers for some more philosophical explanation of the great mystery of life and death. Of all the philosophies developed in the philosophical schools of Athens, the one that made the deepest appeal to the practical Roman mind was that of the Stoics, founded by Zeno, 308 B.C. Virtue, claimed the Stoics, consists in so living that one's life is in accordance with that Universal Reason which rules the world. Riches, position, fame, success — these count for but little. He who trains himself to be above grief, hope, joy, fear, and the ills of life — be he slave or peasant or king — may be happy because he is virtuous. Reason, rather than the feelings, is the proper rule of life. The Stoics also preached the brotherhood of man, and to a degree expressed a humble reliance on a providence which con- trolled affairs. This philosophy in a way met the need for a religion among the better-educated Romans, and made consider- able headway during the early days of the Empire.^ While serv- ing as a sort of religion for those capable of embracing it, it was to o inte llectual to reach^more than a few, and was not adapted to become a universal religion for all sorts and conditions of men. What was needed was a new moral philosophy or religion that would touch all mankind. To do this it must appeal to the emo- tions more than to the intellect. Such a religion was at this time taking shape and gathering force and strength in a remote corner of the Empire. ^ Seneca (4-65 a.d.), the tutor of the Emperor Nero, and the Greek freedman Epictetus (d. 100 a.d.) both expounded Stoicism at Rome during the first Christian century, and the Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus AureHus (161-180 a.d.) repre- sents one of the finest expositions of the application of this philosophy to the problems of human life. 84 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Where this new religion arose. Far to the eastern end of the Mediterranean there had long lived a branch of the Semitic race, which had developed a national character and made a contribu- tion of first importance to the religious thought of the world. These were the Hebrew people who, leaving Egypt about 1500 B.C., in the Exodus, had come to inhabit the land of Canaan, south of Phoenicia and east and north of Egypt. From a wander- ing, pastoral people they had gradually changed to a settled, agricultural people, and had begun the development of a regular State. Unwilling, however, to bear the burdens of a political State, and objecting to taxation, a standing army, and forced labor for the State, the nationality which promised at one time fell to pieces, and the land was overrun by hostile neighbors and the people put under the yoke. After a sad and tempestuous history, which culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 a.d., the inhabitants were sold into slavery and dispersed throughout the Roman Empire. These people developed no great State, and made no contribu- tions to government or science or art. Their contribution was along religious lines, and so magnificent and uplifting is their religious literature that it is certain to last for all time. Alone among all eastern people they early evolved the idea of one omnipotent God. The religion that they developed declared man to be the child of God, erected personal morahty and service to God as the rule of life, and asserted a life beyond the grave. It was about these ideas that the whole energy of the people concentrated, and religion became the central thought of their lives. This religion, unlike the other religions of the Mediter- ranean world, emphasized duty to God, service, personal moral- ity, chastity, honesty, and truth as its essential elements. The Law of Moses became the law of the land. Woman was elevated to a new place in the life of the ancient world. ^ Children became sacred in the eyes of the people. Their literary contribution, the Old Testament — written by a series of patriarchs, lawgivers, prophets, and priests — pictures, often in sublime language, the various migrations, deliverances, calamities, and religious hopes, aspirations, and experiences of this Chosen People. The unity of this people. Just before their country was over- run and they were carried captive to Babylon, in 588 B.C., the 1 See Proverbs, xxxi, for a good statement of the ancient Hebrew ideal of woman- hood. CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 85 Pentateuch ^ had been reduced to writing and made an authori- tative code of laws for the people. This served as a bond oi union among them during the exile, and after their return to Palestine, in 538 B.C., the study and observance of this law became the most important duty of their lives. The synagogue was established in every village for its exposition, where twice on every Sabbath day the people were to gather to hear the law ex- pounded. A race of Scribes, or scripture scholars, also arose to teach the law, as well as means for educating additional scribes. They were to interpret the law, and to apply it to the daily lives of the people. As the law was a combination of religious, cere- monial, civil, and sanitary law, these scribes became both teach- ers and judges for the people. In time they became the deposi- taries of all learning, superseded the priesthood, and became the leaders {rabbins, whence rabbi) of the people. " The voice of the rabbi is the voice of God," says the Talmud, a collection of Hebrew customs and traditions, with comments and interpreta- tions, written by the rabbis after 70 B.C. By most Jews this is held to be next in sacredness to the Old Testament (R. 27). Realizing, after the return from captivity, that the future existence of the Hebrew people would depend, not upon their military strength, but upon their moral ^unity , and that this must be based upon the careful training of eacTicnild in the traditions of his fathers, the leaders of the people began the evolution of a religious school system to meet the national need. ReaHzing, too, that parents could not be depended upon in all cases to pro- vide this instruction, the leaders provided it and made it com- pulsor y. Great open-air Bible classes were organized at first and these were gradually extended to all the villages of the coun- try. Elementary schools were developed later and attached to the synagogues, and finally, in_64uA-D., the high priest, Joshua ben Gamala, ordered the establishment of an elementary school in every village^ made attendance compulsory for all male children, and provided for a combined type of religious and household instruction at home for all girls. Reading, writing, counting, the history of the Chosen People, the poetry of the Psalms, the Law of the Pentateuch, and a part of the Talmud constituted the subject-matter of instruction. The instruction was largely oral, 1 This collective term is applied to the first five books of the Old Testament, and includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five books form a wonderful collection of the historical and Ipgal material relating to the wan- derings and experiences and practices of the people. 86 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and learning by heart was the common teaching plan. The child was taught the Law of his fathers, trained to make holiness a rule of his life and to subordinate his will to that of the one God, and commanded to revere his teachers (R. 27) and uphold the tradi- tions of his people. After the destruction of Jerusalem (70 a.d.) and the scatter- ment of the people, the school instruction was naturally more or less disrupted, but in one way or another the Hebrew people have ever since managed to keep up the training of rabbis and the instruction of the young in the Law and the traditions of their people, and as a consequence of this instruction we have to-day the interesting result of a homogeneous people who, for over eighteen centuries, have had no national existence, and who have been scattered and persecuted as have no other people. History offers us no better example of the salvation of a people by means of the compulsory education of all. The new Christian faith. It was into this Hebrew race that Jesus was born,^ and there he lived, learned, taught, made his disciples, and was crucified. Building on the old Hebrew moral law and the importance of the personal life, Jesus made his appeal to the i ndivid ual, and sought the moral regeneration of society througlTllie moral regeneration of individual men and women. This idea of individuality and of personal souls worth saving was a new idea in a world where the submergence of the individual in the State had everywhere up to that time been the rule. Even the Hebrews, in their great desire to perpetuate their race and faith, had suppressed and absorbed the individual in their religious State. The teachings of Jesus, on the other hand, with their emphasis on charity, sympathy, self-sacrifice, and the brother- hood of all men, tended to obliterate nationality, while the emphasis they gave to the future life, for which fife here was but a preparation, tended to subordinate the interests of the State and withdraw the concern of men from worldly affairs. In a series of simple sermons, Jesus set forth the basis of this new faith which he, and after him his disciples, offered to the world. At the time of his crucifixion his disciples numbered scarcely one hundred persons. For some years after his death his disciples ^ Chapter i of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew gives, in detail (1-16), the genealogy of Jesus, concluding with the following verse: "17. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations^" CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 87 remained in Jerusalem, preaching that he was the Messiah or Christ, whom the Hebrew people had long expected, and making converts to the idea. Later in Samaria, Damascus, and Antioch they made additional converts among the Jews. Up to this point the Christians had been careful to keep up all the old Jewish customs, and it was even doubted at first whether any but Jews could properly be admitted to the new faith. A new convert, ^aul of Tarsus, a Jew who had studied in the Greek university there and who afterwards became the Apostle Paul, did much to open the new faith to the Gentiles, as the men of other nations were known. Speaking Greek, and being versed in Greek phi- losophy, and especially Stoicism, he gave thirty years of most effective service to the establishment of Christian churches ^ in Asia Minor, Macedonia, Greece (R. 29), and Italy (R. 28). His work was so important that he has often been called the second founder of the Christian Church. The challenge of Christianity. Into a Roman world that had already passed the zenith of its greatness came this new Christian faith, cjiallenging almost everything for which the Roman world had stood. In place of Roman citizenship and service to the State as the purpose of life, the Christians set up the importance of the life to come. Instead of pleasure and happiness and the satisfaction of the senses as personal ends, the Christians preached denial of all these things for the greater joy of a future life. In a society built on a huge basis of slavery and filled with social classes, the Christians proclaimed the equalitx of all men before God. To a nation in which family life had become corrupt, infidelity and divorce common, and infanticide a prevailing prac- tice, the Christians proclaimed the sacredness of the marriage tie and the family life, and the exposure of infants as simple murder. In place of the subjection of the individual to the State, the Christians demanded the subjection of the individual only to God, In place of a union of State and religion, the Christians demanded the complete separation of the two and the subordination of the State to the Church. Unlike all other religions that Rome had absorbed, the Christians refused to be accepted on any other than exclusive terms. The worship of all other gods the Chris- tians held to be sinful idol-worship, a deadly sin in the eyes of God, ^ To many of these churches he wrote a series of epistles. These constitute a little more than one fourth of the New Testament. See accompanying Book of Readings (or Romans, i, 1-17) for the introductory part of Paul's Epistle to the Romans. 88 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and they were willing to give up their lives rather than perform the simplest rite of what they termed pagan worship (R. 28) . To the deified Emperor the Christians naturally could not bend the knee (Rs. 30 b, 31 a-b, 34). At first the new faith attracted but little attention from any- body of education or influence. Its converts were few during the first century, and these largely from among the lowest social classes in the Empire. Workmen and slaves, and women rather than men, constituted the large majority of the early converts to the new faith. The character of its missionaries ^ also was against it, and its challenge of almost all that characterized the higher social and governmental life of Rome was certain to make its progress difficult, and in time to awaken powerful opposition ^ to it. Yet, notwithstanding all these obstacles, its progress was relatively rapid. The victory of Christianity. By the close of the first century there were Christian churches throughout most of Judea and Asia Minor, and in parts of Greece and Macedonia. During the second century other churches were established in Asia Minor, in Greece, and along the Black Sea, and at a few places in Italy and France ; and before four centuries had elapsed from the cruci- fixion Christian churches had been established throughout almost all the Roman world. This is well shown by the map on the oppo- site page. The message of hope that Christianity had to ofier to all; the simplicity of its organization and teachings; the great appeal which it made to the emotional side of human life; the hope of a future life of reward for the burdens of this which it extended to all who were weary and heavy laden ; the positiveness of con- viction of its apostles and followers; and the completeness with which it satisfied the religious need and longings of the time, first among the poor and among women and later among educated men — all helped the new faith to win its way. The unity in government that Rome had everywhere established; ^ the Roman 1 "Its missionaries were Jews, a turbulent race, not: to be assimilated, and as much despised and hated by pagan Rome as by the mediaeval Ciiristians. Wherever it attracted any notice, therefore, it seems to have been regarded as some rebel fac- tion of the Jews, gone mad upon some obscure point of the national superstition — an outcast sect of an outcast race." (Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, p. 39.) "^ "Starting from an insignificant province, from a despised race, proclaimed by a mere handful of ignorant workmen, demanding self-control and renunciation be- fore unheard of, certain to arouse in time powerful enemies in the highly cultivated and critical society which it attacked, the odds against it were tremendous." {Ibid., p. 41.) ^ "It is not easy to imagine how, in the face of an Asia Minor, a Greece, an Italy Fig. 27. The Growth of Christianity to the End of the Fourth Century 90 HISTORY OF EDUCATION peace {pax Romano) that Rome had everywhere imposed; the spread of the Greek and Latin languages and ideas throughout the Mediterranean world; the right of freedom of travel and speech enjoyed by a Roman citizen, and of which Saint Paul and others on their travels took advantage; ^ the scatterment of Jews throughout the Empire, after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. — all these elements also helped. That Christianity made its headway unmolested must not be supposed. While at first the tendency of educated Romans and of the government was to ignore or tolerate it, its challenge was so direct and provocative that this attitude could not long continue. Under the Emperor Claudius (41-54 a.d.) "all the Jews who were continually making disturbances at the instigation of one Chres tus" were unsuccessfully ordered banished from Rome. In the reign of the Emperor Nero, in 64 a.d., many horrible tortures were inflicted on this as yet small sect. It was not, however, till later, when the continued refusal of the Christians to offer sacri- fices to the Emperor brought them under the law as disloyal (R. 30 a) subjects, that they began to be much punished for their faith (R. 31 a-b). The times were bad and were going from bad to worse, and the feelings of many were that the adverse condi- tions in the Empire — war, famine, floods, pestilence, and bar- barian inroads — were due to the neglect of the old state religion and to the tolerance extended the vast organized defiance of the law by the Christians. In the first century they had been largely ignored. In the second, in some places, they were punished. In the third century, impelled by the calamities of the State and the urging of those who would restore the national religion to its earlier position, the Emperors were gradually driven to a series of heavy persecutions of the sect (R. 30 a). But it had now be- come too late. The blood of the martyrs proved to be the seed of the Church (R. 35). The last great persecution under the Emperor Diocletian, in 303 (R. 33), ended in virtual failure. In 311 the EmperoF'Galerius placed Christianity on a plane of split up into a hundred small republics; of a Gaul, a Spain, an Africa, an Egypt, in possession of their old national institutions, the apostles could have succeeded, or even how their project could have been started. The unity of the Empire was a condition precedent of all religious proselytism on a grand scale if it was to place itself above the nationalities." (Renan, E., Hibberl Lectures, 18S0; Influence of Rome on the Christian Church.) 1 In Acts XXV, 1-12, it is recorded that the Apostle Paul, accused by the Jews and virtually on trial for his life before the provincial governor Festus, fell back on his Roman citizenship and successfully "appealed to Ctesar." (See footnote 3, page 57-) CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 91 equality with other forms of worship (R. 36). In 313 Constan- tine made it in part the official religion of the State, ^ and ordered freedom of worship for all. He and succeeding Emperors gradu- ally extended to the Christian clergy a long list of important privileges (R. 38) and exemptions,^ analogous to those formerly enjoyed by the teachers of rhetoric under the Empire (R. 26), and likewise began the policy, so liberally followed later, of en- dowing the Church. In 391 the Emperor Theodosius forbade all pagan worship, thus making the victory of Christianity complete. In less than four centuries from the birth of its founder the Christian faith had won control of the great Empire in which it originated. In 529 the Emperor Justinian ordered the closing of all pagan schools, and the University of Athens, which had re- mained the center of pagan thought after the success of Christian- ity, closed its doors. The victory was now complete. The contribution of Christianity. We have now before us the third great contribution upon which our modern civilization has been built. To the great contributions of Greece and Rome, which we have previously studied, there now was added, and added at a most opportune time, the contribution of Christianity. In taking the Jewish idea of one God and freeing it from the nar- row tribal limitations to which it had before been subject, Chris- tianity made possible its general acceptance, first in the Roman world, and later in the Mohammedan world. ^ With this was introduced the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and his love for man, the equality before God of all men and of the two sexes, and the sacredness of each individual in the eyes of the Father. An entirely new conception of the individual was proclaimed to the world, and an entirely new ethical code was promulgated. The duty of all to make their lives conform to these new conceptions was asserted. These ideas imparted to ancient society a new ^ "The miracle of miracles, greater than dried-up seas and cloven rocks, greater than the dead rising again to life, was when the Augustus on his throne, Pontiff of the gods of Rome, himself a god to the subjects of Rome, bent himself to become the worshiper of a crucified provincial of his Empire." (Freeman, E. A., Periods of European History, p. 67.) - In 319 and 326 the clergy were exempted from all public burdens, and only the poor were to be admitted to the clergy. In 343 the clergy were exempted "from public burdens and from every disquietude of civil office." In 377 all clergy were exempted from personal taxes. (See R. 38.) ' From the Roman world the idea has spread, through the Greek Catholic Church, to Greece, parts of the Balkans, and Russia; through the Roman Catholic Church to all western Europe and the two Americas; and through the Protestant churches which sprang from the Roman Catholic by secession, and the Mohammedan faith, to include almost all the world. Only among uncivilized tribes and in Asia do we find any great number of fundamentally different religious conceptions. 92 HISTORY OF EDUCATION hopefulness and a new energy which were not only of great importance in dealing with the downfall of civilization and the deluge of barbarism which were impending, but which have been of prime importance during all succeeding centuries. In time the church organization which was developed gradually absorbed all other forms of government, and became virtually the State during the long period of darkness known as the Middle Ages. It remains now to sketch briefly how the Church organized itself and became powerful enough to perform its great task dur- ing the Middle Ages, what educational agencies it developed, and to what extent these were useful. II. EDUCATIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION OF THE EARLY CHURCH Schooling of the early Church ; catechumenal instruction. The early churches were bound together by no formal bond of union, and felt little need for such. It was the belief of many that Christ would soon return and the world would end, hence there was little necessity for organization. There was also almost no system of belief. An acknowledgment of God as the Father, a repentance for past sins, a godly life, and a desire to be saved were vabout all that was expected of any one.^ The chief concern was the moral regeneration of society through the moral regeneration of converts. To accomplish this, in face of the practices of Roman society, a process of instruction and a period of probation for those wishing to join the faith soon became necessary. Jews, pagans, and the children of believers were thereafter alike sub- jected to this before full acceptance into the Church. At stated times during the week the probationers met for instruction in morality and in the psalmody of the Church (R. 39). These two subjects constituted almost the entire instruction, the period of probation covering two or three years. The teachers were merely the older and abler members of the congregation. This personal instruction became common everywhere in the early Church, and the training was known as catechumenal, that is, rudimentary, instruction. Two sets of catechumenal lectures have survived, which give an idea as to the nature of the instruc- tion. They cover the essentials of church practice and the reli- * Paul to the Romans (x, 9) stated the fundamentals of belief as follows: "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 93 gious life (Rs. 39, 40), It was dropped entirely in the conversion of the barbarian tribes. This instruction, and the preaching of the elders (presbyters, who later evolved into priests), constituted the formal schooling of the early converts to Christianity in Italy and the East. Such instruction was never known in England, and but little in Gaul. The life in the Church rnade a moral and emotional, rather than an intellectual appeal. In fact the early Christians felt but little need for the type of intellectual education provided by the Roman schools, and the character of the educated society about them, as they saw it, did not make them wish for the so-called pagan learning. Even if the parents of converts wished to pro- vide additional educational advantages for their children, what could they do? A modern author states well the predicament of such Christian parents, when he says: All the schools were pagan. Not only were all the ceremonies of the official faith — and more especially the festivals of Minerva, who was the patroness of masters and pupils — celebrated at regular intervals in the schools, but the children were taught reading out of books saturated with the old mythology. There the Christian child made his first acquaintance with the deities of Olympus. He ran the danger of imbibing ideas entirely contrary to those which he had received at home. The fables he had learned to detest in his own home were explained, elucidated, and held up to his admiration every day by his masters. Was it right to put him thus into two schools of thought? What could be done that he might be educated, like every one else, and yet not run the risk of losing his faith? ^ Catechetical schools. After Christianity had begun to make converts among the more serious-minded and better-educated citizens of the Roman Empire, the need for more than rudimen- tary instruction in the principles of the church life began to be felt. Especially was this the case in the places where Christian workers came in contact with the best scholars of the Hellenic learning, and particularly at Alexandria, Athens, and the cities of Asia Minor. The speculative Greek would not be satisfied with the simple, unorganized faith of the early Christians. He wanted to understand it as a system of thought, and asked many Ijuestions that were hard to answer. To meet the critical inquiry of learned Greeks, it became desirable that the clergy of the Church, in the East at least, should be equipped with a training similar to that of their critics. As a result there was finally ^ M. Boissier. La Fin du Paganisme, vol. i, p. 200. 94 HISTORY OF EDUCATION evolved, first at Alexandria, and later at other places in the Empire, training schools for the leaders of the Church. These came to be known as catechetical schools, from their oral questioning method of instruction, and this term was later applied to elementary religious instruction (whence catechism) throughout western Europe. Pantaenus, a converted Greek Stoic, who became head of the catechumenal instruction at Alexandria, in 179 a.d., brought to the training of future Christian leaders the strength of Greek learning and Greek philosophic thought. He and his successors, Clement and Origen, developed here an important school of Christian theology where Greek learning was used to interpret the Scriptures and train leaders for the service of the Church. Similar schools were opened at Antioch, Edessa, Nisi- bis, and Caesarea (See Map, p. 89), and these developed into a rudimentary form of theological schools for the education of the eastern Christian clergy. In these schools Christian faith and doctrine were formulated into a sort of system, the whole being tinctured through and through with Greek philosophic thought. Out of these schools came some of the great Fathers of the early Church ; men who strove to uphold the pagan learning and recon- cile Christianity and Greek philosophic thinking.^ Rejection of pagan learning in the West. In the West, where the leaders of the Church came from the less philosophic and more practical Roman stock, and where the contact with a deca- dent society wakened a greater reaction, the tendency was to reject the Hellenic learning, and to depend more u pon emoti onal faith and the enforcement of a moral life. By the close of the third century the hostility to the pagan schools and to the Hel- lenic learning had here become pronounced (R. 41). Even the Fathers of the Latin Church, the greatest of whom had been ' Justin Martyr (io5?-i67), a former Greek teacher and philosopher, continued to follow his profession, wear his Greek philosopher's garb, and held that the teach- ings of Christianity were already contained in Greek philosophy, and that Plato and Socrates were Christians before the coming of the Christian faith. Clement (c. i6o-c. 215), the successor of Pantasus as head of the catechetical school at Alexandria, held to the harmony of the Gospels with philosophy, and that "Plato was Moses Atticized." Origen (c. 185-c. 254), a pupil and successor of Clement, and the most learned of all the earl}' Christian Fathers, labored to harmonize the Christian faith with Greek learning and philosophy, and did much to formulate the dogmas of the early Church. Saint Basil (331-379) tried to allay the rising prejudice against pagan learning, and to show the helpfulness to the Christian life of the Greek Hterature and phi- losophy. Gregory of Nazianzus (c. 330-c. 390) was filled with indignation and protested loudly at the closing of the pagan schools to Christians by the edict of the Emperor Julian, in 362. CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 95 teachers of oratory or rhetoric in Roman schools before their conversion,^ gradually came to reject the pagan learning as unde- sirable for Christians and in a large degree as a robbery from God. Saint Augustine, in his Confessions, hopes that God may forgive him for having enjoyed Vergil. Jerome's dream - was known and quoted throughout the Middle Ages, TertuUian, in his Prescrip- tion against Heresies, exclaims : What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the Church? What between heretics and Christians? . . . Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition. Gregory the Great, Pope of the Church from 590 to 604, and who had been well educated as a youth in the surviving Roman- type schools, turned bitterly against the whole of pagan learning. 'T am strongly of the opinion," he says, "that it is an indignity that the words of the oracle of Heaven should be restrained. by the rules of Donatus" (grammar). In a letter to the Bishop of Vienne he berates him for giving instruction in grammar, con- cluding with — "the praise of Christ cannot He in one mouth with the praise of Jupiter. Consider yourself what a crime it is for bishops to recite what would be improper for religiously- minded laymen." As a result Hellenic learning declined rapidly in importance in the West as the Church attained supremacy, and finally, in 401, the Council of Carthage, largely at the instigation of Saint Augus- tine, forbade the clergy to read any pagan author. In time Greek learning largely died out in the West, and was for a time almost entirely lost. Even the Greek language was forgotten, and was not known again in the West for nearly a thousand years.^ The Church perfects a strong organization. As was previously stated (p. 92), but little need was felt during the first two centu- ^ TertuUian (c. 150-230) had been well educated in Greek literature and phi- losophy, and had attained distinction as a lawyer. Saint Jerome (c. 340-420) was saturated with pagan learning, but later advised against it. Saint Augustine (354- 430), the master mind among the Latin Fathers, was for years a teacher of oratory and rhetoric in Roman schools, and had written part of an encyclopEedia on the liberal arts before his conversion. Many others who became prominent in the Western Church had in their earlier life been teachers in the Roman higher schools. 2 Dreaming that he had died and gone to Heaven, he was asked, "Who art thou? " On replying, "A Christian," he heard the awful judgment, "It is false: thou art no Christian; thou art a Ciceronian; where the treasure is, there the heart is also." * The knowledge of Greek remained alive longer in Ireland than anywhere else in the western world, being known there as late as the seventh century. Greek was also preserved in parts of Spain for two centuries after it had died out in Italy. 96 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ries for a system of belief or church government. As the expected return of Christ did not take place, and as the need for a formula- tion of belief and a system of government began to be felt, the next step was the development of these features. The system of belief and the ceremonials of worship finally evolved are more the products of Greek thought and practices of the East, while the form of organization and government is derived more from Roman sources. In the second century the Old Testament was translated into Greek at Alexandria, and the 'Apostles' Creed" was formulated. During the third century the writings deemed sacred were organized into the New Testament, also in Greek. In 325 the first General Council of the Church was held at Nicaea, in Asia Minor. It formulated the Nicene Creed (R. 42), and twenty canons or laws for the government of the Church. A second General Council, held at Constantinople in 381, revised the Nicene Creed and adopted additional canons. The great organizing genius of the western branch of the Church was Saint Augustine (354- 430). He gave to the Western or Latin Church, then beginning to take on its separate existence, the body of doctrine needed to enable it to put into shape the things for which it stood. The system of theology evolved before the separation of the eastern and western branches of the Church was not so finished and so finely speculative as that of the Greek branch, but was more prac- tical, more clearly legal, and more systematically organized. The influence of Rome was strong also in the organization of the system of government finally adopted for the Church. There being no other model, the Roman governmental system was copied. The bishop of a city corresponded to the Roman municipal officials; the archbishop of a territory to the governor of a province ; and the patriarch to the ruler of a division of the Empire. As Rome had been a uni- versal Empire, and as the city of Rome had been the chief gov- erning city,^ the idea of a universal Church was natural and the 1 In the West there was no other great city than Rome. At the period of its maximum greatness, in the first century B.C., it was a city of approximately 450,00a people. Fig. 28. A Bishop Seventh Century (Santo Venanzio, Rome) CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 97 supremacy of the Bishop of Rome was gradually asserted and determined.' A State within a State. There was thus developed in the West, as it were a State within a State. That is, within the Roman Empire, with its Emperor, provincial governors, and municipal officials, governing the people and drawing their power from the Roman Senate and imperial authority, there was also gradually developed another State, consisting of those who had accepted the Christian faith, and who rendered their chief allegiance, through priest, bishop, and archbishop, to a central head of the Church who owed allegiance to no earthly ruler. That Christian- ity, viewed from the governmental point of view, was a serious element of weakness in the Roman State and helped its downfall, there can be no question. In the eastern part of the Empire the Church was always much more closely identified with the State. Fortunately for civilization, before the Roman Empire had fallen and the impending barbarian deluge had descended, the Christian Church had succeeded in formulating a unifying belief and a form of government capable of commanding respect and of enforcing authority, and was fast taking over the power of the State itself. The cathedral or episcopal schools. The first churches through- out the Empire were in the cities, and made their early converts there. ^ Gradually these important cities evolved into the resi- dences of a supervising priest or bishop, the territory became known as a bishopri c, and the church as a cathedral church . In time, also, some of the outlying territory was organized into par- ishes, and churches were established in these. These were made tributary tb and pkced under the direction of the bishop of the large central city, 'to supply clergy for these outlying parishes came to be one of the functions of the bishop, and, to insure prop- erly trained clergy and to provide for promot4ons in the clerical ranks, schools of a rudimentary type were estabHshed in connec- tion with the cathedral churches. These came to be known as cathedral, or episcopal schools. At first they were probably under the immediate charge of the bishop, but later, as his functions ^ After many struggles and conflicts between the Bishops of Constantinople. Alexandria, and Rome, the Bishop of Rome was finally recognized by the second great Church Council, held at Constantinople in 381, as the head of the entire Church (Canon 3), corresponding to the Emperor on the political side of the dying Empire. The separation of the eastern and western churches was rapid after this time. (See Map, p. 103.) ^ The word pagan as applied to unbeliever illustrates this progress of the Church, being derived from the Latin paganus, meaning countryman, villager, rustic. 98 HISTORY OF EDUCATION increased, the school was placed under a special teacher, known as a Scholasticus, or Magister Scholarum, who directed the cathe- dral school, assisted the bishop, and trained the future clergy. As the pagan secondary schools died out, these cathedral schools, together with the monastic schools which were later founded, gradually replaced the pagan schools as the important educational institutions of the western world. In these two types of schools the religious leaders of the early Middle Ages were trained. The monastic organization. In the early days of Christianity, it will be remembered (p. 87), the Christian convert held himself apart from the wicked world all about him, and had little to do with the society or the government of his time. He regarded the Church as having no relationship to the State. As the Church grew stronger, however, and became a State within a State, the Christian took a larger and larger part in the world around him, and in time came to be distinguished from other men by his pro- fession of the Christian religion rather than by any other mark. Many of the early bishops were men of great political sagacity, fully capable of realizing to the full the political opportunities, afforded by their position, to strengthen the power of the Church. It was the work of men of this type that created the temporal power of the Church, and made of it an institution capable of commanding respect and enforcing its decisions. To some of the early Christians this life did not appeal. To them holiness was associated with a complete withdrawal from contact with this sinful world and all its activities. Some betook themselves to the desert, others to the forests or mountains, and others shut themselves up alone that they might be undisturbed in their religious meditations. To such devoted souls monasti- cism, a scheme of living brought into the Christian world from the East, made a strong appeal. It provided that such men should live together in brotherhoods, renouncing the world, taking vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and devoting their lives to hard labor and the mortification of the flesh that the soul might be exalted and made beautiful. The members lived alone in individual cells, but came together for meals, prayer, and religious service. As early as 330 a monastery, had been organized on the island of Tebernee, in the Nile. About 350 Saint Basil introduced mo- nasticism into Asia Minor, where it flourished greatly. In 370 the Basilian order was founded. The monastic idea was soon trans- CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 99 ferred to the West, a monastery being established at Rome prob- ably as early as 340. The m.onastery of Saint Victor, at Mar- seilles, was founded by Cassian in 404, and this type of monastery and monastic rule was introduced into Gaul, about 415. The monastery of Lerins (off Cannes, in southern France) was estab- lished in 405. During the fifth century a rapid extension of mo- nastic foundations took place in western Europe, particularly along Fig. 29. A Benedictine Monk, Abbot, and Abbess (From a thirteenth-centut}' manuscript) the valleys of the Rhone and the Loire in Gaul, In 529 Saint Benedict, a Roman of wealth who fled from the corruption of his city, founded the monastery of Monte Cassino, south of Rome, and established a form of government, or rule of daily life, which was gradually adopted by nearly all the monasteries of the West. In time Europe came to be dotted with thousands of these estab- lishments, many of which were large and expensive institutions both to found and to maintain.^ By the time the barbarian inva- sions were in full swing monasticism had become an established institution of the Christian Church. Nunneries for women also were established early. A letter from Saint Jerome to Marcella, a Roman matron, in 382, in which he says that " no high-born lady at Rome had made profession of the monastic life ... or had i^entured . . . publicly to call herself a nun," would seem to imply that such institutions had already been established in Rome. * See the accompanying Book of Readings for a drawing and detailed explanation of the monastery of Saint Gall, in Switzerland (R. 69). This was one of the most important monasteries of the Middle Aj^cs. 100 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Monastic schools. Poverty, chastity, obedience, labor, and religious devotion were the essential features of a monastic life. The Rule of Saint Benedict (R. 43) organized in a practical way the efforts of those who took the -vows. In a series of seventy- three rules which he laid down, covering all phases of monastic life, the most important from the standpoint of posterity was the forty-eighth, prescribing at least seven hours of daily labor and two hours of reading "for all able to bear the load." From that part of the rule requiring regular manual labor the monks became the most expert farmers and craftsmen of the early Middle Ages, while to the requirement of daily reading we owe in lar^e part the devel- opment of the school and the preservation of learning in the West during the long intellectual night of the mediaeval period (R. 44). Into these monastic institutions the ohlati, that is, those who wished to become monks, were received as early as the age of twelve, and occasionally earlier (R. 53 a) . The final vows (R. 53 b) could not be taken until eighteen, so during t^is period the novice was taught to work and to read and write, given instruction in church music, and taught^o calculate the church festivals and to do simple reckoning. In time some condensed and carefully edited compendium of the elements of classical learning was also studied, and still later a more elaborate type of instruction was developed in some of the monasteries. This, however, belongs to a later division of this history, and further description of church and monastic education will be deferred until we study the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The education of girls. Aside from the general instruction in the practices of the church and home instruction in the work of 2 woman, there was but little provision made for the education of girls not desiring to join a convent or nunnery. A few, however, obtained a limited amount of intellectual training. The letter of Saint Jerome to the Roman lady Paula (R. 45), regarding the education of her daughter, is a very important document in the history of early Christian education for girls. Dating from 403, it outlines the type of training a young girl should be given who was to be properly educated in Christian faith and properly con- secrated to God. What he outlined was education for nunneries, a number of which had been founded in the East and a few in the West. In the West these institutions later experienced an exten- sive development, and offered the chief opportunity for any intel- lectual education for women during the whole of the Middle Ages. CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY loi III. WHAT THE MIDDLE AGES STARTED WITH What the Church brought to the Middle Ages. From a small and purely spiritual organization, devoting its energies to exhorta- tion and to the moral regeneration of mankind, and without creed or form of government, as the Christian Church was in the first two centuries of its development, wejiave traced the organization of a body of doctrine, the perfection of a strong system of church government, and the development of a very limited educational system designed merely to train leaders for its service. We have also shown how it added to its early ecclesiastical organization a strong governmental organization, became a State within a State, and gradually came to direct the State itself. It was thus ready, when the virtual separation of the Roman Empire into an eastern and western division took place, in 395, and when the western division finally fell before the barbarian onslaughts, to take up in a way the work of the State, force the barbarian hordes to acknowledge its power, and begin the process of civilizing these new tribes and building up once more a civilization in the western world. In addition to its spiritual and political power, the Church also had developed, in its catechumenal instruction and in the cathedral and monastic schools, a very meager form of an educa- tional system for the training of its future leaders and servants. A great change had now taken place in the nature of education as a preparation for life, and intellectual education, in the sense that it was known and understood in Greece and Rome, was not to be known again in the western world for almost a thousand years. The distinguishing characteristic of the centuries which follow, up to the Revival of Learning, are, first, a struggle against very adverse odds to prevent civilization from disappearing entirely, and later a struggle to build up new foundations upon which world civilization might begin once more where it had left off in Greece and Rome. The three great contributions from the ancient world. Thus, before the Middle Ages began, the three great contributions of the ancient world which were to form the foundations of our future western civilization had been made. Greece gave the world an art and a philosophy and a literature of great charm and beauty, the most advanced intellectual and aesthetic ideas that civilization has inherited, and developed an educational system of wonderful effectiveness — one that in its higher developnimt 102 HISTORY OF EDUCATION in time took captive the entire Mediterranean world and pro- foundly modified all later thinking. Rome was the organizing and legal genius of the ancient world, as Greece was the literary and philosophical. To Rome we are especially indebted for om conceptions of law, order, and government, and for the ability to make practical and carry into effect the ideals of other peoples. To the Hebrews we are indebted for the world's loftiest concep- tions of God, religious faith, and moral responsibility, and to Christianity and thq Church we are indebted for making these ideas universal in the Roman Empire and forcing them on a barbaric world. All these great foundations of our western civilization have not come down to us directly. The hostility to pagan learning that developed on the part of the Latin Fathers; the establishment of an eastern capital for the Empire at Constantinople, in 328; the virtual division of the Empire into an East and West, in 395 ; and the final division of the Christian Church into a Western Latin and an Eastern Greek Church, which was gradually effected, finally drove Greek philosophy and learning and the Greek lan- guage from the western world. Greek was not to be known again in the West for hundreds of years. Fortunately the Eastern Church was more tolerant of pagan learning than was the West- ern, and was better able to withstand conquest by barbarian tribes. In consequence what the Greeks had done was preserved at Constantinople until Europe had once more become sufficiently civilized and tolerant to understand and appreciate it. Hellenic learning was then handed back to western Europe, first through the medium of the Saracens, and then in that great Revival of Learning which we know as the Renaissance. Of the Latin liter- ature and learning much was lost, and much was preserved almost by accident in the monasteries of mediaeval Europe. Even the Church itself was seriously deflected from its earlier purpose and teachings during the long period of barbarism and general igno- rance through which it passed, and only in modern times has it tried to come back to the spirit of the teachings of its founder. The future story. For the long period of intellectual stagnation which now followed, the educational story is briefly told. But little formal education was needed, and that of but one main type. It was only after the Church had won its victory over the bar- barian hordes, and had built up the foundations upon which a new civilization could be developed, that education in any broad Fig. 30. Showing the Final Division of the Empire and the Church The map also shows conditions as they were in Europe at the end of the fourth century a.d. Syria, Egypt, Africa, and a portion of Asia Minor were overwhelmed by the Saracens in the seventh century and became Mohammedan, but Constanti- nople held out until 1453. The eastern division eventually gave rise to the Greek Catholic Church of Greece, the Balkans, and Russia, while the western division became the Roman Catholic Church of western Europe. At Constantinople Greek learning was preserved until the West was again ready to receive it. The Eastern Empire for a time retained control of Sicily and southern Italy (the old Magna Grcecia), but eventually these were absorbed by western or Latin Christianity. 104 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and liberal sense was again needed. This required nearly a thou- sand years of laborious and painful effort. Then, when schools again became possible and learning again began to be demanded, education had to begin again with the few at the top, and the contributions of Greece and Rome had to be recovered and put into usable form as a basis upon which to build. It is only very recently that it has become possible to extend education to all. In Part II we shall next trace briefly the intellectual life of the Middle Ages, and the reawakening, and in Part III we shall, among other things, point out the deep and lasting influence of the work of these ancient civilizations on our modern educa- tional thoughts and practices. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Point out the many advantages of a universal religion for such a univer- sal Empire as Rome developed, and the advantages of Emperor worship for such an Empire. 2. What do modern nations have that is much akin to Emperor worship? 3. Explain why Stoicism made such an appeal to the better-educated classes at Rome. 4. Why is an emotional faith better adapted to the mass of people than an intellectual one? 5. Explain how the Hebrew scribes, administering such a mixed body of laws, naturally came to be both teachers and judges for the people. 6. Illustrate how the Hebrew tradition that the moral and spiritual unity of a people is stronger than armed force has been shown to be true in history. 7. What great lessons may we draw from the work of the Hebrews in main- taining a national unity through compulsory education? 8. Why was Jesus' idea as to the importance of the individual destined to make such slow headway in the world? What is the status of the idea to-day (a) in China? (b) in Germany? (c) in England? (d) in the United States? Is the idea necessarily opposed to nationaHty or even to a strong state government? 9. Show how the political Church, itself the State, was the natural outcome during the Middle Ages of the teachings of the early Christians as to the relationship of Church and State. 10. Is it to be wondered that the Romans were finally led to persecute "the vast organized defiance of law by the Christians"? 11. Show how the Christian idea of the equality and responsibiUty of all gave the citizen a new place in the State. 12. State the reasons for the gradually increasing lack of sympathy and understanding between the eastern and western Fathers of the Church, and which finally led to the division of the Church. 13. Explain what is meant by "a State within a State" as applied to the Church of the third and fourth centuries. Did this prove to be a good thing for the future of civilization? Why? 14. Would Rome probably have been better able to withstand the barbarian invasions if Christianity had not arisen, or not? Why? CONTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANITY 105 15. Show how the Christian attitude toward pagan learning tended to stop schools and destroy the accumulated learning. 16. What was the effect of the Christian attitude toward the care of the body, on scientific and medical knowledge, and on education? Was the Chris- tian or the pagan attitude more nearly like that of modern times? 17. Why did the emphasis on form of behef, in the third and fourth centuries, come to supersede the emphasis on personal virtues and simple faith of the first and second centuries? 18. Compare the work of the Sunday School of to-day with the catechumenal instruction of the early Christians. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 27. The Talmud: Educational Maxims from. 28. Saint Paul: Epistle to the Romans. 29. Saint Paul: To the Athenians. 30. The Crimes of the Christians. (a) Minucius Felix: The Roman Point of View. (5) Tertullian: The Christian Point of View. 31. Persecution of the Christians as Disloyal Subjects of the Empire. (o) Pliny to Trajan. {h) Trajan to Pliny. 32. Tertullian: Effect of the Persecutions. 33. Eusebius: Edicts of Diocletian against the Christians. 34. Workman: Certificate of having Sacrificed to the Pagan Gods. 35. Kingsley: The Empire and Christianity in Conflict. 36. Lactantius: The Edict of Toleration by Galerius. 37. Theodosian Code: The Faith of Catholic Christians. 38. Theodosian Code: Privileges and Immunities granted the Clergy. 39. Apostohc Constitutions: How the Catechumens are to be instructed. 40. Leach: Catechumenal Schools of the Early Church. 41. Apostohc Constitutions: Christians should abstain from all Heathen Books. 42. The Nicene Creed of 325 a.d. 43. Saint Benedict: Extracts from the Rule of. 44. Lanfranc: Enforcing Lenten Reading in the Monasteries. 45. Saint Jerome: Letter on the Education of Girls. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Characterize the type of education to be provided and the status of the teacher, as shown in the selections from the Talmud (27). Compare with Rome. With Athens. 2. Characterize the attitude of Saint Paul toward the Romans (28). Does his description of Athens (29) tally with the description of the Athenians given in the text? 3. Was it possible for the Roman and the Christian to understand one another, thinking as they did in such different terms (30 a-b)? 4. Considering Phny and Trajan (31 a-b) as Roman officials, with the Roman point of view, and taking into account the time in the history of world civilization, would you say that they were quite tolerant of rebels within the State? J io6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 5. Compare the privileges and immunities granted the clergy (38) with the privileges previously given by Constantine to physicians and teachers (26) 6. Characterize the irrepressible conflict as pictured by Kingsley (35). Name a few other somewhat similar conflicts in world histor3^ 7. Outline the type of instruction for catechumens as directed in the Apostolic Constitutions (39). 8. What would have been the effect of the continued rejection of secular books called for in the ApostoHc Constitutions (41)? 9. What was the governmental advantage of the adoption of the Nicene Creed (42)? zo. Why did the rule of Saint Benedict (43) requiring readings and study lead to the copying and preservation of manuscripts? Ti. What does the selection from Lanfranc (44) indicate as to the state of monastic learning? 12. Was there anything pedagogically sound about the letter of Saint Jerome (45) on the education of girls? Discuss. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Dill, Sam'I. Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire. Fisher, Geo. P. Beginnings of Christianity. * Fisher, Geo. P. History of the Christian Church. * Hatch, Edw. Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church. (Hibbert Lectures, 1888.) Hodgson, Geraldine. Primitive Church Education. Kretzmann, P. E. Education among the Jews. MacCabe, Joseph. Saint Augustine. * Monro. D. C. and Sellery, G. E. Mediceval Civilization. * Swift, F. H. Education in Ancient Israel to 70 a.d. Taylor, H. O. Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages. Wishart, A. W. Short History of Monks and Monasticism. PART II THE MEDI/E\ AL WORLD THE DELUGE OF BARBARISM THE MEDIEVAL STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE AND REESTABLISH CIVILIZATION CHAPTER V NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE The weakened Empire. Though the first and second centuries A.D. have often been called one of the happiest ages in all human history, due to a succession of good Emperors and peace and quiet throughout the Roman world/ the reign of the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius (161-180 a.d.), may be regarded as clearly marking a turning-point in the history of Roman society. Before his reign Rome was ascendant, prosperous, powerful; during his reign the Empire was beset by many difficulties — pestilence, floods, famine, troubles with the Christians, and heavy German inroads — to which it had not before been accus- tomed; and after his reign the Empire was distinctly on the defensive and the decline. Though the elements contributing to this change in national destiny had their origin in the changes in the character of the national life at least two centuries earlier, it was not until now that the Empire began to feel seriously the effects of these changes in a lowered vitality and a weakened power of resistance. The virtues of the citizens of the early days of the Republic, trained according to the old ideas, had gradually given way in the face of the vices and corruption which beset and sapped the life of the upper and ruling classes in the later Empire. The failure of Rome to put its provincial government on any honest and efficient civil-service basis, the failure of the State to establish and direct an educational system capable of serving as a correc- ^ The period from the reign of Augustus Caesar through that of Marcus Aurelius (31 B.C.-192 A.D.) was known as "the good Roman peace." No other large section of the western world has ever known such unbroken peace and prosperity for so long a time. Piracy ceased upon the seas, and trade and commerce flourished. The cities and the great middle class in the population were prosperous. Travel was safe and common, and men traveled both for business and pleasure. The Christian State within a State had not yet taken form. Literature and learning flourished. The law became milder. The rights of the accused became better recognized. A certain broad humanity pervaded the administration of both law and government. There was much private charity. Hospitals were established. Women were given greater freedom, larger intellectual advantages, and a better position in the home than they were to know again until the nineteenth century. It was the Golden Age of the Empire. Toward the close of the period the Christian Father, TertuUian, wrote: "Every day the world becomes more beautiful, more wealthy, more splendid. No comer remains inaccessible. . . . Recent deserts bloom. . . . Forests give way to tilled acres. . . . Everywhere are houses, people, cities. Everywhere there is life." no HISTORY OF EDUCATION tive of dangerous national tendencies, the lack of a guiding na- tional faith, the gradual admission of so many Germans into the Empire, the great extent and demoralizing influence of slavery ^ — all contributed to that loss of national strength and resisting power which was now becoming increasingly evident. Other contributing elements of importance were the almost complete obliteration of the peasantry by the creation of great landed estates and cattle ranches worked by slaves, in place of the small farms of earlier days; the increase of the poor in the cities, and the declining birth-rate; the in- troduction of large numbers of barbarians as farmers and sol- diers; and the demoralization of the city rabble by political lead- ers in need of votes. Captured slaves performed almost every service, and a lavish display of wealth on the part of a few came to be a characteristic feature of city life.^ The great middle, com- mercial, and professional classes were still prosperous and con- tented, but luxury, imported vices, slavery, political corrup- tion, and new ideals ^ had grad- ually sapped the old national vitality and destroyed the resisting power of the State in the face of a great national calamity. Rome now stood, much like ^ Slavery in Rome came to be much more demoralizing than ever was the case in the United States. Instead of an ignorant people of an inferior race, the Roman slave was often the superior of his master — the unfortunate captive in an unsuccess- ful war against an oppressor. The holding of such educated and intelligent people in slavery was far more degrading to a ruhng people than would have been the case had their slaves been ignorant and of inferior racial stock. ^ The Roman State had come to be essentially a collection of cities. Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Corinth, Carthage, Ephesus, and Lyons were great cities, judged even by present-day standards, throbbing with varied industries and a strong intellectual life. In addition there were hundreds of other cities scattered all over the Empire, each with its own municipal life, while on the frontier were stock- aded villages serving as centers of trade with the barbarian tribes beyond. ^ Chief among the new ideals that sapped the old Roman strength must be men- tioned the new Christian religion, with its doctrine of other-worldliness and its sys- tem of government not responsible to the Empire. Another influence was the rise of a super-civic philosophy, derived chiefly from the writings of Plato (see footnote i, page 42), which held that certain men could be above the State and yet by their wisdom in part direct it. The two influences combined to undermine the resisting strength of the State. Fig. 31. a Bodyguaed of Germans A relief from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, at Rome, erected to celebrate his victories over the Marcomanni other German tribes. and NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE in the shell of a fine old tree, apparently in good condition, but in reality ready to fall before the blast because it had been allowed to become rotten at the heart. Sooner or later the boundaries of the Empire, which had held against the pressure from without for so long, were destined to be broken and the barbarian deluge from the north and east would pour over the Empire. The boundaries of the Empire are broken. While temporary extensions of territory had at times been made beyond the Rhine and the Danube, these rivers had finally come to be the established boundaries of the Empire on the north, and behind these rivers the Teutonic barbarians, or Germani, as the Romans called them, had by force been kept. To do even this the Romans had been obliged to admit bands of Germans into the Empire, and had taken them into the Roman army as "allies," making use of their great love for fighting to hold other German tribes in check. In i66 A.D. the plague, brought back by soldiers returning from the East, carried off approximately half the population of Italy. This same year the Marcomanni (see Figure i8), a former friendly tribe, invaded the Empire as far as the head of the Adriatic Sea, and it required thirteen years of warfare to put them back behind the Danube. Even this was accomplished only by the aid of friendly German tribes. From this time on the Empire was more or less on the defensive, with the barbarian tribes to the north casting increasingly longing eyes toward " a place in the sun" and the rich plunder that lay to the south, and frequently breaking over the boundaries. Rome, though, was still strong enough to put them back again. In 275 A.D., after a five years' struggle, the Eastern Emperor gave the province of Dacia, to the south of the Danube, to the Visigoths, in an effort to buy them off from further invasion and warfare. This eased the pressure for another century. In 378 A.D., now pressed on by the terrible Huns from behind, the Visi- goths, as a body, invaded the Eastern Empire, and in the Battle of A(irianople, near Constantinople, defeated the Roman army, slew the Roman Emperor, definitely broke the boundaries of the Empire, and they and the Ostrogoths now moved southward and settled in Moesia and Thrace. The Germans at Adrianople learned that they could beat the Roman legions, and from this time on it was they, and not the Romans, who named the terms of ransom and the price of peace. A few years later, under ^Jaric . the Visigoths invaded Greece, then turned westward 112 HISTORY OF EDUCATION through Illyria to the valley of the Po, in northern Italy, which they reached in the year 400. In 410 the great calamity came when they captured and sacked Rome, The effect produced on the Roman world by the fall of the Eternal City, as the news of the almost incredible disaster penetrated to the remote provinces, was profound (R. 48). For eight hundred years Rome had not LOCATION Small Type Fig. 32. The German Migrations The barriers of the Empire along the Rhine and the Danube now are broken down. Take a pencil and trace the route followed by each of these peoples. been touched by foreign hands, and now it had been captured and plundered by barbarian hordes. It seemed to many as though the end of the world were approaching. The Visigoths now turned west once more, carrying with them the beautiful sister of the Emperor as a captive bride of the chief, and finally settled in Spain and southern Gaul, which provinces were thenceforth lost to Rome. This was the first of the great permanent inroads into the Empire, and from now on Roman resistance seemed powerless to stop the flood. A period of tribal movements. The Hunnish pressure also started the Vandals and Suevi, and within fifty years they had been able to move across Germany, France, and Spain, plunder- ing the cities on their way. Finally they crossed to the northern NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE 113 coast of Africa, where they became noted as the great sea pirates of the Mediterranean. In 455 they crossed back to Italy, and Rome was sacked for the second time by barbarian hordes. The Huns, under the leadership of Attila, the so-called "Scourge of God," now moved in and ravaged Gaul (451) and northern Italy (452), and then, at the intercession of the Roman Pope Leo, were induced by a ransom price to return to the lower Danube, where they have since remained. In 476 the barbarian soldiers of the Empire, tired of camp life and demanding land on which they too might settle, rose in revolt, displaced the last of the Western Emperors, and elevated Odovacar, a tribesman from the north, as ruler in his stead. The Western Roman Empire was now at an end. In 493 Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, became king 0/ Italy. Between 443 and 485 the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes left their earlier homes in what is now Denmark and northwestern Ger- many, and overran eastern and southern Britain. In 486 the Franks, a great nation living along the lower Rhine, began to move, and within two generations had overrun almost all of Gaul. In 586 the Lombards invaded and settled the valleys of northern Italy, displacing the Ostrogoths there. Slavic tribes now moved into the Eastern Empire — Serbs and Bulgars — and settled in Moesia and Thrace. Southeastern Europe thus became Slavic- Greek, as western Europe had become Teutonic-Latin. Figure 32 shows the results of these different migrations up to about 500 A.D. Europe to be Teutonic-Latin. In the seventh century another great wave of people, of a different racial stock and religion — Semitic and Mohammedan — starting from Arabia and along the shores of the Red Sea, swept rapidly through Egypt and Africa and across into Spain and France. For a time it looked as though they might overrun all western Europe and bring the German tribes under subjection. Fortunately they were definitely stopped and decisively defeated by the Franks, in the great Battle of Tours, in 732. They also overran Syria and Persia, but were held in check in Asia Minor by the Eastern Empire, which did not completely succumb to barbarian inroads until Constantinople was taken by the Turks, in 1453. The importance of the result, to the future of our western civili- zation, of this battle in the West can hardly be overestimated. The future of European government, law, education, and civiliza- 114 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tion was settled on that Saturday afternoon in October, on the battle plains of Tours. ^ It was a struggle for mastery and domin- ion between the Aryan and Semitic races, between the Christian and Mohammedan religions, between the forces representing order on the one side and destruction on the other, and between races destined to succeed to the civilization of Greece and Rome and a race representing oriental despotism and static conditions. [ \ Christian I Mohammedan ijJEuropean Heathen Fig. 33. The Known World nsr 800 This map shows the great extent of the Mohammedan conquests. The part marked as "European Heathen" was added to Christianity within the next few centuries, and became a part of our Latin-Teutonic or western civilization. Driven back across the Pyrenees by the Franks, these people settled in Spain; later developed there, for a short period, a for- ^ Not only was the future of western European civilization settled there, but that of North and South America as well. Had Saracenic civilization come to dominate Europe, the Koran might have been taught to-day in the theological schools of Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, and Valparaiso, and the Christian religion been the possession only of the Greek and Russian churches, while our literature and philosophy and civilization would have been tinctured, through and through, with oriental ideas and Mohammedan conceptions. NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE T15 the- time remarkable civilization, but one that only slightly influ- enced the current of European development ; and then disappeared as a force in our western development and progress. We shall meet them again a Httle later, but only for a little while, and then they concern our western development no more. Our interest from now on lies with the Teutonic-Latin peoples of western Europe, for it is through them that our western civili- zation has been worked out and has come down to us. Who these invaders were. A long-continued series of tribal migrations, unsurpassed before in history, had brought a large number of new peoples within the boundaries of the old Empire. They finally came so fast that they could not have been assim- ilated even in the best days of Rome, and now the assimilative and digestive powers of Rome were gone. Tall, huge of limb, white-skinned, flaxen-haired, with fierce blue eyes, and clad in skins and rude cloths, they seemed like giants to the short, small, dark-skmned people of the Italian peninsula. Quarrelsome; delighting in fighting and gambling; given to drunkenness and gluttonous eating; possessed of a rude polytheistic religion in which Woden, the war god, held the first place, and VaUialla was a heaven for those killed in battle; living in rude villages in the forest, and maintaining them- selves by hunting and fishing — it is not to be wondered that Rome dreaded the coming of these forest barbarians (R. 46). The tribes nearest the Rhine and the Danube had taken on a little civilization from long contact with the Romans, but those farther away were savage and unorganized (Rs. 46, 47) . In general they represented a degree of civili- zation not particularly different from that of the better American Indians in our colonial period,^ though possessing a much larger ability to learn. The "two terrible centuries" which brought these new peoples into the I It is hard for us to imagine what happened, for the Indians we know to-day represent a much higher grade of civilization than did the German invaders. If we could imagine the United States overrun by the Indians of a hundred and fifty years ago, as the German tribes overran the Roman Empire, and becoming the rulers of a people superior to them in numbers and intellect, we should have some- thing analogous to the Roman situation. Fig. 34. A German War CmEF Restored, and rather idealized (From the Musee d'Artillerie at Paris) 116 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 35. Romans destroying a German Village (From the Column of Marcus Aurelius, at Rome) Note the circular huts of reeds, without windows, and with but a single door. Empire were marked by unspeakable disorder and frightful de- struction. It was the most complete catastrophe that had ever befallen civilized society. They settle down within the Empire. Finally, after a period of wandering and plundering, each of these new peoples settled down within the Em- pire as rulers over the numerically larger na- tive Roman popula- tion, and slowly began to turn from hunting to a rude type of farming. For three or four centuries after the invasions ceased^ though, Europe pre- sented a dreary spec- tacle of ignorance, lawlessness, and vio- lence. Force reigned where law and order had once been supreme. Work largely ceased, because there was no security for the results of labor. The Roman schools gradually died out, in part because of pagan hostility (all pagan schools were closed by imperial edict in 529 a.d.), and in part because they no longer ministered to any real need. The church and the monastery schools alone remained, the instruction in these was meager indeed, and they served almost entirely the special needs of the priestly and monastic classes. The Latin language was corrupted and modified into spoken dialects, and the written language died out except with the monks and the clergy. Even here it became greatly corrupted. Art perished, and science disappeared. The former Roman skill in handicrafts was largely lost. Roads and bridges were left without repair. Commerce and intercourse almost ceased. The cities decayed, and many were entirely destroyed (R. 49). The new ruling class was ignorant — few could read or write their names — and they cared little for the learning of Greece and Rome. Much of what was excellent in the ancient civilizations died out because these new peoples were as yet too ignorant to understand or use it, and what was preserved was due to the work of others than themselves. It was with such people and on sue' NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE 117 a basis that it was necessary for whatever constructive forces still remained to begin again the task of building up new foundations for a future European civilization. This was the work of centu- ries, and during the period the lamp of learning almost went out. Barbarian and Roman in contact. Civilization was saved from almost complete destruction chiefly by reason of the long and sub- stantial work which Rome had done in organizing and governing and unifying the Empire; by the relatively slow and gradual coming of the different tribes; and by the thorough organization of the governing side of the Christian Church, which had been effected before the Empire was finally overrun and Roman govern- ment ceased. In unifying the government of the Empire and establishing a common law, language, and traditions, and in early beginning the process of receiving barbarians into the Empire and educating them in her ways and her schools,^ Rome rendered the western world a service of inestimable importance and one which did much to prepare the way for the reception and assimil- ation of the invaders." In the cities, which remained Roman in spirit even after their rulers had changed, and where the Roman population greatly preponderated even after the invaders had come, some of the old culture and handicrafts were kept up, and in the cities of southern Europe the municipal form of city govern- ment was retained. Roman law still applied to trials of Roman citizens, and many Roman governmental forms passed over to the invader chiefly because he knew no other. The old Roman population for long continued to furnish the clergy, and these, because of their ability to read and write, also became the secre- taries and advisers of their rude Teutonic overlords. In one capacity or another they persuaded the leaders of the tribes to adopt, not only Christianity, but many of the customs and prac- tices of the old civilization as well. These various influences ^ As allies, citizens, soldiers, colonists, and slaves the Germans had long been filtering into the Roman world, and the Roman world was in part Germanized before the barriers were broken. These German-Romans helped to assimilate the Germans who came later, much as Italian-Americans in the United States help to receive and assimilate new Italians when they come. ^ "The historical importance of the mere fact that it was an organic unity which Rome established, and not simply a collection of fragments artificially held together by military force, that the civilized world was made, as it were, one nation, cannot be overstated. ... It was a union, not in externals merely, but in every department of thought and action; and it was so thorough, and the Gaul became so completely a Roman, that when the Roman government disappeared he had no idea of being anything else than a Roman. ... It was because of this that, despite the fall of Rome, Roman institutions were perpetual." (Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, 2d ed., p. 30.) Il8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION helped to assimilate and educate the newcomers, and to save something of the old civilization for the future. Being strong, sturdy, and full of youthful energy, and with a large capacity for learning, the civilizing process, though long and difficult, was easier than it might otherwise have been, and because of their strength and vigor these new races in time infused new life and energy into every land from Spain to eastern Europe (R. 50). The most powerful force with which the barbarians came in contact, though, and the one which did most to reduce them to civilization, was the Christian Church. Organized, as we have seen, after the Roman governmental model, and as a State within a State, the Church gained in strength as the Roman government grew weaker, and was ready to assume governmental authority when Rome could no longer exert it. The barbarians here en- countered an organization stronger than force and greater than kings, ^ which they must either accept and make terms with or absolutely destroy. As all the tribes, though heathen, possessed some form of spirit or nature worship or heathen gods, which served as a basis for understanding the appeal of the Church, the result was the ultimate victory, and the Christianizing, in name at least, of all the barbarian tribes. This was the first step in the long process of civilizing and educating them. The impress of Christianity upon them. The importance ot the services rendered by bishops, priests, and monks during what are known as the Dark Ages can hardly be overestimated. In the face of might they upheld the right of the Church and its representatives to command obedience and respect.^ The Chris- tian priest gradually forced the barbarian chief to do his will, though at times he refused to be awed into submission, murdered the priest, and sacked the sacred edifice. That the Church lost much of its early purity of worship, and adopted many practices fitted to the needs of the time, but not consistent with real reli- gion, there can be no question. In time the Church gained much from the mixture of these new peoples among the old, as they infused new vigor and energy into the blood of the old races, but 1 A Germanic king, when he feared no Roman general or emperor, could usually be made to stand in awe when a Christian priest or bishop appealed to Heaven and the saints, and threatened him with eternal hell-fire if he did not do his bidding. ^ The Church, it must be remembered, maintained its separate system of govern- ment and kept up the old forms of the Roman law. It had also its courts and its exemptions for the clergy, and these it forced the barbarians to respect. During half a dozen centuries it was the chief force that made life tolerable for myriads of men and women, and almost the only force upholding any semblance of humane ideals. NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE 119 the immediate effect was quite otherwise. The Church itself was paganized, but the barbarians were in time Christianized. Priests and missionaries went among the heathen tribes and labored for their conversion. Of course the leaders were sought out first, and often the conversion of a chieftain was made by first converting his wife. After the chieftain had been won the minor leaders in time followed. The lesson of the cross was pro- claimed, and the softening and restraining influences of the Chris- tian faith were exerted on the barbarian. It was, however, a long and weary road to re- store even a semblance of the order and respect for life and property which had prevailed under Roman rule. One of the most interesting of all the conversions was that made by the Bishop Ulphilas (c. 313-383) among the Visi- goths, before they moved westward from their original home north of the Danube, in what is now southwestern Russia. Ulphilas was made bishop and sent among them in 343, and spent the re- mainder of his life in laboring with them. He devised an alphabet for them, based on the Greek, and gave them a written language into which he translated for them the Bible, or rather large por- tions of it. In the translation he omitted the two books of Kings and the two Samuels, that the people might not find in them a further stimulus to their great warlike activity. Christianity had been carried early to Great Britain by Roman missionaries, and in 440 Saint Patrick converted the Irish. In 563 Saint Columba crossed to Scotland, founded the monastery IMIlKlSSTIlKA(i(^^lhAiri)i;^K(l.^(35:ftlhKR •u"l2ta(SJ^^'DI^Ki\lh^(§J\ll£sOK!nIO^ Fig. 36. A Page of the Gothic Gospels (reduced) One of the treasures of the library of the University of Upsala, in Sweden, is a man- uscript of this translation by Bishop Ulphilas. Greek letters, with a few Runic signs were used to represent Gothic sounds. The word "rune" comes from a Gothic word meaning "mystery." To the primitive Germans it seemed a mysterious thing that a series of marks could express thought. 120 HISTORY OF EDUCATION at lona, and began the conversion of the Scots. After the Angles and Saxons and Jutes had overrun eastern and southern Britain there was a period of several generations during which this por- tion of the island was given over to Teutonic heathenism. In 597 Saint Augustine, "the Apostle to the English," landed in Kent and began the conversion of the people, that year succeeding in converting Ethelbert, King of Kent. In 626 Edwin, King of Northumbria, was converted, and in 635 the English of Wessex accepted Christianity. The English at once became strong sup- porters of the Christian faith, and in 878 they forced the invading Danes to accept Christianity as one of the conditions of the Peace of Wedmore. (See Map, Figure 42.) In 496 Clovis, King of the Franks, and three thousand of his followers were baptized, following a vow and a victory in battle; ^ in 587 Recarred, King of the Goths in Spain, was won over; and in 681 the South Saxons accepted Christianity. The Germans of Bavaria and Thuringia were finally won over by about 740. Charlemagne repeatedly forced the northern Saxons to accept Christianity, between 772 and 804, when the final submission of this German tribe took place. Finally, in the tenth century, Rollo, Duke of the Normans, was won (912); Boleslav II, King of the Bohemians, in 967; and the Hungarians in 972. In the tenth century the Slavs were converted to the Eastern or Greek type of Christianity, and Poland, Norway, and Sweden to the Western or Roman type. The last people to be converted were the Prus- sians, a half-Slavic tribe inhabiting East Prussia and Lithuania, along the eastern Baltic, who were not brought to accept Chris- tianity, in name, until near the middle of the thirteenth century, though efforts were begun with them as early as 900. As late as 1230 they were offering human sacrifices to their heathen gods to secure their favor, but soon after this date they were forced to a nominal acceptance of Christianity as a result of conquest by the "Teutonic Knights." It was thus a thousand years after its foundation before Europe had accepted in name the Christian faith. To change a nominal acceptance to some semblance of a reality has been the work of the succeeding centu- ries. ^ Clotilda, wife of the heathen Clovis, was a Burgundian princess and a devout Christian, who had long tried to persuade her husband to accept her faith. In 496, during a battle with the Alemanni, near the present city of Strassburg, Clovis vowed that if the God of Clotilda would give him victory, he would do as she desired. The Alemanni were crushed, and he and three thousand of his chiefs were at once baptized. NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE I2I Work of the Church during the Middle Ages. Everywhere throughout the old Empire, and far into the forest depths of barbarian lands, went bishops, priests, and missionaries, and there parishes were organized, rude churches arose, and the process of educating the fighting tribesmen in the ways of civil- ized life was carried out. It was not by schools of learning, but by faith and ceremonial that the Church educated and guided her children into the type she approved. Schools for other than monks and clergy for a time were not needed, and such practically died out. The Church and its offices took' the place of education and exercised a wholesome and restraining influence over both young and old throughout the long period of the Middle Ages. These the Church in time taught the barbarian to respect. The great educational work of the Church during this period of in- security and ignorance has seldom been better stated than in the following words by Draper: Of the great ecclesiastics, many had risen from the humblest ranks of society, and these men, true to their democratic instincts, were often found to be the inflexible suj^porters of right against might. Eventu- ally coming to be the depositaries of the knowledge that then existed, they opposed intellect to brute force, in many instances successfully, and by the example of the organization of the Church, which was essentially republican, they showed how representative systems may be introduced into the State. Nor was it over communities and nations that the Church displayed her chief power. Never in the world before was there such a system. From her central seat at Rome, her all- seeing eye, hke that of Providence itself, could equally take in a hemi- sphere at a glance, or examine the private life of any individual. Her boundless influences enveloped kings in their palaces, and relieved the beggar at the monastery gate. In all Europe there was not a man too obscure, too insignificant, or too desolate for her. Surrounded by her solemnities, every one received his name at her altar; her bells chimed at his marriage, her knell tolled at his funeral. She extorted from him the secrets of liis life at her confessionals, and punished his faults by her penances. In his hour of sickness and trouble her servants sought him out, teaching him, by her exquisite litanies and prayers, to place his reliance on God, or strengthening him for the trials of Hfe by the example of the holy and just. Her prayers had an efficacy to give repose to the souls of his dead. When, even to his friends, his lifeless body had become an offense, in the name of God she received it into her consecrated ground, and under her shadow he rested till the great reckoning-day. From little better than a slave she raised his wife to be his equal, and, forbidding him to have more than one, met her recom- pense for those noble deeds in a firm friend at every fireside. Dis- countenancing all impure love, she put round that fireside the children 122 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of one mother, and made that mother little less than sacred in their eyes. In ages of lawlessness and rapine, among people but a step above savages, she vindicated the inviolability of her precincts against the hand of power, and made her temples a refuge and sanctuary for the despairing and oppressed. Truly she was the shadow of a great rock in many a weary land.^ The civilizing work of the monasteries. No less important than the Church and its clergy was the work of the monasteries and their monks in building up a basis for a new civilization. These, too, were founded all over Europe. To make a map of western Europe showing the monasteries established by 800 a.d. would be to cover the map with a series of dots.^ The importance of their work is better understood when we remember that the Germans had never lived in cities, and did not settle in them on entering the Empire. The monasteries, too, were seldom estab- lished in towns. Their sites were in the river valleys and in the forests (R. 69), and the monks became the pioneers in clearing the land and preparing the way for agriculture and civilization. Not infrequently a swamp was taken and drained. The Middle- Age period was essentially a period of settlement of the land and of agricultural development, and the monks lived on the land and among a people just passing through the earliest stages of settled and civilized life. In a way the inheritors of the agricul- tural and handicraft knowledge of the Romans, the monks be- came the most skillful artisans and farmers to be found, and from them these arts in time reached the developing peasantry around them. Their work and services have been well summed up by the same author just quoted, as follows: It was mainly by the monasteries that to the peasant class of Europe was pointed out the way of civilization. The devotions and charities; the austerities of the brethren; their abstemious meal; their meager clothing, the cheapest of the country in which they lived ; their shaven heads, or the cowl which shut out the sight of sinful objects; the long staff in their hands; their naked feet and legs; their passing forth on their journeys by twos, each a watch on his brother; the prohibitions ' Draper, John W., Intellectual Development of Europe, vol. 11, pp. 145-46. * The extent of the Benedictine order alone may be seen from the Benedictine statement that "Pope John XXII, who died in 1334, after an exact inquiry, found that, since the first rise of the order, there had been of it 24 popes, near 200 cardinals, 7000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 15,000 abbots of renown, above 4000 saints, and upwards of 37,000 monasteries. There had been likewise, of this order, 20 emperors, 10 empresses, 47 kings and above 50 queens, 20 sons of emperors and 48 sons of kings, about 100 princesses and daughters of kings and emperors, besides dukes, marquises, earls, countesses, etc., innumerable." From this it may be inferred how fully the Church was the State during the long period of the Middle Ages. NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE 123 against eating outside of the wall of the monastery, which had its own mill, its own bakehouse, and whatever was needed in an abstemious domestic economy (Figure 38) ; their silent hospitality to the wayfarer, who was refreshed in a separate apartment; the lands around their buildings turned from a wilderness into a garden, and, above all, labor exalted and ennobled by their holy hands, and celibacy, forever, in the eye of the vulgar, a proof of separation from the world and a sacrifice to heaven — these were the things that arrested the attention of the barbarians of Europe, and led them on to civilization. ^ The problem faced by the Middle Ages. That the lamp of learning burned low during this period of assimilation is no cause for wonder. Recovery from such a deluge of barbarism on a weakened society is not easy. In fact the recovery was a long and slow process, occupying nearly the whole of a thousand years. The problem which faced the Church, as the sole surviving force capable of exerting any constructive influence, was that of chang- ing the barbarism and anarchy of the sLxth century, with its low standards of living and lack of humane ideals, into the intelligent, progressive civilization of the fifteenth century. This was the work of the Middle Ages, and largely the work of the Christian Church. It was not a period of progress, but one of assimilation, so that a common western civilization might in time be developed out of the diverse and hostile elements mixed together by the rude force of circumstances. The enfeebled Roman race was to be reinvigorated by mixture with the youthful and vigorous Germans (R. 50); to the institutions of ancient society were to be added certain social and political institutions of the Germanic peoples; all were to be brought under the rule of a common Christian Church; and finally, when these people had become sufficiently civilized and educated to enable them to understand and appre- ciate, "nearly every achievement of the Greeks and the Romans in thought, science, law, and the practical arts" was to be recov- ered and made a part of our western civilization. In this chapter we have dealt largely with the great fundamen- tal movements which have so deeply influenced the course of human history. In the chapters which immediately follow we shall tell how learning was preserved during the period and what facilities for education actually existed; trace the more important efforts made to reestablish schools and learning; and finally describe the culmination of the process of absorbing and educating ' Draper, John W., Intfllc:tiicl Devdopmcnl of Europe, vol. i, p. 437. 124 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the Germans in the civilization they had conquered that came in the great period of recovery of the ancient learning and civiliza- tion — the age of the Renaissance. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Do the peculiar problems of assimilation of the foreign-born, revealed to us by the World War, put us in a somewhat similar position to Rome under the Empire as relates to the need of a guiding national faith? 2. Outline how Rome might have been helped and strengthened by a national school system under state control. 3. Outline how our state school systems could be made much more effective as national instruments by the infusion into their instruction of a strong national faith. 4. Try to picture the results upon our civiHzation had western Europe become Mohammedan. 5. The movement of new peoples into the Roman Empire was much slower than has been the immigration of foreign peoples into the United States, since 1840. Why the difference in assimilative power? 6. How do you think the Roman provinces and Italy, after the tribes from the North had settled down within the Empire, compared with Mexico after the years of revolution with peons and brigands in control? With Russia, after the destruction wrought by the Bolshevists? 7. Explain the importance of the long civilizing and educating work of Rome among the German tribes, in preparing the means for the preserva- tion of Roman institutions after the downfall of the Roman govern- ment. 8. What does the fact that Roman institutions and Roman thinking con- tinued and profoundly modified mediaeval Hfe indicate as to the nature of Roman government and the Roman power of assimilation? 9. Though Rome never instituted a state school system, was there not after all large educational work done by the government through its intelligent administration? 10. Show how the breakdown of Roman government and Roman institutions was naturally more complete in Gaul than in northern Italy, and more complete in northern than in central or southern Italy, and hence how Roman civilization was naturally preserved in larger measure in the cities of Italy than elsewhere. 11. Show how the Christian Church, too, could not have completely dis- pensed with Roman letters and Roman civilization, had it desired to do so, but was forced of necessity to preserve and pass on important portions of the civilization of Rome. 12. What do you think would have been the effect on the future of civiliza- tion had the barbarian tribes overrun Spain, Italy, and Greece during the Age of Pericles? 13. What modern analogies do we have to the civilizing work of the monks and clergy during the Middle Ages? 14. Picture the work of the monasteries in handing on to western Europe the arts and handicrafts and skilled occupations of Rome. Cite some examples. 15. What civilizing problem, somewhat comparable to that of barbarian Europe, have we faced in our national history? Why have we been able to obtain results so much more rapidly? NEW PEOPLES IN THE EMPIRE 125 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced : 46. Caesar: The Hunting Germans and their Fighting Ways. 47. Tacitus: The Germans and their Domestic Habits. 48. Dill: Effect on the Roman World of the News of the Sacking of Rome by Alaric. 49. Giry and Reville: Fate of the Old Roman Towns. 50. Kingsley: The Invaders, and what they brought. 51. General Form for a Grant of Immunity to a Bishop. 52. Charlemagne: Powers and Immunities granted to the Monastery of Saint Marcellus. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS J . State the differences in character Caesar observes (46) between the Gauls to the west of the Rhine and the Germans to the east. 2. What German characteristics that Tacitus describes (47) would prove good additions to Roman life? 3. Do the emotions of Saint Jerome on hearing of the sacking of Rome (48) reveal anything as to the extent to which the Roman had become a Churchman and the Churchman a Roman? Illustrate. 4. Is it probable that a quarter-century of Bolsheviki rule in Russia would produce results comparable to those described by Giry and Reville (49)? 5. Is Kingsley right in stating (50) that the best elements of all the modecn European peoples came from the barbarian invaders? State what seem to you to be the important contributions of barbarian invader, Roman, and Churchman. 6. Do the grants of privileges and immunities shown in the general form (51) and the specific form (52) seem to follow naturally from the earlier grants to physicians and teachers (26) and to the clergy (38)? Point out the relationship. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Church, R. W. The Beginni)igs of the Middle Ages. Kingsley, Chas. The Roman and Teuton. * Thorndike, Lynn. History of Mediaeval Europe. CHAPTER VI EDUCATION DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ' I. CONDITION AND PRESERVATION OF LEARNING The low intellectual level. As was stated in the preceding chapter, the lamp of learning burned low throughout the most of western Europe during the period of assimilation and partial civilization of the barbarian tribes. The western portion of the Roman Empire had been overrun, and rude Germanic chieftains were establishing, by the law of might, new kingdoms on the ruins of the old. The Germanic tribes had no intellectual hfe of their own to contribute, and no intellectual tastes to be ministered unto. With the destruction of cities and towns and country villas, with their artistic and hterary collections, much that repre- sented the old culture was obHterated," and books became more and more scarce.^ The destruction was gradual, but by the be- ginning of the seventh century the loss had become great. The Roman schools also gradually died out as the need for an educa- tion which prepared for government and gave a knowledge of Roman law passed away, and the type of education approved by the Church was left in complete control of the field. As the security and leisure needed for study disappeared, and as the only use for learning was now in the service of the Church, education became limited to the narrow lines which offered such preparation and to the few who needed it. Amid the ruins of the ancient civili- zation the Church stood as the only conservative and regenera- tive force, and naturally what learning remained passed into its hands and under its control. The result of all these influences and happenings was that by 1 From the sixth to the twelfth centuries. 2 The story which has come down to us of the German warrior who, on being shown into an anteroom, saw some ducks swimming in the floor and dashed his battle-axe at them to see if they were real, thus ruining the beautiful mosaic, is typical of the time. ' During the period of Rome's greatness the publishing business became an important one. Manuscripts were copied in numbers by trained writers, and books were officially pubUshed. Both public and private libraries became common, men of wealth often having large libraries. These were found in the provincial towns as well as in the large Italian cities, and in country villas as well as in town houses. By the beginning of the eighth century books had become so scarce that monas- teries guarded their treasures with great care CR. 65), and books were borrowed from k)ng distances that copies might be made. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 127 the beginning of the seventh century Christian Europe had reached a very low intellectual level, and during the seventh and eighth centuries conditions grew worse instead of better. Only in England and Ireland, as will be pointed out a little later, and in a few Italian cities, was there anything of consequence of the old Roman learning preserved. On the Continent there was little general learning, even among the clergy (R. 64 a). Many of the priests were woefully ignorant,^ and the Latin writings of the time contain many inaccuracies and corruptions which reveal the low standard of learning even among the better educated of the clerical class. The Church itself was seriously affected by the prevailing ignorance of the period, and incorporated into its sys tem of government and worship many barbarous customs and practices of which it was a long time in ridding itself. So great had become the ignorance and superstition of the time, among priests, monks, and the people; so much had religion taken on the worship of saints and relics and shrines; and so much had the Church developed the sensuous and symbolic, that religion had in reality become a crude polytheism instead of the simple monotheistic faith of the early Church. Along scientific lines especially the loss was very great. Scientific ideas as to natu- ral phenomena disappeared, and crude and childish ideas as to natural forces came to prevail. As if barbarian chiefs and rob- ber bands were not enough, popular imagination peopled the world with demons, goblins, and dragons, and all sorts of super- stitions and supernatural happenings were recorded. Intercom- munication largely ceased; trade and commerce died out; the accumulated wealth of the past was destroyed; and the old knowledge of the known world became badly distorted, as is evidenced by the many crude mediaeval maps. (See Figure 46.) The only scholarship of the time, if such it might be called, was_ the little needed by the Church to provide for and maintain its government and worship. Almost ever>^thing that we to-day mean by civilization in that age was found within the protecting walls of monastery or church, and these institutions were at first too busy building up the foundations upon which a future culture might rest to spend much time in preserving learning, much less in advancing it. 1 Charlemagne (King of Frankland, 768-814), for example, found it necessary to order that priests and monks must show themselves capable of changing the wording of the masses for the living and the dead, as circumstances required, from singular lo plural, or from masculine to feminine. 128 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The monasteries develop schools. In this age of perpetual law- lessness and disorder the one opportunity for a life of repose and scholarly contemplation lay in the monasteries. Here the rule of might and force was absent (R. 52), and the timid, the devout, Fig. 37. a Typical Monastery of Southern Europe and the studiously inclined here found a refuge from the turbu lence and brutality of a rude civilization. The early monasteries^ and especially the monastery of Saint Victor, at Marseilles, founded by Cassian in 404, had represented a culmination of the* western feeling of antagonism to all ancient learning, but with the founding of Monte Cassino by Saint Benedict, in 529 a.d., and the promulgation of the Benedictine rule (R. 43), a more liberal attitude was shown. ^ This rule was adopted generally by the monasteries throughout what is now Italy, Spain, France, Ger- many, and England, and the Benedictine became the type for the monks of the early Middle Ages. To this order we are largely indebted for the copying of books and the preservation of learning throughout the mediaeval period. The 48th rule of Saint Benedict, it will be remembered (R. 43), had imposed reading and study as a part of the daily duty of every monk, but had said nothing about schools. Subsequent regulations issued by superiors had aimed at the better enforce- ment of this rule (R. 44) , that the monks might lead devout lives and know the Bible and the sacred writings of the Church. Im- posed at first as a matter of education and discipline for the monks, this rule ultimately led to the establishment of schools and the ' Longfellow's poem Monte Cassino is interesting reading here. Of Benedict he says: "He founded here his Convent and his Rule Of prayer and work, and counted work as prayer; The pen became a clarion, and his school Flamed like a beacon in the midnight air." PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 129 development of a system of monastic instruction. As youths were received at an early age ^ into the monasteries to prepare for a monastic life, it was necessary that they be taught to read if they were later to use the sacred books. This led to the duty of instructing novices, which marks the beginning of monastic in- struction for those within the walls. As books were scarce and at the same time necessary, and the only way to get new ones was to copy from old ones, the monasteries were soon led to take up the work once carried on by the publishing houses of ancient Rome, and in much the same way. This made writing necessary, and the novices had to be instructed carefully in this, as well as in reading.- The chants and music of the Church called for in- struction of the novices in music, and the celebration of Easter and the fast and festival days of the Church called for some rudi- mentary instruction in numbers and calculation. Out of these needs rose the monastery school, the copying of manuscripts, and the preservation of books. Due to their greater security and quiet the monasteries became the leading teaching institutions of the early part of the Middle-Age period, and those who wished their children trained for the service of the Churgh gave them to the monasteries (R. 53 a). The develop- ment of the monastic schools was largely voluntary, though from an early date bishops and rulers began urging the monasteries to open schools for boys in connection with their houses, and schools became in time a regular feature of the monastic organization. From schools only for those intending to take the vows (oblati), the instruction was gradually opened, after the ninth century, to others (externi) not intending to take the vows, and what came to be known as "outer" monastic schools were in time developed. The monasteries became the preservers of learning. Another need developed the copying of pagan books, and incidentally the preservation of some of the best of Roman literature. The lan- guage of the Church very naturally was Latin, as it was a direct descendant of Roman Hfe, governmental organization, citizenship, and education. The writings of the Fathers of the Western Church had all been in Latin, and in the fourth century the Bible ^ Sometimes as early as eleven to twelve years of age. The novitiate course was two years, but as the vows could not be taken before eighteen, the course of instruc- tion often covered six to eight years. ^ To teach a novice to copy accurately a manuscript book was quite a different thing from the teaching of writing to-day, It was more nearly comparable to present-day instruction in lettering in a college engineering course, as it called for a degree of workmanship and accuracy not required in ordinary writing. cuiro> ^a^'^^- £S^i^-- ^S::,^&^i=^i?. ■-^_ r,./ ^;S^«^^^^ Fig. 38. Bird's-Eye View of a Mediaeval Monastery (From an engraving by Viollet-le-Duc, dated 1718, of the Cistercian Abbey of Citeaux, in France) This monastery was founded in the forests of what is now northeastern France, in 1198 A.D., and was the first of a reformed Benedictine order, known as Cister- cians- For an explanation of the monastery, see the opposite page. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 131 had been translated from the Greek into the Latin. This edition, known as the Vulgate ^ Bible, became the standard for western Europe for ten centuries to come. The German tribes which had invaded the Empire had no written languages of their own, and their spoken dialects differed much from the Latin speech of those whom they had conquered. Latin was thus the language of all those of education, and naturally continued as the language of the Church and the monastery for both speech and writing. All books were, of course, written in Latin. Under the rude influences and the general ignorance of the period, though, the language was easily and rapidly corrupted, and it became necessary for the monasteries and the churches to have good models of Latin prose and verse to refer to. These were best found in the old Latin literary authors — particularly Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil. To have these, due to the great destruction of old books which had taken place during the inter- vening centuries, it was necessary to copy these authors,- as well as the Psalter, the Missal,^ the sacred books, and the writings of ' The Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome, at the close of the fourth century. The Old Testament he translated mostly from the Hebrew and Chaldaic, and the New Testament he revised from the older Latin ver- sions. This is the only version of the Scriptures which the Roman Catholic Church admits as authentic. ^ Letters from one monastery to another, and from one coimtry to another, beg- ging the loan of some ancient book, have been preserved in numbers. Lupus, Abbot of Ferrieres in France, for example, wrote to Rome in 855, and addressing himself to the Pope in person, requested a complete copy of Cicero's De Oratorc, which he desired. ' The Missal is a book containing the ser\'ice of the mass for the entire year. The Psalter the book of Psalms. Explanation of the Monastery opposite : The cross, by the roadside, indicates the entrance gate. Passing through the orchards and fields, the traveler reached the outer gate-house. At the almonry (C) food and drink were given out; on the second floor rooms for the night could be had; in the little chapel (Z)) prayers could be said ; and in the stable (F) the traveler's horse could be cared for for the night. An inner gate through (E) opened into an inner court, around which were the bams, chicken-yards, cow-sheds, etc. The Abbot lived at H. G was a dormitory for the lay brothers who did the heavy work of the monastery, and who entered the church (iV) at the rear through a special doorway (5). All of these buildings were considered as outside the monastery proper. Inside were the great church (N), with the library (P) in the rear. Seven scriptoria are shown on the side of the library building. M was the large dormitory for the monks, and R the infirmary for old and sick brothers. I was the kitchen, K was the dining-hall (refectory), and L the stairs to the upper dormitory rooms. C and E are two cloisters with corridors on the four sides, somewhat similar to the cloisters shown for the monastery on Plate i. The copying of books often took place in these cloisters, though a scriptorium was usually found under the library, the library proper, as in Plate 2, being on the second floor (P) and reached by a winding stair. A wall surrounded the monastery grounds, and a stream of running water passed through them. 132 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the Fathers of the Church (Rs. 55, 56). It thus happened that the monasteries unintentionally began to preserve and use the ancient Roman books, and from using them at first as models for style, an interest in their contents was later awakened. While many of the monasteries remained as farming, charitable, and ascetic institutions almost exclusively, and were never noted for their educational work, a small but increasing number gradually accumulated libraries and became celebrated for their literary activity and for the character of their instruction. The monas- teries thus in time became the storehouses of learning, the pub- Ushing houses of the Middle Ages (Rs. 54, 55, 56), teaching institutions of first importance, and centers of literary activity and religious thought, as well as centers for agricultural develop- ment, work in the arts and crafts, and Christian hospitality. Many developed into large and important institutions (R. 69). The copying of manuscripts.^ The work of the more important monasteries and the monastic churches in copying books was a service to learning of large future significance. While many of the books copied were for the promotion of the religious service, such as Missals and Psalters (R. 55), and many others were tales of saints and wearisome comments on the sacred writings, a few were old classical texts representing the best of Roman liter- ary work. A few monastic chronicles and histories of importance were composed by the brothers, and also preserved for us by the copying process. The production of a single book was a task of large proportions, and explains in part the small number of volumes the monasteries accumulated. After the raids of the Mohammedans across Egypt, in the seventh century, the supply of Egyptian papyrus stopped because of the interruption of communications, and the only writing material during the Middle Ages was the skin of sheep or goats or calves. Sheepskins were chiefly used, and a book of size might require a hundred or more skins. These were first soaked in Hmewater to loosen the hair, then scraped clean of hair and flesh, and then carefully stretched on board frames to dry. After they had dried they were again scraped with sharp knives to secure an even thickness, and then rubbed smooth with pumice and chalk. When finished, the clean, shin- ing, cream-colored skin was known as vellum,^ or parchment. ^ From matiu scriptum, meaning written by hand. * So expensive of time and effort was the production of books by this method PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 133 This was next cut into pages of the desired size and arranged ready for writing. The larger pieces were used for large books, such as are shown in Plate 2, and the remnants to produce small books. The inks, too, had to be prepared, and the pages ruled. The main writing was done with black, but the page was fre- quently bordered with red, gold, or some other bright color, while many beautiful illustrations were inserted by artistic monks. Sometimes an initial letter was beautifully embellished, as is shown in Figure 39; sometimes illustrations were introduced in the body of the page, of which Figures 39 and 40 are types; and sometimes a colored illustration was painted on a sheet of vellum and inserted in the book. Figure 44 represents such an illustrated page in an old manuscript. Fi- nally, when completed, the let- tered and illustrated parchment sheets were arranged in order, sewed together with a deerskin or pigskin string, bound together between oaken boards and covered with pigskin, properly lettered in gold, fitted with metal comers and clasps (R. 57), as shown in Plate 2, and often chained to their bookrack in the library with heavy iron chains as well. (See Figure 71 and Plate 2.) Still further to protect the volume from theft, an anathema against the thief was usually lettered in the volume (R. 58). Such was the painfully slow method of producing and multi- plying books before the advent of printing, and in days when skill in copying manuscripts was not particularly common, even among the monks. It required from a few months to a year or more to produce a few copies, depending on the size and nature of the work, whereas to-day, with printing-presses, five thousand that majiy of the manuscripts now extant were written crosswise on sheets from which the previous writing had been largely erased by chemical or mechanical means. How many valuable ancient manuscripts were lost in this manner no one knows. Fortunately the practice was not common until after the thirteenth cen- tury, when the rise of the universities and the spread of learning made new demands (or skins for writing purposes. Fig. 39. Initial Letter from AN Old Manuscript This shows the beautiful work done by some of the nuns and monks in "illuminating" the books they copied. This was done in colors by a nun, who pictured her own work in this initial letter L. 134 HISTORY OF EDUCATION copies of such a book as this can be printed and bound in a few days. The scriptorium. An important part of the material equip- ment of many monasteries, in consequence, came to be a scripto- rium, or writing- room, where the copying of manuscripts could take place undisturbed. In some monasteries one general room was provided, though it was customary to have a number of small rooms at the side of the library. In the monastery shown in Figure 38, seven small rooms for this purpose are shown built out on one side of the library. Sometimes individual cells along a corridor were provided. The advantage of the single room in which a number of monks worked came when an edition of eight or ten copies of a book was to be prepared. One monk could then dictate, while eight or ten others care- fully printed on the skins be- fore them what was dictated by the reader.^ Figure 40 shows a monk at work, though here he is copying from a book before him. After an edition of eight or ten copies of a book had been prepared and bound the extra copies were sent tc neighboring and sometimes distant monasteries, sometimes in exchange for other books, and sometimes as gifts to brothers who had longed to read the work ^ That the printing was not always carefully done is shown by the constant need, throughout the Middle Ages, of correct copies for comparison. The following injunction of the Abbot Alcuin to the monks at Tours, given at the beginning of the ninth century, is illustrative of the need for care in copying: "Her^ let the scribes sit who copy out the words of the Divine Law, and likewise the hallowed sayings of Holy Fathers. Let them beware of interspersing their own frivolities in the words they copy, nor let a trifler's hand make mistakes through haste. Let them earnestly seek out for themselves correctly written books to tran- scribe, that the fljnng pen may speed along the right path. Let them distinguish the proper sense by colons and commas, and set the points, each one in its due place, and let not him who reads the words to them either read falsely or pause suddenly. It is a noble work to write out holy books, nor shall the scribe fail of his due reward. Writing books is better than planting vines, for he who plants a vine serves liis belly, but he who wri^^^e? a book serves his soul." Fig. 40. A Monk in a Scriptorium (From an illuminated picture in a manu- script in the Royal Library at Brussels) This picture shows the beautiful work done in "illuminating" manuscript books by mediaeval writers. Each copy was a work of art. This represents a better type of scriptorium than is usually shown. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 135 (R. 55). New monasteries were provided with the beginnings of a library in this way, and churches were suppHed with Missals, Psalters, and other books needed for their services. The writing-room, or rooms, came to be a very important place in those monasteries noted for their literary activity. West gives an interesting description of the scriptorium at Tours, where the learned EngHsh monk, Alcuin, was Abbot from 796 to 804, and which at the time was the principal book-writing monastery in Frankland, Describing Alcuin's labors to secure books to send to other monasteries in Charlemagne's kingdom, he says: We can almost reconstruct the scene. In the intervals between the hours of prayer and the observance of the round of cloister life, come hours for the copying of books under the presiding genius of Alcuin. The young monks file into the scriptorium, and one of them is given the precious parchment volume containing a work of Bede or Isidore or Augustine, or else some portion of the Latin Scriptures, or even a heathen author. He reads slowly and clearly at a measured rate while all the others seated at their desks take down his words, and thus per- haps a score of copies are made at once. Alcuin's observant eye watches each in turn, and his correcting hand points out the mistakes in ortho- graphy and punctuation. The master of Charles the Great, in that true humility that is the charm of his whole behavior, makes himself the writing-master of his monks, stooping to the drudgery of faithfully and gently correcting their many puerile mistakes, and all for the love of studies and the love of Christ. Under such guidance, and deeply impressed by the fact that in the copying of a few books they were saving learning and knowledge from perishing, and thereby offering a service most acceptable to God, the copying in the scriptorium went on in sobriety from day to day. Thus were produced those improved copies of books which mark the beginning of a new age in the conserving and transmission of learning. Alcuin's anxiety in this regard was not undue, for the few monasteries where books could be accurately tran- scribed were as necessary for publication in that time as are the great publishing houses to-day.^ Monastic collections. Despite the important work done by a few of the monasteries in preserving and advancing learning, large collections of books were unknown before the Revival of Learning, in the fourteenth century. The process of book production in itself was very slow, and many of the volumes produced were later lost through fire, or pillage by new invaders. During the early days of wood construction a number of monastic and church libraries were burned by accident. In the pillaging of the Danes and Northmen on the coasts of England and northern France, ' West, A. F., Alcuin, pp. 72-73. 136 HISTORY OF EDUCATION \ NORTH ^^7=1 ^^Iptia *^^ Lindisfarne \-v^ A ^ Wearroouth and Yarrow tNAVhitby SEA York \ " ; Oxford Fig. 41. Charlemagne's Empire, and the Important Monasteries OF the Time Charlemagne's empire at his death is shaded darker than other parts of the map in the ninth and tenth centuries, a number of important monastic collections there were lost. In Italy the Lombards destroyed some collections in their sixth-century invasion, and the Saracens burned some in southern Italy in the ninth. Monte Cassino, among other monasteries, was destroyed by both the Lombards and the Saracens. From a number of extant catalogues of old monastic libraries we know that, even as late as the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a library of from two to three hundred volumes was large. ^ The catalogues show that most of these ^ The largest monastic library on the Continent was Fulda, which specialized in the copying of manuscripts. In 1561 it had 774 volumes. In England the largest collections were at Canterbury, which in the fourteenth century possessed 698 vol- umes, and at Peterborough, which had 344 volumes at about the same time. The library of Croyland, also in England, burned in 1091, at that time contained approx- imately 700 volumes. These represented the largest collections in Europe. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 137 were books of a religious nature, being monastic chronicles, man- uals of devotion, comments on the Scriptures, lives of miracle- working saints, and books of a similar nature (Rs. 55, 56). A few were commentaries on the ancient learning, or mediaeval text- books on the great subjects of study of the time (R. 60). A still smaller number were copies of old classical literary works, and of the utmost value (R. 57) . The convents and their schools. The early part of the Middle Ages also witnessed a remarkable development of convents for women, these receiving a special development in Germanic lands. Filled with the same aggressive spirit as the men, but softened somewhat by Christianity, many women of high station among the German tribes founded convents and developed institutions of much renown. This provided a rather superior class of women as organizers and directors, and a conventual life continued, throughout the entire Middle Ages, to attract an excellent class of women. This will be understood when it is remembered that a conventual life offered to women of intellectual ability and schol- arly tastes the one opportunity for an education and a life of learning. The convents, too, were much earlier and much more extensively opened for instruction to those not intending to take the vows than was the case with the monasteries, and, in conse- quence, it became a common practice throughout the Middle Ages, just as it is to-day among Catholic famihes, to send girls to the convent for education and for training in manners and religion. Many well-trained women were produced in the convents of Europe in the period from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries. The instruction consisted of reading, writing, and copying Latin, as in the monasteries, as well as music, weaving and spin- ning, and needlework. Weaving and spinning had an obvious utilitarian purpose, and needlework, in addition to necessary sewing, was especially useful in the production of altar-cloths and sacred vestments. The copying and illuminating of manuscripts, music, and embroidering made a special appeal to women (R. 56), and some of the most beautifully copied and illuminated manu- scripts of the mediaeval period are products of their skill. ^ Their contribution to music and art, as it influenced the life of the time, ' The Horlus Delkarum of the Abbess Herrard, of the convent of Hohenburg, in Alsace, was a famous illustration of artistic workmanship. This was an attempt to embody, in encyclopaedic form, the knowledge of her time. The manuscript was embellished with hundreds of beautiful pictures, and was long preserved as a wonderful exhibition of mediaeval skill. It was lost to civihzation, along with many other treasures, when the Prussians bombarded Strassburg, ia 1870. 138 HISTORY OF EDUCATION was also large. The convent schools reached their highest devel- opment about the middle of the thirteenth century, after which they began to decline in importance. Learning in Ireland and Britain. As was stated earlier in thi? chapter, the one part of western Europe where something of thf old learning was retained during this period was in Ireland, and in those parts of England which had not been overrun by the Germanic tribes. Christian civilization and monastic life had been introduced into Ireland probably as early as 425 a.d., and probably by monastic missionaries from Lerins and Saint Victor (see Figure 41). Saint Patrick preached Christianity to the Irish, about 440 A.D., and during the. fifth and sixth centuries churches and monasteries were founded in such numbers over Ireland that the land has been said to have been dotted all over with churches, monasteries, and schools. Saint Patrick had been educated in the old Roman schools, probably at Tours when it was still an important Roman provincial city. Other early missionaries had had similar training, and these, not sharing the antipathy to pagan learning of the early Italian church fathers, had carried Greek and Latin languages and learning to Ireland. Here it flourished so well, largely due to the island being spared from invasion, that Ireland remained a center for instruction in Greek long after it had virtually disappeared elsewhere in western Christendom. So much was this the case, says Sandys, in his History of Classical Scholarship, "that if any one knew Greek it was assumed that he must have come from Ireland." In 565 A.D., Saint Columba, an eminent Irish scholar and reli- gious leader, crossed over to what is now southwestern Scotland, founded there the monastery of lona, and began the conversion of the Picts. Saint Augustine landed in Kent in 597, and had begun the conversion of the Angles and Saxons and Jutes who had settled in southeastern Britain, while shortly afterwards the Irish monks from lona began the conversion of the people of the north of Britain. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded about 635 A.D. , and soon became an important center of religious and classical learning in the north. Irish and English monks also crossed in numbers to northern Frankland, and labored for the conversion of the Franks and Saxons. In 664 A.D., at a council held at Whitby, the Irish Church in England and the Roman Church were united, and a great enthu- siasm for religion and learning swept over the island. In 670, PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 139 Theodore of Tarsus and the Abbot Hadrian, whom Bede, the scholar and historian of the early English Church, describes as men "instructed in secular and divine literature both Greek and Latin" (R. 59 a), arrived in England from southern Italy and began their work of instructing pupils in Greek and Latin (R. 59 b). Both taught at Canterbury, and raised the cathedral school there to high rank. In 674 the monastery at Wearmouth was founded, and in 682 its companion Yarrow. These were endowed with books from Rome and Vienne, and soon became famous for the instruction they provided. It was at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Yarrow that the Venerable Bede (673-735), whose Ecclesiastical History of England gives us our chief picture of education in Britain in his time, was educated and remained as a lifelong student.^ As a result of all these efforts a number of northern monasteries, as well as a few of the cathedral schools, early became famous for their libraries, scholars, and learning. This culture in Ireland and Britain was of a much higher standard than that obtaining on the Continent at the time, because the classical inheritance there had been less cor- rupted. The cathedral school at York. One of the schools which early attained fame was the cathedral school at York, in northern Eng- land. This had, by the middle of the eighth century, come to possess for the time a large library, and contained most of the important Latin authors and textbooks then known (R. 61). In this school, under the scholasticus /Elbert, was trained a youth by the name of Alcuin, bom in or near York, about 735 a.d. In a poem describing the school (R. 60), he gives a good portrayal of the instruction he received, telling how the learned Albert moistened thirsty hearts with diverse streams of teaching and the varied dews of learning," and sorted out "youths of conspicu- ous intelligence" to whom he gave special attention. Alcuin afterward succeeded Albert as scholasticus, and was widely known as a gifted teacher. Well aware of the precarious condition of learning amid such a rude and uncouth society, he handed on to his pupils the learning he had received, and imbued them with 1 He there "enjoyed advantages which could not perhaps have been found any- where else in Europe at the time — perfect access to all the existing sources of learn- ing in the West. Nowhere else could he acquire at once the Irish, the Roman, the Gallician, and the Canterbury learning; the accumulated stores of books which Benedict (founder and abbot) had bought at Rome and at Vienne; or the disciplinary instruction drawn from the monasteries on the Continent, as well as from Irish mis- •liooaries." (Bishop Stubbs, Dictionary of Christian Biography, article on Bede.) 140 HISTORY OF EDUCATION something of his own love for it and his anxiety for its preserva- tion and advancement. It was this Alcuin who was soon to give a new impetus to the development of schools and the preservation 1 of learning in Frankland. \ Charlemagne and Alcuin. In 768 there came to the throne as king of the great Frankish nation one of the most distinguished and capable rulers of all time — a man who would have been a commanding personality in any age or land. His ancestors had developed a great kingdom, and it was his grandfather who had defeated the Saracens at Tours (p. 113) and driven them back over the Pyrenees into Spain. This man Charlemagne easily stands out as one of the greatest figures of all history. For five hundred years before and after him there is no ruler who matched him in insight, force, or executive capacity. He is particularly the dominating figure of mediaeval times. Born in an age of law- lessness and disorder, he used every effort to civilize and rule as intelligently as possible the great Frankish kingdom. Wars he waged to civilize and Christianize the Saxon tribes of northern Germany, to reduce the Lombards of northern Italy to order, and to extend the boundaries of the Frankish nation. At his death, in 814, his kingdom had succeeded to most of the western posses- sions of the old Roman Empire, including all of what to-day com- prises France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland, large portions of what is now western Germany and northern Italy, and portions of northern Spain. (See Figure 41.) Realizing better than did his bishops and abbots the need for educational facilities for the nobles and clergy, he early turned his attention to securing teachers capable of giving the needed instruction. These, though, were scarce and hard to obtain. After two unsuccessful efforts to obtain a master scholar to be- come, as it were, his minister of education, he finally succeeded in drawing to his court perhaps the greatest scholar and teacher in all England. At Parma, in northern Italy, Charlemagne met Alcuin, in 781, and invited him to leave York for Frankland. After obtaining the consent of his archbishop and king, Alcuin accepted, and arrived, with three assistants, at Charlemagne's court, in 782, to take up the work of educational propaganda in Frankland. The plight in which he found learning was most deplorable, presenting a marked contrast to conditions in England. Learning had been almost obliterated during the two centuries of wild dis- M < - =: *^ ■s &■£ D o S M ffi 3 ^ 3 1 T3-C |1h H C/i .£ tn t3 u> f c '^ N o: ■n Fi V, H o S-a ^ < s ^ g eq r1 1/1 3 S hJ 3 O i-i i^ W « •O ■^ 3 ^ h-l £ bc.S ^ " J2 -c PL, Ho PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 141 order from 600 on. From 600 to 850 has often been called the darkest period of the Dark Ages, and Alcuin arrived when Frank- land was at its worst. The monastic and cathedral schools which had been established earlier had in large part been broken up, and the monasteries had become places for the pensioning of royal favorites and hence had lost their earlier religious zeal and effec- tiveness. The abbots and bishops possessed but little learning, and the lower clergy, recruited largely from bondmen, were grossly ignorant, greatly to the injury of the Church. The copying of books had almost ceased, and learning was slowly dying out. The palace school. There had for some time been a form of school connected with the royal court, knowTi as the palace school, though the study of letters had played but a small part in it. To the reorganization of this school Alcuin first addressed himself, introducing into it elementary' instruction in that learning of which he was so fond. The school included the princes and princesses of the royal household, relatives, attaches, courtiers, and, not least in importance as pupils, the king and queen. To meet the needs of such a heterogeneous circle was no easy task. The instruction which Alcuin provided for the younger members of the circle was largely of the question and answer (catechetical) type, both questions and answers being prepared by Alcuin beforehand and learned by the pupils. Fortunately examples of Alcuin's instruction have been preserved to us in a dialogue prepared for the instruction of Pepin, a son of Charle- magne, then sixteen years old (R. 62). With the older mem- bers the questions and answers were oral. For all, though, the instruction was of a most elementary nature, ranging over the elements of the subjects of instruction of the time. Poetry, arith- metic, astronomy, the writings of the Fathers, and theology are mentioned as having been studied. Charlemagne learned to read Latin, but is said never to have mastered the art of writing. It was not an easy position for any one to fill. To quote from West's description: ^ Charles wanted to know everything and to know it at once. His strong, uncurbed nature eagerly seized on learning, both as a delight for himself and a means of giving stability to his government, and so, while he knew he must be docile, he was at the same time imperious. Alcuin knew how to meet him, and at need could be either patiently jocular or grave and reproving. Thus, on one occasion when he had ^ West, A. F., Alcuin, pp. 45-47. 142 HISTORY OF EDUCATION been informed of the great learning of Augustine and Jerome, he impa- tiently demanded of Alcuin, "Why can I not have twelve clerks such as these?" Twelve Augustines and Jeromes! and to be made arise at the king's bidding! Alcuin was shocked. "What!" he discreetly rejoined, "the Lord of heaven and earth had but two such, and wouldst thou have twelve?" But his personal affection for the king was most unselfish, and he consequently took great delight in stimulating his desire for learning. . . . He studied everything Alcuin set before him, but had special anxiety to learn all about the moon that was needed to calculate Easter. With ?uch an eager and impatient pupil as Charles, the other scholars were soon inspired to beset Alcuin with endless puzzling questions, and there are not wanting evidences that some of them were disposed to levity and even carped at his teachings. But he was indefatigable, rising with the sun to prepare for teaching. In one of his poetical exercises he says of himself that "as soon as the ruddy charioteer of the dawn suffuses the liquid deep with the new light of day, the old man rubs the sleep of night from his eyes and leaps at once from his couch, running straightway into the fields of the ancients to pluck their flowers of correct speech and scatter them in sport before his boys." Charlemagne's proclamations on education. After reorganiz- ing the palace school, Alcuin and Charlemagne turned their attention to the improvement of education among the monks and clergy throughout the realm. The first important service was the preparation and sending out of a carefully collected and edited series of sermons to the churches containing, "in two vol- umes, lessons suitable for the whole year and for each separate festival, and free from error." These Charlemagne ordered used in the churches (R. 63). He also says, "we have striven with watchful zeal to advance the cause of learning, which has been almost forgotten by the negligence of our ancestors; and, by our example, also we invite those whom we can to master the study of the liberal arts," meaning thereby to incite the bishops and clergy to a study of the learning of the mediaeval time. The vol- umes and letter were sent out in 786, four years after Alcuin's arrival at the court. Further to aid in the revival of learning, Charlemagne, in 787, imported a number of monks from Italy, who were capable of giving instruction in arithmetic, singing, and grammar, and sent them to the principal monasteries to teach. In 787 the first general proclamation on education of the Middle Ages was issued (R. 64 a) , and from it we can infer much as to the state of learning among the monks and clergy of the time. In this document the king gently reproves the abbots of his realm for their illiteracy, and exhorts them to the study of letters. The PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 143 signature is Charlemagne's, but the hand is Alcuin's. In it he tells the abbots, in commenting on the fact that they had sent letters to him telling him that "sacred and pious prayers" were being offered in his behalf, that he recognized in "most of these letters both correct thoughts and uncouth expressions; because what pious devotion dictated faithfully to the mind, the tongue, uneducated on account of the neglect of study, was not able to express in a letter without error." He therefore commands the abbots neither to neglect the study of letters, if they wish to have his favor, nor to fail to send copies of his letter "to all your suf- fragans and fellow bishops, and to all the monasteries." Two years later (789) Charlemagne supplemented this by a further general admonition (R. 64 b) to the ministers and clergy of his realm, exhorting them to live clean and just lives, and closing with : And let schools be established in which boys may learn to read. Correct carefully the Psalms, the signs in writing, the songs, the calen- dar, the grammar, in each monastery and bishopric, and the catholic book; because often some desire to pray to God properly, but they pray badly because of incorrect books. In 802 he further commanded that "laymen shall learn thor- oughly the Creed and the Lord's Prayer" (R. 64 c). Finally, in his enthusiasm for schools, Charlemagne went so far as to direct that "every one should send his son to school to study letters, and that the child should remain at school with all diligence until he should become well instructed in learning." Charlemagne, of course, was addressing freemen of the court and the official classes. That he ever meant to include the children of the labor- ing classes, or that the idea of compulsory education ever entered his head, may well be doubted. Effect of the work of Charlemagne and Alcuin. The actual results of the work of Charlemagne and Alcuin were, after all, rather meager. The difficulties they faced are almost beyond our comprehension. Nobles and clergy were alike ignorant and un- couth. There seemed no place to begin. It may be said that by Charlemagne's work he greatly widened the area of civilization, created a new Frankish-Roman Empire to be the inheritor of the civilization and culture of the old one, checked the decline in learning and reawakened a desire for study, and that he began the substitution of ideas for might as a ruling force among the tribes under his rule. That for a time he gave an important impetus 144 HISTORY OF EDUCATION to the study of letters, which resulted in a real revival in the edu- cational work of some of the monasteries and cathedral schools, seems certain. Men knew more of books and wrote better Latin than before, and those who wished to learn found it easier to do so. The state of society and the condition of the times, however, were against any large success for such an ambitious educational undertaking, and after the death of Charlemagne, the division of his empire, and the invasions of the Northmen, education slowly declined again, though never to quite the level it had reached when Charlemagne came to the throne. In a few schools there was no decline, and these became the centers of learning of the future. Charlemagne having substituted merit for favoritism in his realm, promoting to be bishops and abbots the most learned men of his time, many of these became zealous workers in the cause of education and did much to keep up and advance learning after his death. Among the most able of his helpers was Theodulf, Bishop of Orleans. He carried out most thoroughly in his diocese the instructions of the king, giving to his clerg}^ the following direc- tions : Let the priests hold schools in the towns and villages, and if any of the faithful wish to entrust their children to them for the learning of letters, let them not refuse to receive and teach such children. More- over, let them teach them from pure affection, remembering that it is written, "the wise shall shine as the splendor of the firmament," and "they that instruct many in righteousness shall shine as the stars for- ever and forever." And let them exact no price from the children for their teaching, nor receive anything from them, save what their parents may offer voluntarily and from affection. Another able assistant was Alcuin himself, who, after fourteen years of strenuous service at Charlemagne's court, was rewarded by the king with the office of Abbot at the monastery of Saint Martin, at Tours. There he spent the last eight years of his life in teaching, copying manuscripts, and writing letters to bishops and abbots regarding the advancement of religion and learning. The work of Alcuin in directing the copying of manuscripts has been described. In a letter to Charlemagne, soon after his appointment, he reviews his labors, contrasts the state of learning in England and Frankland, and appeals to Charlemagne for books from England to copy (R. 65) . So important was his work as a teacher as well that at his death, in 814, most of the important educational centers of the kingdom were in the hands of his former PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 145 pupils. Perhaps the most important of all these was Rabanus Maurus, who became head of the monastery school at Fulda, We shall learn more of him in the next chapter. New invasions; the Northmen. Five years after Alcuin went to Frankland to help Charlemagne revive learning in his kingdom, a fresh series of bar- barian invasions be- JMMtMIFMIP^-Zri ^ map of \ gan with the raiding TilMlH;! J 'IM^F^^^L/ I ' ^ho^«" tl of the English coast by the Danes. In raid after raid, ex- tending over nearly a hundred years, these Danes grad- ually overran all of eastern and central England from Lon- don north to beyond Whitby, plundering and burning the churches and mon- asteries, and de- stroying books and learning everywhere. By the Peace of Wedmore, effected by King Alfred in 878, the Danes were finally given about one half of England, and in return agreed to settle down and accept Christianity. The damage done by these invaders was very large, and King Alfred, in his introduction to an Anglo- Saxon translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care (R. 66), gives a gloomy picture of the destruction wrought to the churches and the decay of learning in England. Other bands of these Northmen (Danes and Norwegians) began to prey on the northern coast of Frankland, and in the tenth cen- tury seized all the coast of what is now northern France and down as far as Paris and Tours. From Tours to Corbie (see Fig- ure 41) churches and monasteries were pillaged and burned, Tours and Corbie with their Hbraries both perishing. Amiens and 42. Where the Danes ravaged England 146 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Paris were laid siege to, and disorder reigned throughout northern Frankland. The A nnals of Xanten and the A nnals of Sa int Vaast, two mediaeval chronicles of importance, give gloomy pictures of this period. Three selections will illustrate: According to their custom the Northmen plundered East and West Frisia and burned . . . towns. . . . With their boats filled with immense booty, including both men and goods, they returned to their own country.^ The Normans inflicted much harm in Frisia and about the Rhine. A mighty army of them collected by the river Elbe against the Saxons, and some of the Saxon towns were besieged, others burned, and most terribly did they oppress the Christians.- The Northmen ceased not to take Christian people captive and kill them, and to destroy churches and houses and burn villages. Through all the streets lay bodies of the clergy, of laymen, nobles, and others, of women, children, and suckling babes. There was no road or place where the dead did not lie, and all who saw Christian people slaugh- tered were filled with sorrow and despair.^ After much destruction, Rollo, Duke of the Normans, finally accepted Christianity, in 912, and agreed to settle down in what has ever since been known as Normandy. From here portions of the invaders afterward passed over to England in the Norman Conquest of 1066. This was the last of the great German tribes to move, and after they had raided and plundered and settled down and accepted Christianity, western Europe, after six centu- ries of bloodshed and pillage and turmoil and disorder, was at last ready to begin in earnest the building-up of a new civilization and the restoration of the old learning. Work of Alfred in England. The set-back to learning caused by this latest deluge of barbarism was a serious one, and one from which the land did not recover for a long time. In northern Frankland and in England the results were disastrous. The revival which Charlemagne had started was checked, and England did not recover from the blow for centuries. Even in the parts of England not invaded and pillaged, education sadly declined as a result of nearly a century of struggle against the invaders (R. 66). Alfred, known to history as Alfred the Great, who ruled as English king from 871 to 901, made great efforts to revive learning in his kingdom. Probably inspired by the exainple of Charlemagne, he established a large palace school (R. 68), to the support of which he devoted one eighth of his income ; he imported ^ Annals of Xanten, 846 a.d. ^ Ibid., 851 a.d. ^ Annals of Saint Vaast, 884 a.d. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 147 scholars from Mercia and Frankland (R. 67); restored many monasteries; and tried hard to revive schools and encourage learning throughout his realm, and with some success. ^ With the great decay of the Latin learning he tried to encourage the use of the native Anglo-Saxon language,- and to this end trans- lated books from Latin into Anglo-Saxon for his people. In hij Introduction to Gregory's volume (R. 66) he expresses the hope, "If we have tranquilhty enough, that all the free-bom youth now in England, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it ... be set to learn . . . English writing," while those who were to continue study should then be taught Latin. The com- ing of the Normans in 1066, with the introduction of Norman- French as the official language of the court and government, foi a time seriously interfered with the development of that native English learning of which Alfred wrote. In the preceding chapter and in this one we have traced briefly the great invasions, or migrations, which took place in western Europe, and indicated somewhat the great destruction they wrought within the bounds of the old Empire. In this chapter we have traced the beginnings of Christian schools to replace the ones destroyed, the preservation of learning in the monasteries, and the efforts of Charlemagne and Alfred to revive leammg in their kingdoms. In the chapter which follows we shall describe the mediaeval system of education as it had evolved by the twelfth century, after which we shall be ready to pass to the beginnings of that Revival of Learning which ultimately resulted in the rediscovery of the learning of the ancient world. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Picture the gradual dying-out of Roman learning in the Western Empire, and explain why pagan schools and learning lingered longer in Britain, Ireland, and Italy than elsewhere. 2. At what time was the old Roman civilization and learning most nearly extinct? 3. Explain how the monasteries were forced to develop schools to maintain any intellectual life. 4. Explain how the copying of manuscripts led to further educational development in the monasteries. 5. Would the convents have tended to attract a higher quality of women than the monasteries did of men? Why? , 1 It is related that ignorant court officials, fearing the king's displeasure, sought to learn from their children. ' Through Alfred's efforts, the compilation of the Anglo-Saxo}i Chronicle was begun, that the people of England might be able to read the history of their country in their own language. 148 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 6. Explain why Greek was known longer in Ireland and Britain than else- where in the West. 7. What was the relative condition of learning in Frankland and England, about 900 A.D.? 8. What light is thrown on the conditions of the civilization of the time by the small permanent success of the efforts of Charlemagne, looking toward a revival of learning in Frankland? 9. Explain how Latin came naturally to be the language of the Church, and of scholarship in western Europe throughout all the Middle Ages. 10. After reading the story of the migrations, and of the fight to save some vestiges of the old civilization, try to picture what would have been the result had Rome not built up an Empire, and had Christianity not arisen and conquered. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced : 53. Migne: Forms used in connection with monastery life: (o) Form for offering a Child to a Monastery. {b) The Monastic Vow. (c) Letter of Honorable Dismissal from a Monastery. 54. Abbot Heriman: The Copying of Books at a Monastery. 55. Othlonus: Work of a Monk in writing and copying Books. 56. A Monk: Work of a Nun in copying Books. 57. Symonds: Scarcity and Cost of Books. 58. Clark: Anathemas to protect Books from Theft. 59. Bede: On Education in Early England. (a) The Learning of Theodore. {h) Theodore's Work for the English Churches. (c) How Albinus succeeded Abbot Hadrian. 60. Alcuin: Description of the School at York. 61. Alcuin: Catalogue of the Cathedral Library at York. 62. Alcuin: Specimens of the Palace School Instruction. 63. Charlemagne: Letter sending out a Collection of Sermons. 64. Charlemagne: General Proclamations as to Education. {a) The Proclamation of 787 a.d. {h) General Admonition of 789 a.d. (c) Order as to Learning of 802 a.d. 65. Alcuin: Letter to Charlemagne as to Books and Learning. 66. King Alfred: State of Learning in England in his Time. 67. Asser: Alfred obtains Scholars from Abroad. 68. Asser: Education of the Son of King Alfred. 69. Ninth-Century Plan of the Monastery at Saint Gall. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Point out the similarity between: (a) The form for offering a child to a monastery and the monastic vow (53 a-b), and a modern court form for renouncing or adopting a child. {b) The letter of dismissal from a monastery (53 c), and the modern letter of honorable dismissal of a student from a college or normal school. PRESERVATION OF LEARNING 149 2. Compare the type of books copied by the Abbot of Saint Martins (55) and those copied by the nun at Wessebrunn (56). 3. Was the evolution of the school-teacher out of the copyist at Ratisbon (55)) hy a speciahzation of labor, analogous to the process in more modern times? 4. Explain the mediceval belief in the effectiveness to protect books from theft of such anathemas as are reproduced in 58. 5. What do the selections from Bede (59 a-c) indicate as to the preservation of the old learning in the cities of southern Italy? What as to the condition of learning and teaching in England in Bede's day? 6. What is the status of education indicated by the selections from Alcuin, on the cathedral school at York (60) and the palace school instruction of Pepin (62)? 7. What was the condition of learning among the higher clergy and monks as shown by Charlemagne's proclamations (64)? 8. What was the extent of the destruction wrought by the Danes in Eng- land, as indicated by King Alfred's Introduction to Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care (66), and his efforts to obtain scholars from abroad (67)? 9. What was the character of the education King Alfred provided for his son (68)? 10. Study out the plan of the monastery of Saint Gall (69), and enumerate the various activities of such a center. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. * Clark, J. W. Libraries in the MedicBval and Renaissance Period. * Cutts, Edw. L. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages. * Eckenstein, Lina. Women under Monasticism. Leach, A. F. The Schools of MedicBval England. Munro, D. C. and Sellery, G. E. Mediceval Civilization. Montalembert, Count de. The Monks of the West. Taylor, H. O. Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages. Thorndike, Lynn. History of Mediceval Europe. West, A. F. Alcuin, and the Rise of Christian Schools. * Wishart, A. W. Short History of Monks and Monasticism. CHAPTER VII EDUCATION DURING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES II. SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED I. Elementary instruction and schools Monastic and conventual schools. In the preceding chapters we found that, by the tenth century, the monasteries had devel- oped both inner monastic schools for those intending to take the vows (oblati), and outer monastic schools for those not so intend- ing (externi). The distinction in name was due to the fact that the oblati were from the first considered as belonging to the brotherhood, participating in the religious services and helping the monks at their work. The others were not so admitted, and in all monasteries of any size a separate building, outside the main portion of the monastery (see Figure 38), was provided for the Fig. 43. An Outer Monastic School (After an old wood engraving) outer school. A similar classification of instruction had been evolved for the convents. The instruction in the inner school was meager, and in the outer school probably even more so. Reading, writing, music, simple reckoning, religious observances, and rules of conduct constituted the range of instruction. Reading was taught by the alphabet method, as among the Romans, and writing by the SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 151 use of wax tablets and the stylus. Much attention was given to Latin pronunciation, as had been the practice at Rome. As Latin by this time had practically ceased to be a living tcmgue, outside the Church and perhaps in Central Italy, the difficul- ties of instruction were largely increased. The Psalter, or book of Latin psalms, was the first reading book, and this was memo- rized rather than read. Copy-books, usually wax, with copies expressing some scriptural injunction, were used. Music, being of so much importance in the church services, received much time and attention. In arithmetic, counting and finger reck- oning, after the Roman plan, was taught. Latin was used in conversation as much as possible, some of the old lesson books much resembling conversation books of to-day in the modem languages (R. 75). Special attention seems to have been given to teaching rules of conduct to the ohlati,^ and much corporal punishment was used to facilitate learning. Up to the eleventh century this instruction, meager as it was, constituted the whole of the preparatory training necessary for the study of theology and a career in the Church. In the convents similar schools were developed, though, as stated in the last chapter, much more atten- tion was given to the education of those not intending to take the vows. Song and parish schools. In the cathedral churches, and other larger non-cathedral churches, the musical part of the service was very important, and to secure boys for the choir and for other church services these churches organized what came to be known as song schools (R. 70) . In these a number of promising boys were trained in the same studies and in much the same way as were boys in the monastery schools, except that much more attention was given to the musical instruction. The students in these schools were placed under the precentor (choir director) of the cathedral, or other large church, the scholasticus confining his attention to the higher or more literary instruction provided. The boys usually were given board, lodging, and instruction in return for their services as choristers. As the parish churches in the diocese also came to need boys for their services, parish schools of a similar nature were in time organized in connection ^ Anderson tells of a monastic student's notebook on conduct which has been preserved, and which "prescribes that the young man is to kneel when answering the Abbot, not to take a seat unasked, not to loll against the wall, nor fidget with things within reach. He is not to scratch himself, nor cross his legs like a tailor. He is to wash his hands before meals, keep his knife sharp and clean, not to seize or>on vegetables, and not to use his spoon in the common dish." 152 HISTORY OF EDUCATION with them. It was out of this need, and by a very slow and gradual evolution, that the parish school in western Europe was developed later on. Chantry schools. Still another type of elementary school, which did not arise until near the latter part of the period under consideration in this chapter, but which will be enumerated here as descriptive of a type which later became very common, came through wills, and the schools came to be known as chantry schools, or stipendary schools. Men, in dying, who felt themselves particu- larly in need of assistance for their misdeeds on earth, would leave a sum of money to a church to endow a priest, or sometimes two, who were to chant masses, each day for the repose of their souls. Sometimes the property was left to endow a priest to say mass in honor of some special saint, and frequently of the Virgin Mary. As such priests usually felt the need for some other occu- pation, some of them began voluntarily to teach the elements of religion and learning to selected boys, and in time it became com- mon for those leaving money for the prayers to stipulate in the will that the priest should also teach a school. Usually a very elementary type of school was provided, where the children were taught to know the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Salutation to the Virgin, certain psalms, to sign themselves rightly with the sign of the cross, and perhaps to read and write (Latin). Some- times, on the contrary, and especially was this the case later on in England, a grammar school was ordered maintained. After the twelfth century this type of foundation (R. 73) became quite common. 2. Advanced instruction Cathedral and higher monastic schools. As the song schools developed the cathedral schools were of course freed from the necessity of teaching reading arjd writing, and could then develop more advanced instruction. This they did, as did many of the monasteries, and to these advanced schools ^those who felt the need for more training \^nt. As grammar was, throughout all the early part of the Middle Ages, the first and most important subject of instruction, the*advanced schools came to be known as grammar schools, as well as cathedral or episcopal schools (R. 72). The cathedral churches and monasteries of England and France early became celebrated for the high character of their instruction (R. 71) and the typ^H scholars they produced. AH SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 153 these schools, though, suffered a serious set-back during the period of the Danish and Norman invasions, many being totally destroyed. On the continent, due to the greater deluge of barbarism and the more unsettled condition of society, more difficulty was experienced in getting cathedral schools established, as the fol- lowing decree of the Lateran Church Council of 826 indicates: Complaints have been made that in some places no masters nor endowment for a grammar school is found. Therefore all bishops shall bestow all care and diligence, both for their subjects and for other places in which it shall be found necessary, to establish masters and teachers who shall assiduously teach grammar schools and the princi- ples of the liberal arts, because in these chiefly the commandments of God are manifest and declared. These two types of advanced schools — the cathedral or epis- copal and the monastic — formed what might be called the secon- dary-school system of the early Middle Ages (Rs. 70, 71), They were for at least six hundred years the only advanced teaching institutions in western Europe, and out of one or the other of these two types of advanced schools came practically all those who attained to leadership in the service of the Church in either of its two great branches. Still more, out of the impetus given to advanced study by the more important of these schools, the uni- versities of a later period developed; and numerous private gifts of lands and money were made to establish grammar schools to supplement the work done by the cathedral and other large church schools. The Seven Liberal Arts. The advanced studies which were offered in the more important monastery and cathedral schools comprised what came to be known as TJie Seven Liberal Arts ^ of the Middle Ages. The knowledge contained in these studies, taught as the advanced instruction of the period, represents the amount of secular learning which was intentionally preserved by the Church from neglect and destruction during the period of the barbarian deluges and the reconstruction of society. These Seven Liberal Arts were comprised of two divisions, known as: I. The Trivium: (i) Grammar; (2) Rhetoric; (3) Dialectic (Logic). II. The Quadrivium: (4) Arithmetic; (5) Geometry; (6) Astron- omy; (7) Music. ^ This expression came into common use in the fifth century, when the Christian writers summarized the ancient learning under these seven headings or studies, following earlier Greek and Roman classifications. (See p. 70). TRlfimiVM?PHlLOS0PHI£ Fig. 44. The Medieval System of Education summarized Allegorical representation of the progress and degrees of education, from an illumi- nated picture in the 1508 (Basel) edition of the Margarita Pliilosophica of Greg- ory de Reisch. The youth, having mastered the Hornbook (ABC's) and the rudiments of learning (reading, writing, and the beginnings of music and numbers), advances toward the temple of knowledge. Wisdom is about to place the key in the lock of the door of the temple. On the dQor is written the word congrmtas, signifying Grammar. (" Gramaire first hath for to teche to speke upon congruitc.") On the first and second floors of the temple he studies the Grammar of Donatus, and of Priscian. and at the first stage at the left on the third floor he studies the Logic of Aristotle, followed by the Rhe- toric and Poetry of Tully, thus completing the Trivium. The Arithmetic of Boe- thius also appears on the third floor. On the fourth floor he completes the studies of the Quadrivhim, taking in order the Music of Pythagoras, Euchd's Geometry, and Ptolemy's Astronomy. The student now advances to the study of Philosophy, studying successively Physics, Seneca's Morals, and the Theology (or Metaphysics) of Peter Lombard, the last being the goal toward which all has been directed. SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 155 Beyond these came Ethics or Metaphysics, and the greatest of all studies, Theology. This last represented the one professional study of the early middle-age period, and was the goal toward which all the preceding studies had tended. This mediaeval sys- tem of education is well summarized in the drawing given on the opposite page, taken from an illuminated picture inserted in a famous mediaeval manuscript, recopied at Basle, Switzerland, in 1508. Not all these studies were taught in every monastery or cathe- dral school. Many of the lesser monasteries and schools offered instruction chiefly in grammar, and only a little of the studies beyond. Others emphasized the Trivium, and taught perhaps only a little of the second group. Only a few taught the full range of mediaeval learning, and these were regarded as the great schools of the times (R. 71). Rhabanus Maurus (776-865), one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, Abbot for years at Fulda, and a mediaeval textbook writer of importance, has left us a good description of each of the Seven Liberal Arts studies as they were developed in his day, and their use in the Christian scheme of education (R. 74). I. THE TRIVIUM Of the three studies fonning the Trivium, grammar always came first as the basal subject. No uniformity existed for the other two. I. Grammar. The foundation and source of all the Liberal Arts was grammar, it being, according to Maurus, "the science which teaches us to explain the poets and historians, and the art which qualifies us to speak and write correctly" (R. 74 a). In the introduction to an improved Latin grammar,^ published about 1 1 19, grammar is defined as "The doorkeeper of all the other sciences, the apt expurgatrix of the stammering tongue, the serv- ant of logic, the mistress of rhetoric, the interpreter of theology, the relief of medicine, and the praiseworthy foundation of the whole quadrivium." Figure 45, from one of the earliest books printed in English, also emphasizes the great importance of grammar with the words: ' Wythout whiche science (s)ycherly alle other sciences in especial ben of lytyl recomme(d)." In addition to grammar in the sense we know the study to-day, * The Doctrinale, by Alexander de Villa Die. This was in rhyme, and became immensely popular. It was the favorite text until the fifteenth century. 156 HISTORY OF EDUCATION grammar in the old Roman and mediaeval mind also included much of what we know as the analytical side of the study of liter- ature, such as comparison, analysis, versification, prosody, word % Si) fcit; no)l),t6 not finotbci) t^ fomii)p^tk Fig. 45. A School: A Lesson in Grammar (After a woodcut printed by Caxton in The Mirror of the World, 1481 (?). From Blades' Life and Typography of William Caxton, 11, Plate lvi) This is a good example of early English printing. Can you read it? This "Old English," like the German type (see Fig. 26), shows the change in Latin letters which came about with the copying of manuscripts during the Middle Ages. After the invention of printing the English soon returned to the Latin forms; the Germans are only now doing so. formations, figures of speech, and vocal expression (R. 76). These were considered necessary to enable one to read understandingly the Holy Scriptures, and hence, "though the art be secular," says Maurus, "it has nothing unworthy about it." The leading textbook was that of Donatus,^ written in the fourth century, and Donatus (donat) and grammar came to be ^ Donatus begins as follows: "How many parts of speech are there? "What are they?" 'What is a noun?" "How many attributes have nouns?" "What are they?" Etc., etc. "Eight." "Noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, par- ticiple, conjunction, preposition, and interjection." "A part of speech with case, signify- ing a body or thing particularly or commonly." "Six." "Quality, comparison, gender, num- ber, figure, case." SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 157 synonymous terms. The text by Priscian,^ written in the sixth century, was also extensively used. The treatment in each was catechetical in form; that is, questions and answers, which were learned. The text was of course in Latin, and the teacher usually had the only copy, so that the pupils had to learn from memory or copy from dictation. The cost of writing-material usually precluded the latter method. After sufficient ability in grammar had been attained, simple reading exercises or colloquies (R. 75), usually of a religious or moralizing nature, were introduced, though where permitted the Latin authors, especially Vergil,^ were read. At Saint Gall, in Switzerland, and at some other places, many Latin authors were read; at Tours, on the other hand, we find the learned Abbot Alcuin saying to the monks: ''The sacred poets are sufficient for you ; there is no reason why you should sully your mind with the rank luxuriance of VergU's verse." 2. Rhetoric. Rhetoric, as defined by Maurus, was "the art of using secular discourse effectively in the circumstances of daily life," and enabling the preacher or missionary to put the" divine message in eloquent and impressive language (R. 74 b). Much of the old Roman rhetoric had been taken over by grammar, but in its place was added a certain amount of letter and legal docu- mentary writmg. The priest, it must be remembered, became the secretary and lawyer of the Middle Ages, as well as the priest, and upon him devolved the preparation of most of the legal papers of the time, such as wills, deeds, proclamations, and other formal documents. Accordingly the art of letter-writing ^ and the prepa- 1 The following from Priscian, reproduced by Graves, illustrates the method of instruction as applied to the first book of the Mneid of Vergil. "What part of speech is arrnaV^ "A noun." " Of what sort? " "Common." "Of what class?" "Abstract." "Of what gender?" "Neuter." "Why neuter?" "Because all nouns whose plurals end in a are neuter." "Why is not the singular used?" "Because this noun expresses many differ- ent things." Etc., etc. This form of textbook writing was common, not only during the Middle Ages, but well into modern times. The famous iVnc England Primer was in part in this form, and many early American textbooks in history and geography were written after this plan. " Vergil, due to his beautiful poetic form and to his love of nature and life, was especially guarded against during the early Middle Ages as the most seductive of the ancient Latin writers. It is not at all inappropriate that, in Dante's Inferno, Vergil should have been the person to guide Dante through hell and purgatory, but should not have been allowed to accompany him into paradise. ^ Textbooks on the art of letter-writing began to appear by the eleventh century, explaining in detail how to prepare the five divisions of a letter: (i) the salutation 158 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ration of legal documents were made a part of the study of rfietoric, and some study of both the civil ("worldly ") and canon (church) law was gradually introduced. 3. Dialectic. Dialectic, or logic, says Maurus, is the science of understanding, and hence the science of sciences (R. 74 c). By means of its aid one was enabled to unmask falsehood, expose error, formulate argument, and draw conclusions accurately. The study was one of preparation for ethics and theology later on. Extracts from the works of Aristotle, prepared by Boethius, and later his complete works, constituted the texts used. While grammar was the great subject of the seven durmg all the early Middle Ages, dialectic later came to take its place. After the rise of the universities and the organization of schools of theology, with theology more of a rational science and less a matter of dogma, dialectic came to hold first place in importance as a prepa- ration for the disputations of the later Middle Ages. Theological questions formed the practical exercises, and the schools doing most in dialectic attracted many students because of this. These three studies, constituting the Trivium, based as they were directly on the old Roman learning and schools, contained more that was within the teaching knowledge of the time than did the subjects of the Quadrivium, and also subject-matter which was much more in demand. n. THE QUADRIVIUM The trivial studies, in most cases before the thirteenth century, sufficed to prepare for the study of theology, though those few who desired to prepare thoroughly also studied the subjects of the quadrivium. In schools not offering instruction in this ad- vanced group some of the elements of its four studies were often taught from the textbooks in use for the Trivium. Particularly was this the case during the early Middle Ages, when the knowl- edge of arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy possessed by west- em Europe was exceedingly small. No regular order in the study of the subjects of this group was followed. 4. Arithmetic. Naturally little could be done in this subject as long as the Roman system of notation was in use (see footnote, I, p. 64), and the Arabic notation was not known in western Christian Europe until the beginning of the thirteenth century, (salutatio), (2) the art of introducing the subject properly and making a good im- pression {captatio benevolentia) , (3) the body of the letter {narratio), (4) how to make the request (petitio), and (5) a fitting conclusion {conclusio) . SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 159 and was not much used for two or three centuries later. So far as arithmetic was taught before that time, it was but little in advance of that given to novitiates in the monasteries, except that much attention was devoted to an absurd study of the prop- erties of numbers,^ and to the uses of arithmetic in determining church days, calculating the date of Easter, and interpreting passages in the Scriptures involving measurements (R. 74 d). The textbook by Rhabanus Maurus On Reckoning, issued in 820, is largely in dialogue (catechetical) form, and is devoted to de- scribing the properties of numbers, ''odd, even, perfect, imperfect, composite, plane, solid, cardinal, ordinal, adverbial, distributive, multiple, denunciative, etc."; to pointing out the scriptural sig- nificance of number; - and to an elaborate explanation of finger reckoning, after the old Roman plan (see p. 65). Near the end of the tenth century Gerbert,^ afterwards Pope Sylvester II, devised a simple abacus-form for expressing numbers, simple enough in itself, but regarded as wonderful in its day. This greatly simplified calculation, and made work with large numbers possible. He also devised an easier form for large divisions, ^ Anderson reproduces a portion of a chapter by Capella on the number four, which is illustrative of the mediaeval study of the properties of number: "What shall I call four? in which is a certain perfection of solidarity; for it is composed of length and depth, and a full decade is made up from those four numbers added together in order, that is, from one, two, three, four. Similarly a hundred is made up of the four decades, that is, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, which are a hundred; and again four numbers from a hundred on amount to a thousand, that is, loo, 200, 300, 400. So ten thousand is made up of another series. What is to be said of the fact that there are four seasons of the year, four quarters of the heavens, and four principles of the elements? There are also four ages of man, four vices, and four virtues." ^ Anderson reproduces a paragraph from Maurus, showing how number was applied to Holy Writ. It reads: "A real thinker," says Maurus, "will not pass on indifferently when he reads that Moses, Elijah, and our Lord fasted forty days. Without strict observance and investigation the matter cannot be explained. The number 40 contains the number 10 four times, by which all is signified which concerns the temporal. For, according to the number 4, the days and the seasons run their course. The day consists of morning, midday, evening, and night, the year of spring, summer, autumn, winter. Further, we have the number 10 to recognize God and the creature. The three (trinity) indicated the Creator; the seven, the creature which consists of body and spirit. In the latter is the three: for we must love God with our whole heart and soul and mind. In the body, on the other hand, the four elements of which it con- sists reveal themselves clearly. So if we are moved through that which is signified by the number 10 to live in time — for 10 is taken four times — chaste, withholding ourselves from worldly lusts, that means to fast forty days. So the Holy Scriptures contain suggestively in many different numbers all sorts of secrets which must re- main hidden to those who do not understand the meaning of numbers." ' Gerbert (Q53-1003) was one of the most learned monks of his day, having studied in the Saracen schools of Spain. He afterwards became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003). Because of his scientific knowledge in an age of superstition he was accused of transactions with the devil. i6o HISTORY OF EDUCATION Gerbert's form for expressing numbers may be shown from the following simple sum in addition: abic Form Roman Form Gerberi I's Form M C X I 1204 MCCIV I II IV 538 DXXXVIII V III VIII 2455 MMCCCCLV II IV V V 619 DCXIX IV VI VIII I IX 4816 MMMMDCCCXVI I VI No study of arithmetic of importance was possible, however, until the introduction of Arabic notation and the use of the zero. 5. Geometry. This study consisted almost entirely of geog- raphy and reasoning as to geometrical forms until the tenth cen- tury, when Boethius' work on Geometry, containing some extracts from Euclid, was discovered by Gerbert. The geography of Europe, Asia, and Africa also was studied, as treated in the text- books of the time, and a little about plants and animals as weL was introduced. The nature of the geographic instruction may be inferred from Figure 46, which reproduces one of the best world maps of the day. The main geographical features of the knowr world can be made out from this, but many of the mediaeval map? are utterly unintelligible. To illustrate the reasoning as to geometrical forms which pre- ceded the finding of Euclid we quote from Maurus, who says that the science of geometry "found realization also at the building of the tabernacle and the temple ; and that the same measuring rod, circles, spheres, hemispheres, quadrangles, and other figures were employed. The knowledge of all this brings to him, who is occu- pied with it, no small gain for his spiritual culture^' (R. 74 e). After Gerbert's time some geometry proper and the elements of land surveying were introduced. The real study of geometry in Europe, however, dates from the twelfth century, v/hen Euclid was translated into Latin from the Arabic. 6. Astronomy. In astronomy the chief purpose of the instruc- tion was to explain the seasons and the motions of the planets, to set forth the wonders of the visible creation, and to enable the priests " to fix the time of Easter and all other festivals and holy days, and to announce to the congregation the proper celebration of them" (R. 74 g). Even after Ptolemy's Mechanism of the Heavens (p. 49) and Aristotle's On the Heavens had filtered across the Pyrenees from SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED i6l Fig. 46. An Anglo-Saxon Map of the World (From a tenth-century map in the British Museum) This is one of the better maps of the period. Note the mixture of Biblical and classical geography (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Pillars of Hercules), and the animal life (lion) introduced in the upper corner. The Mediterranean Sea in the center, the Greek islands, the British isles, the Italian peninsula, the Nile, and the northern African coast are easily recognized. Western Europe, the best-known part of the world at that time, is very poorly done. the Saracens, in the eleventh century, the Ptolemaic theory of a flat earth located at the center of the heavenly bodies and around which they all revolved, while a very pleasing theological concep- tion, was absolutely fatal to any instruction in astronomy worth while and to any astronomical advance. All mediaeval astron- omy, too, was saturated with astrology, as the selection on the l62 HISTORY OF EDUCATION motion of the heavenly bodies reproduced from Bartholomew Anglicus shows (R. 77 b), and the supernatural was invoked to explain such phenomena as meteors, comets, and eclipses. The Copernican theory of the motion of the heavenly bodies was not published until 1543, and all our modem ideas date from that time. Physics was often taught as a part of the instruction in astron- omy, and consisted of lessons on the properties of matter (R. 77 a) and some of the simple principles of dynamics. Little else of what we to-day know as physics was then known. 7. Music. Unlike the other studies of the Quadrivium, the instruction in music was quite extensive, and from early times a good course in musical theory was taught (R. 74 f). Boethius' De Musica, written at the beginning of the sixth century, was the text used. Music entered into so many activities of the Church that much naturally was made of it. The organ, too, is an old instrument, going back to the second century B.C., and the organ with a keyboard to the close of the eleventh cen- tury. This instrument added much to the value of the music course, and the hymns composed by Christian musicians form an important part of our >-r^'\ \s^r grammar .) ^^^^^ II _ Outer _^ , Inner ~^ Cathedral — =- ______ Parish Chantry 11. SKCONDARr (Latin) 1. Monastic finner) 2. Catiiedral 3. Endowed (The Triv um, and in the larger ind later sc hools the Q uadrivium ) III. UiGUEK (Latin) 1. Theology 2. Art Studies 3. University iQuadrivii m.EthicsJ hysics.Met iphysics.Tt eology, Arts, Professional Study,) La_w IV. Vernaculab 1. Chivalry ___ Fig. 50. Evolution of Education during the Eari y Middle Ages The relative weight of the lines indicates appro.ximate development. The lines along which educational evolution took place in the later Middle Ages are here clearly marked out. schools we also have the beginnings of higher instruction, with theology as the one professional subject and the one learned career. All these schools, too, were completely under the control of the Church. There were no private schools or teachers before about 1200. Only the chivalric education was under the control of princes or kings, and even this the Church kept under its super- vision. The Church was still the State, to a large degree, and the Church, unlike Greece or Rome, took the education of the young upon itself as one of its most important functions. The schools taught what the Church approved, and the instruction was for religious and church ends. The monks who gave instruction in the monasteries were responsible to the Abbot, who was in turn responsible to the head of the order and through him to the Pope at Rome. Similarly the scholasticus in the cathedral school and 176 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the precentor in the song school were both responsible to the Bishop, and again through Archbishop and Cardinal to the Pope, The first teacher's certificates and school supervision. Toward the latter part of the period under consideration in this chapter an interesting development in church school administration took place. As the cathedral and song schools increased assistant teachers were needed, and the scholasticus and precentor gradually withdrew from instruction and became the supervisors of instruc- tion, or rather the principals of their respective schools. As song or parish schools were established in the parishes of the diocese teachers for these were needed, and the scholasticus and precentor extended their authority and supervision over these, just as the Bishop had done much earlier (p. 97) over the training and appointment of priests. By 11 50 we have, clearly evolved, the system of central supervision of the training of all teachers in the diocese through the issuing, for the first time in Europe, of licenses to teach (R. 83). The system was finally put into legal form by a decree adopted by a general council of the Church at Rome, in 1 179, which required that the scholasticus "should have authority to superintend all the schoolmasters of the diocese and grant them hcenses without which none should presume to teach," and that "nothing be exacted for Hcenses to teach" issued by him, thus stop- ping the charging of fees for their issuance. The precentor, in a sim- ilar manner, claimed and often secured supervision of all elemen- tary, and especially all song-school instruction. Teachers were also required to take an oath of fealty and obedience (R. 84 b). As a result of centuries of evolution we thus find, by 1200, a limited but powerful church school system, with centralized con- trol and supervision of instruction, diocesan licenses to teach, and a curriculum adapted to the needs of the institution in control of the schools. We also note the beginnings of secular instruction in the training of the nobility for life's service, though even this is approved and sanctioned by the Church. The centralized religious control thus established continued until the nineteenth century, and still exists to a more or less important degree in the school systems of Italy, the old Austro-Hungarian States, Ger- many, England, and some other western nations. As we shall see later on, one of the big battles in the process of developing state school systems has come through the attempt of the State to substitute its own organization for this religious monopoly of instruction. SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 177 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Outline the instruction in an inner monastery school. 2. Show how the mediicval parish school naturally developed as an offshoot of the cathedral schools, and was supplemented later by the endowed chantry schools. 3. What effect did the development of song-school instruction have on the instruction in the cathedral schools? 4. Why was it difficult to develop good cathedral schools during the early Middle Ages? 5. About how much training would be represented to-day by the Seven Liberal Arts, (a) assuming the body of knowledge then known? (b) as- suming the body of knowledge for each subject known to-day? 6. What great subject of study has been developed out of one part of the study of mediaeval rhetoric? 7. Why would dialectic naturally not be of much importance, so long as instruction in theology was dogmatic and not a matter of thinking? 8. Characterize the instruction in arithmetic, geometry, and geography during the early Middle Ages. Would we consider such knowledge as of any value? Explain the attention given to such instruction. 9. What great modern subjects of study have been developed out of the mediaeval subjects of arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy? 10. Compare the knowledge of mediaevals and moderns in (a) geography, (b) astronomy. 11. What does the fact that the few great textbooks were in use for so many centuries indicate as to the character of educational progress during the Middle Ages? 12. Was the Church wise in adopting and sanctifying the education of chivalry? Why? 13. What important contributions to world progress came out of chivalric education? 14. What ideals and practices from chivalry have been retained and are still in use to-day? Does the Boy Scouts movement embody any of the chivalric ideas and training? 15. Compare the education of the body by the Greeks and under chivalry. 16. Compare the Athenian ephebic oath with the vows of chivalry. 17. Picture the present world transferred back to a time when theology was the one profession. 18. What educational theory, conscious or unconscious, formed the basis for mediaeval education and instruction? 19. Explain why the Church, after six or seven centuries of effort, still pro- vided schools only for preparation for its own service. 20. What does the lack of independent scholars during the Middle Ages indi- cate as to possible leisure? 21. Was the attitude of Anselm a perfectly natural one for the Middle Ages? Can progress be made with such an attitude dominant? 22. Contrast the deadly sins of the Middle Ages with present-day concep- tions as to education. 23. Contrast the purposes of mediaeval education and the education of to-day. 24. When Greece and Rome offered no precedents, how did the Church come to so fully develop and control the education which was provided? 25. Compare the supervisory work of a modern county superintendent with that of a scholasticiis of a mediteval cathedral. 178 HISTORY OF EDUCATION SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 70. Leach: Song and Grammar Schools in England. 71. MuUinger: The Episcopal and Monastic Schools. 72. Statutes: The School at Salisbury Cathedral. 73. Aldwincle: Foundation Grant for a Chantry School. 74. Maurus: The Seven Liberal Arts. 75. Leach: A Mediaeval Latin Colloquy. 76. Quintilian: On the Importance of the Study of Grammar. 77. Anglicus: The Elements, and the Planets. {a) Of the Elements. {b) Of Double Moving of the Planets. 78. Cott: A Tenth Century Schoolmaster's Books. 79. Archbishop of Cologne: The Truce of God. 80. Gautier: How the Church used Chivalry. 81. Draper: Educational Influences of the Church Services. 82. Winchester Diocesan Council: How the Church urged that the Ele- ments of Religious Education be given. 83. Lincoln Cathedral: Licenses required to teach Song. 84. English Forms: Appointment and Oath of a Grammar-School Master. (a) Northallerton: Appointment of a master of Song and Grammar. {b) Archdeacon of Ely: Oath of a Grammar-School Master to. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Distinguish between song and grammar schools (70), and state what was taught in each. Do we have any modern analogy to the same teacher teaching both schools, as was sometimes done? 2. Distinguish between monastic and episcopal (cathedral) schools (71). When was the great era of each? How do you explain the change in relative importance of the two? 3. Explain the process of evolution of a parish school out of a chantry school. 4. What was the nature of the cathedral school at Salisbury (72)? 5. What type of a school was provided for in the Aldwincle chantry (73)? Why was it not until after the twelfth century that the endowing of schools (73) began to supersede the endowing of priests, churches, and monasteries? 6. How do you explain the need for so many years to master the Seven Liberal Arts (74)? 7. Into what subjects of study have we broken up the old subject of gram- mar, as described by Quintihan (76), and how have we distributed them throughout our school system? Is technical grammar at present taught in the best possible place? 8. What stage in scientific knowledge do the selections from Anglicus (77 a-b) indicate? What rate of scientific progress is indicated by its translation and length of use? 9. What scope of knowledge is represented in the library (78) of the tenth- century schoolmaster? What does the list indicate as to the state of learning of the time? to. Picture the manners and morals of a time which called for the proclama- tion of a Truce of God (79). Would the rate of progress of civilization SCHOOLS AND INSTRUCTION PROVIDED 179 and the rate of elimination of warfare up to then, and since, indicate that the Church has been very successful in imposing its will? 11. Show how Chivalry was made a great asset to the Church (80). 12. How do you explain the much greater simpHcity of the church service of modern Protestant churches than that of the Roman (81) or Greek Catholic churches? 13. Explain the form of mild compulsion toward learning which the diocesan council of Winchester (82) attempted to institute. 14. Is the modern state teacher's certificate a natural outgrowth of the mediaeval licenses (83) to teach grammar and song? Why did the Church insist on these when Rome had not required such? 15. Show how the modern oath of office of a teacher, and the possibility of dismissal for insubordination, is a natural development from the oath of fealty and obedience (84 b) of the mediaeval teacher? Is this true also for our modern notices of appointment (84 a)? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Abelson, Paul. The Seven Liberal Arts. Addison, Julia de W. Arts mid Crafts in the Middle Ages. Besant, W. The Story of King Alfred. * Clark, J. W. The Care of Books. Davidson, Thomas. "The Seven Liberal Arts"; in Educational Review, vol. II, pp. 467-73. (Also in his Aristotle.) Mombert, J. I. History of Charles the Great. *Mullinger, J. B. The Schools of Charles the Great. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. I. Scheftel, Victor. Ekkehard. (Historical novel of monastic life.) Steele, Philip. Meduzval Lore. (Anglicus' Cyclopaedia.) CHAPTER VIII INFLUENCES TENDING TOWARD A REVIVAL OF LEARNING I. MOSLEM LEARNING FROM SPAIN The Mohammedans in Spain. It will be recalled that in chapN ter V we mentioned briefly the Mohammedan migrations of the seventh century, and said that we should meet them again a little later on as one of the minor forces in the development of our western civilization. After their defeat at Tours (73 2^ the Mo- hammedans retired into Spain, mbced with the Iberian-Roman- Visigothic peoples inhabiting the peninsula, and began to develop a civilization there. Figure 33 (p. 114) shows how much of the world the Mohammedans had overrun by 800 a.d., and how much of Spain was in their possession. In Spain they developed a skillful agriculture (R. 85), as, in lands as hot and dry as Spain, all agriculture to be successful must be. They introduced irrigation, gave special attention to the breeding of horses and cattle, and developed garden and orchard fruits. To them western Europe is indebted for the introduction of many of its orchard fruits, useful plants, and garden vegetables, as well as for a number of important manu- facturing processes. The orange, lemon, peach, apricot, and mulberry trees; the spinach, artichoke, and asparagus among vegetables; cotton, rice, sugar cane, and hemp among useful plants; the culture of the silkworm, and the manufacture of silk and cotton garments; the manufacture of paper from cotton, and the making of morocco leather — these are among our debts to these people. Though many of the above had been known to antiquity, they had been lost during the barbarian invasions and were restored only through their re-introduction by the Moslems Great absorptive power for learning. The original Arabians themselves were not a well-educated people. Before the time ol Mohammed we have practically no records as to any education among them. When in their religious conquests they overran Syria (see Map, p. 103), they came in contact with the sur- vivals of that wonderful Greek civilization and learning, and this they absorbed with greatest avidity. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL i8l It will be recalled, too, that in chapter IV (p. 94), it was stated that the early Christians developed very important cate- chetical schools in Egypt and Syria, and especially at Alexandria, Antioch, Edessa, Nisibis, Harran, and Caesarea.' (See Figure 27, p. 89.) It was also stated that the Christian instruction im- parted at these eastern schools was tinctured through and through with Greek learning and Greek philosophic thought. Here mon- asteries also were developed in numbers, and Syrian monks had for centuries been busy translating Greek authors into Syriac. It was also stated (p. 94) that the Eastern or Greek division of the Christian Church, of which Constantinople became the cen- tral city, was more liberal toward Greek learning than was the Western or Latin division of the Church. By the fifth century, though, due in part to the breakdown of government, the increasing barbarity of the age, and the greater control of all thinking by the Church, the Eastern Church lost somewhat of its earlier tolerance. In 431 the Church Council of Ephesus put a ban on the Hellenized form of Christian theology advocated by Nestorius, then Patriarch of Constantinople, and drove him and his followers, known as Nestorian Christians, from the city. These Nestorians now fled to the old Syrian cities, which early had been so hospitable to Greek learning and think- ing.- Being now beyond the reach of Christian intolerance and in a friendly atmosphere, they remained there, developing excel- lent higher schools of the old Greek type, and there the Moham- medans found them when they overran Syria, in 635 a.d. Mohammedanism now came in contact with an educated peo- ple, as it did also in Babylonia (637), in Assyria (640), and in Egypt (642), and the need of a better statement of the somewhat crude faith now became evident. The same process now took place as had occurred earher with Christianity. The Nestorian _ 1 "In the school of Nisibis the Church possessed an institution, which for centu- ries secured her a system of higher education, and therewith an important social and poUtical position. To the older literature, consisting of translations, there was added, from the middle of the fifth century onward, a large number of philosophical, scientific, and medical treatises belonging to Greek antiquity, and especially the works of Aristotle. Through these Greek wisdom and learning, clothed in Syrian attire, found a home on these borders of Christendom." (Miiller, D. K., Kirchetv- geschichte, vol. i, p. 278.) ' "By the year 600 A.D. the triumph of the oriental element in Christendom had well-nigh banished learning and education from the domain of the Church, giving place to a gloomy, unquestioning faith which sank ever deeper and deeper in the mire of superstition. What enlightenment survived had found a home beyond the limits of the Roman Empire, — in Ireland, in the extreme West; in Syria, in the far East." (Davidson, Thomas, History of Education, p. 133.) 1 82 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Christians and the Syrian monks became the scholars for the Mohammedans, and the Mohammedan faith was clothed in Greek forms and received a thorough tincturing of Greek philosophic thought. Within a century they had translated from Syriac into Arabic, or from the original Greek, much of the old Greek learning in philosophy, science, and medicine, and the cities of Syria, and in particular their capital, Damascus, became renowned for their learning. In 760 Bagdad, on the Tigris, was founded, and super- seded Damascus as the capital. Extending eastward, these people were soon busy absorbing Hindu mathematical knowledge, obtaining from them (c. 800) the so-called Arabic notation and algebra. They develop schools and advance learning. In 786 Haroun- al-Raschid became Caliph at Bagdad, and he and his son made it an intellectual center of first importance. In all the known world probably no city, not even Constantinople, during the latter part of the eighth century and most of the ninth , could vie with Bagdad as a center of learning. Basra, Kufa, and other eastern cities were also noted places. Schools were opened in connection with the mosques (churches), a university after the old Greek model was founded, a large library was organized, and an observatory was built. Large numbers of students thronged the city, learned Greeks and Jews taught in the schools, and a number of advances on the scientific work done by the Greeks were made. A degree of the earth's surface ^ was measured on the shores of the Red Sea; the obliquity of the ecliptic was deter- mined (c. 830) ; astronomical tables were calculated ; algebra and trigonometry were perfected; discoveries in chemistry not known in Europe until toward the end of the eighteenth century, and advances in physics for which western Europe waited for Newton (1642- 1 7 27), were made; and in medicine and surgery their work was not duplicated until the early nineteenth century. Their scholars wrote dictionaries, lexicons, cyclopaedias, and pharma- copoeias of merit (R. 86). This eastern learning was now gradually carried to Spain by traveling Mohammedan scholars, and there the energy of con- quest was gradually turned to the development of schools and learning. By 900 a good civilization and intellectual life had been developed in Spain, and before 1000 the teaching in Spain, 1 This was determined as being 56 1/3 miles, which would make the circumference of the earth 20,280 miles. The correct distance is 69 miles. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 183 especially along Greek philosophical lines, had become sufficiently known to attract a few adventurous monks from Christian Europe. Gerbert (953-1003), afterward Pope Sylvester II (p. T59), was one of the first to study there, though for this he was The Moslem West The Moslem East Fig. 51. Showing Centers of Moslem Learning accused of having transactions with the Devil, and when he died suddenly at fifty, four years after ha\dng been elevated to the Papacy, monks over Europe are recorded as having crossed them- selves and muttered that the Devil had now claimed his reward. A monk from Monte Cassino also studied at Bagdad, and brought back some of the eastern learning to his monastery. Mohammedan reaction sends scholars to Spain. The great intellectual development at Bagdad was in part due to the patronage of a few caliphs of large vision, and was of relatively short duration. The religious enthusiasts among the Moham- medans were in reality but little more zealous for Hellenic learn- ing than the Fathers of the Western Church had been. Finally, about 1050, they obtained the upper hand and succeeded in driv- ing out the Hellenic Mohammedans, just as the Eastern Chris- tians had driven out the Nestorians, and these scholars of the East now fled to northern Africa and to Spain. ^ Almost at once a marked further development in the intellectual life of Spain took place. Iii Cordova^ Granada, Toledo, and ^ The fanaticism of the eastern Arabs now reasserted itself, and higher education In the Mohammedan countries of the East drew permanently to a close. A harsh, rigid orthodoxy, fatal to educational progress, now triumphed. The coming of the Turks only made matters worse, and with their advent education throughout Arabia and Asia Minor became a thing of the past. Some day it will be the task of western Europe to hand back schools and learning to the Mohammedan East. This may be one of the by-products of the great World War 1 84 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Seville strong universities were developed, where Jews^and Hel- lenized Mohammedans taught the learning of the East, and made further advances in the sciences and mathematics. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, physiology, medicine, and surgery were the great subjects of study. Greek philosophy also was taught. They developed schools and large libraries, taught geography from globes, studied astronomy in observatories, counted time by pendulum clocks, invented the compass and gun- powder, developed hospitals, and taught medicine and surgery in schools (R. 86). Their cities were equally noteworthy for their magnificent palaces,^ mosques, public baths, market-places, aqueducts, and paved and lighted streets — things unknown in Christian Europe for centuries to come (R. 85). It became fashionable for wealthy men to become patrons of learning, and to collect large libraries and place them at the disposal of scholars, thus revealing interests in marked contrast to those of the fighting nobility of Christian Europe. Their influence on western Europe. Western Europe of the tenth to the twelfth centuries presented a dreary contrast, in almost every particular, to the brilliant life of southern Spain. Just emerging from barbarism, it was still in an age of general disorder and of the simplest religious faith.- The age of reason and of scientific experiment as a means of arriving at truth had not yet dawned, and would not do so for centuries to come. Monks and clerics, representing the one learned class, regarded this Moslem science as "black art," and in consequence Europe, centuries later, had slowly to rediscover the scientific knowledge which might have been had for the taking. Only the book science of Aristotle would the Church accept, and even this only after some hesitation (Rs. 89, 90). Western Europe had, however, advanced far enough through the study of the Seven Liberal Arts to desire corrected and addi- tional texts of the earlier classical writers, particularly Aristotle, and also to be willing to accept some of the mathematical knowl- 1 The Alhambra, built between 1238 and 1354, at Granada, is an exquisite exam- ple of their art. (See plate in vol. i , p. 658, of the Encyclopedia Britannica, nth ed., for an illustration of their architecture and art.) ' It was an age of superstition and miracles, diabolic influences, witchcraft and magic, private warfare, trials by ordeal, robber bands, little dirty towns, no roads, unsanitary conditions, and miserable homes. Even the nobility had few comforts and conveniences, and personal cleanliness was not common. Disease was punish- ment for sin and to be cured by prayer, while the insane were scourged to cast out the devils within thera. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 185 edge of these Saracens. It was here that the Moslem learning in Spain helped in the intellectual awakening of the rest of Europe. Adelhard, an English monk, studied at Cordova about 11 20, and took back with him some knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. His Euclid was in general use in the universities by 1300. Gerard of Cremona, in Lombardy (1114-1187), who studied at Toledo a little later, rendered a similar service for Italy. He also translated many works from the Arabic, including Ptolemy's Almagest (p. 49), a book of astronomical tables, and Alhazen's (Spanish scholar, c. iioo) book on Optics. Other monks studied in the Spanish cities during the twelfth century, a few of whom brought back translations of importance. Fred- erick II ^ employed a staff of Jewish physicians to translate Arabic works into Latin, but, due to his continual war against the Pope and his final outlawry by the Church, his work possessed less significance than it otherwise might have done. Among the books thus translated was the medical textbook of Avicenna (980- 1037), based in turn on the Greek works by Galen and Hippoc- rates of Cos (p. 197). This book described aihnents and their treatment in detail, became the standard textbook in the med- ical faculties of the universities, and was used until the seventeenth century. An- other Moslem whose translated writings had great influence on Europe was Aver- roes (11 26-1 198) who tried to unite the philosophy of Aristotle with Mohamme- danism (R. 88). His influence on the thinkers of the later Middle Ages was large, he being regarded as the greatest commentator on Aristotle from the days of Rome to the time of the Renaissance. ^^^- 5-- Aristotle What Europe obtained through Moslem sources which it prized most, though, was the commentary on Aristotle by Averroes and the works of Aristotle (R. 88). The list of the books of Aristotle ^ Frederic II was Emperor of the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire, ruling from 1227 to 1250. Though a German by birth, he had lived long in Sicily, and spent most of his time in Italy after becoming Emperor. He greatly admired the Saracens for their learning, and tried to transfer some of their knowledge to Christian Europe. He lived, however, at a time when the Papacy was cementing its temporal power and the Pope was becoming the Emperor of Europe. This encroachment Frederick resisted and tried to break, but without success. At his death the medieval German dream of world empire perished; Germany was left a collection of feudal States; and the temporal power of the Pope was henceforth for centuries to come undisputed. 1 86 HISTORY OF EDUCATION in use in the mediaeval universities by 1300 (R. 87) reveals the great importance of the additions made. By the middle of the twelfth century Aristotle's Ethics, Metaphysics, Physics, and Psychology, as well as some of his minor works, had been trans- lated into Latin and were beginning to be made available for study. The translation route through which these works had been derived was a roundabout one — Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Castilian, Latin — and hence the translations could not be very accurate, but they sufhced for the needs of Europe until the orig- inal Greek versions were recovered when the Venetians and Crusaders took and sacked Constantinople, in 1204. These were then translated directly into the Latin. Western Europe also was ready to use the Arabic (Hindu) system of notation, the ele- ments of algebra, Euclid's geometry, and Ptolemy's work on the motion of the heavens. These contributions western Europe was ready for; the larger scientific knowledge of the Saracens, their pharmacopoeias, dictionaries, cyclopaedias, histories, and biog- raphies, it was not yet ready to receive. One other influence crept in from these peoples which was of large future importance — the music and light literature and love songs of Spain. There had been developed in this sunny land a life of light gayety, chivalrous gallantry, elegant courtesies, and poetic and musical charm, and this gradually found its way across the Pyrenees. At first it affected Provence and Languedoc, in southern France, then Sicily and Italy, and finally the gay con- tagion of lute and mandolin and love songs spread throughout all western Europe. A race of troubadours and minnesingers arose, singing in the vernacular, traveling about the country, and being entertained in castle halls. Lordlyng listneth to my tale Which is merryr than the nightengale won admission at any cpstle gate. "Out of these genial but not orthodox beginnings the polite literature of modem Europe arose." 11. THE RISE CF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY The eleventh century a turning-point. By the end of the eleventh century a distinct turning-point had been reached in the struggle to save civilization from perishing. From this time on it was clear that the battle had been won, and that a new Christian civilization would in time arise in western Europe. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 187 Much still remained to be done, and centuries of effort would be required, but the Church, almost for the first time in more than six hundred years, felt that it could now pause to organize and systematize its faith. The invasions and destruction of the Northmen had at last ceased, the Mohammedan conquests were over, almost the last of the Germanic tribes in Europe had settled down and had accepted Christianity,^ and the fighting nobility of Europe were being held somewhat in restraint by the might of the Church, the "Truce of God" (R. 79), and the softening influence of chivalric education (R. 80). There were many evi- dences, too, by the end of the eleventh century, that the western Christian world, after the long intellectual night, was soon to awaken to a new intellectual life. The twelfth century, in par- ticular, was a period when it was evident that some new leaven was at work. Up to about the close of the eleventh century western Europe had been living in an age of simple faith. The Christian world everywhere lay under "a veil of faith, illusion, and childish pre- possession." The mysteries of Christianity and the many incon- sistencies of its teachings and beliefs were accepted with childlike docility, and the Church had felt little call to organize, to syste- matize, or to explain. Here and there, to be sure, some question- ing monk or cleric had raised questions over matters " of faith which his reason could not explain, and had, perhaps, for a time disturbed the peace of orthodoxy, but a statement somewhat sim- ilar to that made by Anselm of Canterbury (footnote, p. 173), as to the precedence of faith over reason, had usually been sufficient to silence all inquiry. Once, in the latter part of the eleventh century, when a great discussion as to the nature of knowledge had taken place among the leaders of the Church, a church council had been called to pass upon and give final settlement to the questions raised.^ ' Christianity had not as yet been introduced among the mixed Slavic and Ger- manic tribes along the eastern Baltic. In Prussia and Lithuania, where missionary efforts had been made from 900 on, success did not come until more than three centu- ries later. (See art. "Missions," Ency. Brit., nth ed., vol. 18.) 2 The more important questions arising concerned the Trinity, the Eucharist, and Transubstantiation. ^ This discussion was over what was known as nominalism vs. realism. Anselm of Canterbury (1034-1109), basing his argument largely on some parts of Plato, had declared that ideas constituted our real existence. Roscellinus of Compiegne (1050- 1106), basing his argument on parts of the Organon of Aristotle, had held that ideas or concepts are only names for real , concrete things. Anselm, as a realist, contended that the human senses are. deceptive, and that revealed truth alone is reliable. Roscellinils, aa a nominalist, neld that truth can be reached only through investiga- 1 88 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Rise of the spirit of inquiry. As the cathedral schools grew in importance as teaching institutions, and came to have many teachers and students, a few of them became noted as places where good instruction was imparted and great teachers were to be found. Canterbury in England, Paris and Chartres in France, and several of the cities in northern Italy early were noted for the quality of their instruction. The great teachers and the keen- est students of the time were to be found in the cathedral schools in these places, and the monastic schools now lost their earlier importance as teaching institutions. By the twelfth century they had been completely superseded as important teaching centers by the rapidly developing cathedral schools. To these more important cathedral schools students now came from long dis- tances to study under some noted teacher. Says McCabe: ^ The scholastic fever which was soon to influence the youth of Europe, had already set in. You could not travel far over the rough roads of France without meeting some footsore scholar, making for the nearest large monastery or cathedral town. Robbers, frequently in the service of the lord of the land, infested every provmce. It was safest to don the coarse frieze tunic of the pilgrim, without pockets, sling your Uttle wax tablets and stylus at your girdle, strap a wallet of bread and herbs and salt on your back, and laugh at the nervous folk who peeped out from their coaches over a hedge of pikes and dag- gers. Few monasteries refused a meal or a rough bed to the wandering scholar. Rarely was any fee exacted for the lesson given. The cathedral school in connection with the church of Notre Dame ^ became especially famous for its teachers of the Liberal Arts (particularly Dialectic) and of Theology, and to this school, just as the eleventh century was drawing to a close, came a youth, then barely twenty years of age, who is generally regarded as having been the keenest scholar of the twelfth century. His brilliant intellect soon enabled him to refute the instruction of his teachers and to vanquish them in debate. His name was Abelard. Before long he himself became a teacher of Grammar and Logic at Paris, and later of Theology, and, so widely had he tion and the use of reason. The church accepted the realism of Anselm as correct, and Roscellinus was compelled to recant. The stifling effect of such an attitude toward honest doubt can be imagined. 1 McCabe, Joseph, Peter Abelard, p. 7. 2 By the beginning of the eleventh century this cathedral school had become the most important in France, a position which it retained for centuries. It was the great center for theological study, and drew to it a succession of eminent teachers — William of Champeaux, Abelard, Peter the Lombard -^ and, in time, thousands of students. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 189 read, so clearly did he appeal to the reason of his hearers, and so incisive was his teaching, that he attracted large numbers of stu- dents to his lectures. To assist in his teaching of Theology he prepared a little textbook, Sic et Non (Yea and Nay), in which he raised for debate many questions as to church teach- ings (R. 91 b), such as "That faith is based on reason, or not." In the introduction to this textbook he held that "constant and frequent ques- tioning is the first key to wis- dom." (R. 91 a). His method was to give the authorities on both sides, but to render no decision. His boldness in rais- ing such questions for debate was new, and his failure to give the students a decision was quite unusual, while his claim that reason was ante- cedent to faith was startling. Even after being driven from Paris, in part because of this boldness and in part because of a most unfortunate incident which deservedly ruined his career in the Church, stud- ents in numbers followed him to his retreat and listened to his teachings. His method of instruction was for the time so unusual and his spirit of inquiry so searching that he stimulated many a young mind to a new type of thinking. One of his pupils was Peter the Lom- bard (p. 171 ), who completely redirected the teaching of theology with his Book of Sentences (c. 1145). This was based largely on Abelard's method, except that a positive and orthodox decision was presented for each question raised. What took place at Paris also took place, though generally on a, smaller scale, at many other cathedral and monastery schools Fig. 53. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, at Paris The present rathedral was begun in 1163, consecrated in 1182, and completed in the thirteenth century. It is built on an island in the Seine, and on the site of a church built in the fourth century. The little com- munity which grew up about the cathedral church formed the nucleus about which the city of Paris eventually grew. This cathe- dral front, with its statues and beautiful carving, formed a type much followed dur- ing the great period of cathedral-building (thirteenth century) in Europe. The school in connection with this cathedral early be- came famous. IQO HISTORY OF EDUCATION of western Europe. The spirit of inquiry had at last been awak- ened, the Church was being respectfully challenged by its chil- dren to prove its faith, and the learning of the Saracens in Spain, which now began to filter across the Pyrenees, added to the strength of their challenge. Returning pilgrims and crusaders (First Crusade, 1099) also began to ask for an explanation of the doubts which had come to them from the contact with Greek and Arab in the East. A desire for a philosophy which would explain the mysteries and contradictions of the Christian faith found expression among the scholars of the time. In the larger cathe- dral schools, at least, it became common to discuss the doctrines of the Church with much freedom. The rise of scholastic theology. The Church, in a very intelli- gent and commendable manner, prepared to meet and use this new spirit in the organization, systematization, and restatement of its faith and doctrine, and the great era of Scholasticism ^ now arose. During the latter part of the twelfth and in the thirteenth century Scholasticism was at its height ; after that, its work being done, it rapidly declined as an edutational force, and the new universities inherited the spirit which had given rise to its labors. With the new emphasis now placed on reasoning, Dialectic or Logic superseded Grammar as the great subject of study, and logical analysis was now applied to the problems of religion. The Church adopted and guided the movement, and the schools of the time turned their energy into directions approved by it. Aristotle also was in time adopted by the Church, after the trans- lation of his principal works had been effected (Rs. 87, 90), and his philosophy was made a bulwark for Christian doctrine through- out the remainder of the Middle Ages. For the next four centu- ries Aristotle thoroughly dominated all philosophic thinking.^ The great development and use of logical analysis now produced many keen and subtle minds, who worked intensively a narrow and limited field of thought. The result was a thorough reorgani- zation and restatement of the theology of the Church. ' The term scholasticism comes from scholasticiis , because it was chiefly in the cathedral schools that scholasticism arose. It means, literally, the method of think- ing worked out by the teachers in the cathedral schools. 2 The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) once said that when he con- sidered the inertness of the Middle Ages he was led to think that God had been content to make man a two-legged animal, leaving to Aristotle the task of mak- ing him a thinking being. The worship of Aristotle is easily explained by the great amount of information his works contained, his logical method and skillful classification of knowledge, and the way his ideas as to causes fitted into Christian reasoning. Plate 3. Saint Thomas Aquinas in the School of Albertus Magnus (After the painting by H. Lerolle) INFLUENCES TOWARD A REMVAL 191 This was the work of Scholasticism. The movement was not characterized by the evolution of new doctrines, but by a system- atization and organization into good teaching form of what had grown up during the preceding thousan^ears. To a large degree it was also an "accommodatiDn" oijjm old theolog}' to the new Aristotelian philosophy which hadj|Bntly been brought back to western Europe, and the stateny(||^K the Christian doctrines in good philosophic form. Jr*' The organizing work of thre Schoolmen. Peter the Lombard (1100-1160), whose Book vj Sentences, mentioned above, had so completely changed the character of the instruction in Theology, began this work of theological reorganization. Albert the Great {Albertus Magnus, 1 193-1280) was the first of the great School- men, and has been termed "the organizing intellect of the Middle Ages." He was a German Dominican monk,^ bom in Swabia, and educated in the schools of Paris, Padua, and Bologna. Later he became a celebrated teacher at Paris and Cologne. He was the first to state the philosophy of Aristotle in systematic fom^ and was noted as an exponent of the work of Peter the Lombar Thomas Aquinas (c. 1 225-1 274), the greatest and most infk^Ritial scholastic philosopher of the Middle Ages, studied first at Monte Cassino and Naples, and then at Paris and Cologne, under Al- bertus Magnus. He later became a noted teacher of Philosophy and Theolog>' at Rome, Bologna, Viterbo, Perugia, and Naples. Under him Scholasticism came to its highest development in his harmonizing the new Aristotelianism wdth the doctrines of the Church. His class teaching was based on Aristotle,- the Vulgate Bible, and Peter the Lombard's Book of Sentences. During the last three years of his life he wrote his Summa Theologice, a book which has ever since been accepted as an authoritative statement of the doctrines of the Roman Cathohc Church. ^ The Dominicans, or Black Friars, were a new teaching and preaching monastic order, founded in 1216. It was a revaval of monasticism, directed toward more modem ends. The Dominicans established themselves in connection with the new imiversities, and sought to control education and to defend orthodoxy. Another new order of this same period was that of the Franciscans, or Gray Friars, founded by Saint Francis in 1 21 2. Their work was directed still more to preaching, missions, and public service. They were a less intellectual but a more democratic brother- hood. It was the Franciscans who followed the armies of Spain to Mexico, and later built and conducted the missions of the central and southern California coast. ^ Special translations of Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics, from the original Greek texts, obtained at Constantinople by the Crusaders, were made for Thomas Aquinas at his special request, about 1 260, by William of Moerbeke, who knew enough Greek to perform the task. This gave him better translations from which to lecture and write. as ^^ ml t 1^ 192 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The character of the organization made by Peter the Lombard and Thomas Aquinas may be seen from an examination of their method of presentation, which was dogmatic in form and similar in the textbooks of each. The field of Christian Theology was divided out into parts, heads, subheads, etc., in a way that would cover the subject, and a group of problems, each dealing with some doctrinal point, was then presented under each. The problem was first stated in the text. Next the authorities and arguments for each solution other than that considered as ortho- dox were presented and confuted, in order. The orthodox solu- tion was next presented, the arguments and authorities for such solution quoted, and the objections to the correct solution pre- sented and refuted (R. 152). Results of their work. The work of the Schoolmen was to organize and present in systematic and dogmatic form the teach- ings of the Church (R. 92). This they did exceedingly well, and the result was a thorough organization of Theology as a teaching subject. They did little to extend knowledge, and nothing at all o apply it to the problems of nature and man. Their work was abstract and philosophical instead, dealing wholly with theolog- ical questions. The purpose was to lay down principles, and to offer a training in analysis, comparison, classification, and deduc- tion which would prepare learned and subtle defenders of the faith of the Church. So successful were the Schoolmen in their efforts /^that instruction in Theology was raised by their work to a new ( position of Importance, and a new interest in theological scholar- , ship and general learning was awakened which helped not a little to deflect many strong spirits from a life of warfare to a life of study. They made the problems of learning seem much more worth while, and their work helped to create a more tolerant attitude toward the supporters of either side of debatable ques- tions by revealing so clearly that there are two sides to every question. This new learning, new interest in learning, and new spirit of tolerance the rising universities inherited. III. LAW AND MEDICINE AS NEW STUDIES The old Roman cities. The old Roman Empire, it will be re- membered, came to be largely a collection of provincial cities. These were the centers of Roman civilization and culture. After the downfall of the governing power of Rome, the great highways were no longer repaired, brigandage became common, trade and INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 193 intercourse largely ceased, and the provincial cities which were not destroyed in the barbarian invasions declined in population and number, passing under the control of their bishops who long ruled them as feudal lords. During the long period of disorder many of the old Roman cities entirely disappeared (R. 49) . Only in Italy, and particularly in northern Italy, did these old cities retain anything of their earlier municipal life, or anything worth mentioning of their former industry and commerce. But even here they lost most of their earher importance as centers of cul- ture and trade, becoming merely ecclesiastical towns. After the death of Charlemagne, the break-up of his empire, and the insti- tution of feudal conditions, the cities and towns declined still more in importance, and few of any size remained. # In Italy feudalism never attained the strength it did in northern Eftrope. Throughout all the early Middle Ages the cities there retained something of their old privileges, though ruled by prince- bishops residing in them. They also retained something of the old Roman civilization, and Roman legal usages and some knowl- edge of Roman law never quite died out. In other respects they much resembled mediaeval cities elsewhere. Reestablishment of the Holy Roman Empire. After the dis- integration of Charlemagne's empire, the portion of it now known as Germany broke up into fragments, largely independent of one another, and full of fight and pride. The result there was contin- ual and pitiless warfare. This, coupled with the raids of the Northmen along the northern coast and the Magyars on the east, led to the election of a king in 919 (Henry the Fowler) who could estabhsh some semblance of unity and order. By 961 the German duchies and small principalities had been so consolidated that a succeeding king (Otto I) felt himself able to attempt to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire by subjugating Italy and annexing it as an appendage under German rule. He descended into Italy (961), subjugated the cities, overthrew the Papacy, created a pope to his liking, and reestablished the old Empire, in name at least. For a century the German rule was nominal, but with the outbreak of the conflict in the eleventh century between king and pope over the question of which one should invest the bishops with their authority (known as the investiture conflict, 1075-1122), Pope Gregory VII humbled the German king (Henry IV) at Canossa (1077) and won a partial wccess. Then followed repeated invasions of Italy, and a cen- 194 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tury and a half of conflicts between pope and king before the dream of universal empire under a German feudal king ended in disaster, and Italy was freed from Teutonic rule. The Italian cities revive the study of Roman law. As was stated above, Roman legal usages and some knowledge of Roman M^ ,0 eia 40 60 80 Too Fig. 54. The City-States of Northern Italy All of the cities in the valley of the Po, except Turin, Pavia, and Mantua, were members of the Lombard League of 1167. law had never quite died out in these Italian cities. But, while regarded with reverence, the law was not much understood, little study was given to it, and important parts of it were neglected and forgotten. The struggle with the ruling bishops in the second half of the eleventh century, and the discussions which arose dur- ing the investiture conflict, caused new attention to be given to legal questions, and both the study of Roman (civil) and Church (canon) law were revived. The Italian cities stood with the Papacy in the struggles with the German kings, and, in 1167, those in the Valley of the Po formed what was known as the Lombard League for defense. Under the pressure of German INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 195 oppression they now began a careful study of the known Roman law in an effort to discover some charter, edict, or grant of power upon which they could base their claim for independent legal rights. The result was that the study of Roman law was given an emphasis unknown in Italy since the days of the old Empire. What had been preserved during the period of disorder at last came to be understood, additional books of the law were discov- ered, and men suddenly awoke to a realization that what had been before considered as of little value actually contained much that was worth studying, as well as many principles of import- ance that were applicable to the conditions and problems of the time. The great student and teacher of law of the period was Imerius of Bologna (c. 1070-1137), who began to lecture on the Code and the Institutes of Justinian about mo to 11 15, and soon attracted large numbers of students to hear his interpretations. About this fUClj> lilV IT UIV Ul» ^ teV5VfaVCIVtmVLN\K:-M05VNV ^^ulU5llB^^oteptlo^6ultellulmuj?usfppu ctilKe^tlU5^UeKl5pel>u5u^eN^lppue^^^l eiQ urujf u>* pp ticxu!?iLi5 iMcoppop ev^uos? u BlMoe-tirj^uvvTv^UiMeCfrsjJeesti le^AtlpOte5XCOKJSIltUlU5U5ppUCTU5UT ^epe^•lul^e^.rup^x^^exUculU5ua'»ppuctw"^ Fig. 55. Fragment from the Recovered "Digest" of Justinian Capitals and small letters are here used, but note the difi&culty of reading without spacing or punctuation. same time the Digest, much the largest and most important part of the old law, was discovered and made known, ^ This gave clear- 1 In 529 the Eastern Emperor, Justinian (see p. 76), directed that an orderly compilation be prepared of the many and confused laws and decisions which had been made in the Roman Empire, with a view to producing a standard body of 196 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ness to the whole, as before its discovery the study of Roman law was like the study of Aristotle when only parts of the Organon were known. Irnerius and his co-laborers at Bologna now col- lected and arranged the entire body of Roman civil law {Corpus Juris Civilis) (R. 93), introduced the Digest to western Europe, and thus made a new contribution of first importance to the list of possible higher studies. Law now ceased to be a part of Rhetoric (p. 157) and became a new subject of study, with a body of material large enough to occupy a student for several years. This was an event of great intellectual significance. A new study was now evolved which offered great possibilities for intellectual activity and the exercise of the critical faculty, while at the same time showing veneration for authority. Law was thus placed alongside Theology as a professional subject, and the evolution of the professional lawyer from the priest was now for the first time made possible. Canon law also organized as a subject of study. Inspired by the revival of the study of civil law, a monk of Bologna, Gratian by name, set himself to make a compilation of all the Church canons which had been enacted since the Council of Nicaea (325) formulated the first twenty (p. 96), and of the rules for church government as laid down by the church authorities. This he issued in textbook form, about 1142, under the title of Decretum Gratiani. So successful were his efforts that his compilation was "one of those great textbooks that take the world by storm." It did for canon (church) law what the rediscovery of the Justinian Code had done for civil law; that is, it organized canon law as a new and important teaching subject. The Decretum of Gratian was published in three parts, and was organized after the same plan as Abelard's Sic et Non, except that Gratian drew conclusions from the mass of evidence he presented on each topic. It contained 147 "Distinctions" (questions; cases of church policy) , upon each of which were cited the church canons Roman law in place of the unwieldy mass of contradictory material then existing. The result was the Corpus Juris Civilis, worked out by a staff of eminent lawyers between 529 and 533 (R. 93). This consisted of I. The Code, in twelve books, containing the Statutes of the Emperors: II. The Digest, in fifty books, containing pertinent extracts from the opinions of celebrated Roman lawyers: III. The Institutes, in four books, being an elementary textbook on the law for the use of students: IV. The Novellce, or new Statutes, the final edition of which was issued in 565, and included the laws from 533 on. This was preserved and nsed in the East, but came too late to be of much service to the Western Emoire. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 197 and the views and decisions of important church authorities.^ This volume was added to by popes later on,^ so that by the fif- teenth century a large body of canon law had grown up, which was known as the Corpus Juris Canonici. Canon Law was thus sepa- rated from Theology and added to Civil Law as another new sub- ject of study for both theological and legal students, and the two subjects of Canon and Civil Law came to constitute the work of the law faculties in the universities which soon arose in western Europe. The beginnings of medical study. The Greeks had made some progress in the beginnings of the study of disease (p. 47). Aris- totle had given some anatom- ical knowledge in his writings on animals, and had theorized a little about the functions of the human body. The real founder of medical science, though, was Hippocrates, of the island of Cos (c. 460-367 B.C.) , a contemporary of Plato. He was the first writer on the subject who attempted to base the practice of the healing art on careful observation and sci- entific principles. He substi- tuted scientific reason for the wrath of offended deities as the causes of disease, and tried to offer proper remedies in place of sacrifices and prayers to the gods for cures. His descriptions of diseases were wonderfully accurate, and his treatments ruled medical practice for ages.^ He * The subdivisions were as follows: I. Contained io6 "distinctions," relating to ecclesiastical persons and affairs. II. Contained 36 "distinctions," relating to problems arising in the administra- tion of canon law. III. Contained 5 "distinctions," relating to the ritual and sacraments of the Church. * The additions were: I. The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, issued in 1234, in five books. II. A Supplement to the above by Pope Boniface VIII {Liber Sextus), issued in 1298. III. The Constitutions of Clementine, issued in 13 17. IV. Several additions of Papal Laws, not included in any of the above. ' He held that the body contained four humors — blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Disease was caused by an undue accumulation of some one of the four. Hence the ofl6ce of the physician was to reduce this accumulation by some means, Fig. 56. The Father of Medicine Hippocrates of Cos (460-367? b.c.) 198 HISTORY OF EDUCATION knew, however, little as to anatomy. Another Greek writer^ Galen^ (131-201 a.d.), wrote extensively on medicine and left an anatomical account of the human body which was unsurpassed for more than a thousand years. His work was known and used by the Saracens. Avicenna (980-1037), an eastern Mohamme- dan, wrote a Canon of Medicine in which he summarized the work of all earlier writers, and gave a more minute description of symp- toms than any preceding writer had done. These works, together with a few minor writings by teachers in Spain and Salerno, formed the basis of all medical knowledge until Vesahus published his System of Human Anatomy, in 1543. The Roman knowledge of medicine was based almost entirely on that of the Greeks, and after the rise of the Christians, with their new attitude toward earthly life and contempt for the human body, the science fell into disrepute and decay. Saint Augustine (354-430), in his great work on The City of God, speaks with some bitterness of "medical men who are called anatomists," and who "with a cruel zeal for science have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes of sick persons, who have died under their knives, and have inhumanly pried into the secrets of the human body to learn the nature of disease and its exact seat, and how it might be cured." ^ During the early Middle Ages the Greek medical knowl- edge practically disappeared, and in its place came the Christian theories of satanic influence, diabolic action, and divine punish- ment for sin. Correspondingly the cures were prayers at shrines and repositories of sacred relics and images, which were found all over Europe, and to which the injured or fever-stricken peas- ants hied themselves to make offerings and to pray, and then hope for a miracle. Toward the middle of the eleventh century Salerno, a small city delightfully situated on the Italian coast (see Map, p. 194), thirty-four miles south of Naples, began to attain some reputa- such as blood-letting, purging, blisters, diaphoretics, etc. In the monastery of Saint Gall (see Diagram, R. 69) a blood-letting room was a part of the establishment, and this practice was continued until well into the nineteenth century. 1 Galen was born at Pergamon, in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. He studied medicine at Pergamon, Smyrna, and Alexandria, and for a time lived in Rome. Returning to Pergamon he was appointed physician to the athletes in the gymnasium there. He later went back to Rome and became physician to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is credited with five hundred works on literature, philosophy, and medicine, one hundred and eighteen of which have survived. In medicine he wrote on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, pathology, therapeutics, materia medica, sur- gery, hygiene, and dietetics. He was the first to use the pulse as a means of detect- ing physical condition. ' Saint Augustine, The City of God, book xxii, chao. 24.. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 199 tion as a health resort. In part this was due to the climate and in part to its mineral springs. Southern Italy had, more than any other part of western Europe, retained touch with old Greek thought. The works of Hippocrates and Galen had been pre- served there, the monks at Monte Cassino had made some trans- lations, and sometime toward the middle of the eleventh century^ the study of the Greek medical books was revived here. The Mohammedan medical work by Avicenna (p. 185), also early be- came known here in translation. About 1065 Constantine of Carthage, a converted Jew and a learned monk, who had traveled extensively in the East ^ and who had been forced to flee from his native city because of a suspicion of ''black art," began to lecture at Salerno on the Greek and Mohammedan medical works and the practice of the medical art. In 1099 Robert, Duke of Nor- mandy, returning from the First Crusade, stopped here to be cured of a wound, and he and his knights later spread the fame of Salerno all over Europe. The result was the revival of the study of Medicine in the West, and Salerno developed into the first of the medical schools of Europe. Montpellier, in southern France, also became another early center for the study of Medi- cine, drawing much of its medical knowledge from Spain. An- other new subject of professional study was now made possible, and Faculties of Medicine were in time organized in most of the universities as they arose. The instruction, though, was chiefly book instruction, Galen being the great textbook until the seven- teenth century. IV. OTHER NEW INFLUENCES AND MOVEMENTS The Crusades. Perhaps the most romantic happenings during the Middle Ages were that series of adventurous expeditions to the then Far East, undertaken by the kings and knights of western Europe in an attempt to reclaim the Holy Land from the infidel Turks, who in the eleventh century had pushed in and were persecuting Christian pilgrims journeying to Jerusalem. For centuries single pilgrims, small bands of pilgrims, and sometimes large numbers led by priest or noble, had journeyed to dis- tant shrines, to Rome, and to the birthplace of the Saviour,^ 1 Often spoken of as Constantius Africanus. It is recorded that he studied the arts in Babylon, visited Egypt and India, and returned to his home in Carthage one of the most learned men of his age. Suspected of dealings with the Devil he fled to Salernum (c. 1065), taught there for many years, published many medical works of his own, and finally retired to the monastery of Monte Cassino, dying there in 1087. * In 1064 a company of seven thousand is said to have started for the Holy Land. 200 HISTORY OF EDUCATION impelled by pure religious devotion, a desire to do penance foi sin, or seeking a cure from some disease by prayer and penance. It was the spirit of the age. Says Adams: ^ A pilgrimage was ... in itself a reli- gious act securing merit and reward for the one who performed it, balancing a certain number for his sins, and making his escape from the world of torment hereafter more certain. The more dis- tant and more difficult the pilgrimage, the more meritorious, especially if it led to such supremely holy places as those which had been sanctified by the pres- ence of Christ himself. For the man of the world, for the man who could not, or would not, go into monasticism, the pil- grimage was the one conspicuous act by which he could satisfy the ascetic need, and gain its rewards. A crusade was a stupendous pilgrimage, under especially favorable and meritorious conditions. Fig. 57. A Pilgrim of the Middle Ages (From an old manuscript in the British Museum) The Mohammedan Arabs who took possession of the Holy Land in the seventh century had treated the pilgrims considerately, but the Turks were of a different stamp. In 107 1 they had defeated the Eastern Emperor, captured all Asia Minor, and had taken posses- sion of the fortress of Nicaea (Map, p. 183), near Constanti- nople. The Eastern Emperor now appealed to Rome for help. In 1077 the Turks captured Jerusalem, and returning pilgrims soon began to report having experienced great hardships. In 1095 Pope Urban, in a stirring address to the Council of Clermont (France), issued a call to the lords, knights, and foot soldiers of western Christendom to cease destroying their fellow Christians in private warfare, and to turn their strength of arms against the infidel and rescue the Holy Land. The journey was to take the place of penance for sin, many special privileges were extended to those who went, and those who died on the journey or in battle with the infidels were promised entrance into heaven.^ To many 1 Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, 2d ed., p. 261. ^ "From Clermont the enthusiasm spread over France like wildfire. Stirring preachers, whereof the most notable was Peter the Hermit, set all France, peasant and noble, to arming. It was the old gospel of Mohammed recast in Christian guise: •— pardon for sin and the spoils of the infidel if victorious ! — a swift road to heaven if slain in the battle! Pressed with this hope and enthusiasm, armies to be reckoned by the hundreds of thousands were launched upon the East." (Davis, W. S., MedicB- val and Modern Europe, x). 05.) INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 201 nobles and peasants, filled with a desire for adventure and a sense of personal sin, no surer way of satisfying either was to be found than the long pilgrimage to the Saviour's tomb. In France and England the call met with instant response, but with little from the nobles of German lands. The First Crusade set out in 1096. A second went in 1144, and a third in 1187. These were the great Crusades, though five others were undertaken during the thirteenth century. Jerusa- lem was taken and lost. The Christians quarreled with one another and with the Greeks, though with the Saracens they established somewhat friendly relations, and a mutual respect arose. The armies which went were composed of all kinds of people — lords, knights, merchants, adventurers, peasants, out- laws — and a spirit of adventure and a desire for personal gain, as well as a spirit of religious devotion, actuated many who went. In 1204 the Venetians diverted the fourth crusade to the capture of Constantinople, and established there an outpost of their great commercial empire. The history of the crusades we do not need to trace. The important matter for our purpose was the results of the movement on the intellectual development of western Europe. Results of the Crusades on western Europe. In a sense the Crusades were an outward manifestation of the great change in thinking and ideals which had begun sometime before in western Europe. They were at once both a sign and a cause of further change. The old isolation was at last about to end, and inter- communication and some common ideas and common feelings were being brought about. Both those who went and those who remained at home were deeply stirred by the movement. Chris- tendom as a great international community, in which aU alike were interested in a common ideal and in a common fight against the infidel, was a new idea now dawning upon the mass of the people, whereas before it had been but little understood. The travel to distant lands, the sigli^ of citie s-_oL-wealth and power, and the_contact with peoples decidedly superior to them- selves in civilization, not only excited the imagination and led to a broadening of the minds of those who returned, but served as well to raise the general level of intelligence in western Europe. Some new knowledge also was brought back, but that was not at the time of great importance. The principal gain came in the 202 HISTORY OF EDUCATION elimination forever of thousands of quarreling, fighting noble- men,^ thus giving the kingly power a chance to consolidate hold- ings and begin the evolution of modem States; in the marked change of attitude toward the old problems ; in the awakening of a new interest in the present world; in the creation of new inter- ests and new desires among the common people ; in the awakening of a spirit of religious unity and of national consciousness; and especially in the awakening of a new intellectual life, which soon found expression in the organization of universities for study and in more extensive travel and geographical exploration than the world had known since the days of ancient Rome. The greatest of all the results, however, came through the revival of trade, commerce, manufacturing, and industry in the rising cities of western Europe, with the consequent evolution of a new and im- portant class of merchants, bankers, and craftsmen, who formed a new city class and in time developed a new system of training for themselves and their children. The revival of city life. The old cities of central and northern Italy, as was stated above (p. 194), continued through the early Middle Ages as places of some little local importance. In the eleventh century they overthrew in large part the rule of their Prince-Bishops, and became little City-Republics, much after the old Greek model. Outside of Italy almost the only cities not destroyed during the period of the barbarian invasions were the episcopal cities, that is cities which were the residences of bishops. Outside of Italy the present cities of western Europe either rose on the ruins of former Roman provincial cities, or originated about some monastery or castle, on or adjacent to land at one time owned by monks or feudal lord. An ever-increasing company of peasants, themselves little more than serfs in the beginning, huddled together in such places for the protection afforded, and a walled feudal town eventually resulted (R. 94 a). This later, in one way or another, secured its freedom from monastic control 1 Of the thousands of petty lords and knights who went to the hot East, clad in the heavy armor of northern Europe, large numbers left their bones along the way or in the Syrian sands, and the landholdings at home reverted to the Crown. This was a crushing blow to the old feudal regime, advanced the cause of civilization, and helped in the rise of the modern nations. Especially was this true in France and England, whose knights went in large numbers to the East. In Germany the knights and nobles, as a class, refused to have anything to do with the Crusades, and hence they were not killed off or impoverished, but remained to rule and multiply and be troublesome. This is one reason for the much earlier rise and greater strength of French than German nationality, and one reason why Germany has been so much slower than France and England in developing a democratic type of civilization. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 203 or feudal lord, and evolved into the free city we know to-day. Originally each little city was a self-sustaining community. The farming and grazing lands lay outside, while the people were crowded compactly together within the protecting town walls. The need for walls that could be manned for defense, gates that Fig. 58. A Typical Medieval Town (Prussian) All the elements of a typical mediaeval town are seen here — the walls for defense, the watch-towers, the churches, the tall cathedral, the castle, and the high houses huddled together. could shut out the marauder, the narrow, dirty streets, and the lack of any sanitary ideas, all alike tended to keep the towns small. ^ The insecurity of life, the constant warfare, the repeated failures or destruction of crops without and want within, and the high death-rate from disease, all kept down the population. A town of a thousand people in the early Middle Ages was a place of some importance, while probably no city outside of Italy, excepting Paris and London, had ten thousand inhabitants before the year 1200. In all England there were but 2,150,000 people, according to the Domesday Survey (1086), while to-day the city of London alone contains nearly three times that number. 1 "As presented to the eye, a typical mediaeval city would be a remarkable sight. Its extent would be small, both because of the limited population, and the need of making the circuit of the walls to be defended as short as possible; but within these walls the huge, many-storied houses would be wedged closely together. The narrow streets would be dirty and ill-paved — often beset by pigs in lieu of scavengers ; but everjrwhere there would be bustling human life with every citizen elbowing close to everybody else. Out of the foul streets here and there would rise parish churches of marvelous architecture, and in the center of the town extended the great square — market-place — where the open-air markets would be held, and close by it, dwarfing the lesser churches, the tall gray cathedral — the pride of the community; close by, also, the City Hall, an elegant secular edifice, where the council met, where the great public feasts could take place, and above which rose the mighty belfry, whence clanged the great alarm-bell to call the citizens together in mass meeting, or to don armor and man the walls." (Davis, W. S., Medieval atid Modern Europe, p. 146.) 204 HISTORY OF EDUCATION After about the year looo a revival of something like city life begins to be noticeable here and there in the records of the time (R. 94 a), and by iioo these signs begin to manifest themselves in many places and lands. By 1200 the cities of Europe were numerous, though small, and their importance in the life of the times ^ was rapidly increasing (R. 94 b). The rise of a city class. As the medifeval towns increased in size and importance the inhabitants, being human, demanded rights. Between iioo and 1200 there were frequent revolts of the people of the mediaeval towns against their feudal overlord, and frequent demands were made for charters granting privileges to the towns. Sometimes these insurrections were put down with a bloody hand. Sometimes, on the contrary, the overlord granted a charter of rights, willingly or unwillingly, and freed the people from obligation to labor on the lands in return for a fixed money payment. Sometimes the king himself granted the inhabitants a charter by way of curbing the power of the local feudal lord or bishop. The towns became exceedingly skillful in playing off lord against bishop, and the king against both. In England, Flanders, France, and Germany some of the towns had become wealthy enough to purchase their freedom and a charter at some time when their feudal overlord was particularly in need of money. These charters, or birth certificates for the towns, were carefully drawn and officially sealed documents of great value, and were highly prized as evidences of local liberty. The document created a "free town," and gave to the inhabitants certain specified rights as to seK-govemment, the election of magistrates — aldermen, mayor, burgomaster — the levying and payment of taxes, and the military service to be rendered. Before the evolution of strong national governments these charters created hundreds of what were virtually little City-States throughout Europe (R. 95). In these towns a new estate or class of people was now created (R. 96) , in between the ruling bishops and lords on the one hand and the peasants tilling the land on the other. These were the citizens — freemen, bourgeoisie, burghers. Out of this new class * In Italy, in particular, the cities became strong and powerful, and eventually overthrew the rule of the bishops and defeated the German Emperor, Frederick I, in a long battle to preserve their independence. In Flanders such cities as Ypres, Bruges, and Ghent, came to dominate there. In 1302 their burghers defeated the J'rench army; and in the sixteenth century they helped to break the autocratic power of Spain in a great struggle for human and civic freedom. By the thirteenth century Hamburg, Liibeck, Bremen, Augsburg, and Nuremburg were important %3inmercial cities in Germany. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 205 of city dwellers new social orders — merchants, bankers, trades- men, artisans, and craftsmen — in time arose, and these nev/ orders soon demanded lights and obtained some form of educa- tion for their children. The guild or apprenticeship education which early developed in the cities to meet the needs of artisans and craftsmen (R. 99), and the burgh or city schools of Europe, / ^ Churchmen Higher nobility. \ Lower nobility. \ Higher conunercial classes. / ^ \ Merchants; manufacturers. \ Land owners; professional mCB. / 4 N. Small shop keepers. \. Craftsmen, farmers. ^y^ 6 \^Day laborers. ^"^^Dependenta Fig. 59. The Educational Pyramid (From Smith, W. R., Educational Sociology, p. 176) The concave pyramid suggests comparative numbers. Formal education began at the top, and has slowly worked downward. which began to develop in the thirteenth and fourteenth centu- ries, were the educational results of the rise of cities and the evolution of these new social classes. The time would soon be ripe for the mysteries of learning to be passed somewhat farther down the educational pyramid, and new classes in society would begin the mastery of its symbols. The revival of commerce. The first city of mediaeval Europe to obtain commercial prominence was Venice. She early sold salt and fish obtained from the lagoons to the Lombards in the Valley of the Po, and sent trading ships to the Greek East. By the year 1000 Venetian ships were bringing the luxuries and riches of the Orient to Venice, and the city soon became a great trading center. There the partially civilized Christian knight "spent splendidly," and the Bohemian, German, and Hunnish lords came' to buy such of the luxuries of the East as they could af- ford. Byjioo Venice was a free City-State, the mistress of the Adriatic, and the trade of the East with Christian Europe passed over her wharves. From the Crusades she profited greatly, carry- 1 They came there because, due to their plundering and murdering proclivitieg, Venice forbade her merchants to go to them. 206 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ing knights eastward in the great fleet she had developed, and carpets, fabrics, perfumes, spices, dyes, drugs, silks, and precious stones on the return voyage. From Tana and Trebizond her traders penetrated far into the interior. Her ships and merchants "held the Golden East in fee." By 1400 she was the wealthiest and most powerful city in Europe. Genoa in time became the great rival of Venice. Marseilles also developed a large trade in the Mediterranean and with the 'Aorth. From these three cities trade routes ran to the cities of Flanders, England, and Germany, as is shown in the map below. By the thirteenth century, Augsburg, Nuremburg, Magdeburg, Hamburg, Llibeck, Bremen, Antwerp, Ghent, Ypres, Bruges, and Fig. 60. Trade Routes and Commercial Cities London were developing into great commercial cities. Despite bad roads, bad bridges,^ bad inns, "robber knights" and bandits, the commerce once carried on by Rome with her provinces was reviving. Gr£at fairs, or yearly markets, came to be held in the large interior towns, to which merchants came from near and far 1 So poor were the mediaeval bridges that the old prayer-books contained formulas for "commending one's soul to God ere starting to cross a bridge." INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 207 to display and exchange their wares, and, still more important, from the standpoint of advancing general education, to exchange ideas and experiences. The "luxuries" displayed at these mar- kets by traveling merchants from the south — • salt, pepper, spices, sugar, drugs, dyestuffs, glass beads, glassware, table implements, perfumes, ornaments, underwear, articles of dress, silks, velvets, carpets, rugs — dazzled and astounded the simple townspeople of western Europe. These fairs became educational forces of a high_order. The revival of industry and banking. The trading of articles at seaports and at the interior city fairs came first, and this soon worked a revolution in industry. Instead of agriculture being almost the only occupation, and the feeding of the local popula- tion the only purpose, with only such arts and industries practiced as were needed to supply the wants of the townsmen, it now be- came possible to create a surplus to barter at the fairs for luxuries from the outside. Local industries, heretofore of but little im- portance, now developed into trades, and the manufacture of arti- cles for outside sale was begun. At first manufacturing was very limited in scope, and confined largely to local handicrafts or the imitation of imported articles, but later new and unportant indus- tries arose — the glass industry in Venice, the gold and silver industry of Florence, the weaving industry at Mainz and Erfurt, and the wool industry of Flanders. The craftsman and artisan, as well as the merchant and trader, were now developed in the towns, and soon became important members of the new social order. As serfs and villeins^ were set free from the land- they came to the towns, adding more members to the new industrial classes (R. 96) . From 1 200 on there was a great revival of indus- try in western Europe, and by 1500 merchants and craftsmen had won back the place once held by merchants and craftsmen in Roman life and trade. At Florence a banking class arose, and instead of barter, banks and the use of money and credit were developed. From Florence this system gradually extended to the other commercial cities. 1 The peasants were of two classes: (i) serfs, who were not free and who were attached to the soil, but unlike slaves had plots of land of their own and could not be sold off the land; and (2) villeins, who were personally free, but still were bound to their lord for much menial service and for many payments in produce and money. 2 The Church originally held many serfs and villeins, as did the nobles. It began the process of setting them free, encouraging others to do likewise. In time it became common, as it did in our Southern States before the Civil War, for nobles in dying to set free a certain number of their serfs and villeins. These went as free men to the rising cities. 2o8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Gradually the mediaeval objection to the taking of interest for the use^ormoney, which the Church had forbidden in the early Middle Ages as "usury" and wicked, was overcome, and Italian bankers and merchants led the world in the establishment of that credit which has made modem trade and industry possible. With money once more in general use as a measure of value, the Arabic system of notation in use for commercial transactions, and credit at reasonable interest rates provided as a basis for finance, an era in trade and commerce and manufacturing set in unknown since the days of Roman rule. Order, security, and a wider extension of educational advantages now were needed, and nothing contributed more to securing these than the growth of wealth and manufacturing industries in the towns, and the extension of com- merce and the use of money throughout the country. Nothing tends so powerfully to demand or secure these things as the pos- session of wealth among a people. Education for these new social classes. With the evolution of these new social classes an extension of education took place through the formation of guilds.^ The merchants of the Middle Ages traded, not as individuals, nor as subjects of a State which protected them, for there were as yet no such States, but as members of the guild of merchants of their town, or as members of a trading company. Later, towns united to form trading con- federations, of which the Hanseatic League of northern Germany was a conspicuous example. These burgher merchant guilds became wealthy and important socially;- they were chartered by kings and given trading privileges analogous to those of a modem corporation (R. 95) ; they elbowed their way into affairs of State, and in time took over in large part the city governments; they obtained education for themselves, and fought with the church ^ The mediaeval guild was an important institution, and the guild idea was applied to many forms of mediaeval associations. Thus we read of guilds of notaries in Florence, pleaders' and attorneys' guilds in London, medical guilds and barber- surgeons' guilds in various cities, and of the book-writers-and-sellers' guild in Paris. In a religious pageant given at York, England, on Corpus Christi Day, 141 5, fifty- one different local guilds presented each a scene. (See Cheyney, E. P., English Towns and Gilds., Pa. Sources, vol. 11, no. i.) 2 "The ready money of the merchant was as effective a weapon as the sword of the noble, or the spiritual arms of the Church. Very speedily, also, the men of the cities began to seize upon one of the weapons which up to that time had been the exclusive possession of the Church, and one of the main sources of its power, — knowledge and intellectual training. With these two weapons in its hands, wealth and knowledge, the Third Estate forced its way into influence, and compelled the other two (Estates) to recognize it as a partner with themselves in the management of public concerns." (Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, 2d ed., p. 299.) INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 209 authorities for the creation of independent burgh schools;^ they began to read books, and books in the vernacular began to be written for them; ^ they in time vied with the clergy and the nobility in their patronage of learning; they everywhere stood with the kings and princes to compel feudal lords to stop warfare and plundering and to submit to law and order; ^ and they enter- tained royal personages and drew nobles, clergy, and gentry into their honorary membership, thus serving as an important agency in breaking down the social-class exclusiveness of the Middle Ages, In these guilds, which were self-governing bodies debating ques- tions and deciding policies and actions, much elementary political training was given their members which proved of large impor- tance at a later time. In the same way the craft guilds rendered a large educational service to the small merchant and worker, as they provided the techpical and social education of such during the later period of the Middle Ages and in early modem times, and protected their members from oppression in an age when oppression was the rule. With the revival of trade and industry craft guilds arose all over western Europe. One of the first of these was the candle-makers' guild, organized at Paris in 1061. Soon after we find large num- bers of guilds — masons, shoemakers, harness-makers, bakers, smiths, wool-combers, tanners, saddlers, spurriers, weavers, gold- smiths, pewterers, carpenters, leather- workers, cloth-workers, pinners, fishmongers, butchers, barbers — all organized on much the same plan. These were the working-men's fraternities or labor unions of mediaeval Europe. Each trade or craft became organized as a city guild, composed of the "masters," "journey- men" (paid workmen), and "apprentices." The great mediaeval document, a charter of rights guaranteeing protection, was usu- ally obtained. The guild for each trade laid down rules for the 1 In Hamburg, for example, the city council established four writing schools in 1402, to which the church authorities objected. The council refused to give them up, and for this was laid under the ban of the Church, compelled to recede, admit that it had no right to establish such schools, and pay the costs involved in the contest. ^ For example, the three most widely read books of the thirteenth century were Reynard the Fox, a profoundly humorous animal epic; The Golden Legend, which so deeply impressed Longfellow; and the Romance oj the Rose, for three centuries the most read book in Europe. ' Despite all the criticisms one may offer against business, commerce has always been a great civilizing force. While not anxious to pay heavy taxes, the merchant has always been willing to pay what has been necessary to support a public power capable of maintaining order and security for property. Feudal turmoil, private warfare, and plundering are deadly foes of commerce, and these have come to an end where commerce and industry have gained the ascendant. 2IO HISTORY OF EDUCATION number and training of apprentices/ the conditions under which a "journeyman'* could become a "master," ^ rules for conducting the trade, standards to be maintained in workmanship, prices to be charged, and dues and obligations of members (R. 97). They supervised work in their craft, cared for the sick, buried the dead, and looked after the widows and orphans. Often they provided one or more priests of their own to minister to the families of their craft, and gradually the custom arose of having the priest also teach something of the rudiments of religion and learning to the children of the members. In time money and lands were set aside or left for such purposes, and a form of chantry school, which later evolved into a regular school, often with instruction in higher studies added, was created for the children of members^ of the guild (R. 98). Apprenticeship education. For centuries after the revival of trade and industry all manufacturing was on a small scale, and in the home-industry stage. There was, of course, no machinery, and only the simple tools known from ancient times were used. In a first-floor room at the back, master, journeymen, and appren- tices working together made the articles which were sold by the master or the master's wife and daughter in the room in front. The manufacturer and merchant were one. Apprentices were bound to a master for a term of years (R. 99), often paying for the training and education to be received, and the master boarded and lodged both the apprentices and the paid workmen in the family rooms above the shop and store. The form of apprenticeship education and training which thus developed, from an educational point of view, forms for us the important feature of the history of these craft guilds. With the subdivision of labor and the development of new trades the craft- guild idea was extended to the new occupations, and a steady stream of rural labor flowing to the towns was absorbed by them and taught the elements of social usages, self-government, and 1 As a rule a master craftsman might teach his trade to all his sons, but could have only one other apprentice who received board, lodging, clothing, and training, as one of the family. The guild still supervised the apprentice, protecting him from bad usage or defective training by the master. 2 This required the production of a " masterpiece." This piece of work had to be produced to prove high competency. For example, in the shoemakers' guild of Paris, a pair of boots, three pairs of shoes, and a pair of slippers, all done in the best possible manner, were required. * Of thirty- three guilds investigated by Leach, all maintained song schools, and twenty-eight maintained a grammar school as well. In London, Merchant Taylors' School, Stationers' School, and the Mercers' School are present-day survivals of these ancient guild foundations. INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 211 the mastery of a trade. Throughout all the long period up to the nineteenth century this apprenticeship education in a trade and in self-government constituted almost the entire formal educa- tion the worker with his hands received. The sons of the bar- barian invaders, as well as their knightly brothers, at last were busy learning the great lessons of industry, cooperation, and per- sonal loyalty. Here begins, for western Europe, " the nobility of labor — the long pedigree of toil." So well in fact did this appren- tice system of training and education meet the needs of the time that it persisted, as was said above, well into the nineteenth century (Rs. 200, 201, 242, 243), being displaced only by modem power machinery and systematized factory methods. During the later Middle Ages and in modem times it rendered an impor- tant educational service; in the later nineteenth century it became such an obstacle to educational and industrial progress that it has had to be supplemented or replaced by systematic vocational education. Influence of these new movements. We thus see, by the end of the twelfth century, a number of new influences in western Europe which point to an intellectual awakening and to the rise of a new educated class, separate from the monks and clergy on the one hand or the nobility on the other, and to the awakening of Europe to a new attitude toward life. Saracen learning, filter- ing across from Spain, had added materially to the knowledge Europe previously had, and had stimulated new intellectual inter- ests. Scholasticism had begun its great work of reorganizing and systematizing theology, which was destined to free philosophy, hitherto regarded as a dangerous foe or a suspected ally, from theology and to remake entirely the teaching of the subject. Civil and canon law had been created as wholly new professional subjects, and the beginnings of the teaching of medicine had been made. Instead of the old Seven Liberal Arts and a very limited course of professional study for the clerical ofhce being the entire curriculum, and Theology the one professional subject, we now find, by the beginning of the thirteenth century, a number of new and important professional subjects of large future significance — subjects destined to break the monopoly of theological study and put an end to logistic hair-splitting. The next step in the history of education came in the development of institutions where think- ing and teaching could be carried on free from civil or ecclesiastical control, with the consequent rise of an independent leained class 212 HISTORY OF EDUCATION in western Europe. This came with the rise of the universities, to which we next turn, and out of which in time arose the future independent scholarship of Europe, America, and the world in general. We also discover a series of new movements, connected with the Crusades, the rise of cities, and the revival of trade and indus- try, all of which clearly mark the close of the dark period of the Middle Ages. We note, too, the evolution of new social classes — a new Estate — destined in time to eclipse in importance both priest and noble and to become for long the ruling classes of the modem world. We also note the beginnings of an important independent system of education for the hand-workers which sufficed until the days of steam, machinery, and the evolution of the factory system. The eleventh and twelfth centuries were turning-points of great significance in the history of our western civilization, and with the opening of the wonderful thirteenth century the western world is well headed toward a new life and modem ways of thinking. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Why is it that a strong religious control is never favorable to originality in thinking? Show how the work of the Nestorian Christians for the Mohammedan faith was another example of the Hellenization of the ancient world. Would it be possible for any people anywhere in the world to-day to make such advances as were made at Bagdad, in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, without such work permanently influencing the course of civilization and learning everywhere? To what is the difference due? What were the chief obstacles to Europe adopting at once the karning from Mohammedan Spain, instead of waiting centuries to discover this learning independently? Why did Aristotle's work seem of much greater value to the medijeval scholar than the Moslem science? What are the relative values to-day? Why should the light literature of Spain be spoken of as a gay contagion? Did this Christian attitude toward fiction and poetry continue long? In what ways was the Sic et Non of Abelard a complete break with medi- aeval traditions? How did the fact that Dialectic (Logic) now became the great subject of study in itself denote a marked intellectual advance? What was the significance of the prominence of this study for the future of thinking? What was the effect on inquiry and individual thinking of the method of presentation used by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica? How do you explain the all-absorbing interest in scholasticism during the greater part of a century? State the significance, for the future, of the revival of the study of Roman law: (a) intellectually; {b) in shaping future civilization. How do you explain the Christian attitude toward disease, and the INFLUENCES TOWARD A REVIVAL 213 scientific treatment of it? Has that attitude entirely passed away? Illustrate. 13. Why was it such a good thing for the future of civilization in England and France that so many of its nobility perished in the Crusades? 14. State a number of ways in which the Crusade movements had a beneficial effect on western Europe. 15. Show how the revival of commerce was an educative and a civilizing influence of large importance. 16. Would the organization of commerce and banking, and the establishment of the sanctity of obligations in a country, be one important measure of the civihzalion to which that country had attained? Illustrate. 17. Show how the development of industry and commerce and the accumu- lation of wealth tend to promote order and security, and to extend educa- tional advantages. 18. Contrast a mediaeval guild and a modern labor union. A guild and a modern fraternal and benevolent society. ig. Why did apprenticeship education continue so long with so little change, when it is now so rapidly being superseded? 20. Does the rise of a new Estate in society indicate a period of slow or rapid change? Why is such an evolution of importance for education and civilization? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 85. Draper: The Moslem Civilization in Spain. 86. Draper: Learning among the Moslems in Spain. 87. Norton: Works of Aristotle known by 1300. 88. Averroes: On Aristotle's Greatness. 89. Roger Bacon: How Aristotle was received at Oxford. 90. Statutes: How Aristotle was received at Paris. (a) Decree of Church Council, 12 10 a.d. {b) Statutes of Papal Legate, 121 5 a.d. (c) Statutes of Pope Gregory, 1231 a.d. {d) Statutes of the Masters of Arts, 1254 A.D. 91. Cousin: Abelard's ^/c d A^oH. (a) From the Introduction. ib) Types of Questions raised for Debate. 92. Rashdall: The Great Work of the Schoolmen. 93. Justinian: Preface to the Justinian Code. 94. Giry and Reville: The Early Mediaeval Town. (0) To the Eleventh Century. {h) By the Thirteenth Century. 95. Gross: An English Town Charter. 96. London: Oath of a New Freeman in a Mediaeval Town. 97. Riley: Ordinances of the White-Tawyers' Guild. 98. State Report: School of the Guild of Saint Nicholas. 99. England, 1396: A Mediaeval Indenture of Apprenticeship. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Contrast the state of civilization in Spain and the rest of Europe about 1 100 (85, 86). 2. Considering Aristotle's great intellectual worth (88) and work (87), is it to be wondered that the mediaevals regarded him with such reverence? 214 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 3. Do we to-day accept Abelard's premise (91 a) as to attaining wisdom? Would his questions (91 b) excite much interest to-day? 4. How do you explain the change in attitude toward him shown by the successive statutes enacted (90 a-d) for the University of Paris? 5. Would the extract from Roger Bacon (89) lead you to think him a man ahead of the times in which he lived? Why? 6. Did scholasticism represent the innocent intellectual activity, from the Church point of view, pictured by Rashdall (92)? 7. What were the main things Justinian hoped to accomplish by the prepa- ration of the great Code, as set forth in the Preface (93)? 8. Characterize the mediaeval town by the eleventh century (94 a). What was the nature of the progress from that time to the thirteenth century (94b)? 9. What were the chief privileges contained in the town charter of Walling- ford (95), and what position does it indicate was held by the guild- merchant therein? 10. What does the oath of a freeman (96) indicate as to social conditions? 11. State the chief regulations imposed on its members by the White- Tawyers' Guild (97). Compare these regulations with those of a modern labor union, such as the plumbers. With a fraternal order, such as the Masons. 12. What is indicated as to the educational advantages provided by the Guild of Saint Nicholas, in the city of Worcester, by the extract (98) taken from the Report of the King's Commissioner? 13. Does a comparison of Readings 99, 201, and 242 indicate a static con- dition of apprenticeship education for centuries? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Ameer, Ali. A Short History of the Saracens. *Ashley, W. J. Introduction to English Economic History. Cutts, Edw. L. Scents and Characters of the Middle Ages. *Gautier, Leon. Chivalry. *Giry, A., and Reville, A. Emancipation of the Mediceval Towns. Hibbert, F. A. Influence and Development of English Guilds. *Hume, M. A. S. The Spanish People. *Lavisse, Ernest. Mediceval Commerce and Industry. *MacCabe, Jos. Peter Abelard. *Munro, D. C, and Sellery, G. E. Mediceval Civilization. Poole, R. L. Illustrations of Mediceval Thought. *Rashdall, H. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, vol. I. Routledge, R. Popular History of Science. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. i. Scott, J. F. Historical Essays on Apprenticeship and Vocational Educo tion. (England.) *Sedgwick, W. J., and Tyler, H. W. A Short History of Science. Taylor, H. C. The Mediceval Mind. Thorndike, Lynn. History of Mediaeval Europe. Townsend, W. J. The Great Schoolmen of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER IX THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES Evolution of the Studium Generale. In the preceding chapter we described briefly the new movement toward association which characterized the eleventh and the twelfth centuries — the municipal movement, the merchant guilds, the trade guilds, etc. These were doing for civil life what monasticism had earlier done for the religious life. They were collections of like-minded men, who united themselves into associations or guilds for mutual benefit, protection, advancement, and self-government within the limits of their city, business, trade, or occupation. This tendency toward association, in the days when state government was weak or in its infancy, was one of the marked features of the transition time from the early period of the Middle Ages, when the Church was virtually the State, to the later period of the Middle Ages, when the authority of the Church in secular matters was begin- ning to weaken, modem nations were beginning to form, and an interest in worldly affairs was beginning to replace the previous inordinate interest in the world to come. We also noted in the preceding chapters that certain cathedral and monastery schools, but especially the cathedral schools,' stimulated by the new interest in Dialectic, were developing into much more than local teaching institutions designed to afford a supply of priests of some little education for the parishes of the bishopric. Once York and later Canterbury, in England, had had teachers who attracted students from other bishoprics. Paris had for long been a famous center for the study of the Liberal Arts and of Theology. Saint Gall had become noted for its music. Theologians coming from Paris (1167-68) had given a new im- petus to study among the monks at Oxford. A series of political events in northern Italy had given emphasis to the study of law in many cities, and the Moslems in Spain had stimulated the schools there and in southern France to a study of medicine and Aristotelian science. Rome was for long a noted center for study. Gradually these places came to be known as studia publica, or studia generalia, meaning by this a generally recognized place of ^ By the twelfth century the cathedral schools had passed the monastic schools in importance, and had obtained a lead which they were ever after to retain (R. 71). 2i6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION study, where lectures were open to any one, to students of all countries and of all conditions.^ Traveling students came to these places from afar to hear some noted teacher read and com- ment on the famous textbooks of the time. From the first both teachers and students had been considered as members of the clergy, and hence had enjoyed the privileges and immunities extended to that class, but, now that the students were becoming so numerous and were traveling so far, some additional grant of protection was felt to be desirable. Accord- ingly the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa,- in 1 158, issued a general proclamation of privileges and protection (R. loi). In this he ordered that teachers and students traveling "to the places in which the studies are carried on " should be protected from unjust arrest, should be permitted to "dwell in security," and in case of suit should be tried ''before their professors or the bishop of the city," This document marks the beginning of a long series of rights and privileges granted to the teachers and students of the universities now in process of evolution in western Europe. The university evolution. The development of a university out of a cathedral or some other form of school represented, in the Middle Ages, a long local evolution. Universities were not founded then as they are to-day. A teacher of some reputation drew around him a constantly increasing body of students. Other teachers of abihty, finding a student body already there, also "set up their chairs" and began to teach. Other teachers and more students came. In this way a studium was created. About these teachers in time collected other university servants — "bedells, librarians, lower officials, preparers of parchment, scribes, illuminators of parchment, and others who serve it," as Count Rupert enumerated them in the Charter of Foundation granted, in 1386, to Heidelberg (R. 103). At Salerno, as we have already seen (p. 199), medical instruction arose around the work of Constantine of Carthage and the medicinal springs found in the vicinity. Students journeyed there from many lands, and licenses to practice the medical art were granted there as early as 1 137. At Bologna, we have also seen (p. 195), the work of Imerius and Gratian early made this a great center for the study of civil and canon law, and their pupils spread the taste for these 1 As contrasted with the monasteries, which were under a "Rule." The oppor- tunities offered by such open institutions in the Middle Ages can hardly be over- estimated. ^ Frederick I, of the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire of Germany and Italy. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 217 new subjects throughout Europe. Paris for two centuries had been a center for the study of the Arts and of Theology, and a succession of famous teachers — William of Champeaux, Abelard, Peter the Lombard — had taught there. So important was the theological teaching there that Paris has been termed ' ' the Sinai of instruction" of the Middle Ages. By the beginning of the thirteenth century both students and teachers had become so numerous, at a number of places in west- em Europe, that they began to adopt the favorite mediaeval prac- tice and organized themselves into associations, or guilds, for further protection from extortion and oppression and for greater freedom from regulation by the Church. They now sought and obtained additional privileges for themselves, and, in particular, the great mediaeval document — a charter of rights and privileges.^ As both teachers and students were for long regarded as clerici the charters were usually sought from the Pope, but in some cases they were obtained from the king.^ These associations of scholars, or teachers, or both, " bom of the need of companionship which men who cultivate their intelligence feel," sought to per- form the same functions for those who studied and taught that the merchant and craft guilds were performing for their members. The ruling idea was association for protection, and to secure free- dom for discussion and study; the obtaining of corporate rights and responsibilities ; and the organization of a system of appren- ticeship, based on study and developing through journeyman into mastership,^ as attested by an examination and the license to teach. In the rise of these teacher and student guilds ^ we have the beginnings of the universities of western Europe, and their organization into chartered teaching groups (R. 100) was simply ^ "No individual during the Middle Ages was secure in his rights, even of life or property, certainly not in the enjoyment of ordinary freedom, unless protected by specific guarantees secured from some organization. Politically, one must owe allegiance to some feudal lord from whom protection was received; economically, one must secure his rights through merchant or craft guild; intellectual interests and educational activities were secured and controlled bythe Church." (Monroe, P., Text Book in the History of Education, p. 317.) ^ At first the older institutions organized themselves without charter, securing this later, while the institutions founded after 1300 usually began with a charter from pope or king, and sometimes from both (R. 100). * The degree of master was originally the license to practice the teaching trade, and analogous to a master shoemaker, goldsmith, or other master craftsmen. * "The universities, then, at their origins, were merely academic associations, analogous, as societies of mutual guaranty, to the corporations of working men, the commercial leagues, the trade-guilds which were playing so great a part at the same epoch; analogous also, by the privileges granted to them, to the municipal associa- tions and political communities that date from the same t\rt&-" (Compayre, G., Abelard aiid the Rise of the Universities, p. ^^.) ^i8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION % another phase of that great movement toward the association of like-minded men for worldly purposes which began to sweep over the rising cities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.^ The term universitas, or university, which came in time to be applied to these associations of masters and apprentices in study, was a general Roman legal term, practically equivalent to our modern word corporation. At first it was applied to any associa- tion, and when used with reference to teachers and scholars was so stated. Thus, in addressing the masters and students at Paris, Pope Innocent, in 1205, writes: " Universis magistris et scholaribus Parisiensibus''; that is, "to the corporation of masters and schol- ars at Paris." Later the term university became restricted to the meaning which we give it to-day. The university mothers. Though this movement for associa- tion and the development of advanced study had manifested itself in a number of places by the close of the twelfth century, two places in particular led all the others and became types which were followed in charters and in new creations. These were Bologna and Paris. ^ After one or the other of these two nearly all the universities of western Europe were modeled. Bologna or Paris, or one of their immediate children, served as a pattern. Thus Bologna was the university mother for almost all the Italian uni- versities; for Montpellier and Grenoble in southern France; for some of the Spanish universities; and for Glasgow, Upsala, Cra- cow, and for the Law Faculty at Oxford. Paris was the univer- sity mother for Oxford, and through her Cambridge; for most of the northern French universities; for the university of Toulouse, which in turn became the mother for other southern French and northern Spanish universities; for Lisbon and Coimbra in Portugal; for the early German universities at Prague, Vienna, Cologne, and Heidelberg; and through Cologne for Copenhagen. Through one of the colleges at Cambridge — Emmanuel — she became, indirectly, the mother of a new Cambridge in America ■ — Harvard — founded in 1636. Figure 61 shows the location of the chief universities founded before 1600. Viewed from the standpoint of instruction, Paris was followed almost entirely in Theology, and Bologna in Law, while the three centers which 1 "M. Bimbenet, in his History of the University of Orleans (Paris, 1853) repro- duces several articles from the statutes of the guilds, the provisions of which are identical with those contained in the statutes of the universities." {Ibid., p. 35.) ^ Bologna and Paris were the great "master" universities of the thirteenth cen- tury, while those founded on a model of either were more in the nature of "journey- men" institutions. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 219 most influenced the development of instruction in medicine were Salerno, Montpellier, and Salamanca. While the earlier universities gradually arose as the result of a long local evolution, it in time became common for others to be Fig. 61. Showing Location of the Chief Universities founded BEFORE 1600 founded by a migration of professors from an older university to some cathedral city having a developing studium. In the days when a university consisted chiefly of master and students, when lectures could be held in any kind of a building or collection of buildings, and when there were no libraries, laboratories, campus, or other university property to tie down an institution, it was easy to migrate. Thus, in 1209, the school at Cambridge was created a university by a secession of masters from Oxford, much as bees swarm from a hive. Sienna, Padua, Reggio, Vicenza, Arezzo resulted from "swarmings" from Bologna; and Vercelli from Vicenza. In 1228, after a student riot at Paris which provoked 220 HISTORY OF EDUCATION reprisals from the city, many of the masters and students went to the studium towns of Angers, Orleans, and Rheims, and univer- sities were established at the first two. Migrations from Prague helped establish many of the German universities. In this way the university organization was spread over Europe. In 1200 there were but six studia generalia which can be considered as having evolved into universities — Salerno, Bologna, and Reggio, in Ital)", Paris and Montpellier, in France; and Oxford, in Eng- land. By 1300 eight more had evolved in Italy, three more in France, Cambridge in England, and five in Spain and Portugal. By 1400 twenty-two additional universities had developed, five of which were in German lands, and by 1500 thirty-five more had been founded, making a total of eighty. By 1600 the total had been raised to one hundred and eight (R. 100, for list by countries, dates, and method of founding). Some of these (approximately thirty) afterwards died, while in the following centuries additional ones were created.^ Privileges and immunities granted. The grant of privileges to physicians and teachers made by the Emperor Constantine, in 333 A.D. (R. 26), and the privileges and immunities granted to the clergy (clerici) by the early Christian Roman Emperors (R. 38), doubtless formed a basis for the many grants of special privileges made to the professors and students in the early univer- sities. The document promulgated by Frederick Barbarossa, in 1158 (R. loi), began the granting of privileges to the studia generalia, and this was followed by numerous other grants. The grant to students of freedom from trial by the city authorities, and the obligation of every citizen of Paris to seize any one seen striking a student, granted by Philip Augustus, in 1200 (R. 102), is another example, widely followed, of the bestowal of large privileges. Count Rupert I, in founding the University of Heidel- berg, in 1386, granted many privileges, exempted the students from "any duty, levy, imposts, tolls, excises, or other exactions whatever" while coming to, studying at, or returning home from the university (R. 103). The exemption from taxation (R. 104) became a matter of form, and was afterwards followed in the 1 Between 1600 and 1700, although most of the cities capable of supporting uni- versities were provided with them, twenty-one more were created, chiefly in Ger- many and Holland. The first American university (Hars'ard) was established in 1636, and the second (Yale) in 1702. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, without counting the United States or any western-hemisphere country, forty more were created. Among the important nineteenth-century creations were Berlin, 1810; Christiana, 181 1; St. Petersburg, 1819; Brussels, 1834; London, 1836; and Athens, 1836. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 221 chartering of American colleges (R. 187), Exemption from mili- tary service also was granted. So valuable an asset was a university to a city, and so easy was it for a university to move almost overnight, that cities often, and at times even nations, encouraged not only the founding of universities, but also the migration of both faculties and students. An interesting case of a city bidding for the presence of a univer- sity is that of Vercelli (R. 105), which made a binding agreement, as a part of the city charter, whereby the city agreed with a body of masters and students "swarming" from Padua to loan the students money at lower than the regular rates, to see that there was plenty of food in the markets at no increase in prices, and to protect the students from injustice. An instance of bidding by a State is the case of Cambridge, which obtained quite an addition by the coming of striking Paris masters and students in 1229, in response to the pledge of King Henry III (R. 109), who "humbly sympathized with them for their sufferings at Paris," and prom- ised them that if they would come " to our kingdom of England and remain there to study" he would assign to them "cities, boroughs, towns, whatsoever you may wish to select, and in every fitting way will cause you to rejoice in a state of liberty and tranquillity." One of the most important privileges which the universities early obtained, and a rather singular one at that, was the right of cessatio, which meant the right to stop lectures and go on a strike as a means of enforcing a redress of grievances against either town or church authority (R. 107). This right was for long jealously guarded by the university, and frequently used to defend itself from the smallest encroachments on its freedom to teach, study, and discipline the members of its guild as it saw fit, and often the right not to discipline them at all. Often the cessatio was invoked on very trivial grounds, as in the case of the Oxford cessatio of 1209 (R. 108), the Paris cessatio of 1229 (R. 109), and the numer- ous other cessationes which for two centuries ^ repeatedly disturbed the continuity of instruction at Paris. Degrees in the guild. The most important of the university rights, however, was the right to examine and license its own teachers (R. no), and to grant the license to teach (Rs. in, 112). Founded as the universities were after the guild model, they were primarily places for the taking of apprentices in the Arts, devel- ^ See Compayre. G., Abelard, pp. 87-00 for list of these "strikes." 222 HISTORY OF EDUCATION oping them into journeymen and masters, and certifying to their proficiency in the teaching craft.' Their purpose at first was to prepare teachers, and the giving of instruction to students for cultural ends, or a professional training for practical use aside from teaching the subject, was a later development. Accordingly it came about in time that, after a number of years of study in the Arts under some master, a student was permitted to present himself for a test as to his ability to define words, determine the meaning of phrases, and read the ordinary Latin texts in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic (the Trivium), to the satis- faction of other masters than his own. In England this test came to be known by the term determine. Its passage was equivalent to advancing from apprenticeship to the ranks of a journeyman, and the successful candidate might now be permitted to assist the master, or even give some elementary instruction himself while continuing his studies. He now became an assistant or compan- ion, and by the fourteenth century was known as a baccalaureus, a term used in the Church, in chivalry, and in the guilds, and which meant a beginner. There was at first, though, no thought of establishing an examination and a new degree for the comple- tion of this first step in studies. The bachelor's degree was a later development, sought at first by those not intending to teach, and eventually erected into a separate degree. When the student had finally heard a sufficient number of courses, as required by the statutes of his guild, he might present himself for examination for the teaching license. This was a public trial, and took the form of a public disputation on some stated thesis, in the presence of the masters, and against all comers. It was the student's "masterpiece," analogous to the masterpiece of any other guild, and he submitted it to a jury of the masters of his craft. ^ Upon his masterpiece being adjudged ^ "It is impossible to fix the period at which the system of degrees began to be organized. Things were done slowly. At the outset, and until towards the end of the twelfth century, there existed nothing resembling a real conferring of degrees in the rising universities. In order to teach it was necessary to have a respondent, a master authorized by age and knowledge. . . . "The 'license to teach,' nevertheless, became by slow degrees, as master and pupils multiplied, a j)rcliminary condition of teaching, a sort of diploma more and more requisite, and of which the bishops (or their representatives, the chancellors) were the dispensers. Up to the fourteenth century there was hardly any other clearly-defined university title." (Compayre, (1., Abrlard, pp. 142-43.) ^ "It is manifest that the universities borrowed from the industrial corporations their 'companionships,' their 'masterships,' and even their banquets; a great repast being the ordinary sequel of the reception of the baccalaureate or doctoraie." (Compayr6, G., Abelard, p. 141.) THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 223 Fig. 62. Seal of a Doctor, University OF Paris satisfactory, he also became a master in his craft, was now able to define and dispute, was formally admitted to the highest rank in the teaching guild, might have a seal, and was variously known as master, doctor, or professor, all of which were once synonymous terms. 1 If he wished to prepare himself for teaching one of the professional subjects he studied still further, usually for a number of years, in one of the professional faculties, and in time he was declared to be a Doctor of Law, or Medicine, or of Theology. The teaching faculties. The students for a long time grouped themselves for better protection (and aggression) according to the nation from which they came,- and each "nation" elected a councilor to look after the interests of its members. Between the different nations there were constant quarrels, insults were passed back and forth, and much bad blood engendered.^ On the side of the masters the organization was by teaching subjects, ^ The term professor has Vjecome general in its significance, and is used in all countries. In England the term master was retained for the higher degree, while in Germany the term doctor was retained, and the doctorate made their one degree. America followed the English plan in the estiblishment of the early colleges, and the degree of A.B. and A.M. were provided for. Later, when the German univer- sity influence became prominent in the United States, the doctor's degree was super- imposed on the English plan. * At Paris, for example, there were four nations — France, Picardy, Normandy, and England. These were again divided into tribes, as for example, there were fi%'e tribes of the French — Paris, Sens, Rheims, Tours, and Bourges. Orleans had ten nations — France, Germany, Lorraine, Burgundy, Champagne, Picardy, Nor- mandy, Touraine, Guyenne, and Scotland. In those days these represented sepa- rate nationalities, who little understood one another, and carried their constant quarrels up to the ver>' lecture benches of the professors. ' A contemporary writer. Jacobus de Vitriaco, has left us an account of student life at Paris, in which he says: "The students at Paris wrangled and disputed not merely about the various sects or about some discussions; but the differences between the countries also caused dissensions, hatreds and virulent animosities among them, and they impudently uttered all kinds of affronts and insults against one another. "They affirmed that the English were drunkards and had tails; the sons of France proud, effeminate and carefully adorned like women. They said that the Germans were furious and obscene at their feasts; the Normans vain and boastful; the Poitevins traitors and always adventurers. The Burgundians they considered vulgar and stupid. The Bretons were reputed to be fickle and changeable, and were often reproached for the death of Arthur. The Lombards were called avari- cious, vicious and cowardly; the Romans, seditious, turbulent and slanderous; the Sicilians, tyrannical and cruel; the inhabitants of Brabant, men of blood, incendia- ries, brigands and ravishers; the Flemish, fickle, prodigal, gluttonous, >ielding as butter, and slothful. After such insults from words they often came to blows." vPa. Trans, and Repts. from Sources, vol. ii, no. 3, pp. 19-20.) 224 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and into what came to be known SiS faculties } Thus there came to be four faculties in a fully organized mediaeval university, representing the four great divisions of knowledge which had been evolved — Arts, Law, Medicine, and Theology. Each faculty elected a dean, and the deans and councilors elected a rector, who was the head or president of the university. The chancellor, the successor of the cathedral school scholasticus , was usually ap- pointed by the Pope and represented the Church, and a long struggle ensued between the rector and the chancellor to see who should be the chief authority in the university. The rector was ultimately victorious, and the position of chancellor became largely an honorary position of no real importance. The Arts Faculty was the successor of the old cathedral-school instruction in the Seven Liberal Arts, and was found in practically all the universities. The Law Faculty em- braced civil and canon law, as worked out at Bologna. The Med- ical Faculty taught the knowledge of the medical art, as worked out at Salerno and Montpellier. The The- ological Faculty, the most important of the four, prepared learned men for the service of the Church, and was for some two cen- turies controlled by the scholastics. The Arts Faculty was pre- paratory to the other three. As Latin was the language of the classroom, and all the texts were Latin texts, a reading and speaking knowledge of Latin was necessary before coming to the university to study. This was obtained from a study of the first of the Seven Arts — Grammar — in some monastery, cathedral, or other type of ^ In an American university the term college or school has largely replaced the term f acidly; in Europe the term faculty is still used. Thus we say College of Lib eral Arts, or School of Law, instead of Facidty of Arts, etc. Fig. 63. New College, at Oxford One of the oldest of the Oxford colleges, having been founded in 1379. The picture shows the chapel, clois- ters (consecrated in 1400), and a tall tower, once forming a part of the Oxford city walls. Note the similarity of this early college to a monastery, as in Plate I. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 225 school. Thus a knowledge of Latin formed practically the soler' requirement for admission to the mediseval university, and con- tinued to be the chief admission requirement in our universities up to the nineteenth century (R. 186 a). In Europe it is still of great importance as a preparatory subject, but in South American countries it is not required at all. Very few of the universities, in the beginning, had all four of these faculties. The very nature of the evolution of the earlier ones precluded this. Thus Bologna had developed into a studium generale from its prominence in law, and was virtually constituted a university in 11 58, but it did not add Medicine until 13 16, or Theology until 1360. Paris began sometime before 1200 as an arts school, Theology with some instruction in Canon Law was added by 1208, a Law Faculty in 1271, and a Medical Faculty in 1274. MontpelHer began as a medical school sometime in the twelfth century. Law followed a little later, a teacher from Bologna "setting up his chair" there. Arts was organized by 1242. A sort of theological school began in 1263, but it was not chartered as a faculty until 142 1. So it was with many of the early universities. These four traditional faculties were well established by the fourteenth century, and continued as the typical form of university organization until modem times. With the great university development and the great multiplication of subjects of study which characterized the nineteenth century, many new faculties and schools and colleges have had to be created, particularly in the United States, in response to new modem demands.^ Nature of the instruction. The teaching material in each fac- ulty was much as we have already indicated. After the recovery of the works of Aristotle he came to dominate the instruction in the Faculty of Arts.- The Statutes of Paris, in 1254, giving the ^ For example, one of our modern state universities is organized into the following faculties, schools, and colleges: (i) college of liberal arts; (2) school of medicine; (3) school of law; (4) school of fine arts; (5) school of pure science; (6) college of engineering; (7) college of agriculture; (,8) school of history, economics, and social sciences; (9) school of business administration; (10) college of education; (11) school of household arts; (12) school of pharmacy; (13) school of veterinary medicine; (14) school of library science; (15) school of forestry; (16) school of sanitary engineer- ing; (17) the graduate school; and (18) the university-extension division. 2 "He was called 'The Philosopher'; and so fully were scholars convinced that it had pleased God to permit Aristotle to say the last word upon each and every branch of knowledge that they humbly accepted him, along with the Bible, the church fathers, and the canon and Roman law, as one of the unquestioned authorities which together formed a complete guide for humanity in conduct and in every branch of science." (Robinson, J. H., History of Western Europe, p. 272.) 226 HISTORY OF EDUCATION books to be read for the A.B. and the A.M. degrees (R. 113), show how fully Aristotle had been adopted there as the basis for instruc- tion in Logic, Ethics, and Natural Philosophy by that time. The books required for these two degrees at Leipzig, in 1410 (R. 114), show a much better-balanced course of instruction, though the time requirements given for each subject show how largely Aris- totle predominated there also. Oxford (R. 115) kept up better the traditions of the earlier Seven Liberal Arts in its requirements, and classified the new works of Aristotle in three additional "philosophies" — natural, moral, and metaphysical. From four to seven years were required to complete the arts course, though the tendency was to reduce the length of the arts course as secon- dary schools below the university were evolved.^ In the Law Faculty, after Theology the largest and most im- portant of all the faculties in the mediaeval university, the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian (p. 195) and the Decretum of Gratian (p. 196) were the textbooks read, with perhaps a little more prac- tical work in discussion than in Arts or Medicine. The Oxford course of study in both Civil and Canon Law (R. 116 b-c) gives a good idea as to what was required for degrees in one of the best of the early law faculties. In the Medical Faculty a variety of books — translations of Hippocrates (p. 197), Galen (p. 198), Avicenna (p. 198), and the works of certain writers at Salerno and Jewish and Moslem writ- ers in Spain — were read and lectured on. The list of medical books used at Montpellier,- in 1340, which at that time was the foremost place for medical instruction in western Europe, shows the book-nature and the extent of the instruction given at the leading school of medicine of the time. It was, moreover, cus- tomary at Montpellier for the senior students to spend a summer in visiting the sick and doing practical work. We have here the 1 This tendency increased with time, due both to the development of secondary schools which could give part of the preparation, and to the increasing number of students who came to the university for cultural or professional ends and without intending to pass the tests for the mastership and the license to teach. Finally the arts course was reduced to three or four years (the usual college course), and the master's degree to on;, and for the latter even residence was waived during the middle of the nineteenth century. The A.M. degree has recently been rehabiUtated and now usually signifies a year of hard study in English and American universities, though a few eastern American institutions still play with it or even grant it as an honorary degree. In Germany the arts course disappeared, being given to the secondary schools entirely in the late eighteenth century, and the universities now confer only the degree of doctor. ^ For a list of the books used in the faculty of medicine at Montpellier, in 1340, see Rashdall, H., Universiiies of Europe in the Middle Ages, vol 11, pt. i, p. 123; pt. iij p. 780. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 227 merest beginnings of clinical instruction and hospital service, and at this stage medical instruction remained until quite modem times. The medical courses at Paris (R. 117) and Oxford (R. 116 d) were less satisfactory, only book instruction being required. Fig. 64. A Lecture on Civil Law by Guillaume Benedicti (After a sixteenth-century wood engraving, now in the National Library, Paris, Cabinet of Designs) Both Law and Medicine were so dominated by the scholastic ideal and methods that neither accomplished what might have been possible in a freer atmosphere. In the Theological Faculty the Sentences of Peter Lombard (p. 189) and the Summa Theologia oi Thomas Aquinas (p. 191) were the textbooks used. The Bible was at first also used some- what, but later came to be largely overshadowed by the other books and by philosophical discussions and debates on all kinds of hair-splitting questions, kept carefully within the limits pre- scribed by the Church. The requirements at Oxford (R. 116 a) give the course of instruction in one of the best of the theological faculties of the time. The teachers were scholastics, and scho- lastic methods and ideals everywhere prevailed. Roger Bacon's (12 14-1294) criticism of this type of theological study (R. 118)^ which he calls "horse loads, not at all [in consonance] with the most holy text of God," and "philosophical, both in substance and method," gives an idea of the kind of instruction which came 228 HISTORY OF EDUCATION to prevail in the theological faculties under the dominance of the scholastic philosophers. Years of study were required in each of these three professional faculties, as is shown by the statement of requirements as given for MontpeHier, Paris (R. 117), and Oxford (R. 116 a). Methods of instruction. A very important reason why so long a period of study was required in each of the professional faculties, as well as in the Faculty of Arts, is to be found in the lack of textbooks and the methods of instruction followed. While the standard textbooks were becoming much more common, due Fig. 65. Library of the University of Leyden, in Holland (After an engraving by J. C. Woudanus, dated 1610) This shows well the chained books, and a common type of bookcase in use in monasteries, churches, and higher schools. Counting 35 books to the case, this shows a library of 35 volumes on mathematics; 70 volumes each on literature, philosophy, and medicine; 140 volumes of historical books; 175 volumes on civil and canon law; and 160 volumes on theology, or a total of 770 volumes — a good- sized library for the time. to much copying and the long-continued use of the same texts, they were still expensive and not owned by many.^ To provide 1 After the latter part of the thirteenth century the book-writing and selling trade was organized as a guild industry, and the copying of texts for sale became pommoiu Tben^axose the practice of erasing as much of the writing from old books Plate 4. A Lecture on Theology by Albertus Magnus An illuminated picture in a manuscript of 13 10, now in the royal collection of copper engra\-ings, at Berlin. The master in his chair is here shown "reading" to his students. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 229 a loan collection of theological books for poor students we find, in 1 27 1, a gift by will to the University of Paris (R. 119) of a pri- vate library, containing twenty-seven books. Even if the stu- dents possessed books, the master "read" ^ and commented from his "gloss" at great length on the texts being studied. Besides the mere text each teacher had a "gloss " or commentary for it — that is, a mass of explanatory notes, summaries, cross-references, opinions by others, and objections to the statements of the text. The "gloss" was a book in itself, often larger than the text, and these standard glosses,^ or commentaries, were used in the uni- versity instruction for centuries. In Theology and Canon Law they were particularly extensive. All instruction, too, was in Latin. The professor read from the Latin text and gloss, repeating as necessary, and to this the student listened. Sometimes he read so slowly that the text could be copied, but in 1355 this method was prohibited at Paris (R. 121), and students who tried to force the masters to follow it "by shouting or whistling or raising a din, or by throwing stones," were to be suspended for a year. The first step in the instruction was a minute and subtle analysis of the text itself, in which each line was dissected, analyzed, and paraphrased, and the comments on the text by various authors were set forth. Next all passages capable of two interpretations were thrown into the form of a question ; pro and contra, after the manner of Abelard. The argu- ments on each side were advanced, and the lecturer's conclusion set forth and defended. The text was thus worked over day after day in minute detail. Having as yet but little to teach, the mas- ters made the most of what they had. A good example of the mediaeval plan of university instruction is found in the announce- ment of Odofredus, a distinguished teacher of Law at Bologna, about the middle of the thirteenth century, which Rashdall thinks as could be done, and writing the new book crosswise of the page. In this way the expense for parchment was reduced, and in the process many valueless and a few valuable books were destroyed. Still, the cost for books during the days of parch- ment must have been high. Walsh estimates that "an ordinary folio volume prob- ably cost from 400 to 500 francs in our [1914] values, that is, between $80 and $100." ^ In Germany the old mediaeval expression has been retained, and the announce- ments of instruction there still state that the professor will "read" on such and such subjects, instead of "of5er courses," as we say in the United States. ^ Norton, in his Readings in the History of Education; Mediaval Universities, pp. S9~75. gives an extract from a text (Gratian) and "gloss" by various writers, on the question — "Shall Priests be Acquainted with Profane Literature, or No?" which see for a good example of mediaeval university instruction and the manner in which * small amount of knowledge was spun out by means of a gloss. 230 HISTORY OF EDUCATION is equally applicable to methods in other subjects. Odofredus says: First, I shall give you summaries of each title before I proceed to the text; secondly, I shall give you as clear and explicit a statement as I can of the purport of each Law (included in the title) ; thirdly, I shall read the text with a view to correcting it; fourthly, I shall briefly repeat the contents of the Law; fifthly, I shall solve apparent contradictions, adding any general principles of Law (to be extracted from the passage) , and any distinctions and subtle and useful problems arising out of the Law with their solutions, as far as the Divine Providence shall enable me. And if any Law shall seem deserving, by reason of its celebrity or difficulty, of a Repetition, I shall reserve it for an evening Repetition. It will be seen that both students and professors were bound to the text, as were the teachers of the Seven Liberal Arts in the cathedral schools before them. There was no appeal to the imagination, still less to observation, experiment, or experience. Each generation taught what it had learned, except that from time to time some thinker made a new organization, or some new body of knowledge was unearthed and added. Another method much used was the debate, or disputation, and participation in a number of these was required for degrees (R. ii6). These disputations were logical contests, not unlike a modem debate, in which the students took sides, cited authorities, and summarized arguments, all in Latin. Sometimes a student gave an exhibition in which he debated both sides of a question, and summarized the argument, after the manner of the professors. As a corrective to the memorization of lectures and texts, these disputations served a useful purpose in awakening intellectual vigor and logical keenness. They were very popular until intc the sixteenth century, when new subject-matter and new ways of thinking offered new opportunities for the exercise of the intellect. In teaching equipment there was almost nothing at first, and but little for centuries to come. Laboratories, workshops, gym- nasia, good buildings and classrooms — all alike were equally un- known. Time schedules of lectures (Rs. 122, 123) came in but slowly, in such matters each professor being a free lance. Nor were there any libraries at first, though in time these developed. For a long time books were both expensive and scarce (Rs. 78, 119, 120). After the invention of printing (first book printed in 1456), university libraries increased rapidly and soon became the chief feature of the university equipment. Figure 65 shows the library of the University of Leyden, in Holland, thirty-five years THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 231 Fig. 66. A University Disputation (From Fick's .4/// Deutschland's Hohen Schiden) after its foundation, and about one hundred and fifty years after the beginnings of printing. It shows a rather large increase in the size of book collections ^ after tlie introduction of printing, and a good library organization. ^ Not many early library catalogues have been preserved, but those which have all show small libraries before the days of printing. At Oxford, where the univer- sity was broken up into colleges, each of which had it's own library, the following college libraries are known to have existed: Peterhouse College (1418), 304 volumes; Kings College (1453), 174 volumes; Queens College (1472), 199 volumes; University Library (1473), 330 volumes. The last two were just before the introduction of printing. The Peterhouse library (1418) was classified as follows: Subject Chained Loanable Theology 61 63 Natural Philosophy 26 "J Moral Philosophy 5 J- 19 Metaphysics 3 J Logic 5 15 Grammar 6 \^ Poetry 4 ^ ^ Medicine 15 3 Civil Law 9 20 Canon Law 18 19 Totals 152 152 (Clarke, J. W., The Care of Books, pp. 145, 147.) 232 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Value of the training given. Measured in terms of modem standards the instruction was undoubtedly poor, unnecessarily drawn out, and the educational value low. We could now teach as much information, and in a better manner, in but a fraction of the time then required. Viewed also by the standards of in- struction in the higher schools of Greece and Rome the conditions were almost equally bad. Viewed, though, from the standpoint of what had prevailed in western Europe during the dark period Fig. 67. a University Lecture and Lecture Room (From a woodcut printed at Strassburg, 1608) of the early Middle Ages, it represented a. marked advance in method and content — except in pure literature, where there was an undoubted decline due to the absorbing interest in Dialectic — and it particularly marked a new spirit, as nearly critical as the times would allow. Despite the heterogeneous and but partially civilized student body, youthful and but poorly prepared for study, the drunkenness and fighting, the lack of books and equip- ment, the large classes and the poor teaching methods, and the small amount of knowledge which fomied the grist for their mills and which they ground exceeding small, these new universities held within themselves, almost in embryo form, the largest prom- ise for the intellectual future of western Europe which had ap- THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 233 peared since the days of the old universities of the Hellenic world (R. 124). In these new institutions knowledge was nat only preserved and transmitted, but was in time to be tremendously advanced and extended. They were the first organizations to break the monopoly of the Church in learning and teaching; they were the centers to which all new knowledge gravitated; under their shadow thousands of young men found intellectual compan- ionship and in their classrooms intellectual stimulation; and in encouraging "laborious subtlety, heroic industry, and intense application," even though on very limited subject-matter, and in training "men to think and work rather than to enjoy" (R. 124), they were preparing for the time when western Europe should awaken to the riches of Greece and Rome and to a new type of intellectual hfe of its own. From these beginnings the university organization has persisted and grown and expanded, and to-day stands, the Synagogue and the Catholic Church alone excepted, as the oldest organized institution of human society. The manifest tendency of the universities toward speculation, though for long within limits approved by the Church, was ulti- mately to awaken inquiry, investigation, rational thinking, and to bring forth the modem spirit. The preservation and transmis- sion of knowledge was by the university organization transferred from the monastery to the school, from monks to doctors, and from the Church to a body of logically trained men, only nomi- nally members of the clerici. Their successors would in time en- tirely break away from connections with either Church or State, and stand forth as the independent thinkers and scholars in the arts, sciences, professions, and even in Theology. University graduates in Medicine would in time wage a long struggle against bigotry to lay the foundations of modem medicine. Graduates in Law would contend with kings and feudal lords for larger privileges for the as yet lowly common man, and would help to usher in a period of greater political equality. The university schools of Theology were in time to send forth the keenest critics of the practices of the Church. Out of the university cloisters were to come the men — Dante, Petrarch, Wy cliff e, Huss, Luther, Calvin, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton — who were to usher in the modern spirit. The universities as a public force. Almost from the first the universities availed themselves of their privileges and proclaimed a bold independence. The freedom from arrest and trial by the 234 HISTORY OF EDUCATION civil authorities for petty offenses, or even for murder, and the right to go on a strike if in any way interfered with, were but beginnings in independence in an age when such independence seemed important. These rights were in time given up,^ and in their place the much more important rights of liberty to study as truth seemed to lead, freedom in teaching as the master saw the truth, and the right to express themselves as an institution on pub- lic questions which seemed to concern them, were slowly but defi- nitely taken on in place of the earlier privileges. Virtually a new type of members of society — a new Estate — was evolved, rank- ing with Church, State, and nobility, and this new Estate soon began to express itself in no uncertain tones on matters which concerned both Church and State. The universities were demo- cratic in organization and became democratic in spirit, represent- ing a heretofore unknown and unexpressed public opinion in western Europe. They did not wait to be asked; they gave their opinions unsolicited. "The authority of the University of Paris, " writes one contemporary, "has risen to such a height that it is necessary to satisfy it, no matter on what conditions." The uni- versity "wanted to meddle with the government of the Pope, the King, and everything else," writes another. We find Paris inter- vening repeatedly in both church and state affairs,^ and repre- senting French nationality before it had come into being, as the so-called Holy Roman Empire represented the Germans, and the Papacy represented the Italians. In Montpellier, professors of Law were considered as knights, and after twenty years of practice they became counts. In Bologna we find the professors of Law one of the three assemblies of the city. Oxford, Cam- bridge, Paris, and the Scottish universities were given represen- tation in Parliament. The German universities were from the first prominent in political affairs, and in the reformation struggle of the early sixteenth century they were the battle-grounds. In an age of oppression these university organizations stood for freedom. In an age of force they began the substitution of reason. In the centuries from the end of the Dark Ages to the Reformation they were the homes of free thought. They early assumed na- tional character and proclaimed a bold independence. Questions 1 Survivals of these old privileges still exist in the German universities which exercise police jurisdiction over their students and have a university jail, and in the American college student's feeUng of having the right to create a disturbance in the town and break minor police regulations without being arrested and fined. 2 See Compayre, G., Abelard, p. 2qi, for illustrations. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 235 of State and Church they discussed with a freedom before un- known. They presented their grievances to both kings and popes, from both they obtained new privileges, to both they freely offered their advice, and sometimes both were forced to do their bidding. At times important questions of State, such as the divorce of Philip of France and that of Henry VHI of England, were sub- mitted to them for decision. They were not infrequently called upon to pass upon questions of doctrine or heresy. "Kings and princes," says Rashdall, in an excellent summary as to the value and influence of the mediaeval university instruction (R. 124), ''found their statesmen and men of business in the universities, most often, no doubt, among those tramed in the practical science of Law." Talleyrand is said to have asserted that "their theo- logians made the best diplomats." For the first time since the downfall of Rome the administration of human affairs was now placed once more in the hands of educated men. By the inter- change of students from all lands and their hospitality, such as it was, to the stranger, the universities tended to break down bar- riers and to prepare Europe for larger intercourse and for more of a common life. On the masses of the people, of course, they had little or no influence, and could not have for centuries to come. Their great- est work, as has been the case with universities ever since their foundation, was that of drawing to their classrooms the brightest minds of the times, the most capable and the most industrious, and out of this young raw material training the leaders of the future in Church and State. Educationally, one of their most important services was in creating a surplus of teachers in the Arts who had to find a market for their abilities in the rising secondary schools. These developed rapidly after 1200, and to these we owe a somewhat more general diffusion of the little learning and the intellectual training of the time. In preparing future leaders for State and Church in law, theology, and teaching, the universities, though sometimes opposed and their opinions ignored, nevertheless contributed materially to the making and moulding of national history. The first great result of their work in training leaders we see in the Renaissance movement of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to which we next turn. In this movement for a revival of the ancient learning, and the sub- sequent movements for a purer and a better religious life, the men trained by the universities were the leaders. 236 HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Why would the studia publica tend to attract a different type of schoia»' than those in the monasteries, and gradually to supersede them ip importance? 2. Show how the mediaeval university was a gradual and natural evolution, as distinct from a founded university of to-day. 3. Show that the university charter was a first step toward independence from church and state control. 4. Show the relation between the system of apprenticeship developed fo; student and teacher in a mediaeval university, and the stages of studen/ and teacher in a university of to-day. : 5. Show how the chartered university of the Middle Ages was an "associa- tion of like-minded men for worldly purposes." 6. To what university mother does Harvard go back, ultimately? 7. Show how the English and the German universities are extreme evolu- tions from the mediaeval type, and our American universities a combina- tion of the two extremes. 8. Do university professors to-day have privileges akin to those granted professors in a mediaeval university? 9. What has caused the old Arts Faculty to break up into so many groups, whereas Law, Medicine, and Theology have stayed united? 10. Do universities, when founded to-day, usually start with all four of the mediaeval faculties represented? 11. Which of the professional faculties has changed most in the nature and character of its instruction? Why has this been so? 12. Enumerate a number of different things which have enabled the modern university greatly to shorten the period of instruction? 13. Aside from differences in teachers, why are some university subjects to- day taught much more compactly and economically than other subjects? 14. After admitting all the defects of the mediaeval university, why did the university nevertheless represent so important a development for the future of western civilization? 15. What does the long continuance, without great changes in character, of the university as an institution indicate as to its usefulness to society? 16. Does the university of to-day play as important a part in the progress of society as it did in the mediaeval times? Why? 17. Is the chief university force to-day exerted directly or indirectly? Illustrate. 18. What is probably the greatest work of any university, in any age? 19. Compare the influence of the mediaeval university, and the Greek uni- versities of the ancient world. 20. Explain the evolution of the English coUege system as an effort to im- prove discipline, morals, and thinking. Has it been successful in this? 21. Show how the mediaeval university put books in the place of things, whereas the modern university tries to reverse this. 22. Show how the rise of the universities gave an educated ruling class to Europe, even though the nobility may not have attended them. 23. Show how, in an age of lawlessness, the universities symbolized the supremacy of mind over brute force. 24. Show how the mediaeval universities aided civilization by breaking down, somewhat, barriers of nationality and ignorance among peoples. 25. Show how the university stood, as the crowning effort of its time, in the slow upward struggle to rebuild civilization on the ruins of wbat had once been. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 237 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 100. Rashdall and Minerva: University Foundations before 1600. loi. Fr. Barbarossa: Privileges for Students who travel for Study. 102. PhiHp Augustus: Privileges granted Students at Paris. 103. Count Rupert; Charter of the University of Heidelberg. 104. Philip IV: Exemption of Students and Masters from Taxation. 105. Vercelli: Privileges granted to the University by the City. 106. Villani: The Cost to a City of maintaining a University. 107. Pope Gregory IX: Right to suspend Lectures (Cessatio). 108. Roger of Wendover: a Cessatio at Oxford. 109. Henry III: England invites Scholars to leave Paris. no. Pope Gregory IX: Early Licensing of Professors to teach. 111. Pope Nicholas IV: The Right to grant Licenses to teach. 112. Rashdall: A University License to teach. 113. Paris Statutes, 1254: Books required for the Arts Degree. 114. Leipzig Statutes, 1410: Books required for the Arts Degree. 115. Oxford Statutes, 1408-31: Books required for the Arts Degree. 116. Oxford, Fourteenth Century: Requirements for the Professional Degrees. (a) In Theology. (c) In Civil Law. (b) In Canon Law. (d) In Medicine. 117. Paris Statutes, 1270-74: Requirements for the Medical Degree. 118. Roger Bacon: On the Teaching of Theology. 119. Master Stephen: Books left by Will to the University of Paris. 120. Roger Bacon: The Scarcity of Books on Morals. 121. Balaeus: Methods of Instruction in the Arts Faculty of Paris. 122. Toulouse: Time-Table of Lectures in Arts, 1309. 123. Leipzig: Time-Table of Lectures in Arts, 151Q. 124. Rashdall: Value and Influence of the Mediaeval University. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. What does a glance at the page giving the university foundations before 1600 (100) show as to the rate and direction of the university movement? 2. How do you account for the very large privileges granted university students in the early grants (loi, 102) and charters (103)? Should a university student to-day have any privileges not given to aU citizens? Why? 3. Do universities, when founded to-day, secure a charter? If so, from whom, and what terms are included? Do normal schools? What form of a charter, if any, has your university or normal school? 4. Compare the freedom from taxation granted to masters and students at Paris (104) with the grant to professors at Brown University (187 b). Was the Brown University grant exceptional, or common in other American foundations? 5. Do any American cities to-day maintain colleges or universities, as did the Italian cities (105)? Normal schools? Are somewhat similar ends served? 6. What does the cessatio, as exercised by the mediaeval university (107, 108), indicate as to standards of conduct on the part of teachers and students? 7. Why is the licensing of university professors to teach not followed in our 238 HISTORY OF EDUCATION American universities? What has taken the place of the license? What did the media;val license (no, in, 112) really signify? 8. Compare the license to teach (112) with a modern doctor's diploma. g. Compare the requirements for the Arts degree (113, 114, 115) with the requirements for the Baccalaureate degree at a modern university. 10. Compare the additional length of time for professional degrees (i 1 6, 1 17). 11. How do you account for the American practice of admitting students to the professional courses without the Arts course? What is the best American practice in this matter to-day, and what tendencies are observable? 12. Characterize the medical course at Paris (117) from a modern point of view. 13. Compare the instruction in medicine at Paris (117) and Oxford (116 d). How do you account for the superiority shown by one? Which one? 14. What does the extract from Roger Bacon (118) indicate as to the char- acter of the teaching of Theology? 15. What was the nature and extent of the hbrary of Master Stephen (119)? Compare such a library with that of a scholar of to-day. 16. Show how the Paris statute as to lecturing (121) was an attempt at an improvement of the methods of instruction and individual thinking. 17. What do the two time-tables reproduced (122, 123) reveal as to the nature of a university day, and the instruction given? 18. Show how Rashdall's statement (i 24) that lawyers have been a civilizing agent is true. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Boase, Charles William. Oxford (Historic Towns Series). Clark, Andrew. The Colleges at Oxford. Clark, J. W. Libraries in the Mcdiceval and Renaissance Periods. *Clark, J. W. The Care of Books. Corbin, John. An American at Oxford. *Compayre, G. Abelard, and the Origin and Early History of the Universi- ties. *Jebb, R. C. The Work of the Universities for the Nation. Mullinger, J. B. History of the University of Cambridge. *Norton, A. O. Readings in the History of Education; MedicBval Universi- ties. *Paetow, L. J. The Arts Course at Mcdiceval Universities. (Univ. 111. Studies, vol. in, no. 7, Jan. 1910). *Paulsen, Fr. The German Universities. Rait, R. S. Life of a Mediceval University. *Rashdall, H. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. I. Sheldon, Henry. Student Life and Customs. PART III THE TRANSITION FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN ATTITUDES THE RECOVERY OF THE ANCIENT LEARNING THE REAWAKENING OF SCHOLARSHIP AND THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY CHAPTER X THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING The period of change. The thirteenth century has often been called the wonderful century of the mediaeval world. It was won- derful largely in that the forces struggling against mediasvalism to evolve the modem spirit here first find clear expression. It was a century of rapid and unmistakable progress in almost every line. By its close great changes were under way which were destined ultimately to shake off the incubus of mediaevalism and to trans- form Europe. In many respects, though, the fourteenth was a still more wonderful century. The evolution of the universities which we have just traced was one of the most important of these thirteenth-century mani- festations. Lacking in intellectual material, but impelled by the new impulses beginning to work in the world, the scholars of the time went earnestly to work, by speculative methods, to organize the dogmatic theology of the Church into a system of thinking. \'Jhe result was Scholasticism. From one point of view the result ^as barren; from another it was full of promise for the future. Though the workers lacked materials, were overshadowed by the mediseval spirit of authority, and kept their efforts clearly within limits approved by the Church, the "heroic industry" and the "intense appHcation" displayed in effecting the organization, and the logical subtlety developed in discussing the results, prom- ised much for the future. The rise of university instruction, and the work of the Scholastics in organizing the knowledge of the time, were both a resultant of new influences already at work and a prediction of larger consequences to follow. In a later age, and with men more emancipated from church control, the same spirit was destined to burst forth in an effort to discover and recon- struct the historic past. During the thirteenth centur>', too, the new Estate, which had come into existence alongside of the clergy and the nobility, began to assume large importance. The arts-and- crafts guilds were at- taining a large development, and out of this new burgher class the great general public of modem times has in time evolved. Trade and industry were increasing in all lands, and merchants and sue- 242 HISTORY OF EDUCATION cessful artisans were becoming influential through their newly obtained wealth and rights. The erection of stately churches and town halls, often beautifully carved and highly ornamented, was taking place. Great cathedrals, those "symphonies in stone," of which Notre Dame (Figure 53) is a good example, were rising or being further expanded and decorated at many places in western Europe. Mystery and miracle plays had begun to be per- formed and to attract great attention. In the fourteenth century religious pageants were added. "All art was still religion," but an art was unmistakably arising amid cathedral-building and the setting-forth of the Christian mysteries, and before long this was to flower in modem forms of expression in painting, sculpture, and the drama. The new spirit of nationality. The new spirit moving in west- em Europe also found expression in the evolution of the modem European States, based on the new national feeling. As the kingly power in these was consolidated, the developing States, each in its own domain, began to curb the dominion of the uni- versal Church, slowly to deprive it of the governmental functions it had assumed and exfems^for so long, and to confine the Pope and clergy more and more to their original functions as religious agents. The Papacy as a temporal power passed the maximum period of its greatness early in the thirteenth century; in the nineteenth century the last vestiges of its temporal power were taken away. New national languages also were coming into being, and the national epics of the people — th^ Cid, the Arthurian Legends, the Chansons, and the Nibelungen Lied — were reduced to writ- ing. With the introduction from the East, toward the close of the thirteenth century, of the process of making paper for writ- ing, and with the increase of books in the vernacular, the English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German languages rapidly took shape. Their development was expressive of the new spirit in western Europe, as also was the fact that Dante (1264-1321), "the first literary layman since Boethius" (d. 524), wrote his great poem, The Divine Comedy, in his native Italian instead of in the Latin which he knew so well — an evidence of independence of large future import. New native literatures were springing forth all over Europe. Beginning with the troubadours in south- em France (p. 186), and taken up by the trouveres in northern France and by the minnesingers in German lands, the new poetry THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 243 of nature and love and Joy of living had spread everywhere.^ A new race of men was b'^^i^nuig to "sing songs as blithesome and gay as the birds" and to express in ihese songs the joys of the world here below. Transformation of the mediaeval man. The fourteenth cen- tury was a period of still more rapid change and transformation. New objects of interest were coming to the front, and new stand- ards of judgment were being applied. National spirit and a na- tional patriotism were finding expression. The mediaeval man, with his feeling of personal insignificance, lack of self-confidence, "no sense of the past behind him, and no conception of the possi- bilities of the future before him," - was rapidly giving way to the man possessed of the modem spirit — the man of self-confidence, conscious of his powers, enjoying life, feeling his connection with the historic past, and realizing the potentiaHties of accomplish- ment in the world here below. It was the great work of the period of transition, and especially of the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- turies, to effect this change, " to awaken in man a consciousness of his powers, to give him confidence in himself, to show him the beauty of the world and the joy of life, and to make him feel his living connection with the past and the greatness of the future he ^ One of the best known of the Troubadours was Arnaul de Marveil. The follow- ing specimen of his art reveals both the new love of nature and the reaction which had clearly set in against the " other- worldliness " of the preceding centuries: "Oh! how sweet the breeze of April, Breathing soft as May draws near, While, through nights of tranquil beauty, Songs of gladness meet the ear: Every bird his well-known language Uttering in the morning's pride. Reveling in joy and gladness By his happy partner's side. "When around me all is smiling. When to life the young birds spring, Thoughts of love I cannot hinder Come, my heart inspiriting — Nature, habit, both incline me In such joy to bear my part: With such sounds of bliss around me Could I wear a sadden'd heart? " 2 "Tn the Middle Ages man as an individual had been held of very little account. He was only part of a great machine. He acted only through some corporation — the commune, guild, the order. He had but little self-confidence, and very little consciousness of his ability single-handed to do great things or overcome great diffi- culties. Life was so hard and narrow that he had no sense of the joy of living, and no feeling for the beauty of the world around him, and, as if this world were not dark enough, the terrors of another world beyond were very near and real." (Adams. G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, 2d ed., p. 363.) 244 HISTORY OF EDUCATION might create." ^ As soon as men began clear!}- to experience such feelings, they began to inquire, and inquiry led to the realization that there had been a great historic past of which they knew but little, and of which they wanted to know much. When this point had been reached, western Europe was ready for a revival of learning. The beginnings in Italy. This revival began in Italy. The Italians had preserved more of the old Roman culture than had any other people, and had been the first to develop a new political and social order and revive the refinements of life after the deluge of barbarism which had engulfed Europe. They, too, had been the first to feel the inadequacy of mediaeval learning to satisfy the intellectual unrest of men conscious of new standards of life. This gave them at least a century of advance over the nations of northern Europe. The old Roman life also was nearer to them, and meant more, so that a movement for a revival of inter- est in it attracted to it the finest young minds of central and north- em Italy and inspired in them something closely akin to patriotic fervor. They felt themselves the direct heirs of the political and intellectual eminence of Imperial Rome, and they began the work of restoring to themselves and of trying to under- stand their inheritance. In Petrarch (1304-74) we have the beginnings of the movement. He has been called "the first modem scholar and man of letters." Repudiating the other-worldliness ideal and the scho- lastic learning of his time,^ possessed of a deep love for beauty in nature and art, a delight in travel, a desire for worldly fame, a strong historical sense, and the self-confidence to plan a great constructive work, he began the task of unearthing the monastic .treasures to ascertain what tlie past had been and known and done. At twenty-nine he made his first great discovery, at Liege, in the form of two previously unknown orations of Cicero. Twelve * Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle yiges, 2d. ed., p. 364. * Petrarch refused to have the works of the Scholastics in his library. Though a university man, he was out of sympathy with the university methods of his time. Fig. 68. Petrarch (1304-74) 'The Morning Star of the Renaissance" THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 245 years later, at Verona, he found half of one of the letters of Cicero which had been lost for ages. All his life he collected and copied manuscripts. His letter to a friend telling him of his difficulty in getting a work of Cicero copied, and his joy in doing the work himself (R. 125), is typical of his labors. He began the work of copying and comparing the old classical manuscripts, and from them reconstructing the past. He also wrote many son- nets, ballads, lyrics, and letters, all filled with a new modem classical spirit. He also constructed the first modem map of Italy. Through Boccaccio, whom he first met in 1350, Fetrarch's work was made'known inTlorenc^Tthen the wealthiest and most artistic and literary city in the world, ^ and there the new knowledge and method were warmly received. Boccaccio equaled Petrarch in his passion for the ancient writers, hunting for them wherever he thought they might be found. One of his pupils has left us a melancholy picture of the library at Monte Cassino, as Boc- caccio found it at the time of his visit (R. 126). He wrote a book of popular tales and romances, filled with the mod- em spirit, whi^h made him the father of Itahan prose as Dante was of Italian poetry; prepared the first dictionaries of classical geography and Greek mythology; and was the first western scholar to leam Greek. "In the dim light of learning's dawn they stand, Flushed with the first glimpses of a long-lost land." A century of recovery and reconstruction. The work done by these two friends in discovering and editing was taken up by others, and during the century (1333-1433) dating from the first great "find" of Petrarch the principal additions to Latin litera- ture were made. The monasteries and castles of Europe were ransacked in the hope of discovering something new, or more ac- FiG. 6g. Boccaccio (1313-75) The Father of Italian Prose " ^ "Florence was essentially the city of intelligence in early modem times. Other fiations have surpassed the Italians in their genius . . . but nowhere else except at Athens has the whole population of a city been so permeated with ideas, so highly tntellectual by nature, so keen in perception, so witty and so subtle, as at Florence." (Symonds, J. A., The Renaissance in Italy.) 246 HISTORY OF EDUCATION curate copies of previously known books. At monasteries and churches as widely separated as Monte Cassino, near Naples: Lodi, near Milan; Milan, itself; and Vercelli, in Italy: Saint Gall and other monasteries, in Switzerland: Paris; Cluny, near the present city of Macon; Langres, near the source of the Mame; and monasteries in the Vosges Mountains, in France: Corvey, in Westphalia ; and Hersf eld, Cologne, and Mainz in Germany — important finds were made.^ Thus widely had the old Latin authors been scattered, copied, and forgotten. In a letter to a friend (R. 127 a) the enthusiast, Poggio Bracciolini, tells of finding (1416) the long-lost Institutes of Oratory of Quintilian, at Saint Gall, and of copying it for posterity. This, and the reply of his friend (R. 127 b), reveal something of the spirit and the emotions of those engaged in the recovery of Latin literature and the re- construction of Roman history. The finds, though, while important, were after all of less value than the spirit which directed the search, or the careful work which was done in collecting, comparing, questioning, inferring, criticizing, and editing corrected texts, and reconstructing old Roman life and history.- We have in this new work a complete break with scholastic methods, and we see in it the awakening of the modem scientific spirit.^ It was this same critical, construc- tive spirit which, when applied later to Christian practices, brought on the Reformation ; when applied to the problems of the universe, revealed to men the wonderful world of science; and when applied to problems of government, led to the questioning of the theory of the divine right of kings, and to the evolution of democracy. We have here a modem spirit, a craving for truth for its own sake, an awakening of the historical sense,^ and an ap- 1 Sandys, J. E., in his Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning, pp. 35-41, gives «i list of the more important later finds, which see. 2 Of the Florentine scholars one of the most famous was Niccolo Niccoli (1363- 1436), of whom Sandys says: "Famous for his beautiful penmanship, he was much more than a copyist. He collected manuscripts, compared and collated their vari- ous readings, struck out the more obvious corruptions, restored the true text, broke it up into convenient paragraphs, added suitable summaries at the head of each, and did much toward laying the foundation of textual criticism." (Sandys, J. E., Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning, p. 39.) ^ For example, Laurentius Valla (1407-57) of Pavia, exceeded Niccoli in ability in textual criticism. He extended this method to the New Testament and, at the request of King Alphonso, of Naples, subjected the so-called " Donation of Constan- tine," a document upon which the Papacy based in part its claims to temporal power, to the tests of textual criticism and showed its historical impossibility. This, in- deed, was a new and daring spirit in the mediaeval world, but it represented the spirit and method of the modern scholar. * For example, Ciriaco, of Ancona (1391-1450), has been called "the Schliemann THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 247 preciation of beauty in literature and nature which was soon to be followed by an appreciation of beauty in art. A worship of classical literature and classical ideas now set in, of which rich and prosperous Florence became the center, with Venice and Rome, as well as a number of the northern Italian cities, as centers of more than minor importance. The revival of Greek in the West. With the new interest in Latinjiterature it was but natural that a revival of the study of Greek should follow. While a knowledge of Greek had not abso- lutely died out in the West during the Middle Ages, there were very few scholars who knew anything about it, and none who could read it.^ It was natural, too, that the revival of it should come first in Italy. Southern Italy (Magna Grcecia) had re- mained under the Eastern Empire and Greek until its conquest by the Normans (1041-71), and to southern Italy a few Greek monks had from time to time migrated. With southern Italy, though, papal Italy and the western Christian world seem to have had little contact. In 1339, and again in 1342, a Greek monk from southern Italy visited the Pope, coming as an ambassador from Constantinople, and from him Petrarch learned the Greek alphabet. In 1353 another envoy brought Petrarch a copy of Homer. This he could not read, but in time (1367) a poor trans- lation into Latin was effected. Boccaccio studied Greek, being the first western scholar to read Homer in the original. Near the end of the fourteenth century it became known in Florence that Manuel Chr^'soloras (c. 1350-1415), a Byzantine of noble birth^ a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy at Constanti- nople, and the most accomplished Greek scholar of his age, had arrived in Venice as an envoy from the Eastern Emperor. Flor- entine scholars visited him, and on his return accompanied him to of his time." He spent his life in travel and in copjang and editing inscriptions. After exploring Italy, he visited the Greek isles, Constantinople, Ephesos, Crete, and Damascus. One of his contemporaries, Flavio Blondo, of Forli (1388-1463), pub- lished a four-volume work on the antiquities and historj' of Rome and Italy. These two men helped to found the new science of classical archaeology. 1 Classical scholars assert that Greek became extinct in the Italy of the Roman Church in 6qo a.d. Greek was taught at Canterbury in the days of the learned Theodore, of Tarsus (R. 59 a), who died in 690. Irish monks, who carried Greek from Gaul to Ireland in the fifth century, brought it back in the seventh century to Saint Gall, founded by them in 614. "John the Scot," an Irish monk who was mas- ter of the Palace School under Charles the Bald (c. 845-55), is said to have been able to read Greek. Roger Bacon, the Oxford monk (1214-94), also knew a little Greek. William of Moerbeke, in 1260, was able to translate the Rhetoric and Politics of Aris- totle for Thomas, Aquinas. Greek monks were still found in the extreme south of Italy at the timeof the Renaissance, and Greek has remained a living language in 1 few villages there up to the present time. 248 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Constantinople to learn Greek. In 1396 Chrysoloras was invited by Florence to accept an appointment, in the university there, to the first chair of Greek letters in the West, and accepted. From 1396 to 1400 he taught Greek in the rich and stately city of Flor- ence, at that time the intellectual and artistic center of Christen- dom. For a few years, beginning in 1402, he also taught Greek at the University of Pavia. He had earlier written a Catechism of Greek Grammar, and at Pavia he began a literal rendering of Plato's Republic into Latin. From his visit dates the enthusiasm for the study of Greek in the West. Other Greek scholars arrive in Italy. Chrysoloras returned to Constantinople for a time, in 1403, and Guarino of Verona, who had been one of his pupils, accompanied him and spent five years there as a member of his household. When he returned to Italy he brought with him about fifty manuscripts, and before his death he had translated a number of them into Latin. He also pre- pared a Greek grammar which superseded that of Chrysoloras. In 141 2 he was elected to the chair at Florence formerly held by Chrysoloras, and later he established an important school at Ferrara, based largely on instruction in the Latin and Greek classics, which will be referred to again in the next chapter. A rage for Greek learning and Greek books now for a time set in. Aurispa, a Sicilian, went to Constantinople, learned Greek, and returned to Italy, in 1422, with 238 Greek manuscripts, Messer Filelfo, of Padua, after seven years at Constantinople, re- turned, in 1427, with forty manuscripts and with the grand-niece of Chrysoloras as his wife. In 1448 Theodorus Gaza (c. 1400- 75), a learned Greek from the city of Thessalonica, who had fled from his native city just before its capture by the Turks (1430), came to Ferrara as the first professor of Greek in the university there. He made many translations, prepared a very popular Greek grammar, and in 145 1 became professor of philosophy at Rome. ■^ Another Greek of importance was Demetrius Chalcondyles of Athens (1424-1511), who reached Italy 11^1447. I^ 145° he be- came professor of Greek at Perugia, and of his lectures there one of his enthusiastic pupils ^ wrote: A Greek has just arrived, who has begun to teach me with great pains, and I to listen to his precepts with incredible pleasure, because ' Gian Antonio Campano; trans, by J. A. Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, vol. II, p. 249. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 249 he is a Greek, because he is an Athenian, and because he is Demetrius. It seems to me that in him is figured all the wisdom, the civility, and the elegance of those so famous and illustrious ancients. Merely seeing him you fancy you are looking on Plato; far more when you hear him speak. In 1463 Demetrius transferred to Padua as professor of Greek, and was the first professor of Greek in a western European uni- versity to be paid a fixed salary. He also taught for a time at Milan, and from 147 1 to 1491 was profes- sor of Greek at Florence. A number of other learned Greeks had reached Italy prior to the fall of Constantinople (1453) before the advancing Turks, ^ and after its fall many more sought there a new home. Many of these found, on landing, that their knowledge of Greek and the possession of a few Greek books were an open sesame to the learned circles of Italy. Enthusiasm for the new move- ment; libraries and academies founded. The enthusiasm for the recovery and restoration of ancient literature and history which this work awakened among the younger scholars of Italy can be imagined, sors in the universities and most of Fig. 70. Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424-15 1 i) (DrawTi from a picture of a fresco by Ghirlandajo, painted in 1490, on the walls of the church of Santa Maria Novella, at Florence) While most of the profes- the church officials at first 'had nothing to do with the new movement, being wedded to scholastic methods of thinking, the leaders of the new learning drew about them many of the brightest and most energetic of the young men who came to those universities which were hospitable to the new movement.^ Greek scholars in the university towns 1 For long it was thought that the revival of the study of Greek in the West dated from the fall of Constantinople, in 1453, but this idea has been exploded by classical scholars. The events we have enumerated in this chapter show this, and at least five of the important Greek scholars who taught in Italy came before that date. As the Turks closed in on this wonderful eastern city, for so long the home of Greek learning and culture, many other Greek scholars fled westward. The principal Greek authors had, however, been translated into Latin before then. ^ Some of the Italian universities participated but little in the new movement. Bologna and Pavia, in particular, held to their primacy in law and were but little affected by the revival. 250 HISTORY OF EDUCATION were followed by admiring bands of younger students,^ who soon took up the work and superseded their masters. Academies, named after the one conducted by Plato in the groves near Ath- ens, whose purpose was to promote literary studies, were founded in all the important Italian cities (R. 129). The members usually Latinized their names, and celebrated the ancient festivals. In Venice a Greek Academy was formed m which all the proceedings were in Greek, and the members were known by Greek names. The Academia of Aldus, at Venice, of which his celebrated press was a department, became a veritable university for classical learning, and to participate in its proceedings scholars came from many lands. It was the curious and enthusiastic Italians who, more than the Greek scholars who taught them the language, opened up the literature and history of Athens to the comprehen- sion of the western world. The financial support of the movement came from the wealthy merchant princes, reigning dukes, and a few church authorities, who assisted scholars and spent money most liberally in collecting manuscripts and accumulating books. Says S^monds: Never was there a time in the world's history when money was spent more freely upon the collection and preservation of MSS., and when a more complete machinery was put in motion for the sake of securing literary treasures. Prince vied with prince, and eminent burgher with burgher, in buying books. The commercial correspondents of the Medici and other great Florentine houses, whose banks and discount offices extended over Europe and the Levant, were instructed to pur- chase relics of antiquity without regard for cost, and to forward them to Florence. The most acceptable present that could be sent to a king was a copy of a Roman historian. The best credentials which a young Greek arriving from Byzantium could use to gain the patronage of men like Palla degli Strozzi was a fragment of sOme ancient ; the merchan- dise insuring the largest profit to a speculator who had special knowl- edge in such matters was old parchment covered with crabbed char- acters. ^ Cpsimo de' Medici (1393-1464), a banker and ruler of Florence, spent great sums in collecting and copying manuscripts. Ves- pasiano, a fifteenth-century bookseller of Florence, has left us an 1 Bessarion (c. 1403-72), at one time Archbishop of Nicaea and afterwards a car- dinal at Rome, is said to have been surrounded by a crowd of Greek and Latin scholars whenever he went out, and who escorted him every morning from his palace to the Vatican. He was a great patron of learned Greeks who fled to Italy. On his death he gave his entire library of Greek manuscripts to Venice, and this collection formed the foundation of the celebrated library of Saint Mark's. 2 Symonds, J. A., The Renaissance in Italy, vol. 11, p. 139. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 251 interesting picture of the work of Cosimo in founding (1444) the great Medicean hbrary ^ at Florence (R. 130) and of the difficul- ties of book collecting in the days before the invention of printing. Fig. 71. Bookcase and Desk in the JNIedicean Library AT Florence (DrawTi from a photograph) This library was founded in 1444. It contains to-day about 10,000 Greek and Latin manuscripts, many of them very rare, and of a few the only copies known. The building was designed by IVIichael Angelo, and its construction was begun in 1525. The bookcases are of about this date. It shows the early method of chaining books to the shelves, and cataloguing the volumes on the end of each stack. Under Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent, who died in 1492, two expeditions were sent to Greece to obtain manuscripts for the Florentine library. Vespasiano also describes for us the books collected (c. 1475-80) for the great ducal library at Urbino (R. 131), the greatest library in the Christian world at the time of ^ In 1436, Niccolo de Niccoli, a copyist of Florence, died, leaN^ng his collection of eight hundred manuscripts to the Medicean Library for the use of the public, meaning thereby any scholar. This is said to have been the first pubUc-library collection in westam Europe. 252 HISTORY OF EDUCATION its completion, and the work of Pope Nicholas V ^ (1447-1455) in laying the foundations (1450) for the great Vatican Library at Rome (R. 132). Nicholas was an enthusiast in the new move- ment, and formed a plan for the translation of all the Greek writers into Latin, A later Pope, Leo X (1513-1521), planned to make Rome the international center for Greek learning^ The movement extends to other countries. Petrarch made his first great find in 1333, and up to 1450 the Revival of Learning, often termed the Renaissance, was entirely an Italian movement. By that date the great work in Italy had been done, and the Italians were once more in possession of the literature and history of the past. With them the movement was literary, historical, and patriotic in purpose and spirit. With them the movement was known as huma nism^ from an old Roman word (humanitas) meaning culture, and this term came to be applied to the new studies in all other lands. In their work with the literatures, in- scriptions, coins, and archaeological remains of the Greeks and Romans, their own literature, history, mythology, and political and social life was reconstructed. The methods employed were the methods used in modem science, and the result was to develop in Italy a new type of scholar, possessed of a literary., artistic, and historical appreciation unknown since the days of ancient Rome, \ and with the greatest enthusiasm for Latin as a living language. By the time the revival had culminated in Italy it began to be heard of north of the Alps. France was the first country to take up the study of Greek, a professorship being estabHshed at Paris in 1458. There was but little interest in the subject, however, or in any of the new studies, until two events of political importance, forty years later, brought Frenchmen in close touch with what had been done in northern Italy. In 1494 Charles VIII, of France, claiming Naples as his possession, took an army into Italy, and forcibly occupied Rome and Florence. Four years later his successor, Louis XII, claimed Milan also and seized it and Naples, maintaining a French court at Milan from 1498 to 151 2. Though both these expeditions were unsuccessful, from a pohtical point of view, the effect of the direct contact with hu- 1 Nicholas as a monk had had his enthusiasm for the new movement awakened, and had gone deeply into debt for manuscripts. He was helped by Casimo de' Medici. When he became Pope (1447-55) he collected scholars about him, built up the university at Rome, laid the foundations of the great Vatican Library, and made Rome a great literary center. After the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent at Flor- ence, in 1492, the glory that had been Florence passed to Rome, and it in turn be- came the cultural center of Christendom. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 253 manism in its home was lasting. New ideas in architecture, art, and learning were carried back to France, French scholars tra/- eled to Italy, and early in the sixteenth century Paris became a center for the new humanistic studies. In Greek, France com- pletely superseded Italy as the interpreter of Greek hfe and litera- ture to the modem world. In 1473 a Spanish scholar, Mebrissensis (1444-1522), returned home after twenty years in Italy and introduced Greek at Se- ville, Salamanca, and Alcala. Rudolph Agricola (1443-85) Thomas Linacre (c. 1460-1524) Early Dutch Humanist. Lectured at English Professor of Medicine and Heidelberg Lecturer on Greek (From a contemporary engraving) (From a portrait in the British Museum) Fig. 72. Two Early Northern Humanists About 1488 Thomas Linacre (c. 1460-15 24) and William Gro- cyn (1446-15 14), two Oxford graduates, went to Florence from England, studying Greek under Demetrius Chalcondyles, and, returning, introduced the new learning at Oxford.^ Linacre, as professor of medicine, translated much of Galen (p. 198) from the Greek, and he and Grocyn lectured on Greek at the Univer- ' Much earlier, another Oxford man had returned from study under Guarino at Ferrara — -William Gray (1449) — but he seems to have made no impression. A few other scholars went before Linacre and Grocyn and Colet, but these men were the first to attract attention on their return. 254 HISTORY OF EDUCATION sity. From Oxford the new learning was transmitted to Cam- bridge, and, over a century afterward, to Harvard in America. A third Oxford man to study Greek in Italy was John Colet (1467- 15 19), who studied in Florence from 1493 to 1496, and returned home an enthusiastic humanist. He was the first Englishman to attract much attention to the new studies, and to him is chiefly due their introduction into the English secondary school. The first German of whom we have any record as having stud- ied in Italy was Peter Luder (c. 1415-74), who returned in 1456, and lectured on the new learning at the Universities of Heidel- berg, Erfurt, and Leipzig, but awakened no response. In 1470 Johann Wessel (1420-89) and in 1476 Rodolph Agricola (1443- 85), two noted Dutch scholars, studied in Italy. On returning, Agricola,^ who has been called "the Petrarch of German lands," did much "to spread the great inheritance of antiquity and the new civilization to which it had given birth among his uncouth countrymen" {barbari, he calls them). He made Heidelberg, for a time, a center of humanistic appreciation.' Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), a German by birth, studied in Florence and else- where in Italy in 1481 to 1490, and there learned Hebrew. Re- turning, he became a professor at Heidelberg and the father of modem Hebrew studies. In 1 506 he published the first Hebrew grammar. In 1493 the University of Erfurt established a j)ro- fessorship of Poetry and Eloquence, this being the first German university to countenance the new learning. In 1523 the first chair of Greek was established at Vienna. Thus slowly did the revival of learning spread to northern lands. The revival aided by the invention of paper and printing. Very fortunately for the spread of the new learning an important process and a great invention now came in at a most opportune time. The process was the manufacture of paper; the invention that of printing. The manufacture of paper is probably a Chinese invention, early obtained by the Arabs. During the Mohammedan occupa- tion of Spain paper mills were set up there, and a small supply of their paper found its way across the Pyrenees. The Christians who drove the Mohammedans out lost the process, and it now came back once more from the East. By about 1250 the Greeks had obtained the process from Mohammedan sources, and in 1276 ^ Agricola's real name was Roelof Huysman, meaning " Roelof the husband- man." In keeping with a common practice of the time he Latinized his name \aking the eauivalent Roman word. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 255 the first paper mill was set up in Italy. In 1340 a paper factory- was established at Padua, and soon thereafter other factories be- gan to make paper at Florence, Bologna, Milan, and Venice. In 1320 a paper factory was established at Mainz, in Germany, and in 1390 another at Nuremberg. By 1450 paper was in common use and the way was now open for one of the world's greatest inventions. This was the invention of printing. From the difhculty experienced in securing books for the great libraries at Flor- ence, Urbino, and Rome, as we have seen (Rs. 130, 131, 132), and the great cost of reproducing single copies of books, we can see that the work of the humanists of the fourteenth and fifteenth cen- turies in Italy probably would have had but little influence elsewhere but for the inven- tion of printing. To dissemi- nate a new learning involving two great literatures by copy- ing books, one at a time by hand, would have prevented instruction in the new sub- jects becoming general for centuries, and would have materially retarded the pro- gress of the world. The discovery of the art of printing, coming when it did, scattered the new learning over Europe. ^ Spread and work of the press. The dates connected with this new invention and its diffusion over Europe are: 1423. Coster of Harlem made the first engraved singk page. 1438. Gutenberg invented movable wooden types. 1450. Schoeffer and Faust cast first metal type. 1456. Bible printed in Latin by Gutenberg and Faust at Mainz. This the first complete book printed. ^ 1 This was bound in two volumes, and in 191 1 a copy of it was sold at a sale of old books, in New York City, for $50,000. Fig. 73. An Early Sixteenth- Century Press "The prynters haue founde a crafte to make bokis by brasen letters sette in ordre by a frame." An engraving, dated 1520. The man at the right is setting type, and the one at the lever is making an impression. A number of four-page printed sheets are seen on the table at the right of the press. 256 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 1457. The Mayence Psalter, the first dated book, printed.^ 1462. Adolph of Nassau pillaged Mainz, drove out the printers, and in consequence scattered the art over FAiroi)e. 1465. Press set up in the German monastery of Subiaco, in the Sabine Mountains, in Italy. 1467. This press moved to Rome. 146Q. Presses at Paris and Vienna. 1470. Printing introduced into Switzerland. 147 1. Presses set up at Florence, Milan, and Ferrara. 1473. Printing introduced into Holland and Belgium. 1474. Printing introduced into S})ain. 1474-77. Printing introduced into England. Caxton set up his press in 1477. 1476. First book printed in Greek at Milan. 1490. The Aldine press established at Venice, by Aldus Manutius. 1 501. First Greek book printed in Germany, at Erfurt. 1563. First newspaper estabhshed, in Venice. Inventions traveled but slowly in tliose days, yet in time the press was to be found in every country of Europe. The profes- sional copyists made a great outcry against the innovation; presses were at first licensed and closely limited in number; in France tlie University of Paris was given the proceeds of a tax levied on all books printed; and in England the beginnings of the modem copyright are to be seen in the necessity of obtaining a license from the ecclesiastical authorities to be permitted to print a book. •^ Ipff to 6nolbe t^aaf fe of Wfcme 50; ucinepfe, (^nt> fo fct fo fe?x wntpnueH? tfc« 5^ of ^^0fi>^p/focdte$nn$i!€noto3H)fe Fig. 74. An E.\rly Specimen of Caxton's Printing In cutting and casting the first t}npc a style of heavy-faced let- ter, much like that written by the mediaeval monks — the so- called Gothic^ was used. Caxton, m England, used this at first, 1 A second editi^'^'f this Psalter was printed two years later, and contains at the end, in Latin, a statement which Robinson translates as follows: The present vol- ume of the Psalms, which is adorned with handsome capitals and is clearly divided bv means of rubrics, was produced not by writing with a pen, but by an ingenious invention of printed characters: and was completed to the glory of C.od and the honor of Saint James by John Fust, a citizen ot Mayence, and Peter Schoifher ot Gemsheim, in the year of our Lord i4S9. on the 29th of August. THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 257 and the Germans have continued its use up to the present time. The Italians, however, soon devised a type with letters like those used by the old Romans — the so-called Roman type, this type — which was soon accepted in all non-German European countries. The Italians also devised a compressed type — the Italic — which enabled printers to get more words on a page. Venice, almost from the first, became the center of the book trade, and books literally poured from the presses there. By 1500 as many as five thousand editions, often of as many as a thousand copies to an edition, had been printed In Italy. ^ Of this number 2835 had been printed in Venice, and most of them by the Aldine press of Aldus Manutius, and edited by the Aca- demia (p. 250) connected therewith.^ By 1500 many books had also been printed in a number of northern cities,' and Lyons, Paris, Basel, Nuremberg, Cologne, Leipzig, and London soon became centers of the northern book trade. Caxton in England soon vied with Aldus in Venice as a printer of beautiful books. When we remember that it required fifty-three days (Sandys) to make by hand one copy of Quintilian's Institutes, and forty-five copyists twenty- two months to reproduce two hundred volumes for the Medicean Library at Florence (R. 130), the enormous im- portance of an invention which would print rapidly a thousand or more copies of a book, all exactly alike and free from copyist errors, can be appreciated. It tremendously cheapened books,* made the general use of the textbook method of teaching possible, and paved the way for a great extension of schools and learning (R. 134). From now on the press became a formidable rival to the pulpit and the sermon, and one of the greatest of instruments for human progress and individual liberty. From this time on educational progress was to be much more rapid than it had been in the past. From an educational point of view the invention of printing might almost be taken as marking the close of the medi- aeval and the beginning of modern times. Rise of geographical discovery. The new influences awakened by the Revival of Learning found expression in other directions. ' The usual early edition was three hundred copies. "^ At Florence about three hundred editions are said to have been printed before 1500; at Bologna, 298; at Milan, 625; and at Rome, 925. ' The following numbers of difTerent editions are said to have been printed at the northern cities before 1500: Paris, 751; Cologne, 530; Strassburg, 526; Nuremberg, 382; Leipzig, 351; Basel, 320; Augsburg, 256; Louvain, 116; Mayence, 134; Deven- ter, i6q; London, 130; Oxford, 7; Saint Albans, 4. ^ By 1500 it is said that a book could be purchased for the equivalent of fifty cents which a half century before would have cost fifty dollars. 258 HISTORY OF EDUCATION One of these was geographical discovery, itself an outgrowth of that series of movements known as the Crusades, with the accom- panying revival of trade and commerce. These led to travel, ex- ploration, and discovery. By the latter part of the thirteenth century the most extensive travel which had taken place since the days of ancient Rome had begun, and in the next two and a half centuries a great expansion of the known world took place. ^*^..s. Untcnoirn Uncertain, {possibly knovm) deplored Region I l^iG. 75. The World as known to Christian Europe before Columbus MarccL^Polp and Sir John Mandeville made extended trav£ls to the Orient, and returning (Polo returned, 1295) described la a wondering Europe the new lands and peoples they had seen. The Voyages of Polo and the Travels of Mandeville were widely read. By the beginning of the fourteenth century the compass had been perfected, in Naples, and a great era of exploration had been be- gun. In 1402 venturesome sailors, out beyond the "Pillars of Hercules," discovered the Canary Islands; in 1419 the Madeira Islands were reached; in 1460 the Cape Verde Islands were found; in 1497 Bartholomew Diaz rounded the southern tip of Africa; and in 1497 Vasco da Gama discovered the long-hoped-for sea route to India, Five years earlier, sailing westward with the same end in view, Columbus discovered the American conti- nent. Finally, in 1519-22, Magellan's ships circumnavigated the globe, and, returning safely to Spain, proved that the world was round. In 1507 Waldenseem tiller published his Introduc- tion to Geography, a book that was widely read, and one which laid the foundations of this modern study. The effect of these discoveries in broadening the minds of men THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 259 can be imagined. The religious theories and teachings of the Middle Ages as to the world were in large part upset. New races and new peoples had been found, a round earth instead of a flat one had been proved to exist, new continents had been discovered, and new worlds were now ready to be opened up for scientific ex- ploration and colonization. About 1500 a stimulating time. The latter part of the fifteenth century and the earlier part of the sixteenth was a stimulating periodin the intellectual development of Christian Europe. The Turks had closed in on Constantinople (1453) and ended the Eastern Empire, and many Greek scholars had fled to the West. Though the Revival of Learning had culminated in Italy, its in- fluence was still strongly felt in such cities as Florence and Venice, while in German lands and in England the reform movement awakened by it was at its height. Greek and Hebrew were now taught generally in the northern universities. Everywhere the old scholastic learning and methods were being overturned by the new humanism, and scholastic teachers were being displaced from their positions in the universities and schools. The new hu- nianistic university at Wittenberg, founded in 1502, was exerting large influence among German scholars and attracting to it the brightest young minds in German lands. Erasmus was the great- est international scholar of the age, though ably seconded by dis- tinguished humanistic scholars in Italy, France, England, the Low Countries, and German lands. The court schools of Italy (R. 135) and the municipal colleges of France (R. 136) were marking out new lines in the education of the select few. Colet was founding his reformed grammar school (15 10) at Saint Paul's, in London (R. 138), the first of a long line of Enghsh humanistic grammar schools. Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michael Angelo were adding new fame to Italy, and carrying the Renaissance move- ment over into that art which the world has ever since treasured and admired. The Italian cities, particularly Genoa and Venice, had become rich from their commerce, as had many cities in northern lands. Everywhere the cities were centers for the new life in western Christendom. England was rapidly changing from an agricul- tural to a manufacturmg nation. The serf was evolving into a free man all over western Europe. Italian navigators had dis- covered new sea routes and lands, and robbed the ocean of its ter- rors. Columbus had discovered a new world, soon to be peopled 26o HISTORY OF EDUCATION and to become the home of a new civiHzation. Magellan had shown that the world was round and poised in space, instead of flat and surrounded by a circumfluent ocean. The printing-press had been perfected and scattered over Europe, and was rapidly multiplying books and creating a new desire to read (R. 134). The Church was more tolerant of new ideas than it had been in the past, or soon was to be for centuries to come. All of these new influences and conditions combined to awaken thought as had not happened before since the days of ancient Rome. The world seemed about ready for rapid advances in many new direc- tions, and great progress in learning, education, government, art, commerce, and invention seemed almost within grasp. Un- fortunately the promise was not to be fulfilled, and the progress that seemed possible in 1500 was soon lost amid the bitterness and hatreds engendered by a great religious conflict, then about to break, and which was destined to leave, for centuries to come, a legacy of intolerance and suspicion in all lands. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. In what way was the fact that Dante wrote his Divine Comedy in Italian instead of Latin an evidence of large independence? 2. Was it a good thing for peace and civiHzation that the modern languages arose, instead of all speaking and writing Latin? Why? 3. Of what value to one is a "sense of the past behind him, and a conception of the possibiUties of the future before him," by way of giving perspective and self-confidence? Do we have many mediaeval- type people to-day? 4. Show how the work of Petrarch required a man with a strong historic sense. 5. Show the awakening of the modern scientific spirit in the critical and reconstructive work of the scholars of the Revival. 6. Of what was the exposure of the forgery of the "Donation of Constan- tine" a precursor? 7. Contrast the modern and the mediaeval spirit as related to learning. 8. Suppose that we should unexpectedly unearth in Mexico a vast literature of a very learned and scholarly people who once inhabited the United States, and should discover a key by which to read it. Would the interest awakened be comparable with that awakened by the revival of Greek in Italy? Why? 9. What does the fact that no copy of Quintih'an's Institutes, a very famous Roman book, was known in Europe before 1416 indicate as to the de- struction of books during the early Christian period? [O. What does the fact that the Christians knew little about Greek literature or scholarship for centuries, and that the awakening was in large part brought about by the pressure of the Turks on the Eastern Empire, indicate as to intercourse among Mediterranean peoples during the Middle Ages? :i. How do you explain the fact that the recovery of the ancient learning THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING 261 was very largely the work of young men, and that older professors in the universities frequently held aloof from any connection with the movement? 12. Compare the financial support of the Revival in Italy with the support of universities and of scientific undertakings in America during recent times. 13. Explain the long-delayed interest in the Revival in the northern countries. 14. Trace the larger steps in the transference of Greek literature and learn- ing from Athens, in the fifth century B.C., to its arrival at Harvard, in Massachusetts, in 1636. 15. What was the importance of the rediscovery of Hebrew? 16. Show how the invention of printing was a revolutionary force of the first magnitude. 17. Why should a hcense from the Church have been necessary to print a book? Have we any remaining vestiges of this church control over books? 18. Do you see any special reason why Venice should have become the early center of the book trade? 19. Show how the printing-press became "a formidable rival to the pulpit and the sermon, and one of the greatest instruments for human progress and liberty." 20. One writer has characterized the Revival of Learning as the beginnings of the emergence of the individual from institutional control, and the substitution of the humanities for the divinities as the basis of education. Is this a good characterization of a phase of the movement? 21. Counting each edition of a printed book at only three hundred copies, how many volumes had been printed before 1 500 at the places listed in footnote 3, page 257? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 125. Petrarch: On copying a Work of Cicero. 126. Benvenuto: Boccaccio's Visit to the Library at Monte Cassino. 127. Symonds: Finding of QuintiHan's Institules at Saint Gall. (o) Letter of Poggio Bracciolini on the "Find." {b) Reply of Lionardo Bruni. 1 28. MS. : Reproducing Books before the Days of Printing. 129. Symonds: Italian Societies for studying the Classics. 130. Vespasiano: Founding of the JNIedicean Library at Florence. 131. Vespasiano: Founding of the Ducal Library at Urbino. 132. Vespasiano: Founding of the Vatican Library at Rome. 133. Green: The New Learning at Oxford. 134. Green: The New Taste for Books. • QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Is it probable that Petrarch's explanation (125) of why many of the older Latin books were copied so infrequently, psalters being preferred instead, is correct? 2. How do you explain the later neglect of so valuable a library as that at Monte Cassino (126) or Saint Gall (127 a)? 3. Was Lionardo Bruni's letter to_Poggio (127 b) overdrawn? 262 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 4. Was there anything unnatural about the work and customs of the Italian societies for studying the classics (129)? Compare with a modern lit- erary or scientific society, or with the National Dante Society. 5. What does the extract from Vespasiano, telling how he got books for Cosimo de' Medici (130), indicate as to the scarcity of books in Italy toward the middle of the fifteenth century? 6. The library of the Duke of Urbino (131) was the most complete collected up to that time. List the larger classifications of the books copied, as to the lines represented in a great library of that day. 7. What does the work of Pope Nicholas V, in establishing the Vatican Library (132), indicate as to his interest in the new humanistic move- ment? 8. Show from the selection from Green (133) that the revival movement in England was essentially a religious revival. 9. Explain Green's cause-and-effect theory, as given in selection 134. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Adams, G. B. Civilizalion during the Middle Ages. Blades, William. William Caxton. Duff, E. G. Early Printed Books. *Field, Lilian F. introduction to the Study of the Renaissance. *Howells, W. D. Venetian Days (Venetian commerce). *Keane, John. The Evolution of Geography. La Croix, Paul. The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. *Loomis, Louise. MedicBval Hellenism. Ohphant, Mrs. Makers of Venice. *Robinson, J. H., and Rolfe, H. W. Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters. Sandys, J. E. History of Classical Scholarship, vol. 11. *Sandys, J. E. Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning. Scaife, W. B. Florentine Life during the Renaissance. Sedgwick, H. D. Italy in the Thirteenth Century. *Symonds, J. A. The Renaissance in Italy; vol. 11, The Revival of Learning. Thorndike, Lynn. History of Medieval Europe. Whitcomb, M. Source Book of the Italian Renaissance. *Walsh, Jas. J. The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries. CHAPTER XI EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING Significance of the Revival of Learning. It is often stated that the roots of all our modem educational practices in secondary- education lie buried deep in the great Italian Revival of Learning. If we limit the statement to the time preceding the middle of the nineteenth century we shall be more nearly correct, as tremendous changes in both the character and the purpose of secondary edu- cation have taken place since that time. The important and out- standing educational result of the revival of ancient learning by Italian scholars was that it laid a basis for a new type of education below that of the university, destined in time to be much more widely opened to promising youths than the old cathedral and monastic schools had been. This new education, based on the great intellectual inheritance recovered from the ancient world by a relatively small number of Italian scholars, dominated the sec- ondary-school training of the middle and higher classes of society for the next four hundred years. It clearly began by 1450, it clearly controlled secondary education until at least after 1850. Out of die efforts of Italian scholars to resurrect, reconstruct, im- derstand, and utilize in education the fruits of their legacy from the ancient Greek and Roman world, arose modem secondary education, as contrasted with mediaeval church education. Mediaeval education, after all, was narrowly technical. It prepared for but one profession, and one type of service. There was little that was liberal, cultural, or humanitarian about it. It prepared for the world to come, not for the world men live in here The new education developed in Italy aimed to prepare directl} for life in the world here, and for useful and enjoyable life at that. Combining with the new humanistic (cultural) studies the best ideals and practices of the old chivalric education — physical training, manners and courtesy, reverence — the Italian pioneers devised a scheme of education, below that of the universities, which they claimed prepared youths not only for an intellectual appreciation of the great and wonderful past of which they were descendants, but also for intelligent service in the two great non- 264 HISTORY OF EDUCATION church occupations of Italy in the fifteenth century — pubHc service for the City-State, and commerce and a business life. This new type of education spread to other lands, and a new type of secondary-school training, actuated by a new and a modem purpose, thus came out of the revival of learning in Italy. The movement in Italy patriotic. The inspiration for the re- vival of learning in Italy did not originate with the universities. Even the new chairs when estabhshed in the universities were regarded as inferior, and, in true university fashion, the occupants were tolerated by the other professors rather than approved of by them. Some of the universities — Pavia and Bologna, in partic- ular — had practically noth- ing to do with the new move- ment.^ Even in the rich and learned city of Florence, the head and front of the revival movement, the church schol- ars and many university men took little or no part in the restoration of the old studies. The learned archbishop. Saint Antoninus, who presided over the cathedral at Florence dur- ing the brightest days of that city's history, pursued his mediaeval scholastic instruction undisturbed, and even wrote a Sumnia Thcologiae of his own. The revival movement, on the contrary, was directed in its beginnings by a small group of patriotic Italians possessed of a modem spirit, and was financed by intelligent and patriotic mer- chants, bankers, and princes. Surrounded on all sides by monu- ments and remains testifying to Roman greatness, and with 1 Much as universities have contributed to intellectual progress, hostility to new t>T)es of thinking and to new subjects of study has been, through all time, a characteristic of many of their members, and often it has required much pressure from progressive forces on the outside to overcome their opposition to new lines of scholarship and public service. 76. Saint Antoninus and ms Scholars Saint Antoninus (1389-1459) was the learned and pious Archbishop of Florence from 1446 until his death. The picture of liim giving instruction is from the Venice (1503) edition of his Sumnia Thcologiae. EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 265 Roman speech in constant use by the scholars of the Church, the revival of Latin literature meant more to Italian scholars than to those of any other country. It seemed to them still possible to revive Roman life and make Roman speech once more the lan- guage of the learned world. The revival of Latin literature, too, meant much more to them than the revival of Greek. The chief vaiue of the latter was to open up a still greater past, and through this to illuminate Roman life and literature. After about 1500 the enthusiasm for Greek rapidly died out in Italy, and the fur- ther interpretation of Greek life and thought was left to the northern nations. In this effort to revive the old Roman world the Italian scholars received the sympathy of the great men of wealth, and of some of the popes of the time. It was the Medici family at Florence who aided the movement 1 iberally~tRere7rejuvenated the university of Florence along new humanistic lines, accumulated libraries there (R. 130) and at Venice, and aided scholars all over Italy. At Milan the Visconti family paid the expenses of a chair of Latin and Greek, established in the university there in 1440. Popes Nicholas V and Leo X were prodigal in their support of the new learning at Rome (R. 132), and the university there was recon- structed along modem lines. At Venice the rulers gave large financial and other support to the leaders of the new learning. Academies (R. 129), under the patronage of the nobility, were founded in almost all the northern Italian cities, and those in po- litical power did much to make their cities notable centers for classical studies. New schools created. T he ^' fin ds" began with Petrarch's dis- covery of two orations of Cicero, in 1333, and by the time "the century of finds" (1333-1433) was drawing to a close the mate- rials^or a new type of secondary education had been accumulated. Not only was the old literature discovered and edited, but the finding of a complete copy of Quintihan's Institutes of Oratory at Saint Gall (R. 127), in 1416, gave a detailed explanation of the old Roman theory of education at its best. A number of "court schools" now arose in the different cities, to which children from the nobility and the banking and merchant classes were sent to enjoy the advantages they offered over the older types of religious schools. Two of the most famous teachers in these court schools were Vittorino da Feltre, who conducted a famous school at Mantua 266 HISTORY OF EDUCATION from 1423 to 1446, and Guarino da Verona, who conducted an- other almost equally famous school at Ferrara from 1429 to 1460. Taking boys at nine or ten and retaining them until twenty or twenty-one, their schools were much like the best private board- ing-schools of England and America to-day. Drawing to them a Guarino da Verona (1374-1460) (Drawn from a photograph of a con temporary painting. School at Ferrara, 14 29- 1460) VlTTORINODA FeLTRE (1378-1446) (Drawn from a medaUion in the British Museum. School at Mantua, 1423-46) Fig. 77. Two Early Italian Humanist Educators sslected class of students; emphasizing physical activities, man- ners, and morals; employing good teaching processes; and provid- ing the best instruction the world had up to that time known — the influence of these court schools was indeed large. Many of the most distinguished leaders in Church and State and some of the best scholars of the time were trained in them. By better methods they covered, in shorter time, as much or more than was provided in the Arts course of the universities, and so became ri- vals of them. The ultimate result was that, with the evolution of a series of secondary schools which prepared for admission to the universities, the gradual "humanizing" of the universities, and the introduction of printed textbooks, the Arts courses in the universities were advanced to a much higher plane. We have here one of the first of a number of subsequent steps by means of EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 267 vvhich new knowledge, organized into teaching shape, has been passed on down to lower schools to teach, while the universities have stepped forward into new and higher fields of endeavor. The humanistic course of study. The new instruction was based on the study of Greek and Latin, combined with the courtly ideal and with some of the physical activities of the old chivalric education. Latin was begun with the first year in school, and the regular Roman emphasis was placed on articulation and proper accent. After some facility in the language had been gained, easy readings, selected from the greatest Roman writers, were at- tempted. As progress was made in reading and writing and speajdng.LMin as a living language, Cicero and Quintilian among prose writers, and Vergil, Lucan, Horace, Seneca, and Claudian among the poets, were read and studied. History was introduced in these schools for the first time and as a new subject of study, though the history was the history of Greece and Rome and was drawn from the authors studied. Livy and Plutarch were the chief historical writers used. Nothing that happened after the fall of Rome was deemed as of importance. Much emphasis was placed on manners, morality, and reverenceV^rth Livy and Plu- tarch again as the great guides to conduct. Throughout all this the use of Latin as a living language was insisted upon; declama- tion became a fine art; and the ability to read, speak, and com- pose in Latin was the test. Cicero, in particular, because of the exquisite quality of his Latin style, became the great prose model. Quintilian was the supreme authority on the purpose and method of teaching (R. 25). Greek also was begun later, tliough studied much less extensively and thoroughly. The Greek grammar of Theodorus Gaza (p. 248) was studied, followed by the reading of Xenophon, Isocrates, Plutarch, and some of Homer and Hesiod. This thorough drill in ancient history and literature was given along with careful attention to manners and moral training, and each pupil's health was watchfully supervised — an absolutely "new thought in the Christian world. Such physical sports and games as fencing, wrestling, playing ball, football, running, leap- ing, and dancing were also given special emphasis. Competitive games between different schools were held, much as in modern times. The result was an all-round physical, mental, and moral train- ing, vastly superior to anything previously offered by the cathe- dral and other church schools, and which at once established a 268 HISTORY OF EDUCATION new type which was widely copied. A number of these new teachers, called humanists, wrote treatises on the proper order of studies, the methods to be employed, the right education of a prince, liberal education, and similar topics.^ One of these, Bat- tista Guarino, describing the education provided in the school which his father founded at Ferrara (R. 135), laid down a dictum which was accepted widely until the middle of the nineteenth century, when he wrote : I have said that abihty to write Latin verse is one of the essential marks of an educated person. I wish now to indicate a second, which is of at least equal importance, namely, familiarity with the literature and language of Greece. The time has come when we must speak in no uncertain voice upon this vital requirement of scholarship. "^Humanism in France. From Italy the new humanism was carried to France, along with the retreating armies that had occu- pied Naples, Florence, and Milan (p. 252), and when Francis I came to the French throne, in 15 15, the new learning found in him a willing patron. Though there had been beginnings before this, the new learning really found a home in France now for the first time. Here, too, it became asso- ciated with court and noble, and the schools created to furnish this new instruction were provided at the insti- gation of some form of public author- ity. The greatest humanistic scholar in France at the time, Budaeus, was made royal librarian, in 1522. His study of the old Roman coinage, upon which he spent nine years, would pass to-day as a study representing a high grade of scholarship, and was in marked con- trast with the scholastic methods of the university. In his writings Budaeus set forth for France the dictum that every man, even if he be a king, should be devoted to letters and liberal learning, and that this culture can be obtained only through Greek and Latin, and of tliese, unlike the Italians, he held Greek to be the more important. Other scholars now helped to transfer the center for Greek scholarship to Paris, where it remained for the next two centuries. ^ For a list of these treatises, see Monroe's Cyclopedia of EducatioH,voL v, p. 154. Fig. 78. GuiLLAUME BuD^us (1467-1540) EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 269 College de France Founded at Paris, in 1530, by King Francis I. for instruction in the new humanistic learning A royal press was set up in Paris, in 1526, to promote the in- troduction of the new learning. Libraries were built up, as in Italy. Humanist scholars were made secretaries and ambassa- dors. The College de France was established at Paris, by direc- tion of the King, with chairs in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and mathe- matics. To Hebrew the Italians had given almost no attention, but in France, and particularly in Ger- many, Hebrew be- came an important study. The devel- opment of schools in northern France wa.'i hindered by the dis- sensions following the religious revolts of Luther and Calvin, but in southern France many of the cities founded municipal colleges, much like the court schools of northern Italy in type. The work of the city of Bor- deaux in reorganizing its town school along the new lines was typical of the work of other southern cities. Good teachers, lib- eral instruction, and a broad-minded attitude on the part of the governing authorities ' made this school, known as the College de Guyenne, notable not only for humanistic instruction, but for intelligent public education during the second half of the six- teenth century. The picture of this college (school) left us by its greatest principal, Elie Vinet (R. 136), gives an interesting description of its work. Humanism in Germany. The French language and life was closely related to that of northern Italy, and French religious thought had always been so closely in touch with that of Rome that something of the Italian feeling for the old Roman culture and institutions was felt by the humanists of France. In Ger- many and England no such feeling existed, and in these countries any effort to discredit the rising native languages was much more likely to be regarded as mere pedantry. In both these countries, though, Latin was still the language of the Church, of the univer- ^ The distinguished author, Montaigne, was mayor in 1580. 270 HISTORY OF EDUCATION sities, of all learned writing, and the means of international inter- course, and after the new humanism had once obtained a foothold it was welcomed by scholars as a great addition to existing knowl- edge. Erasmus, the foremost scholar of his day, not only labored hard to introduce the new learning in the schools, but welcomed the restored Roman tongue as an international language for schol- arship, as a potent weapon for destroying barriers of language, re- ligion, law, and possibly in time governments based on national- ity, and for the promise it gave of peace in international relation- ships. In both Germany and England, in place of the patriotic fervor of the ItaHans, religious zeal, as we shall see later on, was kindled by the new humanistic studies. Among the universities Vienna, Heidelberg, Erfurt, Tubingen, and Leipzig (see Figure 6i) were foremost in the introduction of the new learning. Erfurt became the center of a group of human- istic scholars during the closing years of the fifteenth century, and the first Greek book printed in Germany appeared there, in 1 501 . At both Tubingen and Heidelberg Reuchlin (p. 254) taught for a time, and both institutions early be- came centers for the study of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. At Leipzig the reigning duke brought various humanistic scholars to th? university to lecture, after 1507, and in 1 5 19 entirely reformed the university by subordinating the mediaeval disciplines to the new studies. Four new universities — Wittenberg (1502), Marburg (1527), Konigsberg (1544), and Jena (1558) — were established on the new humanistic "Father of modern Hebrew basis, and from their beginning were cen- Studies " ^gj.g £^j. ^g j^g^ learning. At Wittenberg, Martin Luther had been made Professor of Theology, in 1508, when but twenty-five years of age, and to Wittenberg the Elec- toral Prince, in 15 18, brought the young Melanchthon, then but twenty-one, as Professor of Greek. The universities of Germany were more profoundly affected by the introduction of the new learning than were those of any other country. The monastic orders and the Scholastics, who had for long controlled the Ger- man institutions, were overthrown by the aid of the ruling princes, and by the close of the first quarter of the sixteenth Fig. 80. JoHANN Reuchlin (1455-152 2) EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 271 century the new humanism was everywhere triumphant in Ger- man lands. German secondary schools. The enthusiasm of the human- ists for the new learning led them to urge the establishment of humanistic secondary schools in the German cities. The schools of "The Brethren of the Common Life" (Hieronymians) , a teach- ing order founded by Gerhard Grote at Deventer, Holland, in 1384, and which had established forty-five houses by the time the new learning came into the Netherlands from Italy, at once adopted the new studies, soon trebled the number of its houses, and for decades supphed teachers of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew to all the surrounding countries.^ Wessel, Agricola, Hegius, Reuch- lin, and Sturm were among their greatest teachers, and Erasmus their greatest pupil. Here and there in German cities Latin schools, teaching the subjects of the Trivium, but principally the elements of Latin and grammar, had been estabUshed in the course of the later Middle Ages, and to these scholars trained in the new learning gradually made their way, secured employment, and thus quietly introduced a purified Latin and the intellectual part of the new humanistic course of study. Up to 1520 this method was followed entirely in German lands. As in Italy, the commercial cities were among the first to pro- vide schools of the new type. In 1526 the commercial city of Nuremberg, in southern Germany, opened one of the first of the 1 new city humanistic secondary schools, Melanchthon being/ present and giving the dedicatory address. A number of similar schools were founded about this time in various German cities — ■ Ilfeld, Frankfort, Strassburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Dantzig — among the number. Many of these failed, as did the one at Nu- remberg, to_meet the needs of the people in essentially ^commer- cial cities. Whatever might have been true in more cultured Italy, in German cities a rigidly classical training for youth and early manhood was found but poorly suited to the needs of the sons of wealthy burghers destined to a commercial career. The rising commerce of the world apparently was to rest on native languages, and not on elegant Latin verse and prose. The com- mercial classes soon fell back on burgher schools, elementary vernacular schools, writing and reckoning schools, business ex- 1 This order had begun as an institution for the instruction of the poor, emphasiz- ing the use of the Bible and the vernacular, but when the new learning came in from Italy, classical learning was added and the instruction of the brotherhood became largely humanistiu 272 HISTORY OF EDUCATION perience, and travel for the education of their sons, leaving the Latin schools of the humanists to those destined for the service of the Church, the law, teaching, or the higher state service. The Work of Johann Sturm. The most successful classical school in all Germany, and the one which formed the pattern for future classical creations, was the gymnasium ^ at Strassburg, under the direction (1536-82) of the famous Johann Sturm, or Sturmius, as he came to call himself. This was one of the early classical schools founded by the commercial cities, but it had not been successful. In 1536 the authorities invited Sturm, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Louvain, and at that time a teacher of classics and dialectic at Paris, where he had come in contact with the Fig. 81. Johann Sturm (1507-89) (After a contemporary engraving by Stofflin) humanism brought from Italy, to become head of the school and reorganize it. This he did, and during the forty-five years he was head of the school it became the most famous classical school in continental Europe. His Plan of Organization, published in 1538; his Letters to the Masters on the course of study, in 1565; and the record of an examination of each class 1 The influence of the old Greek classical terms in this connection is interesting, and is another evidence of the permanence of Greek ideas. Sturm here adopted the Italian nomenclature, Vittorino da Feltre having called his school a Gymnasium Palatlniim-, or Palace School. Guarino wrote of gymnasia Italorum. Both derived the term from the Gymnasia of ancient Greece, just as the academies of the Italian cities took their name from the Academy of Plato at Athens (p. 44). Another famous Greek school was the Lyceum, founded by Aristotle (p. 44). All these names came in during the Revival of Learning in Italy, and were applied to the new classical schools at a time when every term, and even the names of men, were given classical form. As a result the Italian secondary schools of to-day are known as ginnasio, and the German classical secondary schools as gymnasia. The French took their term from the Lyceum, hence the French lycees. The English named their classical schools after the chief subject of study, hence the English grammar schools. In 1638 Milton visited Italy, and was much entertained in Florence by members of the academy and university there. In 1644 he published his Tractate on Education, in which he outlined his plan for a series of classical academies for England. Milton was a church reformer, as were the Puritans, and the Puritans, in settling America, brought over first the term grammar school, and later the term academy to New England. M EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 273 in the school, conducted in 1578, all of which have been pre- served, give us a good idea as to the nature of the organ- ization and instruction (R. 137). Sturm was a strong and masterful man, with a genius for or- ganization. Probably adopting the plan of the French colleges (R. 136), he organized his school into ten classes,^ one for each year the pupil was to spend in the school, and placed a teacher in charge of each. The aim and end of education, as he stated it, was "piety, knowledge, and the art of speaking," and "every effort of teachers and pupils" should bend toward acquiring "knowledge, and purity and elegance of diction." Of the ten years the pupil was to spend in the gymnasium, seven were to be spent in acquiring a thorough mastery of pure idiomatic Latin, and the three remaining years to the acquisition of an elegant style. Cicero was the great model, but Vergil, Plautus, Terence, Martial, Sallust, Horace, and other authors were read and stud- ied. Except that the Catechism was first studied in the native German, Latin was made the language of the classroom. Great emphasis was placed on letter-writing, declamation, and the act- ing of plays. Rhetoric, too, was made a very important subject of study. Greek was begun in the fifth year of school and con- tinued throughout, all instruction in Greek being given through the medium of the Latin.- The instruction in both Latin and Greek was much like that of the court schools of Italy, except that in Greek the New Testament was read in addition. The plays and games and physical training of the Italian schools, how- ever, were omitted; much less emphasis was placed on manners and gentlemanly conduct; and in educational purpose a narrow drill was substituted for the broad cultural spirit of the French and Italian schools. Sturm was the greatest and most successful schoolman of his day. In clearly defined aim, thorough organization, carefully graded instruction, good teaching, and sound scholarship, his school surpassed all others. Sturm's aim was to train pious, learned, and eloquent men for service in Church and State, using religion and the new learning as means, and in this he was very successful. In a short time after taking charge his gymnasium ^ Melanchthon, in his famous Saxony plan of 1528, had provided for but three classes (R. 161). The class-for-each-year idea was new in German lands. ^ This became a fixed practice, Latin being the one language of the school. A century later, when it was attempted by the Jansenists, in France, to teach Greek directly through the vernacular, the practice was loudly condemned by the Jesuits as impious, because it broke the connection betweenJFrance and Rome. 274 HISTORY OF EDUCATION had SLX hundred pupils, and in 1578 there were "thousands ot pupils, representing eight nations," in attendance. Sturm be- came widely known throughout northern Europe, and scholars and princes passing through Strassburg stopped to visit his school and secure his advice. He corresponded with scholars in m.any lands, and the influence of his institution was enormous. He was the author of many school textbooks, and of half a dozen works on the theory and prac- tice of education. He fixed both the type and the name — gymnasium — of the Ger- man classical secondary school, which to-day is not very ma- terially changed from the form and character which Sturm gave it. Sturm's work deeply influenced many later foun- dations in Germany, and also helped to mould the educa- tional system devised later on by the Jesuits. Humanism in England. Grocyn, Linacre, and Colet had introduced the new learn- ing at Oxford, as we have al- ready seen (p. 253), in the closing years of the fifteenth century (R. 133), but had made but little impression. They were ably seconded by Erasmus, who taught Greek at Cambridge (15 10-14), 3-nd who labored hard to substitute true classical cul- ture for the poor Latin and the empty scholasticism of his time. He wrote textbooks ^ to help introduce the new learning, urged the importance of history, geography, and science as serving to elucidate the classics, edited editions of the classical authors, * His phreise book, De Copia Verborum el Rerum, went through sixty editions in his lifetime, and was popular for a century after his death. His book of proverbs, the Adagia, was in both Latin and Greek, and was widely used. His Book of Say- ings from the Ancients {A po phthcgmata) was a collection of little stories, much like some of our best modern books for elementary-school use. His Colloquies, or Latin dialogues, were widely used for two centuries in Protestant countries. These four were written between 1511 and 151Q, and largely for use in Saint Paul's School. His Latin edition of Theodorus Gaza's Greek Grammar (15 16) gave English schools for the first time a standard text. Fig. 82. Desiderius Er.\smus (1467-1536) A contemporary portrait by the German artist, Hans Holbein the Younger, in the Louvre, Paris EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 275 wrote two treatises of importance on education/ and in two other books - ridiculed those who mistook the form for the spirit of the ancient learning. His Latin Greek edition of the New Tes- tament definitely fixed the place of the New Testament in the humanistic schools. In spite of the opposition of monks and scholastics in the uni- versities of Oxford and Cambridge, and in the face of the coming religious turmoil in the days of Henry VIII, the new learning made steady progress in the universities,^ with the court, and among the scholars and statesmen of the time. With the coming of Elizabeth to the throne,^ in 1558, the court, irom the Queen down,_was-Jmbued with the spirit of the new learning (R. 139). EUzabeth appointed new chancellors for the two universities, and these institutions were soon transformed from places for the training of mediaeval scholars and theologians into places for the production of a "due supply of fit persons to serve God in Church and State." As Sir Thomas Elyot so well expressed it, in his The Governour (1544) — a book on the education of rulers for a State, and which was permeated by the new spirit — '' the new political order requires quahfied instruments for its administration, and a trained governing class must henceforth take the place of the privileged caste and the clerk [cleric] education under the mediae- val disciphnes." ^^^ C^olet and Saint Paul's School. The first real estabhshment of the new learning in England came through the secondary schools, and through the refounding of the cathedral school of Saint Paul's, in London, by the Immajiist John Colet^ in 15 10. Colet had become Dean of Saint Paul's Church, and Erasmus urged him to embrace the opportunity to reconstruct the school along hu- manistic lines. This he did, endowing it with all his wealth, and in a series of carefully drawn-up Statutes (R. 138), which were widely copied in subsequent foundations, Colet laid special em- phasis on the school giving training in the new learning and in ^ They were On the First Liberal Education of Children (1529), and On the Order of Study (1511). ^ His Praise of Folly (1509), and his Ciceronian (1528). ' The introduction of the new learning into the English universities was easier than elsewhere, because the English universities had broken up into groups of resi- dence halls, known as colleges. If the old colleges could not be reformed new ones could be created, and this took place. Trinity College, at Cambridge, founded in 1540, was from the first a center of humanistic studies. That same year the King founded royal professorships of Civil Law, Hebrew, and Greek at Cambridge. * EHzabeth had had for her tutor Roger Ascham, author of The Scholemaster , and ■*. teacher of Greek at Cambridge (R. 139). 276 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Christian discipline. Erasmus gave much of his time for years to finding teachers and writing textbooks for the school. William Lily (1468-15 2 2), another early humanist recently returned from study in Italy, and the author of a widely known and much used textbook ^ — Lilys Latin Grammar (R. 140) — was made head- master of the school. The course of study was of the humanistic type already de- scribed, coupled with careful religious instruction. In place of Fig. 83. Saint Paul's School, London the monkish Latin pure Latin and Greek were to be taught, and the best classical authors took the place of the old mediaeval dis- ciplines. The school met with much opposition, was denounced as a temple of idolatry and heathenism by the men of the old schools, and even the Bishop of London tried twice to convict Colet of heresy and suppress the instruction. Notwithstanding this the school became famous for its work, not only in London but throughout England. From its desks came a long line of capable statesmen, learned clergy, brilliant scholars, and literary men. ^ For generations this famous grammar was to England what Donatus was to mediaeval Europe. It was also used in the grammar schools of New England. Lily visited Jerusalem and studied under the best Latin teachers in Rome, so that he ranks with Linacre, Grocyn, and Colet as an introducer of classical culture into England. EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 2'j'j Influence on other English grammar schools. In a preceding chapter (p. 152) we mentioned the founding of many English grammar schools after 1200. At the time Saint Paul's School was refounded there were something like three hundred of these, of all classes, in England. They existed in connection with the old monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate churches, guilds, and char- ity foundations in connection with parish churches, while a few were due to private benevolence and had been founded independ- ently of either Church or State. The^Sevenoaks Grammar School, founded by the will of William Sevenoaks, in 1432 (R. 141), and for which he stated in his will that he desired as master ''an honest man, sufficiently advanced and expert in the science "^^^^B-^^^r^ k '' HI Fig. 84. GiGGLESWiCK Grammar School One of the chief schools of Yorkshire, England, and dating back to 1499. This building was erected in 1507-12 by a chantry priest named James Carr (Ker). Drawn from an old print. On the front of the building was a Latin tablet (shown in the drawing) , now in the British Museum, which, translated, read : " Kindly mother of God, defend James Ker from ill. For priests and young clerks this house is made, in 1512. Jesus, have mercy on us. Old men and children praise the name of the Lord." of Grammar, B.A., by no means in holy orders," and the chantry grammar school founded by John Percyvall, in 1503 (R. 142), are examples of the parish type. The famous Winchester Public School, founded by Bishop William of Wykeham, in 1382, to em- phasize grammar, reHgion, and manners, and to prepare seventy 278 HISTORY OF EDUCATION scholars for New College, at Oxford/ where they were to be trained as priests; and Eton College, founded by Henry VI, in 1440, to prepare students for King's College, at Cambridge, are examples of the larger private foundations. A few, such as the grammar school at Sandwich (1579), owed their origin (R. 143) to the initiative of the city authorities. Most of these grammar schools were small, but a few were large and wealthy establish- ments. These old foundations, with their mediaeval curriculum, after a time began to feel the influence of Colet's school. Within a cen- tury, due to one influence or another, practically all had been re- modeled after the new classical type set up by Colet. In the course of study given for Eton (R. 144), for 1560, we see the new learning fully established, and in the course of study for a small country grammar school, in 1635 (R. 145), we see how fully the new learning, with its emphasis on Latin as a living language, had by this time extended to even the smallest of the English grammar schools. The new foundations, after 15 10, were almost entirely new-learning grammar schools, with large emphasis on grammar, good Latin and Greek, games and sports, and the rehgious spirit. One of the most conspicuous of these later foundations was Mer- chant Taylor's School,^ founded in London in 1561, and of which , Richard Mulcaster (1531-1611), the author of two important L' books on educational theory,^ was for long the headmaster. The Ifirst American Latin grammar school (Boston, 1635) was a direct \ descendant of these English influences and traditions. The reaction against mediaevalism. Having traced the intro- duction of the new learning by countries, it still remains to point out certain significant educational features of the movement 1 Winchester was the first of the so-called "great public schools" of England, of which Eton, Saint Paul's, Westminster, Harrow, Charterhouse, Rugby, Shrewsbury, and Merchant Taylors' are the other eight. The foundation statutes of Winchester made elaborate provision for "a Warden, a Head Master, ten Fellows, three Chap- lains, an Usher, seventy scholars, three Chapel Clerks, sixteen Choristers, and a large staff of servants," as did Henry VHI later on for Canterbury (R. 172 a). The Warden and Fellows were the trustees. In addition to the seventy scholars (Foun- dationers) other non-foundationers (Commoners) were to^be admitted to instruction. The admission requirements were to be "reading, plain song, and Old Donatus," and the school was to teach Grammar, the first of the Liberal Arts. Except for the change in the nature of the instruction when the new learning came in, this and the other "public schools" remained almost unchanged until the second half of the nine- teenth century. " Statutes for this school had provided the following entrance regulations: "But first see that they can the Catechisme in English or Latyn, that every one of the said two hundred & fifty schollers can read perfectly & write competently, or els lett them not be admitted in no wise." * His The Positions (1581), and The Elementarie (1582). See Chapter xviii. =s ( Plate 5. Stratford-on-Avon Grammar School Established by the Holy Cross Guild of Stratford-on-Avon, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The Grammar School was built in 1426, of wood, and at a cost of £10, S5-, ,^ }4d. The school was held on the upper floor, the lower being used as a guild-hall. Here Shakespeare went to school, and saw companies of strolling players in the hall below. The lower picture shows the grammar-school room after its "restoration," in 1892. EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 279 which were common In all lands, and which profoundly modified subsequent educational practice. Both the purpose and the method of education were permanently changed. Up to about the middle of the fourth Christian century the aim of both Greek and Roman education had been to prepare men to become good and useful citizens in the State. Then the Church gained control of education, and for a thousand years the chief object was to prepare for the world to come. Success and good citizenship in this world counted for little, religious devotion took the place of the old state patriotism, the salvation of souls took the place of the promotion of the social welfare, and the aim and end of life here was to attain everlasting bhss in the world to come. To be able to appease the dread Judge at the Day of Judgment, prayer, penance, and holy contemplation were the important things here below. It was preeminently the age of the self abas- ing monk, and this mental attitude dominated all thinking and learning. The spirit behind the Revival of Learning was a protest against this mediaeval attitude, and the protest was vigorous and success- ful. The Revival of Learning was a clear break with mediaeval traditions and with mediaeval authority. It restored to the world the ideals of earlier education — self-culture, and preparation for usefulness and success in the world here. In Italy, France, Ger- many, and England the movement, too, met with the most thor- ough approval from modern men — merchants, court officials, and scholars who were ready to break with the mediaeval type of thinking. The court and other types of secondary schools now established were popular with the higher classes in society, and this aristocratic stamp the humanistic schools and courses have ever since retained. These schools restored to the world the prac- tical education of the days of Cicero, and preparation for intelli- gent service in the Church, State, and the larger business hfe be- came one of their important purposes. Supported as they were by the ruling classes, the new schools were close to the most pro- gressive forces in the national life of the different countries. They represented an unmistakable reaction against the world of the mediaeval monk and the Scholastic, and their early success was in large part because of this. Modification of the mediaeval curriculum. The mediaeval curriculum, as we have seen (chap, vii), was based on instruction in the Seven Liberal Arts. Grammar at first was the great sub- 28o HISTORY OF EDUCATION ject, but later Dialectic became the master science. Knowledge was regarded as an organic whole, capable of being stated in a brief encyclopaedia, and each man could learn it all. With the rise of university instruction some new knowledge was added, chiefly from Moslem sources, and the old knowledge was minutely re-ground. With the revival of the ancient learning there came, within a little more than a century, an enormous increase in the world's sum of knowledge., and the invention of printing came just in time to multiply and scatter this new knowledge through- out western Europe. To all the old subjects a new wealth of de- tail was added which made teaching encyclopaedias impossible. New purposes in education now came to prevail, and the great mediaeval teaching curriculum was changed in content and in relative importance. Of the subjects in the old Trivium, Dialectic or Logic, which Scholastics had raised to the place of first importance, was de- throned, and relegated to a minor position in university instruc- tion. In its place Grammar, as Quintilian knew and used the term (R. 76) and as based on and including Literature, was raised once more to the place of first importance. Out of this, Litera- ture — at first the classical and later the modern — later came as a separate study, as did also the study of History and Mythology. By the latter part of the sixteenth century technical Grammar had been separated from Literature, and made a more elementary subject, while Rhetoric had developed into a critical study of lit- erary art. Of the subjects of the Quadrivium, Arithmetic, Geom- etry, and Astronomy were each greatly expanded, as a result of the introduction of much new knowledge, and each was reduced to textbook form, while Algebra and Trigonometry were now organized as teaching subjects. Due to their newness and diffi- culty these subjects were taught chiefly in the universities. There they remained for a long time before being passed down to the secondary schools. Out of the very elemental instruction given in Geography and Astronomy were in time evolved all the biologi- cal and physical sciences, though this development belongs to a later chapter (xvii), and these new subjects did not reach the secondary schools until well into the nineteenth century. The last of the quadrivial subjects, Music, experienced a different his- tory in different countries. In the Germanic countries it con- tinued to receive its old emphasis, while in England and France much less was made of it. After the setting-in of Puritanism EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 281 Later Middle Ages Period of the Revival of Learning Later evolution C/2 H < < W m 1— 1 > w W >■ 2 > Q < 'GRAMMAR Rhetoric ^Dialectic Grammar Rhetoric DIALECTIC GRAIvIMAR Rhetoric Dialectic ( Grammar \ LITERATURE History I. Mythology Rhetoric Logic (To Univs.) Arithmetic Geometry Astronomy MUSIC Arithmetic [ Geometry [ Geography [ Astronomy [ Physics MUSIC Arithmetic Geometry Geography Astronomy Physics f Arithmetic [ Algebra J Geometry 1 Trigonometry i Geography \ Botany, Zoology Astronomy, Me- chanics Physics, Chemistry «_ j In Teutonic Countries — Music \ In English Countries — ? Fig. 85. The Evolution of IModern Studies The great study of each period is in capitals; subjects in italics indicate that they also were quite important. Least important subjects in ordinary t>T3e in England, when music was regarded with great disfavor, it in large part passed out of the English curriculum. As a result the Germanic and Scandinavian nations are to-day singing nations, while the English and American are not. In early America, in par- ticular, was the religious reaction against music especially strong. New teaching methods. Such important changes naturally called for a progressively evolving series of printed textbooks, and these now came fast from the presses. The day of one text- book, which could dominate all instruction for hundreds of years, was over forever. A few books, such as Lily's or Melanchthon's Latin grammars and the textbooks of Erasmus, were still used for a long time, but throughout the sixteenth century, before the schools became formalized and lost their earlier purpose, each textbook issued was soon superseded by a better one. The inven- tion of printing, too, changed teaching from a reading-by-the- professor to a textbook method, and tremendously shortened the time necessary to give instruction in any subject. With the manufacture of paper the written theme, too, displaced the dis- 282 HISTORY OF EDUCATION putation, with great gains in accuracy of thinking and refinement in the use of words. It was still the Latin theme or verse or ora- tion, to be sure, and the object of the new instruction was to teach Latin as a living language, but before long the time was to come when the same methods would be transferred to instruction in the native tongues and for national ends. To make the instruction as practical as possible, and thus pre- pare the pupils for service as Latin scholars in public or scholarly pursuits, the ancient literature was studied in part as a storehouse of adequate and elegant expression, and numerous phrase books ^ were written for use in the schools. When we remember that Latin was still the language of all learned literature, of the univer- sity classroom, of most diplomatic and legal documents, and a practical necessity for travel or communication abroad, we can realize why so much emphasis was placed on the constant use of Latin as the language of the school.- As Leach ^ so well puts it: The learned professions required a competent knowledge of Latin far more directly then than now. A need for Latin was not confined to the Church and the priest. The diplomatist, the lawyer, the civil servant, the physician, the naturalist, the philosopher, wrote, read, and to a large extent spoke and perhaps thought in Latin. Nor was Latin only the language of the higher professions. A merchant, or a bailiff of a manor, wanted it for his accounts ; every town clerk or guild clerk wanted it for his minute book. Columbus had to study for his voyages in Latin; the general had to study tactics in it. The architect, the musician, every one who was neither a mere soldier nor a mere handi- craftsman, wanted, not a smattering of grammar, but a living acquaint- ance with the tongue, as a spoken as well as a written language. The schools become formal. After the new learning had ob- tained a firm footing in the schools there happened what has often ^ Solomon Lowe, in his Grammar, published in 1726, gives a bibliography of 128 Phrase Books which had appeared by that time. The following selection from the Colloquies of Corderius (R. 136) illustrates their nature: Col. 7. Clericiis, Col. 7. Clericus, The Master. Magister. C. Master, may not I and my uncle's Licetne, Magister, ut ego & patru61is son go home? edmus domom? M. To what end? Quid e6? C. To my sister's daughter's wedding. Ad nuptias consobrinae. M. When is she to be married? Quando est nuptura? C. To-morrow. Crastino die. M. Why will you go so quickly? Cur tarn cito vultis ire? C. To CHANGE OUR CLOATHS. Ut mulemus vestimenta. ^ Sturm, Trotzendorf, and Neander insisted on the use of Latin in all conversa- 'son in the school, and the Jesuits later on subjected boys to a whipping if reported %s having used the vernacular. ^ Leach, A. F., English Schools at the Reformation, p. io<;. ._ll EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 283 happened in the history of new educational efforts — that is, the new learning became narrow, formal, and fixed, and lost the lib- eral spirit which actuated its earlier promoters. In the beginning the Italian humanists had aimed at large personal self-culture and individual development, and the northern humanists at moral and religious reform and preparation for useful service, both using the classics as a means to these new ends. After about 1500 in Italy, and 1600 in the northern countries, when the new-learning schools had become well established and thoroughly organized, the tendency arose to make the means an end in itself. Instead of using the classical literatures to impart a liberal education, give larger vision, and prepare for useful public service, they came- to be used largely for disciplinary ends. The teaching of Campion at Prague (1574) well illustrates this degeneracy (R. 146). This change alienated practical men from the schools. French now in turn became the language of the court and of diplomacy, and the work of the schools tended to be confined largely to preparing students to enter the universities or the service of the Church. Men of the world hence turned to a new type of schools which now arose (chapter xvii) , and which made preparation for social efficiency in a modern world their aim. In consequence the aim of the new humanistic education came in time to be thought of in terms of languages and literatures, in- stead of in terms of usefulness as a preparation for intelligent liv- ing, and educational effort was transferred from the larger human point of view of the early humanistic teachers to the narrower and much less important one of mastering Greek and Latin, writing verses, and cultivating a good (Ciceronian) Latin style. Sturm's school at Strassburg clearly shows the beginnings of such a trans- formation (R. 137). As Latin came to be less and less used by scholars in writing, passed out of use as the language of govern- ment and of international communication, was replaced by French as the language of polite society, and was gradually super- seded in the university lecture room by the vernaculars, the prac- tical motive for learning Latin died out, except for service in the Church, and the disciplinary and cultural value of the study of the classics alone remained. The disciplinary, being easier to give, and better within the understanding of most teachers, grad- ually won over the cultural. As a result, classical education gradually became narrow and fonnal, and drill in composition and declamation and imitation of the style of ancient authors — • 284 HISTORY OF EDUCATION particularly Cicero, whence the term " Ciceronianism " which came to be appHed to it — grew to be the ruhng motives in instruction. By the end of the sixteenth century this change had taken place in both the secondary schools and the universities, and this nar- row linguistic attitude continued to dominate classical education, in German lands until the mid-eighteenth, and in all other west- ern European countries and in America until near the middle of the nineteenth century. It was not until vigorously challenged by the enthusiasts for modern scientific studies that the teachers of the classics awoke to the need of improving their instruction and restoring something of the old cultural value to what they were teaching. The new learning in northern and western Europe was also much changed in character by the violent religious dissensions, following the Protestant Revolt, to a consideration of which we next turn. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Explain just what is meant by the statement that mediaeval education was narrowly technical. 2. State the educational ideals of the new secondary schools evolved by the Italian humanistic scholars, and show whether these ideals have been best embodied in the German gymnasium or the EngUsh grammar school. 3. How do you explain the merchants and bankers and princes of Italy being more interested in the revival-of-learning movement than the Church and university scholars? Do such classes to-day show the same type of interest in aiding learning? 4. What was the particular importance of the recovery of Quintilian's Inslilutes? Of Cicero's Orations and Letters? 5. What better methods could the Italian court schools have used to enable them to cover the university Arts course in shorter time? How would this have advanced the character of the instruction in Arts in the uni- versity? ' 6. Show how the type of education developed in the Itahan court schools was superior to that of the best of the cathedral schools. To that devel- oped by Sturm. 7. Show how the new type of secondary schools was naturally associated with court and nobility and men of large worldly affairs, and how in consequence the new secondary education became and for long con- tinued to be considered as aristocratic education. 8. Explain how the terms college, lycee, gymnasium, academy, and grammar school all came to be employed, in different countries, to designate about the same type of secondary school. 9. Had the purified Latin been restored, as the general international lan- guage of learning and government, would it have helped materially in bringing about the civilizing influences Erasmus saw in it? 10. Has the development of separate nationalities and different national languages aided in advancing international peace and civihzation? Why? EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL 285 11. Why should the new humanistic studies have developed religious fervor in Germany and England, in place of the patriotic fervor of the ItaHan scholars? 12. Was the struggle against the introduction of the new learning into the German universities parallel to the late struggle against the introduc- tion of science into American universities? 13. Contrast the aim of Sturm's school with that of the Italian court schools, and the Enghsh grammar schools. Point out the new tendencies in his work. 14. Does the sentence quoted from Elyot's Governour express well the changed conditions in England at the middle of the sixteenth century? Do such changed conditions always demand educational reorganizations? 15. What basis, if any, did the opponents of Colet's school have for denounc- ing it as a temple of idolatry and heathenism? 16. Show how it was natural that the first American school should have been a Latin grammar school in type. 17. Show that the new conception as to education, as expressed by the new humanism, found a public ready to support it. What was the nature of this public? 18. Show how the new schools were "close to the most progressive forces in the national life," and the influence of this, particularly in England and America, in fixing classical training as the approved type of secondary education. 19. Explain how the written theme of to-day is the successor of the mediaeval disputation. 20. Show how the methods of instruction employed in the new Latin gram- mar schools have been passed over to the native-language schools. 21. From the paragraph quoted from Leach (p. 282), explain why a knowl- edge of Latin was for so long regarded as synonymous with being educated. 22. Show how instruction in Latin, by being changed from cultural to disci- plinary ends, made French the language of diplomacy and society, tended to elevate all the vernacular tongues, and marked the beginnings of the end of the importance of Latin as a school study except for the purposes of the Roman CathoHc Church. 27,. What was the purpose of the Latin instruction, as you received it? 24. Does it require a higher quality of teaching to impart the cultural aspect of a study than is required for the disciplinary? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced : 135. Guarino: On Teaching the Classical Authors. 136. Vinet: The College de Guyenne at Bordeaux. 137. Sturm: Course of Study at Strassburg. 138. Colet: Statutes for St. Paul's School, London. (o) ReHgious Observances. {b) Admission of Children. (c) The Course of Study. 139. Ascham: On Queen Elizabeth's Learning. " 140. Colet: Introduction to Lily's Latin Grammar. 141. William Sevenoaks: Foundation Bequest for Sevenoaks Grammar School. 142. John Percy vail: Foundation Bequest for a Chantry Grammar School. 286 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 143. Sandwich: A City Grammar School Foundation. 144. Eton: Course of Study in 1560. 145. Martindalc : Course of Study in an EngHsh Country Grammar School. 146. Simpson: Degeneracy of Classical Instruction. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Show the large scope of Grammar, as outlined by Guarino (135). 2. How generally was his dictum that a knowledge of Latin and Greek were essential for a well-educated gentleman (135) accepted? 3. Compare the course of study .in Sturm's school (137) with that at Bor- deaux (136), and 'with that at Eton (144) a little later. 4. From Ascham's statements (139), what do you infer as to the reception of the new learning at the English court? 5. Show how Colet (138 a) and William Sevenoaks (141) both aimed to provide for real teachers, specialized for the service, and not for teaching as an adjunct to priestly duties. What was the significance of these provisions? 6. Show that Colet (138 b) desired to train leaders, rather than followers. 7. Show that he clearly provided (138 c) for a humanistic school of the reformed type. 8. Characterize Colet's Introduction to Lily's Grammar (140). 9. What was the educational significance of such a bequest as that of William Sevenoaks (141)? 10. What did the founding of a chantry grammar school (142), instead of a song school, indicate as to the progress of education? 11. Would the action taken by the authorities of the City of Sandwich (143) indicate that the humanistic grammar school had taken a deep holC on English thought, or not? The same with reference to the course given in a small English country grammar school, as described by Martindalc (145)? 12. Just what does the instruction described as given by Campion (146) indicate? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Jebb, R. C. Humanism in Education. Laurie, S. S. Development of Educational Opinion since the Renaissance. Laurie, S. S. "The Renaissance and the School, 1440-1580"; in School Review, vol. 4, pp. 140-48, 202-14. *Lupton, J. H. A Life of John Colet. Palgrave, F. T. "The Oxford Movement in the Fifteenth Century"; in Nineteenth Century, vol. 28, pp. 812-30. (Nov. 1890.) Seebohm, F. The Oxford Reformers of I4g8; Colet, Erasmus, More. *Stowe, A. M. English Grammar Schools in the Reign of Queen Elirabeth. *Thurber, C. H. " Vittorino da Feltre"; in School Review, vol. 7, pp. 295- 300. Watson, Foster. English Grammar Schools to 1660. *Woodward, W. H. Vittorino da Feltre, and other Humanistic Educators. *Woodward, W. H. Education during the Renaissance. Woodward, W. H. Desiderius Erasmus, Concerning i^e Method and Aim of Education. CHAPTER XII THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY The new questioning attitude. The student can hardly have followed the history of educational development thus far without realizing that a serious questioning of the practices and of the dogmatic and repressive attitude of the omnipresent mediaeval Church was certain to come, sooner or later, unless the Church itself realized that the mediaeval conditions which once demanded such an attitude were rapidly passing away, and that the new life in Christendom now called for a progressive stand in religious matters as in other affairs. The new life resulting from the Cru- sades, the rise of commerce and industry, the organization of city governments, the rise of lawyer and merchant classes, the forma- tion of new national States, the rise of a new "Estate" of trades- men and workers, the new knowledge, the evolution of the uni- versity organizations, and the discovery of the art of printing — all these forces had united to develop a new attitude toward the old problems and to prepare western Europe for a rapid evolution out of the mediaeval conditions which had for so long dominated all action and thinking. This the Church should have realized, and it should have assumed toward the progressive tendencies of the time the same intelligent attitude assumed earlier toward the rise of scholastic inquiry. But it did not, and by the fifteenth century the situation had been further aggravated by a marked decline in morality on the part of both monks and clergy, which awakened deep and general criticism in all lands, but particularly among the northern peoples. ~^he Revival of Learning was the first clear break with medias- valism. In the critical and constructive attitude developed by the scholars of the movement, their renunciation of the old forms of thinking, the new craving for truth for its own sake which they everywhere awakened, and their continual appeal to the original sources of knowledge for guidance, we have the definite begin- nings of a modern scientific spirit which was destined ultimately to question all things, and in time to usher in modern conceptions and modern ways of thinking. \ The authority of the mediaeval Church would be questioned, and out of this questioning would 288 HISTORY OF EDUCATION come in time a religious freedom and a religious tolerance un- known in the mediasval world. The great world of scientific truth would be inquired into and the facts of modern science es- tablished, regardless of what preconceived ideas, popular or re- ligious, might be upset thereby. The divine right of kings to rule, and to dispose of the fortunes and happiness of their peoples as they saw fit, was also destined to be questioned, and another new "Estate" would in time arise and substitute, instead, in all pro- gressive lands, the divine right of the common people. Religious freedom and toleration, scientiiic inquiry and scholarship, and the ultimate rise of democracy were all involved in the critical, questioning, and constructive attitude of the humanistic scholars of the Renaissance. These came historically in the order just stated, and in this order we shall consider them. Humanism became a religious reform movement in the North. In Italy the Revival of Learning was classical and scientiiic in its methods and results, and awakened little or no tendency toward religious and moral reform. Instead it resulted in something of a paganization of religion, with the result that the Papacy and the ItaHan Church probably reached their lowest religious levels at about the time the great religious agitation took place in northern lands. In the latter, on the contrary, the introduction of human- ism awakened a new religious zeal, and religious reform and classi- cal learning there came to be associated almost as one movement. In England, Germany, the Low Countries, and in large parts of northern France, the new learning was at once directed to rehg- ious and moral ends. The patriotic emotions roused in the Ital- ians by the humanistic movement were in the northern countries superseded by religious and moral emotions, and the constant ap- peal to sources turned the northern leaders almost at once back to the Church Fathers and the original Greek and Hebrew Testa- ments for authority in religious matters. Colet, from England, who had spent the years 1493-96 in Florence (p. 254), during the period when Savonarola (1452-98) was preaching moral reform there, returned home, not only a humanist, but a religious reformer as well, and began to lecture at Oxford on the Epistles of Saint Paul in the Greek. Linacre, Gro- cyn, Colet, Erasmus, and Sir Thomas More (author of Utopia), among others, formed a little group of humanists all of whom were also deeply interested in a reform of the practices of the Church. Erasmus, in particular, labored hard by his writings to THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 289 remove religious abuses. His Colloquies (15 19), a widely used Latin reading book, was banned from the classrooms of the Uni- versity of Paris (1528), and forbidden to be used in Catholic lands by the Church Council of Trent (1564), because of the way in which it held up to ridicule the abuses in the Church, the super- stitions of the age, and the immoralities in the lives of the monks and clergy. His work as Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, his numerous editions of the writings of the Church Fathers, and his Latin-Greek edition (15 16), of the New Testament ^ all alike tended to turn theological scholars back to the original sources instead of to the scholastics for the foundations of their religious faith. In Germany such men as Hegius (p» 271), Reuchlin (p. 254), and Melanchthon (p. 270) began, by similar methods, to go back to Greek and Hebrew sources and to the Church Fathers for new interpretations as to religious doctrines. In so doing they discovered that many practices and demands of the Church, all of which had grown up during the long mediaeval period, were not in harmony with the earlier teachings of Christ, the Apostles, or the early Fathers. In France, Jacques Lefevre (c. 1455-1536), a hu- manist and a pioneer Protestant, contended for the rule of the Scriptures and for justification by faith, and translated the Bible into the French (New Testament, 1523; complete, 1530) that the people might read it. Evolution or revolution. The reaction against the mediaeval dogmas of the Church and the demand by the humanists of the North for a return to the simpler religion of Christ gradually grew, and in time became more and more insistent. This demand was not something which broke out all at once and with Luther, as many seem to think. Had this been so he would soon have been suppressed, and little more would have been heard of him. Instead, the Hterature of the time clearly reveals that there had been, for two centuries,"an increasing criticism of the Church, and 1 Up to this time the only Latin Bible had been the Vulgate (p. 131), translated by Jerome in the fourth century. Erasmus went back to and edited the original Greek manuscripts, and then prepared a new parallel Latin translation, the two being printed side by side. He also added many explanations of his own which mercilessly exposed the mistakes of the theologians and the Church, and pointed out the errors in translation which were embodied in the Vulgate. This work passed through numerous editions and sold in thousands of copies all over Europe. So dangerous was this comparative method that "Greek was judged a heretical tongue. No one should lecture on the Nev/ Testament, it was declared, without a previous theological examination. It was held to be heresy to say that the Greek or Hebrew text read thus, or that a knowledge of the original language is necessary to interpret the Scriptures correctlv." 290 HISTORY OF EDUCATION a number of local and unsuccessful efiforts at reform had been at- tempted. The demand for reform was general, and of long stand- ing, outside of Italy and southern France. Had it been heeded probably much subsequent history might have been different. A few of the more important attempts at reform may be mentioned here, as a background for our study. The first organized revolt against the Church occurred in south- ern France, in the early thirteenth century, and the revolters (Al-- higenses) were so fearfully pufiished by fire and sword that it was not attempted there again. In 1378 there was a disputed papal election, and for nearly forty years there were two Popes, one at Rome, and one at Avig- non in southern France, each attempting to control the Church and each denouncing the other as Antichrist. The discussions which accompanied this " Great Schism " did much to weaken the authority of the Church in all Christian lands. In England a popular preach- er and Oxford divinity gradu- ate by the name of John Wy cliff e was led, by the sad condition of the Church there, to a careful study of the Bible. He came to the conclusion that many of the claims of the Popes and many practices of the Church were wrong (R. 147), and he refused to accept teachings of the Church for which he could not find sanction in the Bible. His revolt was as direct and vigorous as that of Luther, in German lands, a century and a half later (R. 148) . So great was his zeal for reform that he and his scholars attempted a translation of the Bible ^ into English (see Figure 93), 1 This was accomplished between 1382 and 1384. WycHffe translated only a part of the Old Testament, and the Gospels of Saint Matthew and Saint Mark of the New. The remainder was done under his direction by others. The translation was from the Latin Vulgate, and was crude and imperfect. The large number of copies of parts of this translation which have survived, in manuscript form, to the Fig. 86. John Wycliffe (i32o?-84) A popular English preacher (Drawn from an old print) THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 291 that the people might read it, and he and his followers (called Lollards) went about the country teaching what they believed to be the true Christianity. What had before in England been a widespread but undefined feehng of disaffection for the rich and careless clergy and monks, the work of Wy cliff e organized into a political and social force. Due to the then close connection of the English and Bohemian courts, through royal marriages, WycHffe's teachings were carried to Bohemia, where a popular preacher and university the- ologian by the name of John Huss (13 73-141 5) expounded them. He denounced the evil conduct of the clergy, and he and his followers tried to in- troduce several new customs into the Church. For this Huss was first excommuni- cated, and then burned at the stake as a dangerous heretic.^ After a series of terrible massacres his follow- ers were forced, in large part, to accept once more the old system. In 1414 a Council_of_the Church was calledTat Con- stance, in Switzerland, to heal the papal schism, and this Council made a serious attempt at church reform. After reuniting the Church under one Pope, if^rew up a hst of abuses which it ordered remedied (R. 149). It also attempted to estab- hsh a democratic form of organization for the government of the Church, with Church Councils meeting from time to time to present time show that it must have awakened much interest, and been widely copied and recopied during the century before the invention of printing. 1 The heretic, it should be remembered, was the anarchist of the Middle Ages. The Church regarded heresy as a crime, worthy of the most severe punishments. The Church and the civil governments proceeded against the heretic as against an enemy of society and order. Heretics could not give exadence in a civil court, were prohibited from marrying or from giving a son or daughter in marriage, and even to speak with a heretic was an ofiense. Ev3n torture and death were regarded as justified to stamp out heresy. Fig. 87. Religious Warfare in Bohemia Sacking a village (From a picture in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg) 292 HISTORY OF EDUCATION advise with the Pope and formulate church poHcy, much Hke the government of a modern parHament and king. Had this suc- ceeded, much future history might have been different ^ and the civiHzation of the world to-day much advanced. But the attempt failed, and the absolutism of the reunited Papacy became stronger than ever before. Protests of princes, actions of legislative as- semblies,^ protests sometimes of bishops,^ the failing allegiance of men of affairs, the increasing condemnation and ridicule from laymen and scholars — all signs of a strong undercurrent of public opinion — • seemed to have no effect on those responsible for the policy of the Church. That the different rebellions and refusals of reform helped di- rectly to the ultimate break of Luther is not probable, as Luther seems to have worked out his position by himself. Each of these earher defiances of authority and the later defiance of Luther were alike, though, in two respects. Each demanded a return to the usages and beliefs and practices of the earlier Christian Church, as derived from a study of the Bible and of the writings of the early Christian Fathers; and each insisted that Christians should be permitted to study the Bible for themselves, and reach their own conclusions as to Christian duty. In this demand to be allowed to go back to the original sources for authority, and the assertion of the right to personal investigation and conclu- sions, we see the new intellectual standards established by the Revival of Learning in full force. After 1 500 the rising demands for moral reform and the recognition of individual judgment could not be put aside much longer. Unless there could be evolu' ^ "What would have been the result had the Council of Constance succeeded where it failed? It seems certain that one result would have been the formation of a government for the Church like that which was taking shape at the same time in England — a limited monarchy with a legislature gradually gaining more and more the real control of affairs. It seems almost equally certain that with this the churches of each nationality would have gained a large degree of local independence, and the general government of the Church have assumed by degrees the character of a great federal and constitutional State. If this had been the case, it is hard to see why all the results which were accomplished by the reformation of Luther might not have been attained as completely without the violent disruption of the Church." (Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, p. 403.) 2 In 1302 the first "Estates-General" of France supported the King, and denied the right of the Pope to any supremacy over the State in France. In England, about the same time, the right of the Pope to levy taxation on the EngUsh was dis- puted by King and ParHament. In 1446 WiUiam III of Saxony limited the powers of ecclesiastical courts, and forbade appeals from Saxon decisions to any foreign court. ^ The London Academy, 1893, p. 197, published evidence to show that there was a widespread demand among the bishops of Spain for church reformation, during the fifteenth century, and along the same lines that Luther advocated later. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 293 tion there would be revolution. Evolution was refused,^ and revolution was the result. _ Discontent in German lands. It happened that the first revolt to be successful in a large way broke out in Germany, and about the person of an Augustinian monk and Professor of Theology in the University of Wittenberg by the name of Martin Luther (1483-1546). Had it not centered about Luther the revolt would have come about some one else; had it not come in Germany it would have come in some other land: It was the modern scien- tific spirit of inquiry and reason in conflict with the mediaeval spirit of dogmatic authority, and two such forces are sooner or later destined to clash. Whether we be Catholic or Protestant, and whether we approve or disapprove of what Luther did or of his methods, makes httle difference in this study. Over a ques- tion involving so much religious partisanship we do not need to take sides. All that we need concern ourselves with is that a cer- tain Martin Luther lived, did certain things, made certain stands for what he believed to be right, and what he did, whether right or wrong, whether beneficial to progress and civilization or not, stands as a great historical fact with which the student of the his- tory of education must take account. That the same or even bet- ter results might have been arrived at in time by other methods may be true, but what we are concerned with is the course which history actually took.^ ^ "But all these attempts at reformation in the Church, large and small, had failed, as had those of the early fifteenth century to reform its government, leaving the Church as thoroughly mediaeval in doctrine and in practical religion as it was in poUty. It was the one power, therefore, belonging to the Middle Ages which still stood unaffected by the new forces and opposed to them. In other directions the changes had been many; here nothing had been changed. And its resisting power was very great. Endowed with large wealth, strong in numbers in every State, with no lack of able and thoroughly trained minds, its interests, as it regarded them, in maintaining the old were enormous, and its power of defending itself seemed scarcely to be broken. . . . "The Church had remained unaffected by the new forces which had transformed everything else. It was still thoroughly medisev^al. In government, in doctrine, and in Hfe it still placed the greatest emphasis upon those additions which the pecu- liar conditions of the Middle Ages had built upon the foundations of the primitive Christianity, and it was determined to remain unchanged." (Adams, G. B., Civili- zation during the Middle Ages, pp. 406, 412.) ^ Every reform movement produces two kinds of reformers, each seeking the same ultimate goal, but differing materially as to methods of work. In the religious conflict these two types are well represented by Erasmus and Luther. Erasmus was as deeply interested in religious reform as Luther and devoted the energies of a life- time to trying to secure reform, but he believed that reformation should come from within, and that the way to obtain it was to remain within the old organization and work to reform it. Luther represented the other type, the type which feels that things are too bad for mere reform to be effective, and that what is wanted is rebel- lion against the old. The two tVpes seldom agree as to means, and usually part 294 HISTORY OF EDUCATION There were special reasons why the trouble, when once it broke, made such rapid headway in German lands. The Germans had a long-standing grudge against the Italian papal court, chiefly be- cause it had for long been draining Germany of money to support the Italian Church. Germany's greatest minnesinger, Walther von der. Vogelweide (1170-1228), three centuries before Luther had sung to the German people how the Pope made merry over the stupid Germans. "All their goods will be mine, Their silver is flowing into my far-away chest; Their priests are living on poultry and wine, And leaving the silly layman to fast." Many positions in the German Church had been filled by the Pope with Italians, who not infrequently drew the perquisites, but did not reside in Germany. The princely and feudal Arch- bishops of Mayence, Treves, Cologne, and Salzburg, with their fortified castles and lands and troops and large governmental powers, frequently proved to be serious sources of irritation. The most widespread discontent, though, arose over the heavy church taxation, which drained the money of the people to Italy. The whole German people, from the princes down to the peasants, felt themselves unjustly treated, that the German money which flowed to Rome should be kept at home, and that the immoral and ineflicient clergy should be replaced by upright, earnest men who would attend better to their religious duties (R. 150). It was these conditions which prepared the Germans for revolt, and enabled Luther to rally so many of the princes and people to his side when once he had defied authority. The German revolt. The crisis came over the sale of indul- gences for sins by the papal agent, Tetzel, who began the practice in the neighborhood of Wittenberg, where Luther was a Professor of Theology, in 15 16. There is little doubt but that Tetzel, in his zeal to raise money for the rebuilding of the church of Saint Peter's at Rome, a great undertaking then under way, exceeded his instructions and made claims as to the nature and efficacy of indulgences which were not warranted by church doctrines. Such would be only human. The sale, however, irritated Luther, and he appealed to the Archbishop of Magdeburg to prohibit it. Faihng to obtain any satisfaction, he followed the old university company. One is content to be known as a conservative or a conformer; the other delights in being classed as a progressive or even as a radical. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 295 custom, made out ninety-five theses, or reasons, why he did not believe the practice justifiable, detailed the abuses, set forth what he conceived to be the true Christian doctrine in the matter, and challenged all comers to a debate on the theses (R. 151). Fol- lowing true university custom, also, these theses were made out in Latin, and in October, 1517, Luther followed still another univer- sity custom and nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg. Luther was probably as much surprised as any one to find that these were at once translated into German, printed, and in two weeks had been scattered all over Germany. Within a month they were known in all the important centers of the Western Christian world. They had been carried everywhere on the cur- rents of discontent. ' Luther at first intended no revolt from the Church, but only a protest against its practices. From one step to another, though, he was gradually led into open rebellion, and finally, in 1520, was excommunicated from the Church. He then expressed his defiance by publicly burning the bull of excommuni- cation, together with a volume of the canon law. This was open rebellion, and such heresy (R. 152) must needs be stamped out. Luther took his stand on the authority of the Scriptures, and the battle was now joined between the forces representing the author- ity of the Church versus the authority of the Bible, and salvation through the Church versus salvation through personal faith and works. ^ Luther also forced the issue for freedom of thought in religious matters. It was, to be sure, some three centuries before freedom in religious thinking and worship became clearly recog- nized, but what the early university masters and scholars had stood for in intellectual matters, Luther now asserted in religious affairs as well. We do not need to follow the details of the conflict. Suffice it to know that great portions of northern and western Germany followed Luther, as is shown in Figure 88, and that the Western Church, which had remained one for so many centuries and been 1 "The early Protestant theory was that an individual's Christian religious life, convictions, and salvation were to be worked out through a direct study of the Scriptures, acceptance of the obvious teachings of Christ as there presented, and direct appeal to God through prayer for help in leading a Christian life. The Catho- lic position, on the other hand, came to be that the individual's religious Hfe was to be achieved through the intervention of the Church, which claimed on historical grounds to have been founded by Christ, and to be his official representative and mediator in the world. It was through the teachings of this Church that the indi- vidual was to receive his ideas of the Christian religion, to be stimulated to believe these, to be kept in the path of righteousness, and to obtain salvation." (Parker, S. C, History oj Modern Elementary Education, p. 35.) 296 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the one great unifying force in western Europe, was permanently split by the Protestant Revolt. The large success of Luther is easily explained by the new life which now permeated western Europe. The world was rapidly becoming modern, while the oa ^ip^^ O R T H ^J 1r hi}, SEA [di.nm-aOUv /"^""^ -^ V a^\ \ yii. in N(. \ l!\ •■^^ Lutheran. Calvinist. Anglican. Koman Catholic . Fig. 88. Showing the Results of the Protestant Revolts Church, with a perversity almost unexplainable, insisted upon re maining mediaeval and tried to force others to remain mediaeval with it. Adams expresses the situation well when he says: ^ A revolution had been wrought in the intellectual world in the cen- tury between Huss and Luther. At the death of Huss the world had only just begun the study of Greek. Since that date, the great body of classical literature had been recovered, and the sciences of philology and historical criticism thoroughly established. As a result Luther had at his command a well-developed method . . . impossible to any earlier reformer. . . . The world also had become familiar with inde- pendent investigation, and with the proclamation of new views and the upsetting of old ones. By no means the least of the great services of Erasmus to civilization had been to hold up before all the world so conspicuous an example of the scholar following, as his inalienable ^ Adams, G. B., Civilization during the Middle Ages, p. 41.^. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 297 right, the truth as he found it and wherever it appeared to lead him, and honest in his pubhc utterances as to the results of his studies. . . . His was the crowning work of a century which had produced in the general public a greatly changed attitude of mind toward intellectual independence since the days of Huss. The printing press was of itself almost enough to account for Luther's success as compared with his predecessors. Wyclifife made almost as direct and vigorous an appeal to the public at large, and with "an amazing industry he issued tract after tract in the tongue of the people," but Luther had the advantage in the rapid multiplication of copies and in their cheapness, and he covered Europe with the issues of his press. . . . Luther spoke to a very different pubhc from that which Wycliffe or Huss had addressed, — a public European in extent, and one not merely familiar with the assertion of new ideas, but tolerant, in a certain way, of the innovator, and expectant of great things in the future. A revolution it undoubtedly was, but a revolution in thinking much more than a political revolution. It was but a further man- ifestation of the inquiring and questioning tendency awakened by the Revival of Learning. It might in a sense be dated from WycHffe and Huss, as well as from Erasmus and Luther. Luther did not create the Reformation. He rather popularized the work of preceding protesters, giving the impress of his powerful person- ality to the movement, and directing and moulding its form. Revolts in other lands. The outbreak in Germany soon spread to other lands. Lutheranism made rapid headway in Denmark, where the German grievances against Ital- ian rule were equally familiar, and in 1537 the Danish Diet severed all connection with Rome and established Lutheranism as the religion of the country. Norway, being then a part of Denmark, was carried for Luther- anism also. In Sweden the Church was shorn of some of its powers and property in 1527, and in 1592 Lutheranism was defi- nitely adopted as the rehgion for the na- tion. This included Finland, then a part of Sweden. An independent reform move- ment, closely akin to Lutheranism in its aims, made considerable headway in Ger- man Switzerland contemporaneously with the reform work of Luther in Germany, leadership of a popular humanist preacher in Zurich by the name 'jf Huldreich Zwingli. In 15 19 he began a series of sermons on Fig. 89. Huldreich Zwingli (1487-1531) This was under the 298 HISTORY OF EDUCATION real religion, as he had learned it from a study of the New Testament writings. Zwingli, being supported by the people, made many changes in church practices and worship, eventually even abolishing the mass. Many other towns took up this re- form movement, and civil war was the result. Zwingli was killed in battle between Swiss partisans of the old regime and reformers, in 1531, but his work though checked persisted, and German Switzerland became mixed Catholic and Protestant.^ In England the struggle came nominally over the divorce (1533) of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, though the independ- ence of the English Church had been asserted from time to time for two centuries, and a free National Church had for long been a growing ideal with English statesmen. In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy (R. 153) which severed England from Rome. By it the King was made head of the English Na- tional Church. The change was in no sense a profound one, such as had taken place in Lutheran Germany. The priests who took the new oath of allegiance to the King instead of the Pope as the head of the Church, as most of them did, continued in the churches, the service was changed to English, some reforms were instituted, but the people did not experience any great change in religious feeling or ideas. This new National Church became known as the EngHsh or Anglican Church. So far as the early history of America is concerned, the most important reform movement was neither Lutheranism nor Angli- canism, but Calvinism. In 1537 John Calvin, a French Protes- tant who had fled to Switzerland,^ was invited to submit a plan for the educational and religious reorganization of the city of Geneva, and in 1541 he was entrusted with the task of organizing there a little religious City-RepubHc. For this he established a combined church and city government, in which religious affairs and the civil government were as closely connected as they had 1 A good illustration of the way parts of Germany and German Switzerland were divided by religious differences is to be found in the Canton of Appenzell, in north- eastern Switzerland. As each small governmental division had to follow the reli- gion of the ruling prince in Germany, so in Switzerland the cantons divided on reli- gious lines. To compromise matters in Appenzell the canton was divided into two half cantons, following the religious wars of 1597 — Inner Rhoden, of sixty-three square miles, exclusively Roman Catholic, and Outer Rhoden, of ninety-six square, miles, entirely under the Swiss Reformed Church. 2 Calvinism is also a product of the northern humanism, Calvin's difficulties with the Church arising out of his study of the Greek texts. Calvin had received an excellent theological and legal education, and used the knowledge and training derived from both to help him formulate a comprehensive system of belief. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 299 Fig. 90. John Calvin (i 509-1 564) (Drawn from a contemporary painting) ever been in any Catholic country. During the twenty-three years that Calvin dominated Gene\-a it became the Rome of Protestantism. Calvin's The Institutes of Christianity, published in Latin in 1536, and in French in 1541, was the first orderly presentation of the principles of Christian faith from the Protestant standpoint,^ while his French Catechism (1537) was extensively used ^ in Calvinistic lands as a basis for elementary religious instruction. From Geneva a reformed Calvinistic religion spread over northern France,^ where its followers became known as Huguenots; to Scotland (1560), where they were known as Scotch Presbyteri- ans; to the Netherlands (1572), where originated the Dutch Reformed Church; and to portions of central England, where those who embraced it becatne known as Puritans. Through the Puri- tans who settled New England, and later through the Huguenots in the Carolinas, the Scotch Presby- terians in the central colonies, and the Dutch in New York, Calvinism was carried to America, was for long the dominant religious belief, and profoundly colored all early American edu- cation. Lutheranism also came in through the Swedes along the Delaware and the Germans in Pennsylvania, while the Anghcan Church, known in America_as the Episcopalian, came in through the landed aristocracy in Virginia and the later settlers in New York. The early settlement of America was thus a Protestant 1 Like the famous Sentences of Peter Lombard (p. 171), it formed a splendid text- book of the new faith. Calvin based his work on the infallibility of the Bible, as against that of the Church and Pope, and presented, in a remarkably clear and logical manner, the principles of Calvinistic doctrine. Before 1630, as many as seventy-four full editions and fourteen partial editions of the Institutes had been printed, and in nine different languages. ^ This went through seventy-seven editions (fourteen in English) before 1630, and in nearly all the languages of Europe, and was one of four Catechisms, one of which was required of all Oxford undergraduates in 1578. It was adopted by the Scotch, Huguenot, French-Swiss, and Walloon (Dutch) churches, and was widely used in Holland, England, and America. (See " Calvin and Calvinism," in Monroe's Cyclo- pedia of Education, vol. i.) * By 1560 the Calvinists had two thousand houses for religious worship in France, and demanded reUgious freedom. In 1562 the persecutions began in earnest, and for the next thirty-six years religious warfare ruled in France. In 1598 the Edict cf Nantes established religious freedom, though this was revoked in 1685. 300 HISTORY OF EDUCATION settlement, while the migration to America of large numbers of peoples from CathoHc lands is a relatively recent move- ment. Religious freedom and religious warfare. Of course the revolt against the authority of the Church, once inaugurated, could not be stopped. The same right to freedom in religious belief which Luther claimed for himself and his followers had of course to be extended to others. \This the Protestants were not much more willing to grant than had been the Catholics before them. The world was not as yet ready for such rapid advances, and religious toleration,^ though established in principle by the revolt, was an idea to which the world has required a long time to become accus- tomed. It took two centuries of intermittent religious warfare, during whicn Catholic and Protestant waged war on one another, plundered and pillaged lands, and murdered one another for the salvation of their respective souls, before the people of western Europe were wilhng to stop fighting and begin to recognize for others that which they were fighting for for themselves. When religious tolerance finally became estabHshed by law, civilization had made a tremendous advance. The religious wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were waged with greatest intensity in Spain, France, and the German States, though no land wholly escaped. The result of this religious strife was to check the progress of the higher civiliza- tion of the people for nearly three centuries, and to delay greatly the coming of the great blessing of freedom in matters of reli- gious belief, while the poverty and misery resulting from the devas- tation of these rehgious wars left neither the energy for nor the interest in educational or political progress. The struggle to suppress Lutheranism in Germany was post- poned for twenty-five years — • due to outside pressure, chiefly that of the Turks in southeastern Europe — from the time that the Diet of Worms decided against Luther (15 21). Finally, in 1546, the German-Spanish Emperor Charles V felt at last free to proceed against the Lutheran heresy, and from the breaking-out in that year of the struggle between Charles and the German 1 Even the celebrated Peace of Augsburg (1555) which left to each German prince and each town and knight the liberty to choose between the beliefs of the Roman Church and the Lutheran, provided only for religious freedom for the rulers, and only one alternative. Calvinists, for example, hated equally by Catholic and Lutheran, were not included. So deeply was the idea of Church and State as insep- arable embedded in the minds of men that no provision was made for the religious freedom of subjects. This was a much later evolution, coming first in America. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 301 princes who sided with Luther, to the Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, represents a century of almost continual religious warfare in the German States. The worst of the period was the last thirty years, when rehgious ferocity and hatred reached its climax in the period known as the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Though fought on German soil, France, Spain, and Sweden were deeply involved in the struggle. It left Germany a ruin. From the most prosperous State in Europe, in 1550, Germany was so re- duced that it was not until the second third of the nineteenth cen- tury that central and southern Germany had fully recovered. More than half the population and two thirds of the movable property were swept away. The people were so reduced by star- vation that cannibalism was openly practiced. But one tenth of the inhabitants of the Duchy of Wiirtemberg were left alive. Land tilled for centuries became a wilderness, thousands of towns were destroyed, whole trades were swept away, and the genera- tion which survived the war came to manhood without knowing education, religion, law and order, or organized industry. Not until the end of the eighteenth century was Germany again able to make any significant contribution to educa- tion or civiHzation, and not until the middle of the nineteenth century did parts of Germany come to have as many people or cattle as before this devastating religious war broke out. From 1560 to 1629 in France, also, a period of carnage and devastation prevailed, due to an attempt to exterminate the Calvinistic Huguenots. In the massacre of Saint Bar- tholomew's eve, in 1572, ten thousand Protes- tants are said to have perished in Paris alone, and forty-five thousand additional outside the city. Though the Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted rehgious toleration, this never was fully accomphshed, and in 1685 the Edict was re- voked. The Huguenots were now given fif- Fig. 91. A French teen days to become Cathohcs or leave France. Protestant (c. 1600) The demands were enforced with great se- d^\rtillerie Paris verity, and the sect, which embraced one tenth of the population of France, was stamped out and France became once more a Catholic country. In a short time four hundred thousand thrifty and highly intelhgent Huguenots had 302 HISTORY OF EDUCATION left France for other lands. In Southern German lands, Holland, England, and America many found a new home. Changed attitude toward the old problems. The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which ended the bloody Thirty Years' War, it- self the culmination of a century of bitter and vindictive religious strife, has often been regarded as both an end and a beginning. Though the persecution of minorities for a time continued, es- pecially in France, this treaty marked the end of the attempt of the Church and the Catholic States to stamp out Protestant- ism on the continent of Europe. The religious independence of the Protestant States was now acknowledged, and the begin- nings of religious freedom were established by treaty. This new freedom of conscience, once definitely begun for the ruHng princes, was certain in time to be extended further. Ultimately the day must come, though it might be centuries away, when individual as well as national freedom in rehgious matters must be granted as a right, and one of the greatest blessings of mankind finally be firmly established by law.^ The end of the period of bitter religious warfare, too, was fol- lowed by a reaction against religious intolerance which contained within itself the germs of much future liberty and human prog- ress. Paulsen has well expressed the change, in the following words: ^ The long and terrible wars to which the ecclesiastical schism had everywhere given rise — the wars of the Huguenots in France, the Thirty Years War, and the Civil War in England — ■ had, in the end, created a feeling of indifference toward religious and theological prob- lems. Did it really pay, people asked themselves, to kill each other and devastate each other's countries for the sake of such questions? Could these problems ever be decided at all? If not, was it not much more reasonable to let everyone believe what he could, and, instead of wasting breath and arguments, convincing to nobody, on transubstan- tiation, predestination, and real presence, to cultivate sciences which really placed lasting and verifiable truths within the reach of the understanding, such as mathematics and natural philosophy, geog- raphy and astronomy? Here were sciences which offered knowledge to the mind that could be turned to account in this earthly life, whereas those transcendental speculations were of no use at all. . . . Toward the end of the seventeenth century this spirit of indifference and scep- ticism toward theology, and sometimes even toward religion in general ^ In the proposals for the League of Nations Covenant, made at the conclusion of the World War, in 19 19, religious freedom, for all persons in any State in the League was finally decided to be a necessary principle for any world league. 2 Paulsen, Fr., German Education, Past and Present, pp. 96-97. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 303 and the future world, formed a most important factor in the changing intellectual attitude of the times. ^ Physically exhausted, and recognizing at last the futility of fire and sword as means for stamping out opposing rehgious convic- tions, but still thoroughly convinced as to the correctness of their respective points of view, both sides now settled down to another century and more of religious hatred, suspicion, and intolerance, and to a close supervision of both preaching and teaching as safe- guards to orthodoxy. During the century following the Peace of Westphalia greater reliance than ever before was placed on the school as a means for protecting the faith, and the pulpit and the school now took the place of the sword and the torch as convert- ing and holding agents. Religious reform. The effect of the Protestant Revolts on the Church was good. For the first time in history Catholic church- men learned that they could not rely on the general acceptance of any teachings they promulgated, or any practices they saw fit to approve. The spirit of inquiry which had been aroused by the methods of the humanists would in the future force them to ex- plain and to defend. If they were to make headway against this great rebellion they must reform abuses, purify church practices, and see that monks and clergy led upright Christian lives. Un- less the mass of the people could be made loyal to the Church by reverence for it, further revolts and the ultimate break-up of the institution were in prospect. " The Council of Trent (1545-63) at last undertook the reform which should have come at least a cen- tury before. Better men were selected for the church offices, and bishops and clergy were ordered to reside in their proper places and to preach regularly. New religious orders arose, whose pur- pose was to prepare priests better for the service of the Church and for ministry to the needs of the people. Irritating practices were abandoned. The laws and doctrines of the Church were re- stated, in new and better form. Moral reforms were instituted. In most particulars the reforms forced by the work of Luther were thorough and complete, and since the middle of the sixteenth cen- tury the Catholic Church, in morals and government, has been a reformed Church. Above all, attention was turned to education rather than force as a means of winning and holding territory. A 1 The terms atheist and atheism now arose, as the modern substitutes foiTexcom- munication and imprisonment, and during the next two centuries these were applied, by the churchmen of the time, to almost every prominent philosopher and scientist and independent thinker. 304 HISTORY OF EDUCATION rigid quarantine was, however, established in Catholic lands against the further spread of heretical text books and literature. Especially was the reading of the Bible, which had been the cause of all the trouble, for a time rigidly prohibited.^ Such, in brief, are the historical facts connected with the various revolts against authority which spUt the Roman Catholic Church in the sbcteenth century. These have been stated, as briefly and as impartially as possible, because so much of future educational history arose out of the conditions resulting from these revolts. The early educational history of America is hardly understand- able without some knowledge of the religious forces awakened by the work of the Protestants. To the educational significance and consequences of these revolts we next turn. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. How do you explain the difference in the effect, on the scholars of the time, of the Revival of Learning in Italy and in northern lands? 2. How do you explain the serious church opposition to the different at- tempts of northern scholars to try to turn the Church back to the simpler religious ideals and practices of early Christianity? 3. Explain how opposition to the practices of the Church could be organ- ized into a pohtical force. 4. Explain the analogy of a heretic in the fifteenth century and an anarchist of to-day. 5. Assuming that the Church had encouraged progressive evolution as a policy, and thus warded off revolution and disruption, in what ways might history have been different? 6. How can the bitter opposition to the reading and study of the Bible be explained? 7. Show the analogy between the freedom of thinking demanded by Luther, and that obtained three centuries earlier by the scholars in the rising universities. Why were the universities not opposed? 8. Enumerate the changes which had taken place in western Europe be- tween the days of Wycliffe and Huss and the time of Luther, which en- abled him to succeed where they had failed. 9. Explain in what ways the Protestant Revolt was essentially a revolution in thinking, and that, once started, certain other consequences must inevitably follow in time. 10. Was it perfectly natural that the reformers should refuse to their follow- ers the same right to revolt, and separate off into smaller and still differ- ent sects, which they had contended for for themselves? Why? 1 Very severe measures were enacted to prevent the spread of the contagion of heresy. All Protestant literature was forbidden circulation in Catholic lands. The printing-press, as a disseminator of heresy, was placed under strict license. Certain books were ordered burned. Perhaps the most extreme and ruthless measure was the prohibition, under penalty of deathj of the reading of the Bible. That this harsh act was carried out the record of martyrs shows. As one example may be mentioned the sister of the Flemish artist Matsys and her husband, he being decapitated and she buried alive in the square fronting the cathedral at Lou vain, in 1543, for having been caught reading the sacred Book. THE REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY 305 11. On what basis could Catholic and Protestant wage war on one another to try to enforce their own particular belief? 12. Compare the individualism of the Greek Sophists with that of the Protestant reformers. Did Greece attempt to deal with them in the same way? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 147. WycHffe: On the Enemies of Christ. 148. WycHffites: Attack the Pope and the Practice of Indulgences. 149. Council of Constance: List of Church Abuses demanding Reform. 150. Geiler: A German Priest's View as to Coming Reform. 151. Luther: Illustrations from his Ninety-Five Theses. 152. Saint Thomas Aquinas: On the Treatment of Heresy. , 153. Henry VIII: The EngUsh Act of Supremacy. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Was Wycliffe's attack (147) as direct and fierce as Luther's (151)? 2. Explain the difference in the results attained by the two attacks? 3. Was the challenge of Wycliffe's followers on indulgences (148) any less direct than that of Luther (151)? 4. Does the list of items drawn up by the Church Council of Constance (149) indicate a general recognition of the need for extensive Church reform? 5. Try to state the possible change in the progress of human history and civilization, had the demands of the Council of Constance (149) been carried out in good faith. 6. Considering the nature of heresy at the time, does the extract from Thomas Aquinas (152) indicate a narrow or a Hberal attitude? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Beard, Charles. Martin Luther and the Reformation. Beard, Charles. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought attd Knowledge. (Hibbert Lectures, 1883.) Fisher, George P. History of the Reformation. Gasquet, F. A. Eve of the Reformation. Johnson, A. H. Europe in the Sixteenth Century. Perry, George G. History of the Reformation in England. CHAPTER XIII EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLTS I. AMONG LUTHERANS AND ANGLICANS Ultimate consequences of the break with authority. That the Protestant Revolts in the different lands produced large immedi- ate and permanent changes in the character of the education pro- vided in the revolting States is no longer accepted as being the case. In every phase of educational histoty growth has pro- ceeded by evolution rather than by revolution, and this applies to the Protestant Revolts as well as to other revolutions. Many changes naturally resulted at once, some of which were good and some of which were not, while others which were enthusiastically attempted failed of results because they involved too great ad- vances for the time. Much, too, of the progress that was inaugu- rated was lost in the more than a century of rehgious strife which followed, and the additional century and more of suspicion, ha- tred, religious formalism, and strict religious conformity which followed the period of religious strife. The educational signifi- cance of the reformation movement, though, lies in the far-reach- ing nature of its larger results and ultimate consequences rather than in its immediate accomplishments, and because of this the importance of the immediate changes effected have been over- estimated by Protestants and underestimated by Catholics. The dominant idea underlying Luther's break with authority, and for that matter the revolts of Wychffe, Huss, Zwingh, and Calvin as well, was that of substituting the authority of the Bible in religious matters for the authority of the Church; of substitut- ing individual judgment in the interpretation of the Scriptures and in formulating decisions as to Christian duty for the collective judgment of the Church; and of substituting individual respon- sibihty for salvation, in Luther's conception of justification through personal faith and prayer, for the collective responsibility for salvation of the Church.^ Whether one believes that the 1 Dr. Philip Sciiaff, the Church historian, says: " Schleiermacher reduced the whole difference between Romanism and Protestantism to the formula, ' Romanism makes the relation of the individual to Christ depend on his relation to the Church: Protestantism, vice versa, makes the relation of the individual to the Church depend on his relation to Christ.' " (Quoted by G. B. Adams, from a pamphlet, Luther Symposiac, Union Seminary, iS8,^.) RESULTS AMONG LUTHERANS 307 Protestant position was sound or not depends almost entirely upon one's religious training and beliefs, and need not concern us here, as it makes no difference with the course of history. We can believe either way, and the course that history took remains the same. The educational consequences of the position taken by the Protestants, though, are important. Under the older theory of collective judgment and collective responsibiHty for salvation — that is, the judgment of the Church rather than that of individuals — it was not important that more than a few be educated. Under the new theory of individual judgment and individual responsibility promulgated by the Prot- estants it became very important, in theory at least, that every one should be able to read the word of God, participate intelli- gently in the church services, and shape his life as he understood was in accordance with the commandments of the Heavenly Father. This undoubtedly called for the education of all. Still more, from individual participation in the services of the Church, with freedom of judgment and personal responsibiHty in religious matters, to individual participation in and responsibility for the conduct of government was not a long step, and the rise of demo- cratic governments and the provision of universal education were the natural and ultimate corollaries, though not immediately attained, of the Protestant position regarding the interpretation of the Scriptures and the place and authority of the Church. This was soon seen and acted upon. The great struggle of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in consequence, became one for reli- gious freedom and toleration ; the great struggle of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has been for political freedom and poUt- ical rights ; to supply universal education has been left to the nine- teenth and the twentieth centuries. Schools and learning before the sixteenth century. After the rise of the universities, as we have seen, many Latin secondary schools were founded in western Europe, and a more extensive development of the cathedral and other larger church schools took place. Rashdall (R. 154) thinks that by 1400 the opportunity to attend a Latin grammar school was rather common, an opinion in which Leach and Nohle concur. After the humanistic learning had spread to northern lands these opportunities were increased and improved. In England, for example, some two hundred and fifty Latin grammar schools are known to have been in existence by 1500. In Germany, as we have seen (chapter xi)^ 308 HISTORY OF EDUCATION many such schools were founded before the time of Luther. These offered a form of advanced education, in the language of the educated classes of the time, for those intending to go to the universities to prepare for service in either Church or State, and for teaching. The Church had also for long maintained or exer- cised control over a number of types of more elementary schools — parish, song, chantry, hospital (chapter vii) — the chief pur- pose of which was to prepare for certain phases of the church serv- ice, or to enter the secondary schools. These schools, too, were taught partly or wholly in Latin. In consequence, while Latin schools came to be rather widely diffused, schools in the vernacu- lar hardly existed outside of a few of the larger commercial cities of the north. Even the burgh and guild schools (p. 205), estab- lished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, were essentially Latin schools. In the commercial cities of the North, however, though often only after quite a struggle with the local church authorities, which throughout the Middle Ages had maintained a monopoly of all instruction as a protection to orthodoxy, different types of ele- mentary vernacular schools had been developed to meet local commercial needs^such as writing- schools to train writers,^ and reckoning-schools to train young men to handle accounts.^ Read- ing, manners, and religion were also taught in these schools. Other city schools, largely Latin in type, but containing some vernacular instruction to meet local business needs not met by i;he cathedral or parish schools of the city, were also developed. Up to the time of the Protestant Revolts, however, there was almost no instruction in the vernacular outside of the commercial cities, nor was there any particular demand for such instruction ^ The importance of writing before the days of printing can readily be appreci- ated. Just as the monk was carefully trained to copy manuscript, so the clerk for a city or a business house needed to be carefully trained to read and write. Writing formed a distinct profession, there being the "city writer" (city clerk, we say), Latin and vernacular secretaries, traveling writers, writing teachers, etc. Writing masters sometimes taught reading also, but usually not. In some French cities the guild of writing masters was granted an official monopoly of the privilege of teaching writing in the city. ''■ Reckoning schools were to meet direct commercial needs in the cities, and were seldom found outside of commercial towns. The arithmetic taught in the Latin schools as a part of the Seven Liberal Arts was largely theoretical; the arithmetic in the reckoning schools was practical. The work of the professional reckoner in time developed similarly to that of the professional writer, and often the two were combined in one person. When employed by a city he was known as the city clerk. In 1482 the first reckoning book to be pubhshed in Germany appeared, filled with merchant's rules and applied problems in denominate numbers and exchange. See an interesting monograph by Jackson, L. L., Sixteenth Century ArUhmetic (Trs. College Pubs., No. 8, 1906). RESULTS AMONG LUTHERANS 309 elsewhere. If one wished to be a scholar, a statesman, a diplo- mat, a teacher, a churchman, or to join a religious brotherhood, he needed to study the learned language of the time, — Latin. German French (From a woodcut, printed at (After a drawing by Soquand, Nuremberg, 1505) 1528) Fig. 92. Two Early Vernacular Schools With this he could be at home with people of his kind anywhere in western Europe. The vernacular he could leave to tradesmen, craftsmen, soldiers, laborers, and the servant classes. These people, on the other hand, had practically no need for a written language, aside from a very small amount for business needs. Even here the sign of the cross would do. There were but few books written in the vernacular tongues, and these had to be copied by hand and, in consequence, were scarce and expen- sive. There were no newspapers (first newspaper, Venice, 1563) or magazines. Spectacles for reading were not known until the end of the thirteenth century, and were not common for two cen- turies after that. There was httle knowledge that could not pass from mouth to mouth. Such little vernacular literature as did exist was transmitted orally, and no great issue which appealed to the imagination of the masses had as yet come to the front to create any strong desire for the ability to read. As a result, the educa- tion of the masses was in hand labor, the trades, and religion, and not in books, and the need for book education was scarcely felt. 310 HISTORY OF EDUCATION A new demand for vernacular schools. The invention of print- ing and the Protestant Revolts were in a sense two revolutionary forces, which in combination soon produced vast and far-reaching changes. The discovery of the process of making paper and the invention of the printing-press changed the whole situation as to books. These could now be reproduced rapidly and in large num- bers, and could be sold at but a small fraction of their former cost. The printing of the Bible in the common tongue did far more to stimulate a desire to be able to read than did the Revival of Learning (Rs. 155, 170). Then came the religious discussions of the Reformation period, which stirred intellectually the masses of the people in northern lands as nothing before in history had ever done. In an effort to reach the people the reformers dtigi- nated small and cheap pamphlets, written in the vernacular, and these, sold for a penny or two, were peddled in the market-places and from house to house. While there had been imperfect trans- lations of the Bible in German before Luther's, his translation (New Testament, 1522) was direct from the original Greek and so carefully done that it virtually fixed the character of the German language.^ Calvin's Institutes of Christianity (French edition, 1 541) in a similar manner fixed the character of the French lan- guage,^ and Tyndale's translation of the New Testament (1526) was into such simple and homely language ^ that it fixed the char- acter of the English tongue, and was made the basis for the later Authorized translation. The leaders of the Protestant Revolts, too, in asserting that each person should be able to read and study the Scriptures as a 1 Luther tried to make a translation so simple that even the unlearned might profit by listening to its reading. To insure that his translation should be in a lan- guage that would be perfectly clear and natural to the common people, he went about asking questions of laborers, children, and mothers to secure good colloquial expressions. ' It sometimes took him weeks to secure the right word, but so satis- factory was the result that it fixed the standard for modern German, and still stands as the most conspicuous landmark in the history of the German language. 2 The French version of this great original work represents the first use of French as a language for an argumentative treatise, and, as Cahdn's work was more widely discussed than any other Protestant theological treatise, it did much to fix the char- acter of this national language. ' "Tyndale's translation is not only the first which goes back to the original tongues, but it is so noble a translation in its mingled tenderness and majesty,_its Saxon simplicity, and its smooth, beautiful diction that it has been but little im- proved on since. Every succeeding version is little more than a revision of Tyn- dale's." (J. Paterson Smyth, Ho%v We Got Our Bible.) The following extract from Matthew is illustrative: "O oure father which art in heven, halewed be thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Thy wyll be fulfilled, as well in erth, as hit ys in heven. Geve vs this daye oure dayly breade. And forgeve vs cure treaspases, even as we forgeve them whych treaspas ys. Lede vs nott in to temptacion, but delyvre vs from yvell. Amen." RESULTS AMONG LUTHERANS 311 means to personal salvation, created an entirely new demand, in Protestant lands, for elementary schools in the vernacular. Here- tofore the demand had been for schools only for those who ex- pected to become scholars or leaders in Church or State, while the masses of the people had Httle or no interest in learning. Now a new class became desirous of learning to read, not Latin, but the language which they had already learned to speak. WyclifEe, \ \ '. yQ bigytmjmg-r^ot) made 06 tumitlimrae' ^m 5^2^ This marks the real beginning of the German state school systems. Three classes of schools were provided for: ^^sch'o ^ ^.^.(T^Elementary schools, for both sexes, in which were to be taught ''--fading, writmg, reckoning, singing, and religion, all in the vernacular.^ These were to be provided in every village in the Duchy. (2) Latin schools {Parlicularschulen) , with five or six classes, in which the ability to read, write, and speak Latin, together with the elements of mathematics and Greek in the last year, were to be taught. (3) The universities or colleges of the State, of which the University of Tubingen (f. 1476) and the higher school at Stuttgart were declared to be constituent parts. Acting through the church authorities, these schools were to be under the supervision of the State. The example of Wiirttemberg was followed by a number of the smaller German States. Ten years later Brunswick followed the same plan, and in 1580 Saxony revised its school organization after the state-system plan thus established. In 1619 the Duchy of Weimar added compulsory education in the vernacular for all children from six to twelve years of age. In 1642, the same date as the first Massachusetts school law (chapter xv), Duke Ernest the Pious of little Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg estabHshed the first school system of a modern type in German lands. An intelligent and ardent Protestant, he attempted to elevate his miserable peasants, after the ravages of the Thirty Years' War, by a wise economic administration and universal education. With the help of a disciple of the greatest educational thinker of the period, John Amos Comenius (chapter xvii), he worked out a School Code {Schuhnethode, 1642) which was the pedagogic masterpiece of the seventeenth century (R. 163). In it he pro- vided for compulsory school attendance, and regulated the details of method, grading, and courses of study. Teachers were paid sal- aries which for the time were large, pensions for their widows and children were provided, and textbooks were prepared and sup- plied free. So successful were his efforts that Gotha became one of the most prosperous little spots in Europe, and it was said 3i8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION that "Duke Ernest's peasants were better educated than noble- men anywhere else." By the middle of the seventeenth century most of the German States had followed the Wurtemberg plan of organization. Even Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, which was a Catholic State, or- dered the establishment of "German schools" throughout his realm, with instruction in reading, writing, and the CathoHc creed, the schools to be responsible through the Church to the State. Protestant state school organization. We see here in German lands a new, and, for the future, a very important tendency. Throughout all the long Middle Ages the Church had absolutely controlled all education. From the suppression of the pagan schools, in 529 a.d., to the time of the Reformation there had been no one to dispute with the Church its complete monopoly of edu- cation. Even Charlemagne's attempt at the stimulation of edu- cational activity had been clearly within the lines of church con- trol. Until the beginnings of the modern States, following the Crusades, the Church had been the State as well, and for long humbled any ruler who dared dispute its power. In the later Middle Ages nobles and rising parliaments had at times sided with the king against the Church — warnings of a changing Europe that the Church should have heeded — but there had been no serious trouble with the rising nationalities before the sixteenth century. Now, in Protestant lands, all was changed. The authority of the Church was overthrown. By the Peace of Augs- burg (1555) each German prince and town and knight were to be permitted to make choice between the Catholic and Lutheran faith, and all subjects were to accept the faith of their ruler or emigrate. This established freedom of conscience for the rulers, but for no one else. It also gave them control of both religious and secu- lar affairs, thus uniting in the person of the ruler, large or small, control of both Church and State. This was as much progress toward religious freedom as the world was then ready for, as Church and State had been united for so many centuries that a complete separation of the two was almost inconceivable. It was left for the United States (1787) to completely divorce Church and State, and to reduce the churches to the control of purely spiritual affairs. The German rulers, however, were now free to develop schools RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 319 as they saw fit, and, through their headship of the Church in their principality or duchy or city, to control education therein. We have here the beginnings of the transfer of educational control from the Church to the State, Roman Catholic CHURCH State School The Middle Ages State _ Church - School Early Reformation Period. Bujrenhagen Melanchthon Church - School Later Reformation Period. Saxony Wiirtemberg Gotha Bavaria the ultimate fruition of which came first in German lands, and which was to be the great work of the nineteenth century. It was through the kingly or ducal headship of the Church, and through it of the educa- tional system of the kingdom or duchy, that the great edu- cational development in Wiir- temberg, Saxony, and Gotha was brought about by their rul- ers, and it was through the rul- ing princes that the German Universities were reformed ^ dnd the new Protestant uni- versities established.^ Even in Catholic States, as Bavaria, the German state-control idea took root early. Many of the important features of the modern German school systems are to be seen in their beginnings in these Lutheran state-church schools. GERMAN STATES German Schools Lutheran Church Catholic Church The Nineteenth Century Prussia Saxony Wurtembargf Bavaria Baden Fig. 96. Evolution of German State School Control 2 . A nglican foundations The Reformation and education in England. The Reformation in England took a very different direction from what it did in Germany, and its educational results in consequence were very different. In England the reform movement was much more poHtical in character than in German lands. Henry VIII was no Protestant, in the sense that Luther or Calvin or Zwingli or Knox ^ Wittenberg, founded in 1502 as a new-learning university, and in which Luther, Melanchthon, and Bugenhagen were professors, was the first of the universities to become Protestant. Gradually the other universities in Protestant Germany threw off their allegiance to the Pope, and took on that of the ruUng prince. " The first Protestant university to be founded was Marburg, in Hesse, in 1527. When this later went over to Calvinism, a new university was founded at Giessen, in 1607, by a migration of the Lutheran professors. Other Protestant universities founded were Konigsberg (1544) Jena (.1556), Helmstadt (1576), and the free-city universities of Altdorf (1573), Strassburg (1621), Rinteln (1621), Duisberg (1655) %nd Kiel (1665). The support of these came, to a considerable extent, from old mo- nastic or ecclesiastical foundations which had been dissolved after the Reformation 320 HISTORY OF EDUCATION was. He distrusted their teachings, and was always anxious to explain objections to the old faith. The people of England as a body, too, had been much less antagonized by the exactions of the Roman Church and the immoral lives of the monks and Roman clergy; the new learning had awakened there somewhat less of a spirit of moral and religious reform ; and the reformation movement of Luther, after a decade and a half, had roused no general interest. The change from the Roman Catholic faith to an independent English Church, when made, was in conse- quence much more nominal than had been the case in German lands. As a result the severance from Rome was largely carried out by the ruling classes, and the masses of the people were in no way deeply interested in it. The English National Church merely took over most of the functions formerly exercised by the Roman Church, in general the same priests remained in charge of the parish churches, and the church doctrines and church practices were not greatly altered by the change in allegiance. The changing of the service from Latin to English was perhaps the most important change. "> The English Church, in spirit and serv- ice, has in consequence retained the greatest resemblance to the Roman Catholic Church of any Protestant denomination. In particular, the Lutheran idea of personal responsibility for salva- tion, and hence the need of all being taught to read, made scarcely any impression in England. By the time of Elizabeth (i 558-1 603) it had become a settled conviction with the English as a people that the provision of edu- cation was a matter for the Church, and was no business of the State, and this attitude continued until well into the nineteenth century. The English Church merely succeeded the Roman Church in the control of education, and now licensed the teach- ers (R. 168), took their oath of allegiance (R. 167), supervised prayers (R. 169) and the instruction, and became very strict as to conformity to the new faith (Rs. 164-166), while the schools, aside from the private tuition and endowed schools, continued to be maintained chiefly from religious sources, charitable funds, and tuition fees. Private tuition schools in time flourished, and the tutor in the home became the rule with families of means. The poorer people largely did without schooling, as they had done for 'Centuries before. As a consequence, the educational results of the change in the headship of the Church relate almost entirely to grammar schools and to the universities, and not to elementary RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 321 education. The development of anything approaching a system of elementary schools for England was consequently left for the educational awakening of the latter half of the nineteenth cen- tury. When this finally came the development was due to political and economic, and not to religious causes. The EngUsh Act of Supremacy (R. 153), which severed England from Rome, had been passed by parliament in 1534. In 1536 an English Bible was issued to the churches,^ the services were or- dered conducted in Enghsh, and in 1549 the Enghsh Prayer Book, Psalter, and Catechism were put into use. In 1538 the Enghsh Bi- ble was ordered chained in the churches,- that the people might read it (R. 170), and the people were ordered instructed in Enghsh in the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments. The change of the service to Enghsh was perhaps the largest educational gain the masses of the people obtained as the result of the Reformation in England.^ Suppression of the monasteries and the founding of grammar schools. Between 1536 and 1539 the most striking result of the Reformation in England took place, — the dissolution of the rnonasteries. Their doubtful reputation enabled Henry and Par- 1 This was in response to a petition to the King, nearly two years before. The King finally granted the request, "though maintaining that he was not compelled by God's Word to set forth the Scriptures in English, yet 'of his own KberaHty and goodness was and is pleased that his said loving subjects should have and read the same in convenient places and times.' " (Procter and Frere, History of the Book of Common Prayer, p. 30.) 2 "The injunctions directed that 'a Bible of the largest volume in English '_ be set up in some convenient place in every church, where it might be read, only with- out noise, or disturbance of any public service, and \vithout any disputation, or exposition." {Ibid., p. 30.) ^ The right to read the Bible was later revoked, during the closing years of Henry VIII's reign (d. 1547), by an act of Parliament, in 1543, which provided that "no woman (.unless she be a noble or gentle woman), no artificers, apprentices, journeymen, servingmen, under the degree of yeomen . . . husbandmen, or laborers " should read or use any part of the Bible under pain of fines and imprisonment. Fig. 97. A Chained Bible (Redrawn from an old print showing a chained Bible in a church in York, England) 322 HISTORY OF EDUCATION liament to confiscate their property, and "the dead hand of monasticism was removed from a third of the lands of England." There were precedents for this in pre-Reformation times, the church authorities themselves having converted several monastic foundations into grammar schools. At one blow Parliament now suppressed the monasteries of all England, some eight thousand monks and nuns were driven out, many of the monasteries, nun- neries, and abbey churches were destroyed, and the monastic lands were forfeited to the Crown. It was a ruthless proceeding, though in the long course of history beneficial to the nation. Much of the land was given to influential followers of the king in return for their support, and a large part of the proceeds from sales was spent on coast defenses and a navy, though more than was formerly thought to be the case was used in refounding gram- mar schools. A number of the monasteries were converted into collegiate churches, with schools attached. Some of the alms- houses and hospitals confiscated at the same time were similarly used, and the cathedral churches in nine EngHsh cities were taken from the monks (R. 171), who had driven out the regular clergy during the tenth to the tw'elfth centuries, and were refounded as cathedral church schools. The cathedral church school at Can- terbury, which Henry refounded in 1541 as a humanistic grammar school, with a song school attached, and for the government of which he made detailed provisions (R. 172), is typical of a school which had fallen into bad repute (R. 171), and was later refounded as a result of the confiscation of the monastic property. The College of Christ Church at Oxford, and Trinity College at Cam- bridge, were also richly endowed from the monastic proceeds. In 1546 another Act of Parliament vested the title of all chan- try foundations, some two hundred in number, in the Crown that they might be "altered, changed, and amended to convert them to good and godly uses as in the erecting of grammar schools," but so pressing became the royal need for money that, after their sale, the intended endowments were never made. As the song schools had been estabhshed originally to train a few boys "to help a priest sing mass," and as the service was now to be read rather than sung, the need for choristers largely disappeared. Being regarded as nurseries of superstition, they were abandoned without regret. Result of the Reformation in England. The result of the change in rehgious allegiance in England was a material decrease Plate 7. The Free School at Harrow One of the "Great Public" Grammar Schools of England. Founded in 1571, in the reign of Elizabeth; building finished in 1593. The names of famous "old boys" are seen lettered on the wall at the back. Pupils are seen seated in "forms," reciting to the masters. (From a picture published by Ackermann, in his illustrated History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, Westminster, etc. London, 1816.) RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 323 in the number of places offering grammar-school advantages, though with a material improvement in the quality of the instruc- tion provided, and a consequent decrease in the number of boys given free education in the refounded grammar schools. As for elementary education, the abolition of the song, chantry, and hospital schools took away most of the elementary schools which had once existed. The clerk of the parish usually replaced them by teaching a certain number of boys "to read Enghsh inteUi- gently instead of Latin unintelligently," many new parish ele- mentary schools were created, especially during the reign of Elizabeth, and in time the dame school, the charity school, the writing school, and apprenticeship training arose (chapter xviii) and became regular English institutions. These types of school- ing constituted almost all the elementary-school advantages pro- vided in England until well into the eighteenth century. The post-Reformation educational energy of England was given to the founding of grammar schools, and during the century and a half before the outbreak of the struggle with James II (1688) to put an end in England for all time to the late-mediseval theory of the divine right of kings, a total of 558 grammar schools were founded or refounded.^ The grammar schools thus founded were, one and all, grammar schools of the reformed humanistic type. What was to be taught in them was seldom mentioned in the foundation articles, as it was assumed that every one knew what a grammar school was, so well by this time had the humanistic type become established. They were one and all modeled after the instruction first provided in Saint Paul's School (p. 275) in London, and such modifications as had been sanctioned with time, and this continued to be the type of English secondary school instruction until well into the nineteenth century. The dominating religious purpose. The religious conflicts fol- lowing the reformation movement everywhere intensified reli- gious prejudices and stimulated religious bigotry. This was soon 1 These were, distributed by reigns, as follows: Henry VIII (1509-1547) 63 schools Edward VI (i547-i553) 5° " Mary (1553-1558) 19 " Elizabeth (,1558-1603) 138 " James I (1603-1625) Charles I (1625-1649) 142 " Protectorate (1649- 1660) Charles II (1660-1685) James II (1685-1688) 146 " 324 HISTORY OF EDUCATION reflected in the schools of all lands. In England, after the resto- ration under Catholic Mary (1553-58) and the final reestablish- ment of the English Church under Elizabeth (1558), all school instruction became narrowly religious and English Protestant In type. By the middle of the seventeenth century the grammar schools had become nurseries of the faith, as well as very formal and discipHnary in character. In England, perhaps more than in any other Protestant country, Christianity came to be identified with a strict conformity to the teachings and practices of the Established Church, and to teach that particular faith became one of the particular missions of all types of schools. Bishops were instructed to hunt out schoolmasters who were unsound in the faith (R. 164 a), and teachers were deprived of their positions for nonconformity (R. 164 b). More effectively to handle the problem a series of laws were enacted, the result of which was to institute such an inquisitorial policy that the position of school- master became almost intolerable. In 1580 a law (R. 165) im- posed a fine of £10 on any one employing a schoolmaster of unsound faith, with disability and imprisonment for the school- master so offending; in 1603 another law required a license from the bishop on the part of all schoolmasters as a condition prece- dent to teaching; in 1662 the obnoxious Act of Uniformity (R. 166) required every schoolmaster in any type of school, and all private tutors, to subscribe to a declaration that they would conform to the liturgy of the Church, as established by law, with fine and imprisonment for breaking the law; in 1665 the so-called "Five- Mile Act" forbade Dissenters to teach in any school, under pen- alty of a fine of £40; and in that same year bishops were instructed to see that the said schoolmasters, ushers, schoolmistresses, and instructors, or teachers of youth, publicly or privately, do themselves frequent the public prayers of the Church, and cause their scholars to do the same; and whether they appear well affected to the Government of his Majesty, and the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. This attitude also extended upward to the universities as well, where nonconformists were prohibited by law (1558) from re- ceiving degrees, a condition not remedied until 187 1 (R. 305). ^ The great purpose of instruction came to be to support the ■ authority and the rule of the Established Church, and the almost complete purpose of elementary instruction came to be to train pupils to read the Catechism, the Prayer Book, and the Bible. RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 325 This intense religious attitude in England was reflected in early colonial America, as we shall see in a following chapter. The Poor-Law legislation, and its educational significance. After the thirteenth century, due in part to the rise of the wool industry in Flanders, England began to change from a farming to a sheep-raising country. Accompanying this decline in the importance of farming there had been a slow but gradual growth of trade and manufacturing in the cities, and to the cities the sur- plus of rural peasantry began to drift. The cost of living also in- creased rapidly after the fifteenth century. As a result there was a marked shifting of occupations, much unemployment, and a constantly increasing number of persons in need of poor-relief. In the time of Elizabeth (1558-1603) it has been estimated that one half the population of England did not have an income suffi- cient for sustenance, and great numbers of children were running about without proper food or care, and growing up in idleness and vice. The situation, which had been growing worse for two centuries, culminated at the time of the Reformation when the religious houses, which had previously provided alms, were confiscated as a result of the reformation activities. The groundwork of the old system of religious charity was thus swept away, and the relation which had for so long existed between prayer and pen- ance and almsgiving and charity was altered. The nation was thus forced to deal with the problem of poor-relief, and with the care of the children of the poor. In the place of the old s5^stem the people were forced, by circumstances, to develop a new con- ception of the State as a community of peoples bound together by community interest, good feeling, charity, and service. As this new conception dawned on the English people, a series of laws were enacted which attempted to provide for the situation which had been created. These were progressive in character, and ranged over much of the sixteenth century. First the poor were restricted from begging, outside of certain specified limits. Next church collections and parish support for the poor were ordered (1553), and the people were to be urged to give. Then workhouses for the poor and their children, and materials with which to work, were ordered provided, and those persons of means who would not give freely were to be cited before the bishop first (R. 173), and the justices later, and if necessary forcibly assessed (1563). The next step was to permit the local authorities to 326 HISTORY OF EDUCATION raise needed funds by strictly local taxation (1572). In 1601 the last step was taken, when the compulsory taxation of all persons of property was ordered to provide the necessary poor- relief , and the excessive burdens of one parish were to be shared by neighbor- ing parishes. Thus, after a long period of slowly evolving legis- lation (R. 173), the English Poor-Law of 1601 (R. 174) finally gave expression to the following principles: 1. The compulsory care of the poor, as an obligation of the State. 2. The compulsory apprenticeship of the children of the poor, male and female, to learn a useful trade. 3. The obligation of the master to train his apprentices in a trade. 4. The obligation of the overseers of the poor to supply, where neces- sary, the opportunity and the materials for such training of the children of the poor. 5. The compulsory taxation of all persons of property to provide the necessary funds for such a purpose, and without reference to any benefits derived from the taxation. 6. The excessive burdens of any one parish to be pooled throughout the hundred or county. In this compulsory apprenticeship of the children of the poor, with the obligation imposed that such children must be trained in a trade and in proper living, with general taxation of those of property to provide workhouses and materials for such a purpose, we have the germ, among English-speaking peoples, of the idea of the general taxation of all persons by the State to provide schools for the children of the State. The apprenticing of the children of the poor to labor and the requirement that they be taught the elements of religion soon became a fi.xed English prac- tice (R. 217), and in the seventeenth century this idea was carried to the American colonies and firmly established there. It was on the foundations of the English Poor-Law of 1601, above stated, that the first Massachusetts law relating to the schooling of all children (1642) was framed (R. 190), but with the significant Calvinistic addition that: 7. " In euery towne ye chosen men" shall see that parents and mas- ters not only train their children in learning and labor, but also " to read & understand the principles of religion & the capitall lawes of this country," with power to impose fines on such as refuse to render accounts concerning their children. RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 327 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Why is progress that is substantial nearlj' always a product of slow rather than rapid evolution? 2. Show why the evolution of many Protestant sects was a natural conse- quence of the position assumed by Luther. What is the ultimate out- come of the process? 3. Why was it not important that more than a few be educated under the older theory of salvation? 4. Show how modern democratic government was a natural consequence of the Protestant position. 5. Why was universal education involved as a later but ultimate conse- quence of the position taken by the Protestants? 6. Explain why the local Church authorities, before 1520, tried so hard to prevent the estabhshment of vernacular schools. 7. Explain why the religious discussions of the Reformation should have so strongly stimulated a desire to read. 8. Explain the fixing in character of the German, French, and English lan- guages by a single book. What had fixed the Italian? 9. Was Luther probably right when he wrote, in 1524, that the schools "were deteriorating throughout Germany"? Why? 10. Give reasons why Luther's appeals for schools were not more fruitful. 11. What was the significance of the position of Luther for the future educa- tion of girls? 12. Was Luther's idea that a clergyman should have had some experience as a teacher a good one, or not? Why? 13. How do you explain Luther's ideas as to couphng up elementary and trade education in his primary schools? 14. Point out the similarity of Luther's scheme for a school system with the German school system as finally evolved (Figure 96). 15. Show how Melanchthon's Saxony Plan differed from Luther's ideas. For the times was it a more practical plan? Why? 16. Explain why the Lutheran idea of personal responsibility for salvation made so little headway in England, and show that the natural educa- tional consequences of this resulted. 17. Show what different conditions were likely to follow, in later centuries, from the different stands taken as to the relation of the State and Church to education by the German people by the middle of the sixteenth century, and by the English at the time of Elizabeth. 18. Compare the origin of the vernacular elementary-school teacher in Germany and England. 19. Leach estimates that, in 1546, there were approximately three hundred grammar schools in England for a total population of approximately two and one half millions. About what opportunities for grammar^ school education did this afford? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro duced : 154. Rashdall: Diffusion of Education in Mediaeval Times. 155. Times: The Vernacular Style of the Translation of the Bible. 156. Luther: To the Mayors and Magistrates of Germany. 15^7- Luther: Dignity and Importance of the Teacher's Work. 328 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 158. Luther: On the Duty of Compelling School Attendance. 159. Hamburg: An Example of a Lutheran Kirchenordnung. 160. Brieg: An Example of a Lutheran Schuleordmmg. 161. Melanchthon: The Saxony School Plan. 162. Raumer: The School System EstabHshed in Wiirtemberg. 163. Duke Ernest: The Schukmeihodus for Gotha. 164. Strype: The Supervision of a Teacher's Acts and Religious Beliefs in England. (c) Letter of Queen's Council on. {b) Dismissal of a Teacher for non-conformity. 165. Elizabeth: Penalties on Non-conforming Schoolmasters. 166. Statutes: English Act of Uniformity of 1662. 167. Carlisle: Oath of a Grammar School Master. 168. Strype: An English Elementary-School Teacher's License. 169. Cowper: Grammar School Statutes regarding Prayers. 170. Green: Effect of the Translation of the Bible into Enghsh. 171. Old MS.: Ignorance of the Monks at Canterbury and Messenden. 172. Parker: Refounding of the Cathedral School at Canterbury, 173. NichoUs: Origin of the English Poor-Law of 1601. 174. Statutes: The English Poor Law of 1601. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. From the selection from Rashdall (154), what do you infer as to the effect of the Reformation on the schools? What kind of schools does Rashdall describe as existing? 2. Contrast the vernacular style of the Bible (155) with the Ciceronian. 3. Characterize the three extracts (156-58) from Luther. 4. How advanced was the ground taken by Luther (158)? Would we ac- cept the logic of his argument to-day? 5. Just what do the Hamburg (159) and Brieg (160) Ordnungen indicate? 6. Compare Melanchthon's Saxony Plan (161) with Sturm's (137) and the French College de Guyenne (136), and grade the three in order of im- portance. 7. Show the close similarity of the Wiirtemberg plan of 1559-65 (162) and a modern German state school system. 8. How advanced for the time was the work of Duke Ernest of Gotha 9. What kind of a school attitude is indicated by the close supervision of Enghsh teachers, as described in 164 and 165? 10. What would be the natural effect on the teaching occupation of such legislation as the Act of Uniformity (166)? 11. Compare the form of hcense of an elementary teacher (168) with a modern form. What have we added and omitted? 12. What do the statutes regarding prayers (169) indicate as to the nature of the grammar schools of the time? 13. Characterize the educational importance of the translations of the Bible into the native tongues (170). 14. What are the marked features of the refounding act (172) for Canter- bury cathedral school? What improvements are indicated? 15. State the steps in the development (173) of the Enghsh Poor-Law of 1601, just what the law provided for (174), and just what elements necessary to the creation of a state school system were incorporated into it. RESULTS AMONG ANGLICANS 329 SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES * Adams, G. B. Civilization during the Middle Ages. Barnard, Henry. German Teachers and Educators. Francke, Kuno. Social Forces in German Literature. *Good, Harry E. "The Position of Luther upon Education," in School and Society, vol. 6, pp. 511-18 (Nov. 3, igiy). *IMontmorency, J. E. G. de. State Intervention in English Education. *Montmorency, J. E. G. de. The Progress of Education in England. Painter, F. V. N. Luther on Education. Paulsen, Fr. German Education. Richard, J. W. Philipp Melanchthon, the Protestant Preceptor of Germany Woodward, W. H. Education during the Renaissance. CHAPTER XIV EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLTS II. AMONG CALVINISTS AND CATHOLICS 3. Educational ivork of the Calvinists The organizing work of Calvin. From the point of view of American educational history the most important developments in connection with the Reformation were those arising from Calvinism. While the Calvinistic faith was rather grim and for- bidding, viewed from the modern standpoint, the Calvinists everywhere had a program for political, economic, and social progress which has left a deep impress on the history of mankind. This program demanded the education of all, and in the countries where Calvinism became dominant the leaders included general education in their scheme of religious, political, and social re- form.^ In the governmental program which Calvin drew up (1537) for the religious republic at Geneva (p. 298), he held that learning was "a public necessity to secure good political adminis- tration, sustain the Church unharmed, and maintain humanity among men." In his plan for the schools of Geneva, published in 1538, he out- lined a system of elementary education in the vernacular for all, which involved instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, reli- gion, careful grammatical drill, and training for civil as well as for ecclesiastical leadership. In his plan of 1541 he upholds the principle, as had Luther, that "the liberal arts and good training are aids to a full knowledge of the Word." This involved the organization of secondary schools, or colleges as he called them, ^ "These Calvinists had a common program of broad scope — not merely doc- trinal, but also political, economic,- and social. Their common program and their social ideals demanded education of all as instruments of Providence for church and commonwealth. Their industrious habits and productive economic life provided funds for education. Their representative institutions in both chtirch and common- wealth not only necessitated general diffusion of knowledge, but furnished the organ- ization necessary for founding, supervising, and maintaining, in wholesome touch with the common man, both elementary and higher institutions of learning. Their disciplined and responsive conscience, their consequent intensity of moral conviction and spirit of self-sacrifice for the common weal, compelled them to realize, in con- crete and permanent form, their ideals of college and common school." (Foster, H. D., In Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education, vol. i, p. 499.) RESULTS AMONG CALVINISTS 331 following the French nomenclature, to prepare leaders for the ministry and the civil government through "instruction in the languages and humane science." In the colleges (secondary schools) which he organized at Geneva and in neighboring places to give such training, and which became models of their kind which were widely copied, the usual humanistic curriculum was combined with intensive religious instruction. These colleges became famous as institutions from which learned men came forth. The course of study in the seven classes of one of the Geneva colleges, which has been preserved for us, reveals the na- ture of the instruction (R. 175). The lowest class began with the letters, reading was taught from a French-Latin Catechism, and the usual Latin authors were read. Greek was begun in the fourth class, and, in addition to the usual Greek authors, the New Testament was read in Greek. In the higher classes, as was com- mon also in German gymnasia, logic and rhetoric were taught to prepare pupils to analyze, argue, and defend the faith. Elocu- tion was also given much importance in the upper classes as preparation for the ministry, two original orations being required each month. Psalms were sung, prayers offered, sermons preached and questioned on, and the Bible carefully studied. The men who went forth from the colleges of Geneva to teach and to preach the Calvinistic gospel were numbered by the hundreds.^ Calvin's great educational work at Geneva has been well sum- marized by a recent writer,- as follows: The strenuous moral training of the Genevese was an essential part of Calvin's work as an educator. All were trained to respect and obey laws, based upon Scripture, but enacted and enforced by representa- tives of the people, and without respect of persons. How fully the training of children, not merely in sound learning and doctrine, but also in manners, "good morals," and common sense was carried out is pictured in the delightful human Colloquies of Calvin's old teacher, Corderius (once a teacher at the College of Guyenne, p. 269), whom he twice established at Geneva. . . . Calvin's memorials to the Genevan magistrates, his drafts for civil law and municipal administration, his correspondence with reformers and statesmen, his epoch-making defense of interest taking, his growing tendency toward civil, religious, and economic liberty, his development of primary and university education, his intimate knowledge of the dialect and ways of thought of the common people of Geneva, and his 1 In 1625 a list of the famous men of the city of Louvain, in Belgium, was printed More than one fourth of those listed had studied in the colleges of Geneva. 2 Foster, H. D., Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education, vol. i, p. 491. 332 HISTORY OF EDUCATION broad understanding of European princes, diplomats, and politics mark him out as a great political, economic, and educational as well as a religious reformer, a constructive social genius capable of reorganizing and moulding the whole life of a people. The world owes much to the constructive, statesman-like gen- ius of Calvin, and those who followed him, and we in America probably most of all. Geneva became a refuge for the persecuted Protestants from other lands, and through such influences the ideas of Calvin spread to the Huguenots in France, the Walloons Fig. 98. A French School of the Seventeenth Century (From an old woodcut by Abraham Bosse, 161 1-78) of the Dutch and Belgian Netherlands, the Germans in the Pa- latinate, the Presbyterians of Scotland, the Puritans in England^ and later to the American colonies. Calvinism in other lands. The great educational work done by the Calvinists in France, in the face of heavy persecution, de- serves to be ranked with that of the I^utherans in Germany in its importance. Had the Calvinists had the same opportunity for free development the Lutherans had, and especially their state support, there can be little doubt that their work would have greatly exceeded the Lutherans in importance and influence on the future history of mankind. Beginning with one church in 1538, they had 2150 churches by 1561, when the severe persecu- tions and religious wars began. RESULTS AMONG CALVINISTS 333 True to the Calvinistic teaching of putting principles into practice^ the^rganized an extensive system of schools, extending f rom ^mentary education for all, through secondary schools or colleges,lip to eight Huguenot universities. As a people they were thrifty and capable of making great sacrifices to carry out their educational ideals. The education they provided was not only religious but civil; not only intellectual but moral, social, and economic. Education was for all, rich and poor alike. Their synods made liberal appropriations for the universities, while municipahties provided for colleges and elementary education. They emphasized, in the lower schools, the study of the vernacu-^ lar and arithmetic, and in the colleges Greek and the New Testa- ment. The long hst of famous teachers found in their universi- ties reveals the character of their instruction. Foster has well summarized the distinguishing characteristics of Huguenot edu- cation in France, before they were driven from the land, as fol- lows: ^ The significant characteristics of Huguenot education were: an emphasis on the education of the laity; training for "the republic" and "society" as well as for the Church; insistence upon virtue as well as knowledge; the wide-spread demand for education, and a view of it as essential to liberty of conscience; a comprehensive working system of elementary, collegiate, and university training for all, poor as well as rich; an astonishing familiarity with Scripture, even among the lowest classes; utilization of representative church organization for founding, supporting, and unifying education; readiness to sacrifice for education, a spirit of carrying a thing through at any cost; business- like supervision of money, and systematic supervision of both profes- sors and students; a notable emphasis on vernacular, arithmetic, Greek, use of full texts, and libraries; and finally a progressive spirit of inquiry and investigation. In the Palatinate (see map, Figure 8^) some progress in found- ing churches and schools was made, especially about Strassburg, and the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg became the cen- ters of Huguenot teaching. In the Dutch Netherlands, and in that part of the Belgian Netherlands inhabited by the Walloons, Calvinist ideas as to education dominated. The universities of Leyden (f. 1575), Groningen (f. 1614), Amsterdam (f. 1630), and Utrecht (f. 1636) were CaKinistic, and closely in touch with the Calvinists and Huguenots of German lands and France. Popu- lar education was looked after among these people as it was in * In Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education, vol. i, p. 498. 334 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Calvinistic France and Geneva. The Church S3m.od of The Hague (1586) ordered the estabhshment of schools in the cities, and in 1618 the Great Synod held at Dort (R. 176) ordered that: Schools in which the young shall be properly instructed in piety and fundamentals of Christian doctrine shall be instituted not only in cities, but also in towns and country places where heretofore none have existed. The Christian magistracy shall be requested that honorable stipends be provided for teachers, and that well-qualified persons may be employed and enabled to devote themselves to that function; and especially that the children of the poor may be gratuitously instructed by them and not be excluded from the benefits of schools. Further provisions were made as to the certificating of school- masters, and the pastors were made superintendents of the schools, to visit, exam- ine, encourage, advise, and report (R. 176). -Provision for the free edu£ation_ofjthe_poor became common, and elementary education was made accessible to all. The careful pro- vision for education made by the province of Utrecht (1590, 1612) (R. 178) was typical of Dutch activity. The province of Drenthe ordered (1630) a school tax paid for all children over seven, whether at- tending school or not. The province of Over- yssel levied (1666) a school tax for all chil- dren from eight to twelve years of age. The province of Groningen constituted the pastors the attendance officers to see that the children got to school. Amsterdam and many other Dutch cities demanded an examination of all teachers before being licensed to teach. By the middle of the seventeenth century a good system of schools I'lG. yo. A Ditch X'illai'.e School (After a painting by Adrian Ostade, dated 1662, now in the Louvre, at Paris) RESULTS AMONG CALVINISTS 335 seems to have been provided generally ^ by the Dutch and the Belgian Walloons (R. 178). That the teaching of rehgion was the main function of the Dutch elementary schools, as of all other vernai:ttla:F-sehools of the time, is seen from the official lists of the textbooks used (R. 178). ^' John Knox, the leader of the Scottish Reformation (1560), who had spent some time at Geneva and who was deeply impressed by the Calvinistic religious-state found there, introduced the Calvin- istic religious and educational ideas into Scotland. His Book oj Discipline for the Scottish Church (1560), framed closely on the Genevan model, con- tained a chapter devoted to education in which he proposed : That everie severall churche have a school- maister appointed, such a one as is able at least to teach Grammar and the Latin tung, yf the TowTi be of any reputation. Yf it be upaland . . . then must either the Reider or the Minister take cayre over the children . . . '^-^ij;}^ 'H\'''-Mf^^,-r'1 to instruct them in their first rudementie and I '(■,\'^\t''^'^' v'?-'; 7 especially in the catechisme. ^ ' -'i'^P/'YV ' / The educational plan proposed by Knox ^ , , , T, , r 1 ,. Fig. 100. John Knox would have called for a large expenditure (-j^Q.p_^2) of money, and this the thrifty Scotch were not ready for. Knox and his followers then proposed to endow the new schools from the old church and monastic foundations, but the Scottish nobles hoped to share in these, as had the English nobility under Henry VIII, and Knox's plan was not approved. This delayed the estabHshment of a real national system of educa- tion for Scotland until the nineteenth century. The new Church, however, took over the superintendence of education in Scotland, and when parish schools were finally established by decree of the Privy Council, in 161 6, and by the legislation of 1633 and 1646 (R. 179), the Church was given an important share in their organi- zation and management. These schools, while not always sufifi- cient in number to meet the educational needs, were well taught, and have deeply influenced the national character. ^ "That public schools abounded throughout the Netherlands is evident. Every study of the archives of town or province discloses their presence. The minutes of every religious body bear overwhelming testimony not only to the existence of schools, but also a zealous interest in their maintenance." (Kilpatrick, W. H., Dutch Schools of New Netherlands, p. 37.) " 336 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 4 4. The Counter-Reformation of the Catholics The Jesuit Order. The Protestant Revolt made but little headway in Italy, Spain, Portugal, much of France, or southern Belgium (see map, p. 296). Italy was scarcely disturbed at all, while in France, where of all these countries the reform ideas had made greatest progress, nine tenths of the people remained loyal to Rome. In a general way it may be stated that those parts of western Europe which had once formed an integral part of the old Roman Empire remained loyal to the Roman Church, while those which had been the homes of the Germanic tribes revolted. Now it naturally happened that the countries which remained loyal to the old Church experienced none of the feelings of the necessity for education as a means to personal salvation which the Luther- ans and Calvinists felt. There, too, the church system of educa- tion which had developed during the long Middle Ages remained undisturbed and largely unchanged. The Church as an institu- tion, though, learned from the Protestants the value of education as a means to larger ends, and soon set about using it.^ After the Church Council of Trent (1545-63), where definite church reform measures were carried through (p. 303), the Catho- lics inaugurated what has since been called a counter-reforma- tion, in an effort to hold lands which were still loyal and to win back lands which had been lost. Besides reforming the practices and outward lives of the churchmen, and reforming some church practices and methods, the Church inaugurated a campaign of educational propaganda. In this last the chief rehance was upon a new and a very useful organization oflticially known as the "So- ciety of Jesus," but more commonly called the ''Jesuit Order." This had been founded, in 1534, by a Spanish knight, pilgrim, man of large ideas, and scholar by the name of Ignatius Loyola, and had been sanctioned as an Order of the Church by Pope Paul III, in 1540. It was organized along strictly military lines, all members being responsible to its General, and he in turn alone to the Pope. The quiet life of the cloister was abandoned for a life 1 For long the Church had had the Inquisition, but, while it had rendered loyal and iniquitous service, the results had been in no way commensurate with the bitter hatred which its work awakened. Excommunication, persecution, imprisonment, the stake, and the sword had been tried extensively, but with only partial success. In education the reformers had shown the Church a new method, which was positive and effective and did not awaken opposition, and from the reformer's zeal for Latin grammar schools to provide an intelligent ministry the Church took its cue of estab- lishing schools to train its future leaders. It was a long-headed and far-sighted plan, and its success was proportionately large. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 337 of open warfare under a military discipline. The Jesuit was to live in the world, and all peculiarities of dress or rule which might prove an obstacle to worldly success were suppressed. The pur- poses of the Order were to combat heresy, to advance the interests of the Church, and to strengthen the' au- thority of the Papacy. Its motto was Omnia ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (that is, All for the greater glory of God), and the means to be employed by it to accomplish these.ends were the pulpit, the confessional, the mission, and the school. Of these the school was given the place of first impor- tance. Realizing clearly that the real cause of the Reformation had been the ignor- ///''///(■ ^o'//y/ ance, neglect, and vicious lives of so many // /' ;/' ''' y monks and priests and the extortion and ' neglect practiced by the Church, and that ^ig. ioi. Ignatius de ,1^ , . f ,.«; ,. -^ . ,, , . V 1 Loyola (1491-1 556) the chief diracuJty was m the higher places of authority, it became the prime principle of the Order to live upright and industrious lives themselves, and to try to reach and train those likely to be the future leaders in Church and State. With the education of the masses of the people the Order was not concrrned.^ Our interest Hes only with the educational work of this Order, a work in which it was remarkably successful and through which it exercised a very large influence. Great success of the Order. The service of the Order to the Church in combating Protestant heresies was very marked. Be- ginning in a small way, the Order, by 1600, had established two hundred colleges (Latin secondary schools), universities, and training seminaries; by 1640, 372; by 1706 (150 years after the death of its founder), 769; and by 1756, 728. In 1773, when the Order was for a time abohshed,- after it had been driven out of a ^ This is not true of their missions in foreign lands, where the mission priests usually gave elementary instruction. Elementary schools were maintained in the Jesuit missions of North and South America. Thus a mission school was estab- lished at Quebec as early as 1635 , and 'one at Newtown, in Catholic Maryland, in 1640. After 1740 elementary parish schools were opened by the Jesuits among the German Catholics in Pennsylvania. From these beginnings Catholic parish schools have been developed in the United States. 2 The Order was reestablished in 18 14 and it has since been allowed to reestabhsh itself in most countries, though not in France or Germany. There are 41 Jesuit colleges in America, in 21 states. (For list see Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education, vol. Ill, p. 540.) In the revision of its course of instruction, in 1832, modern studies were added, but the Society has never played any such conspicuous part in education since its reestablishment as it did during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 338 HISTORY OF EDUCATION number of European countries because of the unscrupulous meth- ods it adopted and the continual application of its doctrine that the end justifies the means, the Order had 22,589 members, about half of whom were teachers. Its colleges (secondary schools) and universities were most numerous and its work most energetically carried on in northern France, Belgium, Holland, the German States, Austria, Poland, and Hungary, Here was the great battle line, and here the Jesuits deeply entrenched themselves. In these portions of Europe alone there were, in 1750, 217 colleges, 55 seminaries, 24 houses for novitiates, and 160 missions. In France alone there were 92 colleges. They did much, single- handed, to roll back the tide of Protestantism which had ad- vanced over half of western Europe, and to hold other countries true to the ancient faith. The colleges were usually large and well-supported institutions, with dormitories, classrooms, dining-halls and play-grounds. The usual number of scholars in each was about 300, though some had an attendance of 600 to 800, and a few as high as 2000. At their period of maximum influence the colleges and universities of the Order probably enrolled a total of 200,000 students. Their graduates were prominent in every scholarly and governmental activity of the time. As far as possible the pupils were a selected class to whom the Order offered free in- struction. The children of the nobihty and gentry, and the brightest and most promising youths of the different lands were drawn into their schools. The children of many Protestants, also, were attracted by the high quality of the instruction offered. There they were given the best secondary-school education of the time, and received, at an impressionable age, the peculiar Jesuit stamp. ^ Bacon gave his opinion as to the success of their in- struction in the following sentence: "As for the pedagogical part, the shortest rule would be. Consult the schools of the Jesuits; for nothing better has been put in practice." {De Augmentis, vi, 4.)^ 1 It is an interesting speculation as to whether the fact that the Jesuits made such headway in German lands, and so deeply impressed their training on the chil- dren of the nobility there, had any connection with the attitude of German and Austrian political leaders in their governmental and poUtical policies up to the time of the World War. 2 By the middle of the eighteenth century the Jesuits had lost much of their former vigor, and their colleges their former large influence. They had become powerful and arrogant, mixed deeply in political intrigues, quarreled with any one who crossed their path, and refused to change their instruction to meet new intellectual needs. They were finally driven from France, Spain, Portugal, and German lands, and were ultimately abolished as an Order. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 339 Success of the Jesuit schools. Displaying a genius for organi- zation worthy of Rome, Loyola and his followers absorbed the best educational ideas of the time as to school organization and management and curriculum, and incorporated these into their educational plan. Too practical to make many changes, but with a keen eye for what was best, they accepted the best and used it much as others had worked it out. From the municipal college of Guyenne (p. 269), the colleges of Calvin (p. 331), and Sturm's organization at Strassburg (p. 273), they adopted the plan of class organization, with a teacher for each class. From the Calvinists they obtained the idea of the careful supervision of instruction, which was worked out in the Prefect of Studies for their colleges. In their course of study they incorporated the Cic- eronian ideal of the humanistic learning, and as careful religious instruction as was provided by any of the reformers. From the Italian court schools they took the idea of physical training. The method of instruction and classroom management which they worked out was detailed, practical, and for their purposes excel- lent. The reasons for their educational work gave them a clearly defined aim and purpose. The military brotherhood type of or- ganization, the lifetime of celibate ser\ice, and the opportunity to sort the carefully selected members according to their ability for service in the different lines of the Order gave them the best-se- lected teaching force in Europe, and these men they trained for the teaching service with a thoroughness unknown before and seldom equaled since. Knowing why they were at work and what ends they should achieve, intolerant of opposition, intensely practical in all their work, and possessed of an indefatigable zeal in the accomphshment of their purpose, they gave Europe in gen- eral and northern continental Europe in particular a system of secondary schools and universities possessed of a high degree of effectiveness, which, combined with religious warfare and perse- cution, in time drove out or dwarfed all competing institutions in the countries they were able to control. That their educational system, viewed from a modern liberal- education standpoint, equaled in effectiveness for liberal-educa- tion ends such institutions as the court schools of Vittorino da Feltre, Battista da Guarino, or other Itahan humanistic educators of the Renaissance (p. 267) ; the French and Swiss colleges of Cal- vin (p. 331); Colet's school at Saint Paul's (p. 275), and the better English grammar schools; or the schools of the Brethren of the 340 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Common Life in the Netherlands (p. 271); would hardly be con- tended for to-day. Such, though, was not their purpose. To proselyte for the Church rather than to liberalize — from their point of view there had been too much liberalizing already — was their ultimate aim, and their educational work was organized to suppress rather than to awaken more Protestant heresy. The work of this Order was so successful, and for two centuries so dominated secondary and higher education in Europe, that it will pay us to examine a little more closely their educational organiza- tion to see more fully the reasons for their large success. In so doing we will examine three points — their school organization, their methods of instruction, and the training of their teachers. Jesuit school organization. Each college was presided over by a Rector, who was in effect the president of the institution, and a Prefect of Studies, who was the superintendent of instruction. Below these were the Professors or teachers, the House Prefect, the official disciplinarian of the institution, known as the Correc- tor, the monitors, and the students. There were two classes of students, interns and externs. Their schools were divided into two courses. The studia inferiora, or lower school, which covered the six years from ten to twelve years of age up to sixteen to eight- een; and the studia superior a, which followed, and included the higher college and university courses, with philosophy and theol- ogy as the important subjects. For the whole, there was a very carefully worked-out manual of instruction (R. 180) known as the Ratio Studioruni} The boy entering a Jesuit college was supposed to have previ- ously learned how to read Latin. The first three years were given to learning Latin grammar and a little Greek. In the fourth year Latin and Greek authors were begun, and in the fifth and sixth years a rhetorical study of the Latin authors was made. Latin was the language of the classroom and the playground as well, the mother tongue being used only by permission. Greek was studied through the medium of the Latin. The retention of Latin as the language of all scholarly and political intercourse, and the cultivation of the style and speech of Cicero as the stand- ard of purity and elegance, were the ends aimed at. Careful at- 1 The care with which the Ratio Sliidiorum was worked out is typical of the thor- oughness of the Order. A prehminary outline of work was followed for many years, the whole being experimental. Reports on it were made, and finally a preliminary Ratio was issued, in 1586. This was again revised and cast into final form, in 1599. \a this form it remained until 1832, when some modern studies were added. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 341 tention was given to the health and sports of the pupils, and spe- cial regard was paid to moral and religious training. Following this lower school of six years came the so-called philosophical course of three years (sometimes two) . The study of the Latin classics and rhetoric was continued, and dialectics (logic) and some metaphysics were added. The nine years to- gether covejed about the same scope as Sturm's school (R. 137) at Strassburg (p. 273), but was more formal in character and partook more of the nature of the later formalized humanistic schools. Slight variations were allowed in places, to meet par- ticular local needs, but this course of study remained practically unchanged until 1832, when some history, geography, and ele- mentary mathematics and science were added to the lower schools, and advanced mathematics and science to the philosophical course. In 1906 each Province of the Order was permitted to change the Ratio further, if necessary to adjust it better to local needs. Above the philosophical course a course of four or six years in philosophy and theology prepared for the higher work of the Order, the four-year course for preaching and the six-year course for teaching. Jesuit school methods. The characteristic method of the schools was oral, with a consequent closeness of contact of teacher and pupils. This closeness of contact and sympathy was further retained by the system whereby all punishment was given by the official Corrector of the institution. Their method, like that of the modern German VolkscJiule, was distinctly a teaching and not a questioning method. The teacher planned and gave the instruction; the pupils received it. In the upper classes the teacher explained the general meaning of the entire passage ; then the construction of each part; then gave the historical, geographi- cal, and archaeological information needed further to explain the passage; then called attention to the rhetorical and poetical forms and rules; then compared the style with that of other writ- ers; and finally drew the moral lesson. The memory was drilled; but little training of the judgment or understanding was given. Thoroughness, memory drills, and the disciplinary value of stud- ies were foundation stones in the Jesuit's educational theory. Repetition, they said, was the mother of memory. Each day the work of the previous day was reviewed, and there were further reviews at the end of each week, month, and year. To retain the interest of the pupils amid such a load of memoriz- 342 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ing various school devices were resorted to, chief among which were prizes, ranks, emulations, rivals, and public disputations. The system of rivals, whereby each boy had an opponent con- stantly after him, as shown in Figure 102, was one of the peculiar features of their schools. While the schools were said to have been made pleasant and attractive, the idea of the absolute au- X X X X B 1 I 1 I 1234 5C789 987654321 I I I 1 Fig. 102. Plan of a Jesuit Schoolroom The pupils were arranged in equal numbers in opposite rows, known as decurice, and designated by the numbers. Each boy in each row had a "rival" in the similarly numbered opposite row (one pair is designated by dots), who rose whenever he was called on to recite, and who tried to correct him in some error. A monitor for each group sat at C, and the regular teacher at 5. A,D, E, i, 0, and x represent various student officials. thority of the Church which they represented pervaded them and repressed the development of that individuality which the court schools of the ItaUan Renaissance, the schools of the northern humanists, and the Calvinistic colleges had tried particularly to foster. This, however, is a criticism made from a modern point of view. That the school represented well the spirit of the times is indicated by their marked success as teaching institutions. Training of the Jesuit teacher. The newest and the most dis- tinguishing feature of the Jesuit educational scheme, as well as the most important, was the care with which they selected and the thoroughness with which they trained their teachers. To be- gin with, every Jesuit was a picked man, and of those who entered the Order only the best were selected for teaching. Each entered COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 343 the Order for life, was vowed to celibacy, poverty, chastity, up- rightness of life, and absolute obedience to the commands of the Order. The six-year inferior course had to be completed, which required that the boy be sixteen to eighteen years of age before he could take the preliminary steps toward joining the Order. Then a two-year novitiate, away from the world, followed. This was a trial of his real character, his weak points were noted, and his will and determination tested. Many were dismissed before the end of the novitiate. If retained and accepted, he took the prelimi- nary vows and entered the philosophical course of study. On completing this he was from twenty-one to twenty-three years of age. He was now assigned to teach boys in the inferior classes of some college, and might remain there. If destined for higher work he taught in the inferior classes for two or three years, and then entered the theological course at some Jesuit university. This required four years for those headed for the ministry, and six for those who were being trained for professorships in the col- leges. On completing this course the final vows were taken, at an age of from twenty-nine to thirty-two. The training to-day is still longer. To become a teacher in the inferior classes required training until twenty-one at least, and for college (secondary) classes training until at least twenty-nine. The training was in scholarship, religion, theology, and an apprenticeship in teaching, and was superior to that required for a teaching license in any Protestant country of Europe, or in the Catholic Church itself outside of the Jesuit Order. With such carefully selected and well-educated teachers, them- selves models of upright life in an age when priests and monks had been careless, it is not surprising that they wielded an influ- ence wholly out of proportion to their numbers, and supplied Europe with its best secondary schools during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the loyal Catholic countries they were virtually the first secondary schools outside of the mon- asteries and churches, and the real introduction of humanism into Spain, Portugal, and parts of France came with the establish- ment of the Jesuit humanistic colleges. For their schools they wrote new school books — the Protestant books, the most cele- brated of which were those of Erasmus, Melanchthon, Sturm, and Lily, were not possible of use — and for a time they put new life into the humanistic type of education. Before the eighteenth century, however, their secondary schools had become as formal 344 HISTORY OF EDUCATION as had those in Protestant lands (R. 146), and their universities far more narrow and intolerant. The elements of strength and weakness in the Jesuit system of education has been well summarized by Dabney,^ in the following words: The order of the Jesuits was anti-democratic, and was founded to uphold authority, and to antagonize the right of private judgment. With masterly skill they ruled the Catholic world for about two centu- ries; and, in the beginning of their activity, performed services of great value to mankind. For, although they aimed, in their system of edu- cation, to fit pupils merely for so-called practical avocations, and to avoid all subjects likely to stimulate them to independent thought, it was nevertheless the best system which had then appeared. In drop- ping the old scholastic methods, and teaching new and fresher subjects, although with the intention of perverting them to their own ends, they sowed, in fact, the germs of their OMai decay. In spite of their wonder- ful organization, and their indefatigable industry as courtiers in royal palaces, as professors in the universities, as teachers in the schools, as preachers, as confessors, and as missionaries, they were utterly unable to crush the spirit of doubt and inquiry. During the first half century of their existence they were intellectually in advance of their age; but after that they gradually dropped behind it, and, instead of diffusing knowledge, saw that the only hope of retaining their dominion was to oppose it with all their might. The Church and elementary education. As was stated on a preceding page, the countries which remained loyal to the Church experienced none of the Protestant feeling as to the necessity for universal education for individual salvation. In such lands the church system of education which had grown up during the Middle Ages remained undisturbed, and was expanded but slowly with the passage of time. The Church, never having made gen- eral provision for education, was not prepared for such work. Teachers were scarce, there was no theory of education except the religious theory, and few knew what to do or how to do it- Many churchmen, too, did not see the need for doing anything, Nevertheless the Church, spurred on by the new demands of a world fast becoming modern, and by the exhortations of the official representatives of the people,^ now began to make extra efforts, in the large cathedral cities, to remedy the deficiency of 1 Dabney, R. H., The Causes of the French Revolution, p. 203. 2 For example, the "States-General" of France met four times during the seven- teenth century, with weighty problems of religion and state for consideration, yet in three of the four meetings resolutions were passed urging the clergy to estabhsh schoolmasters in all the towns and villages, and a general system of compulsory education for all. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 345 more than a thousand years. In Paris, for example, which was typical of other French cities, the Church organized a regular system of elementary schools, with teachers licenced by the Pre- centor of the cathedral of Notre Dame and nominally under his supervision, in which instruction was offered to children of the artisan and laboring classes, of both sexes, "in reading, writing, reckoning, the rudiments of Latin Grammar, Catechism, and singing." By 1675 these "Little Schools" in Paris came to con- tain "upwards of 5000 pupils, taught by some 330 masters and mistresses." All such schools, of course, remained under the immediate control of the Church, and modern state systems of edu- cation in the CathoHc States are late nineteenth-century produc- tions. In Spain, Portugal, Poland, and the Balkan States, general state systems of education have not even as yet been evolved. The general effect of the Reformation, though, was to stimu- late the Church to greater activity in elementary, as well as in secondary and higher education. In the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries we find a large number of decrees by church councils and exhortations by bishops urging the extension of the existing church system of education, so as to supply at least reli- gious training to all the children of the faithful. As a result a number of teaching orders were organized, the aim of which was to assist the Church in providing elementary and rehgious education for the children of the laboring and artisan classes in the cities. Teaching orders established. The teaching orders for ele- mentary education, founded before the eighteenth century, with the dates of their foundation, were: *i535 — The Order of Ursulines. (U.S., 1729.) 1592 — The Congregation of Christian Doctrine. *i598 — The Sisters of Notre Dame. (U.S., 1847.) *i6io — The Visitation Nuns. (U.S., 1799.) 162 1 — Patres piarum scholarum (Piarists). First school opened in 1597; authorized by the Pope, 1662. 1627 — The Daughters of the Presentation. *i633 — The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. (U.S., 1809.) ^"1637 — The Port Royalists (Jansenists). (Suppressed in 1661.) 1643 — The Sisters of Providence. *i65o — The Sisters of Saint Joseph. Rule based on Jesuits. (U.S., 19th C.) 1652 — The Sisters of Mary of Saint Charles Borromeo. 1684 — The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin. \;^'684 — The Brothers of the Christian Schools. (U.S., 1845.) • Have communities in the United States, the date being that of the first one established. See iSlonroe, Cyclopedia of Education, vol. v,-p. 528. 346 HISTORY OF EDUCATION All of these, except the Ursulines and the Piarists, were founded in France, many of them originating in Paris. The first has long been prominent in Italy, and is now found in all lands. The second was founded by Father Cesar de Bus, at Cavaillon, Avignon, in southern France, and its purpose was to teach the Catechism to the young. The catechetical schools of this Order were prominent in southern France up to the time of the French Revolution. The third was founded by the Blessed Peter Fourier (i 565-1640), in 1598, and played an important part in the education of girls in France, par- ticularly in Lorraine, where Calvinism had made much headway. This noted Order of- fered free instruction to tradesmen's daughters, not only in religion but in "that which con- cerns this present life and its maintenance" as well. The girls were taught "reading, writ- ing, arithmetic, sewing, and divers manual arts, honorable and peculiarly suitable for girls" of their station of life. At a time when handwork had not been thought of for boys, the begin- nings of such work were here introduced for girls. In 1640 Fourier gave the sisterhood a constitution and a rule, which were revised and perfected in 1694. In this he laid down rules for the organization and management of schools, methods of teaching the different branches, and provided for a rudimentary form of class organization. The following extract from the Rule illustrates the approach to class organiza- tion which he devised: The inspectress, or mistress of the class, shall endeavor, as far as it possibly can be carried out, that all the pupils of the same mistress have each the same book, in order to learn and read therein the same lesson; so that, whilst one is reading hers in an audible and intelligible voice before the mistress, all the others, following her and following this lesson, in their books at the same time, may learn it sooner, more readily, and more perfectly.^ The Piarists were established in Italy, the first school being opened in Rome, in 1597, by a Spanish priest who had studied at P'iG. 103. An Ursuline Order founded, 1535 ^ Les vrais Constitutions des Religieuses de la Congregation de Nostre Dame, chap. XI. sec. 6, 2d ed., Toul, 1694. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 347 Lerida, Valencia, and Alcala. Being struck by the lack of educa- tional opportunities for the poor, he opened a free school for their instruction. By 1606 he had 900 pupils in his schools, and by 1613 he had 1200. In 1621 Pope Gregory XV gave his work definite recognition by establishing it a teaching Order for ele- mentary (reading, writing, counting, religion) education, modeled on that of the Jesuits. The Order did some work in Italy and Spain, but its chief services were in border Cathohc lands. In 1631 it began work in Moravia, in 1640 in Bohemia, in 1642 in Poland, and after 1648 in Austria and Hungary. The members wore a habit much like that of the Jesuits, had a scheme of studies similar to their Ratio, and were organized by provinces and were under discipline as were the members of the older Order. The Jansenists, founded by Saint Cyran, at Port Royal, con- ducted a very interesting and progressive educational experi- ment, and their schools have become known to history as the ''Little Schools of Port Royal." The congregation was a reac- tion against the work and methods of the Jesuits. It included both elementary and secondary education, but never extended itself, and probably never had more than sLxty pupils and teach- ers. After seventeen years of work it was suppressed through the opposition of the Jesuits, and its members fled to the Neth- erlands. There they wrote those books which have explained to succeeding generations what they attempted, ^ and which have revealed what a modern type of educational experiment they conducted. The progressive and modern nature of their teaching, in an age of suspicion and intolerance, condemned them to extinction. Yet despite the progressive nature of their instruction, the intense religious atmosphere which they threw about all their work (R. 181) reveals the dominant characteristic of most education for church ends at the time. The Brothers of the Christian Schools. The largest and most influential of the teaching orders estabhshed for elementary edu- cation was the "Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools," founded by Father La Salle at Rouen, in 1684, and sanc- tioned by the King and Pope in 1724. As early as 1679 La Salle had begun a school at Rheims, and in 1684 he organized his disci- ples, prescribed a costume to be worn, and outlined the work of the brotherhood (R. 182). The object was to provide free ele- ^ See especially Felix Cadet, Port-Royal Education (Scribners, New York, 1S98), for translations of many of the brief pedagogical writings of members of the Order. 348 HISTORY OF EDUCATION mentary and religious instruction in the vernacular for the chil- dren of the working classes, and to do for elementary education what the Jesuits had done for secondary education. La Salle's Conduct of Schools, first published in 1720, was the ratio studiorum of his order. His work marks the real beginning of free primary instruction in the vernacular in France. In addition to elemen- tary schools, a few of what we should call part-time continuation schools were organized for children engaged in commerce and industry. Realizing better than the Jesuits the need for well- trained rather than highly educated teachers for little children, and unable to supply members to meet the outside calls for schools. La Salle organized at Rheims, in 1685, what was prob- ably the second normal school for training teachers in the world. ^ Another was organized later at Paris. In addition to a good edu- cation of the type of the time and thorough grounding in religion, the student teachers learned to teach in practice schools, under the direction of experienced teachers. The pupils in La Salle's schools were graded into classes, and the class method of instruction was introduced. ^ The curriculum was unusually rich for a time when teaching methods and text- books were but poorly developed, the needs for literary education small, and when children could not as yet be spared from work longer than the age of nine or ten. Children learned first to read, write, and spell French, and to do simple composition work in the vernacular. Those who mastered this easily were taught the Latin Psalter in addition. Much prominence was given to writ- ing, the instruction being applied to the writing of bills, notes, receipts, and the like. Much free questioning was allowed in arithmetic and the Catechism, to insure perfect understanding of what was taught. Religious training was made the most promi- nent feature of the school, as was natural. A half-hour daily was given to the Catechism, mass was said daily, the crucifix was al- ways on the wall, and two or three pupils were always to be found kneeHng, telling their beads. The disciphne, in contradistinction to the customary practice of the time, was mild, though all pun- 1 Father Demia, at Lyons, had organized what was probably the first training- school for masters, in 1672. La Salle's training-school dates from 1684. Francke'? German Seminarium PrcBceptcrum, at Halle, the first in German lands, dates from 1696. ^ The numerous pictures of schools and educational literature well into the nine- teenth century show the general prevalence of the individual method of instruction. It was the method in American schools until well toward the middle of the nine- teenth century. To have graded the children and introduced class instruction in 1684 was an important advance which the world has been slow in learning. COUNTER-REFORMATION. OF CATHOLICS 349 Fig. 104. A School of La Salle at Paris, i( A visit of James II and the Archbishop of Paris to the School (From a bas-relief on the statue of La Salle, at Rouen) ishments were carefully prescribed by rule.^ The rule of silence in the school was rigidly enjoined, all speech was to be in a low tone of voice, and a code of signals replaced speech for many things. Though the Order met with much opposition from both church and civil authorities, it made slow but steady headway. At the time of the death of La Salle, in 17 19, thirty-five years after its foundation, the Order had one general normal school, four normal schools for training teachers, three practice schools, thirty-three primary schools, and one continuation school. The Order re- ^ Everything was according to rule, even the ferule, which must be made of two strips of leather, ten to twelve inches long, sewed together. All offenses, and the number and location of the blows for each, were specified. Later the corporal pun- ishment was replaced by penances. 350 HISTORY OF EDUCATION mained largely French, and at the time of its suppression, in 1792, had schools in 121 communities in France and 6 elsewhere, about 1000 brothers, and approximately 30,000 children in its schools. This was approximately i child in every 175 of school age of the population of France at that time. While relatively small in numbers, their schools represented the best attempt to provide Fig. 105. The Brothers of the Christian Schools by 1792 Map, showing the locations of their communities elementary education in any Catholic country before well into the nineteenth century. The distribution of their schools through- out France, by 1792, is shown on the map above. In 1803 the Order was reestablished, by 1838 it had schools in 282 commu- nities, and in 1887, when La Salle was declared a Saint of the Church, it had 1898 communities on four continents, 109 of which COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 351 were in the United States, and was teaching a total of approxi- mately 300,000 primary children. 5. General Results of the Reformation on Education Destruction and creation of schools. Any such general over- turning of the established institutions and traditions of a thou- sand years as occurred at the time of the Protestant Revolts, with the accompanying bitter hatreds and religious strife, could not help but result in extensive destruction of established institutions. Monasteries, churches, and schools alike suffered, and it required time to replace them. Even though they had been neglectful of their functions, inadequate in number, and unsuited to the needs of a world fast becoming modern, they had nevertheless answered partially the need of the times. In all the countries where revolts took place these institutions suffered more or less, but in England probably most of all. The old schools which were not destroyed were transformed into Protestant schools, the grammar schools to train scholars and leaders, and the parish schools into Protest- ant elementary schools to teach reading and the Catechism, but the number of the latter, in all Protestant lands, was very far short of the number needed to carry out the Protestant religious theory. This, as we have sesn, proposed to extend the elements of an education to large and entirely new classes of people who never before in the history of the world had had such advantages. Out of the Protestant religious conception that all should be edu- cated the popular elementary school of modern times has been evolved. The evolution, though, was slow, and long periods of time have been required for its accomplishment. In place of the schools destroyed, or the teachers driven out if no destruction took place, the reformers made an earnest effort to create new schools and supply teachers. This, though, re- quired time, especially as there was as yet in the world no body of vernacular teachers, no institutions in which such could be trained, no theory as to education except the religious, no supply of educated men or women from which to draw, no theory of state support and control, and no source of taxation from which to derive a steady flow of funds. Throughout the long Middle Ages the Church had supplied gratuitous or nearly gratuitous instruc- tion. This it could do, to the limited number whom it taught, from the proceeds of its age-old endowments and educational foundations. In the process of transformation from a Catholic 352 HISTORY OF EDUCATION to a Protestant State, and especially during the more than a cen- tury of turmoil and rehgious strife which followed the rupture of the old relations, many of the old endowments were lost or were diverted from their original purposes. As the Protestant reform- ers were supported generally by the ruling princes, many of these tried to remedy the deficiency by ordering schools estabhshed. The landed nobility though, unused to providing education for their villein tenants and serfs, ^ were averse to supplying the deficiency by any form of general taxation. Nor were the rising merchant classes in the cities any more anxious to pay taxes to provide for artisans and servants what had for ages been a gra- tuity or not furnished at all. No real demand for elementary schools. The creation of a largely new type of schools, and in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of large classes of people who before had never shared in the advantages of education, in consequence proved to be a work of centuries. The century of warfare which followed the refonna- tion movement more or less exhausted all Europe, while the Thirty Years' War which formed its culmination left the Gennan States, where the largest early educational progress had been made, a ruin. In consequence there was for long little money for school support, and religious interest and church tithes had to be depended on almost entirely for the establishment and support of schools. Out of the parish sextons or clerks a supply of vernac- ular teachers had to be evolved, a system of school organization and supervision worked out and added to the duties of the min- ister, and the feeling of need for education awakened sufficiently to make people wiUing to support schools. In consequence what Luther and Calvin declared at the beginning of the sixteenth century to be a necessity for the State and the common right of all, it took until well into the nineteenth century actually to create and make a reality. The great demand of the time, too, was not so much for the education of the masses, however desirable or even necessary this might be from the standpoint of Protestant religious theory, but for the training of leaders for the new religious and social order which the Revival of Learning, the rise of modern nationahties, and the Reformation movements had brought into being. For this secondary schools for boys, largely Latin in type, were de- manded rather than elementary vernacular schools for both sexes. 1 See footnote i, page 207. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 353 We accordingly find the great creations of the period were second- ary schools. Lines of future development established. Still more, certain lines of future development now became clearly established. The drawing given here will help to make this evident. It will be seen from this that not only was the secondary school still the dominant type, though elementary schools began for the first Schools as developed in the 16th and 17th Centuries m I \^\\^'\ Fig. 106. Tendencies in Educational Development in Europe, 1500 to 1700 time to be considered as important also, but that the secondary schools were wholly independent of the elementary schools which now began to be created. The elementary schools were in the vernacular and for the masses ; the secondary schools were in the Latin tongue and for the training of the scholarly leaders. Be- tween these two schools, so different in type and in clientele, there was little in common. This difference was further emphasized with time. The elementary schools later on added subjects of use to the common people, while the secondary schools added subjects of use for scholarly preparation or for university entrance. The secondary schools also frequently provided preparatory schools for their particular classes of children. As a result, all rmrough Europe two school systems — an elementary-school sys- tem for the masses, and a secondary-school system for the classes — exist to-day side by side. We in America did not develop such a class school system, though we started that way. This was because the conception of education we finally developed 354 HISTORY OF EDUCATION was a product of a new democratic spirit, as will be explained later on. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Compare the attention to careful religious instruction in the secondary schools provided by the Lutherans, Calvinists, and English. What analogous instruction do we provide in the American high schools? Is it as thorough or as well done? 2. Compare the scope and ideals of the educational system provided by the Calvinists with the same for the Lutherans and AngKcans. 3. Compare the characteristics of Calvinistic (Huguenot) education, as summarized by Foster, with present-day state educational purposes. 4. Just what kind of a school system did Knox propose (1560) for Scotland? 5. Show how the educational program of the Jesuits reveals Ignatius Loyola as a man of vision. 6. Viewed from the purposes the Order had in mind, was it warranted in neglecting the education of the masses? 7. Does the success of the Order show the importance to society of finding and educating the future leader? Can all men be trained for leadership? 8. What does the statement that the Jesuits were "too practical to make many changes," but had "a keen eye for what was best" in the work of others, indicate as to the nature of school administration and educa- tional progress? g. Indicate the advantages which the Jesuits had in their teachers and teaching-aim over us of to-day. How could we develop an aim as clearly defined and potent as theirs? Could we select teachers with such care? How? 10. Compare the religious and educational propaganda of the Jesuits with the recent political propaganda of the Germans. 11. What is meant by the statement that the Jesuit teaching method, like that of the modern German Volksschule, was a teaching and not a ques- tioning method? 12. Compare present American standards for teacher-training for elemen- tary and secondary teaching with those required by the Jesuits: — {a) as to length of preparation; {b) as to nature and scope of preparation. 13. How do you explain the introduction of sewing into the elementary ver- nacular Catholic schools for girls, so long before handiwork for boys was thought of? 14. In schools so formallj^ organized as those of La Salle, how do you explain the great freedom allowed in questioning on arithmetic and the Cate- chism? 15. Why should La Salle's work have been so opposed by both Church and civil authorities? Do you consider that his Order ever made what would be called rapid progress? 16. Why must the education of leaders always precede the education of the masses? 17. Explain how European countries came naturally to have two largely independent school systems — a secondary school for leaders and an elementary school for the masses — whereas we have only one con- tinuous system. 18. Explain why modern state systems of education developed first in the German States, and why England and the Catholic nations of Europe were so long in dfveloping state school systems. COUNTER-REFORMATION OF CATHOLICS 355 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced : 175. Woodward: Course of Study at the College of Geneva. 176. Synod of Dort: Scheme of Christian Education adopted. 177. Kilpatrick: Work of the Dutch in developing Schools. 178. Kilpatrick: Character of the Dutch Schools of 1650. -• 179. Statutes: The Scotch School Law of 1646. 180. Pachtler: The Ratio Studiorum of the Jesuits. 181. Gerard: The Dominant Religious Purpose in the Education of French Girls. 182. La Salle: Rules for the "Brothers of the Christian Schools." QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Was the College at Geneva (175) a true humanistic-revival school? 2. Just what did the Synod of Dort provide for (176) in the matter of schools, school supervision, and ministerial duties? 3. Compare the work of the Dutch (177) and the Lutherans (159-163) in creating schools. 4. Just what type of school is indicated by selection 178? 5. Just what did the Scotch law of 1646 provide for (179)? 6. Characterize the schools provided for by La Salle (182). 7. Compare the religious care at Port Royal (181) with that suggested by Saint Jerome (R. 45). SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Baird, C. W. History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France. Baird, C. W. Huguenot Emigration to America. Grant, Jas. History of the Burgh Schools of Scotland. Hughes, Thos. Loyola, and the Educational System of the Jesuits. Kilpatrick, Wm. H. The Dutch Schools of New Netherlands and Colonial New York. Laurie, S. S. Historv of Educational Opinion since the Renaissance. Ravelet, A. Blessed J. B. de la Salle. Schwickerath, R. Jesuit Education; its History and Principles in the Light of Modern Educational Problems. Woodward, W. H. Education during the Renaissance. CHAPTER XV EDUCATIONAL RESULTS OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLTS III. THE REFORMATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION The Protestant settlement of America. Columbus had dis- covered the new world just twenty-five years before Luther nailed his theses to the church door at Wittenberg, and by the time the northern continent had been roughly explored and was ready for settlement, Europe was in the midst of a century of warfare in a vain attempt to extirpate the Protestant heresy. By the time that the futility of fire and sword as means for religious conversion had finally dawned upon Christian Europe and found expression in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which closed the terrible Thirty Years' War (p. 301), the first permanent settle- ments in a number of the American colonies had been made. These settlements, and the beginnings of education in America, are so closely tied up with the Protestant Revolts in Europe that a chapter on the beginnings of American education belongs here as still another phase of the educational results of the Protestant Revolts. Practically all the early settlers in America came from among the peoples and from those lands which had embraced some form of the Protestant faith, and many of them came to America to found new homes and estabhsh their churches in the wilderness, because here they could enjoy a rehgious freedom impossible in their old home-lands. This was especially true of the French Huguenots, many of whom, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ^ (1685), fled to America and settled along the coast of the Carolinas; the Calvinistic Dutch and Walloons, who settled in and about New Amsterdam; the Scotch and Scotch-Irish ^ Representing not over one tenth of the population, the Protestants in France had from the first been subjected to much persecution. In the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew (1572) over one thousand had been massacred in Paris and ten thou- sand more in the provinces. After some warfare, a treaty was made, in 1598, under which the so-called "Edict of Nantes" guaranteed religious toleration for the Prot- estants. In 1685 this was revoked, and their ministers were given fifteen days to leave France. The members were, however, forbidden to leave. Many, though got away, escaping to the Low Countries, England, and to America. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 357 Presbyterians, who settled in New Jersey, and later extended along the Allegheny Mountain ridges into all the southern colo- nies; the English Quakers about Philadelphia, who came under the leadership of William Penn, and a few EngUsh Baptists and Methodists in eastern Pennsylvania; the Swedish Lutherans, along the Delaware; the German Lutherans, Moravians, Mennon- ites, Dunkers, and Reformed -Church Germans, who settled in large numbers in the mountain valleys of Pennsylvania: and the Calvinistic dissenters from the Enghsh National Church, known as Puritans, who settled the New England colonies, and who, more than any others, gave direction to the future development of education in the American States. Very many of these early religious groups came to America in little congregations, bring- ing their ministers with them. Each set up, in the colony in which it settled, what were virtually little religious republics, that through them they might the better perpetuate the religious principles for which they had left the land of their birth. Educa- tion of the young for membership in the Church, and the perpet- uation of a learned ministry for the congregations, from the first elicited the serious attention of these pioneer settlers. Englishmen who were adherents of the English national faith (Anghcans) also settled in Virginia and the other southern colo- nies, and later in New York and New Jersey, while Maryland was founded as the only Catholic colony, in what is now the United States, by a group of persecuted English Catholics who obtained a charter from Charles I, in 1632. These settlements are shown on the map on the following page. As a result of these settle- ments there was laid, during the early colonial period of American history, the foundation of those type attitudes toward education which subsequently so materially shaped the educational develop- ment of the different American States during the early part of our national history. The Puritans in New England. Of all those who came to America during this early period, the Cahdnistic Puritans who settled the New England colonies contributed most that was val- uable to the future educational development of America, and because of this will be considered first. The original reformation in England, as was stated in chapters XII and XIII, had been much more nominal than real. The Eng- lish Bible and the Enghsh Prayer-Book had been issued to the churches (R. 170), and the King instead of the Pope had been 358 HISTORY OF EDUCATION declared by the Act of Supremacy (R. 153) to be the head of the EngHsh National Church. The same priests, though, had con- tinued in the churches under the new regime, and the church serv- ice had not greatly changed aside from its transformation from Fig. 107. Map showing the Religious Settlements in America Latin into English. Neither the Church as an organization nor its members experienced any great religious reformation. Not all Englishmen, though, took the change in allegiance so lightly (R. 183), and in consequence there came to be a gradually in- creasing number who desired a more fundamental reform of the English Church. By 1600 the demand for Church reform had BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 359 » '-^ 'i become very insistent, and the question of Church purification (whence the name "Puritans") had become a burning question in England. The English Puritans, moreover, were of two classes. One was a moderate but influential "low-church " group within the " high " State Church, possessed of no desire to separate Church and State, but earnestly insistent on a simplification of the Church ceremonial, the elimination of a number of the vestiges of the old Romish-Church ritual, and particularly the introduction of more preaching into the service. The other class constituted a much more radical group, and had become deeply imbued with Calvin- istic thinking. This group gradually came into open opposi- tion to any State Church, stood for the local inde- pendence of the different churches or congrega- tions, and desired the complete elimination of all vestiges of the Romish faith from the church services.^ They became known as Independents, or Separatists, and formed the germs of the later Congregational groups of early New England. Both Elizabeth (i 558-1 603) and James I (1603-25) savagely persecuted this more radical group, and many of their congregations were forced to flee from Eng- land to obtain personal safety and to enjoy religious liberty (R. 184). One of these fugitive congregations, from Scrooby, in north- central England, after living for several years at Leyden, in Holland, finally set sail for America, landed on Plymouth Rock, in 1620, and began the settlement of that "bleak and stormy coast." Other congregations soon followed, it having been estimated that twenty thousand English Puritans migrated - to t-x--^ Fig. 108. Homes of the Pilgrims, and THEIR Route to America * The culmination of this dissatisfaction came in 1649, when Charles I was be- headed and "The Commonwealth" was established under Cromwell. During the troubled times which followed (1649-60) much damage was done to the churches of England by way of eliminating vestiges of "popery." ^ Some of these went back to England — many after the establishment of the Vrotestant Commonwealth under Cromwell (1645). It has been estimated, for 36o HISTORY OF EDUCATION the New England wilderness before 1640. These represented a fairly well-to-do type of middle-class Englishmen, practically all of whom had had good educational advantages at home. Settling along the coast in httle groups or congregations, they at once set up a combined civil and religious form of government, modeled in a way after Calvin's City-State at Geneva, and which became known as a New England town.^ In time the southern portion of the coast of New England was dotted with httle self- governing settlements of those who had come to America to obtain for themselves that rehgious freedom which had been denied them at home. These settlements were loosely bound together in a colony federation, in which each town was repre- sented in a General Court, or legislature. The extent of these settlements by 1660 is shown on the map on the opposite page. Beginnings of schools in New England. Having come to America to secure religious freedom, it was but natural that the perpetuation of their particular faith by means of education should have been one of the first matters to engage their attention, after the building of their homes and the setting up of the civil goverimient (R. 185). Being deeply imbued with Calvinistic ideas as to government and religion, they desired to found here a religious commonwealth, somewhat after the model of Geneva (p. 298), or Scotland (p. 335), or the Dutch provinces (p. 334), the corner-stones of which should be religion and education. At first, English precedents were followed. Home instruction, which was quite common in England among the Puritans, was naturally much employed to teach the children to read the Bible and to train them to participate in both the family and the con- gregational worship. After 1647, town elementary schools under a master, and later the English "dame schools" (chapter xviii), were established to provide this rudimentary instruction. The English apprentice system was also established (R. 201), and the masters of apprentices gave similar instruction to boys entrusted three of the early colonies, that the population by decades was approximately as follows: i6jo 1640 1650 1660 New Netherlands 5°° 1000 3000 6000 Massachusetts 13°° 14000 18000 25000 Virginia 3000 8000 17000 33000 1 The name and the form came alike from old England, where an irregular area known as a "town" or a "township," constituted the unit of representation in the shiremoats and the membership of the church parish. Almost every town and par- ish officer known in England was created by the new towns in New England, with practically the same functions as in the old home. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 361 to their care. The town religious governments, under which all the little congregations organized themselves, much as the little religious parishes had been organized in old England, also began the voluntary establishment of town grammar schools, as a few towns in England had done (R. 143) before the Puritans migrated. The "Latin School" at Boston dates from 1635, and has had a continuous existence since that time. The grammar school at Fig. 109. New England Settlements, 1660 362 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Charlestown dates from 1636, that at Ipswich from the same year, and the school at Salem from 1637. In 1639 Dorchester voted: that there shall be a rent of 20 lb a year for ever imposed vpon Tomsons Island . . . toward the mayntenance of a schoole in Dorches- ter. This rent of 20 lb yearly to bee payd to such a schoole-mastej; as shall vndertake to teach english, latine, and other tongues, and also writing. The said schoole-master to bee chosen from tyme to tyme pr the freemen. Newbury, in 1639, voted "foure akers of upland" and "sixe akers of salt marsh" to Anthony Somerby "for his encouragement to keepe schoole for one yeare," and later levied a town rate of £24 for a "schoole to be kepte at the meeting house." Cam- bridge also early estabHshed a Latin grammar school "for the training up of Young Schollars, and fitting them ^ for Academi- call Learning'' (R. 185). The support for the town schools thus founded was de- rived from various sources, such as the levying of tuition fees, the income from town lands or Fig. no. The Boston Latin Grammar School The original school, on School Street, with King's Chapel on the left fisheries set aside for the purpose,- voluntary contributions from the people of the town.^ a town tax, or a combination of two or more of these methods. The founding of the "free (grammar) school" at Roxburie, in 1645, is representative (R. 188) of the early methods. There was no uniform plan as yet, in either old or New England. 1 "The settlers were in the first freshness of their Utopian enthusiasm, and their church establishment was the very heart of their enterprise. It became therefore a matter of primary importance to educate preachers. For ages preparation for the ministry had consisted mainly in acquiring a knowledge of Latin, the sacred tongue of western Christendom. Though the Latin service was no longer used by Protestants, and the Vulgate Bible had been dethroned by the original text, and though the main stream of English theology was by this time flowing in the channel of the mother tongue, the notion that all ministers should know Latin had still some centuries of tough life in it." (Eggleston, E., The Transit of Civilization, p. 225.) - For example, the town of Boston, in 1641, devoted the income from Deere Island to the support of schools, and V\\ nn .;'-, in 1670, appropriated the income from the Cape Cod fishing industry to the support of grammar schools (R. 194 c). These are among the earliest of the perm.inent endowments for education in America. * See The Development of School Supp' i in Colonial Massachusetts, by George L. Jackson, for a careful study of the diff ■ .nl -arly methods of school support. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 363 Founding of Harvard College. In addition to establishing Latin f^rammar schools, a college was founded, in 1636, by the General Court (legislature) of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to perpetu- ate learning and insure an educated ministry (R. 185) to the churches after "our present ministers shall lie in the dust." This new college, located at Newtowne, was modeled after Emmanuel College at Cambridge, an English Puritan college in which many of the early New England colonists had studied/ and in loving memory of which they rechristened Newtowne as Cambridge. In 1639 the college was christened Harvard College, after a grad- uate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by the name of John Harvard, who died in Charlestown, a year after his arrival in the colony, and who left the college his library of two hundred and sixty volumes and half his property, about £850. The instruction in the new college was a combination of the arts and theological instruction given in a mediaeval university, though at Harv^ard the President, Master Dunster (R. 185), did all the teaching. For the first fifty years at Harvard this con- tinued to be true, the attendance during that time seldom exceed- ing twenty. The entrance requirements for the college (R. 186 a) call for the completion of a typical English Latin grammar-school education; the rules and precepts for the government of the col- lege (R. 18 5 b) reveal the deep religious motive; and the schedule of studies (R. 186 c) and the requirements for degrees (R. 186 d) both show that the instruction was true to the European t}^e. In the charter for the college, granted by the colonial legislature in 1650 (R. 187 a), we find exemptions and conditions which remind one strongly of the older European foundations. A century later Brown College, in Rhode Island, was granted even more exten- sive exemptions (R. 187 b). The first colonial legislation: the Law of 1642. We thus see manifested early in New England the deep Puritan- Calvinistic zeal for learning as a bulwark of Church and State. We also see the establishment in the wilderness of New England of a typical English educational system — that is, private instruction in read- ing and religion by the parents in the home and by the masters of apprentices, and later by a town schoolmaster; the Latin grammar 1 The Puritan emigrants to New England represented a sturdy and well-educated class of English country squires and yeomen. They came of thrifty and well-to-do stock, the shiftless and incompetent not being represented. All had had good edu- cational advantages, and many were graduates of Cambridge University. It has been asserted that probably never since has the proportion of college men in the community been so large. 364 HISTORY OF EDUCATION school in the larger towns, to prepare boys for the college of the colony; and an EngHsh-type college to prepare them for the min- istry. As in England, too, all was clearly subordinate to the Church. Still further, as in England also, the system was volun- tary, the deep religious interest which had brought the congrega- tions to America being depended upon to insure for all the neces- sary education and religious training. It early became evident, though, that these voluntary efforts on the part of the people and the towns would not be sufficient to insure that general education which was required by the Puritan religious theory. Under the hard pioneer conditions, and the suf- fering which ensued, many parents and masters of apprentices evidently proved neglectful of their educational duties. Accord- ingly the Church appealed to its servant, the State, as represented in the colonial legislature (General Court) to assist it in compelling parents and masters to observe their religious obligations. The result was the famous Massachusetts Law of 1642 (R. 190), which directed "the chosen men" (Selectmen; Councilmen) of each town to ascertain, from time to time, if the parents and masters were attending to their educational duties; if the children were being trained "in learning and labor and other employments . . . profitable to the Commonwealth"; and if children were being taught " to read and understand the principles of rehgion and the capital laws of the country," and empowered them to impose fines on "those who refuse to render such accounts to them when re- quired." In 1645 the General Court further ordered that all youth between ten and sixteen years of age should also receive instruction "in ye exercise of arms, as small guns, halfe pikes, bowes & arrows, &c." The Law of 1642 is remarkable in that, for the first time in the English-speaking world, a legislative body representing the State ordered that all children should be taught to read. The law shows clearly not only the influence of the Reformation theory as to personal salvation and the Calvinistic conception of the connec- tion between learning and religion, but also the influence of the English Poor-Law legislation which had developed rapidly during the- half -century immediately preceding the coming of the Puri tans to America (R. 173). On the foundations of the EngHsh Poor Law of 1601 (R. 174) our New England settlers moulded the first American law relating to education, adding to the principles there established (p. 326) a distinct Calvinistic contri- After God h\d carried 1£_s.\fe to'Nev/ .England and '/ee had b\ ilded ovr hovses pro\ ided necessaries for ovr ll\ eli hood reard c0n\en1ent places for gods worship -\nd 5etled thecimll govern\lent one of the next things we longed for AND LOOKED AFTER V/\s TO ADNANCE LEARNING AND PERPETX ATE IT TO POSTERITY' DREADING TO LEAVE AN ILLITERATE M1N1STER> TO THE CHVRCHES WHEN 0\ R PRESENTMl-NL^TERS SHALL LIE IN THE DVST. \'F'v' FXGLANDS F1R?T FKVITS -tf.?-SS!^tt, B-heGENEPALC0VPT-^1ASSACHVSETTSB^ 23 october 163'': agfced to give 400 ^ to-//apd<=-a schoale cr c'glledge v/hearof 200f TO BEE PAID THE ;-E:-;T VEAP5 &< 200 / //HE^^THEV/OPKEIS FI/'ISHED L THE NEXT COVRT ■ " jr. i.pPOr.T ■//HEAPE k Wt BVILDING 15 ■•^■^■■BFFl':"/ THE COLLED G IS ORDERED TO BEE AT VE"/fETO'/n'E 2viy\Yi':38 IT IS OPDEPED THAT ::EWET0V/NE , SHALL HE; rEPOPV/APD BE CALLED CAMBRlGE 13 M \RCH I'wjo- -; IT IS ORDERED THAT THE COLLEDGEs \GPEED \ PC. FOP.^iEPLV TO BEE BVILT AT CAMBPfDi SHALBEE TALLED HAP\'ARn COLLEDGF Plate g. Two Tablets on the West Gateway at Harvard University Reproducing colonial records relating to the founding of Harvard College BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 365 bution to our new-world life that, the authorities of the civil town should see that all children were taught " to read and under- stand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the coun- try." This law the Selectmen, or the courts if they failed to do so, were ordered to enforce, and the courts usually looked after their duties in the matter (R. 192). The Law of 1647. The Law of 1642, while ordering " the chosen men" of each town to see that the education and training of chil- dren was not neglected, and providing for fines on parents and masters who failed to render accounts when required, did not, however, establish schools, or direct the employment of school- masters. The provision of education, after the English fashion, was still left with the homes. After a trial of five years, the results of which were not satisfactory, the General Court enacted another law by means of which it has been asserted that "the Puritan government of Massachusetts rendered probably its greatest serv- ice to the future." After recounting in a preamble (R. 191) that it had in the past been " one cheife proiect of y^ ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of y^ Scriptures, ... by keeping y" in an un- knowne tongue," so now "by pswading from y*" use of tongues," and " obscuring y^ true sence & meaning of y^ originall " by "false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers," learning was in danger of being "buried in y^ grave of o"" fath'^ in y*" church and comon- wealth"; the Court ordered: 1. That every town having fifty householders should at once appoint a teacher of reading and writing, and provide for his wages in such manner as the town might determine; and 2. That every town having one hundred householders must provide a grammar school to fit youths for the university, under a pen- alty of £5 (afterwards increased to £20) for failure to do so. This law represents a distinct step in advance over the Law of 1642, and for this there are no English precedents. It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that England took such a step. The precedents for the compulsory establishment of schools lie rather in the practices of the different German States (p. 318), the actions of the Dutch synods (R. 176) and provinces (p. 335), the Acts of the Scottish parhament of 1633 and 1646 (p. 334; R. 179), and the general Calvinistic principle that educa- tion was an important function of a religious State. Principles established. The State here, acting again as the 366 HISTORY OF EDUCATION servant of the Church, enacted a law and fixed a tradition which prevailed and grew in strength and effectiveness after State and Church had parted company. Not only was a school system ordered established — elementary for all towns and children, and secondary for youths in the larger towns — but, for the first time among English-speaking people, there was an assertion of the right of the State to require communities to establish and maintain schools, under penalty if they refused to do so. It can be safely asserted, in the light of later developments, that the two laws of 1642 and 1647 represent the foundations upon which our American state pubHc-school systems have been built. Mr. Martin, the historian of the Massachusetts pubHc-school system, states the fundamental principles which underlay this legislation, as follows: ^ 1. The universal education of youth is essential to the well-being of the State. 2. The obligation to furnish this education rests primarily upon the parent. 3. The State has a right to enforce this obligation. 4. The State may fix a standard which shall determine the kind of education, and the minimum amount. 5. Public money, raised by general tax, may be used to provide such education as the State requires. The tax may be general, though the school attendance is not. 6. Education higher than the rudiments may be supplied by the State. Opportunity must be provided, at public expense, for youths who wish to be fitted for the university. *'It is important to note here," adds Mr. Martin, ''that the idea underlying all this legislation is neither paternalistic nor so- cialistic. The child is to be educated, not to advance his personal interests, but because the State will suffer if he is not educated. The State does not provide schools to relieve the parent, nor be- cause it can educate better than the parent can, but because it can thereby better enforce the obligation which it imposes." To pre- vent a return to the former state of religious ignorance it was im- portant that education be provided. To assure this the colonial legislature enacted a law requiring the maintenance and support of schools by the towns. This law became the corner-stone of our American state school systems. Influence on other New England colonies. Connecticut Col- ony, in its Law of 1650 establishing a school system, combined the 1 Martin, Geo. H., The Evolution of the Massachusetts Public-School System, pp. 14-16. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 367 spirit of the Massachusetts Law of 1642, though stated in differ- ent words (R. 193), and the Law of 1647, stated word for word. New Haven Colony, in 1655, ordered that children and appren- tices should be taught to read, as had been done in Massachusetts, in 1642, but on the union of New Haven and Connecticut Colo- nies, in 1665, the Con- necticut Code became the law for the united colonies. In 1702 a college was founded (Yale) and finally lo- cated at New Haven, to offer preparation for the ministry in the Connecticut colony, as had been done ear- lier in Massachusetts, and Latin grammar schools were founded the Connecticut m Fig. III. Where Yale College was founded The home of the Reverend Samuel Russell, at Bran- ford, Conn. The first meeting to organize the college was held there, in September, 1701 towns to prepare for the new college, as also had been done earHer in Massachusetts. The rules and regulations for the grammar school at New Haven (R. 189) reveal the purpose and describe the instruction provided in one of the earliest and best of these. Plymouth Colony, in 1658 and again in 1663, proposed to the towns that they "sett vp" a schoolmaster "to traine vp children to reading and writing" (R. 194 a). In 1672 the towns were asked to aid Harvard College by gifts (R. 194 b). In 1673-74 the income from the Cape Cod fisheries was set aside for the support of a (grammar) school (R. 194 c). Finally, in 1677, all towns having over fifty families and maintaining a grammar school were ordered aided from the fishery proceeds (R. 194 d). The Massachusetts laws also applied to Maine, New Hamp- shire, and Vermont, as these were then a part of Massachusetts Colony. After New Hampshire separated, in 1680, the Massa- chusetts Law of 1647 was virtually readopted in 1719-21. In Maine and Vermont there were so few settlers, until near the beginning of our national life, that the influence of the Massa- chusetts legislation on these States was negligible until a later period. 368 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Only in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, of all the New England colonies, did the Massachusetts legislation fail to exert a deep influence. Settled as these two had been by refugees from New England, and organized on a basis of hospitality to all who suffered from religious oppression elsewhere, the religious stimulus to the founding of schools naturally was lacking. As the religious basis for education was as yet the only basis, the first development of schools in Rhode Island awaited the humani- tarian and economic influences which did not become operative until early in the nineteenth century. Outside of the New England colonies, the appeal to the State as the servant of the Church was seldom made during the early colonial period, the churches handling the educational problem in their own way. As a result the beginnings of State oversight and control were left to New England. In the central colonies a series of parochial-school systems came to prevail, while in Episco- palian Virginia and the other colonies to the south the no-business- of-the-State attitude assumed toward education by the mother country was copied. The church schools of New York. New Netherland, as New York Colony was called before the English occupation, was settled by the Dutch West India Company, and some dozen villages about New York and up the Hudson had been founded by the time it passed to the control of the English, in 1664. In these the Dutch established typical home-land public parochial schools, under the control of the Reformed Dutch Church. Thb schoolmaster was usually the reader and precentor in the church as well (R. 195), and often acted, as in Holland, as sexton besides. Girls attended on equal terms with boys, but sat apart and recited in separate classes. The instruction consisted of reading and writing Dutch, sometimes a little arithmetic, the Dutch Catechism, the reading of a few religious books, and certain prayers. The rules (1661) for a schoolmaster in New Amsterdam (R. 196), and the contract with a Dutch schoolmaster in Flatbush (R. 195), dating from 1682, reveal the type of schools and school conditions provided. All except the children of the poor paid fees to the schoolmaster.^ 1 The charging of a tuition fee to those who could afford to pay was a common European practice of the time, nevertheless the public authorities — at that time a mixture of civil and church officials — provided the school, employed and licensed the teacher, determined the textbooks to be used, and laid down the conditions under which the school should be conducted. The schoolmaster assisted the church by participating in the Sunday services. The elementary school of the Dutch, which was copied in the New Netherland, was thus a combination of a public and parochiaL and a free and pay school. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 369 He was licensed by the Dutch church authorities. As the Dutch had not come to America because of persecution, and were in no way out of sympathy with rehgious conditions in the home-land, the schools they developed here were typical of the Dutch Euro- pean parochial schools of the time (R. 178). A trivial (Latin) school was also established in New York, in 1652. After the English occupation the English principle of private and church control of education, with schooling on a tuition or a charitable basis, came to prevail, and this continued up to the beginning of our national period. ^ Of the English colonial schools of New York Draper has written: - All the English schools in the province from 1 700 down to the time of the Declaration of Independence were maintained by a great religious society organized under the auspices of the Church of England — and, of course, with the favor of the government — called "The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts." The law govern- ing this Society provided that no teacher should be employed until he had proved "his affection for the present government" and his "con- formity to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England." Schools maintained under such auspices were in no sense free schools. Indeed, humiliating as it is, no student of history can fail to discern the fact that the government of Great Britain, during its supremacy in this territory, did nothing to facilitate the extension or promote the efficiency of free elementary schools among the people. The parochial schools of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, German Lutherans, Moravians, Mennonites, and members of the German Reformed Church, all of whom came to America to secure greater religious Uberty and had been attracted to this colony by the free- dom of religious worship which Penn had provided for there. All these were Protestant sects, all believed in the necessity of learn- ing to read the Bible as a means to personal salvation, and all made efforts looking toward the estabhshment of schools as a part of their church organization. Unlike New England, though, no sect was in a majority; church control for each denomination was considered as most satisfactory; and no appeal was made to the State to have it assist the churches in the enforcement of their rehgious purposes. The clergymen were usually the teachers in the parochial schools established,^ while private pay schools were 1 This was, of course, much more true of New York City and Island than of the outlying Dutch villages. In these latter a pubHc school was for long maintained. ^ Draper, A. S., Origin and Development of the New York Common School System. * Among the German Lutherans, who constituted nearly one fourth of the total population of the colony, a school is claimed to have been established alongside the 370 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 112. An Old Quaker Meeting- house AND School at Lampeter, Pennsylvania (From an old drawing) opened in the villages and towns. These were taught in English, German, or in the MoraWan tongue, according to the original language of the different immigrants. The Quakers seem to have taken particular interest in schools (R. 199), a Quaker school in Philadelphia (R. 198) hav- ing been estabhshed the year the city was founded. Girls were educated as well as boys, and the emphasis was placed on reading, writing, counting, and religion, rather than upon any higher form of training. The result was the devel- opment in this colony of a policy of depending on church and private effort, and the provision of education, aside from certain rudimentary and religious instruction, was left largely for those who could afford to pay for the privilege. Charitable education was extended to but a few, for a short time, while, under the freedom allowed, many communities made but indifferent provisions or suffered their schools to lapse. Under the primitive conditions of the time the interest even in religious education often declined almost to the vanishing point. So lax in the matter of providing schooling had many communities become that the second Provincial Assembly, sitting in Philadelphia, in 1683, passed an ordinance requiring (R. 197) that all persons having children must cause them to be taught to read and write, so that they might be able to read the Scriptures by the time they were twelve years old, and also that all children be taught some useful trade. A fine of £5 was to be assessed for failure to comply with the law. So much in advance of EngHsh ideas as to what was fitting and proper was this compulsory law that it was vetoed by William and Mary, when submitted to their church by each of the congregations "at the earliest possible period after its forma- tion." The close connection between these Lutheran congregations and their schools may be seen from the foUov/ing contract, dated at Lancaster, in 1774: "I, the undersigned, John Hoffman, parochial teacher of the church at Lancaster, have promised in the presence of the congregation, to serve as choirister, and, as long as we have no pastor, to read sermons on Sunday. In summer I promise to hold cathechetical instruction with the young, as becomes a faithful teacher, and also to lead them in the singing and attend to the clock." BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 371 majesties for approval. Ten years later it was reenacted by the Governor and Assembly of the colony, but proved so difficult of enforcement that it was soon dropped, and the chance of starting education in Pennsylvania somewhat after the New England model was lost. The colony now settled down to a policy of non state action, and this in time became so firmly established that the do-as-you-please idea persisted in this State up to the estab- lishment of the first free state school system, in 1834. Mixed conditions in New Jersey. In New Jersey, situated as it was near the center of the different colonies, the early develop- ment of education there was the product of a number of different influences. The Dutch crossed from New Amsterdam, the Eng- lish came from Connecticut and later from New York, Scotch and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians came from the mother country, Swed- ish Lutherans settled along the Delaware, and Quakers and Ger- man Lutherans came over from Pennsylvania. The educational practice of the colony or land from which each group of settlers came was reproduced in the colony. After the EngHsh succeeded the Dutch in New Amsterdam (1664), English methods and prac- tice in education gradually came into control throughout most of New Jersey, and as a result here, as in New York, but little was accomplished in providing schools for other than a select few until well after the beginning of the nineteenth century. Neither New Jersey, New York, nor Pennsylvania may be said to have devel- oped any colonial educational policy aside from that of allowing private and parochial effort to provide such schools as seemed desirable. Virginia and the southern type. Almost all the conditions attending the settlement of Virginia were in contrast to those of the New England colonies. The early settlers were from the same class of Enghsh yeomen and country squires, but with the impor- tant difference that whereas the New England settlers were Dis- senters from the Church of England and had come to America to obtain freedom in rehgious worship, the settlers in Virginia were adherents of the National Church and had come to America for gain. The marked differences in climate and possible crops led to the large plantation type of settlement, instead of the compact little New England town; the introduction of large numbers of "indentured white servants," and later |^egro slaves, led to the development of classes in society instead of to the New England type of democracy; and the lack of a strong religious motive foi 372 HISTORY OF EDUCATION education naturally led to the adoption of the customary English practices instead of to the development of colonial schools. The tutor in the home, education in small private pay schools, or edu- cation in the mother country were the prevaihng methods adopted among the well-to-do planters, while the poorer classes were left with only such advantages as apprenticeship training or charity schools might provide. Throughout the entire colonial period Virginia remained most hke the mother country in spirit and practice, and stands among the colonies as the clearest example of the Enghsh attitude toward school support and control. As in the mother country, education was considered to be no business of the State. Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Carolinas followed the English attitude, much after the fashion of Virginia. Practically all the Virginia colonial legislation relating to edu- cation refers either to William and Mary College (founded in 1693), or to the education of orphans and the children of the poor. Both these interests, as we have previously seen, were typically English. All the seventeenth-century legislation relating to education is based on the Enghsh Poor-Law legislation,^ previ- ously described (p. 325), and included the compulsory appren- ticeship of the children of the poor, training in a trade, the require- ment that the public authorities must provide opportunities for this type of education, and the use of both local and colony funds for the purpose (R. 200 a), all, as the Statutes state, "according to the aforesaid laudable custom in the Kingdom of England." It was not until 1705 that Virginia reached the point, reached by Massachusetts in 1642, of requiring that "the master of the [ap- prenticed] orphan shall be obliged to teach him to read and write." In all the Anghcan colonies the apprenticing of the children of the poor (see R. 200 b for some interesting North Carolina records) was a characteristic feature. During the entire colonial period the indifference of the mother country to general education was steadily reflected in Virginia and in the colonies which were essen- tially Anglican in religion, and followed the English example. ^ The seventeenth-century Virginia legislation relating to education is as follows: 1643. Orphans to be educated "according to the competence of their estate." 1646. "If the estate be so meane and inconsiderate that it will not reach to a free education, then that orphan [shall] be bound to some manuall trade . . . except some friends or relatives be willing to keep them." 1660-61. "To avoid sloth and idleness ... as also for the relief of parents whose poverty extends not to giving [their children] breeding, the justices of the peace should . . . bind out children to tradesmen or husbandmen to be brought up in some good and lawful calling." BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 373 Type plans represented by 1750. The seventeenth century thus witnessed the transplanting of European ideas as to govern- ment, religion, and education to the new American colonies, and by the eighteenth century we find three clearly marked types of educational practice or conception as to educational responsibility established on American soil. The first was the strong Calvinistic conception of a religious State, supporting a system of common vernacular schools, higher Latin schools, and a college, for both religious and civic ends. This type dominated New England, and is best represented by Massachusetts. From New England this attitude was carried westward by the migrations of New England people, and deeply influenced the educational development of all States to which the New Englander went in any large numbers. This was the edu- cational contribution of Calvinism to America.* Out of it our state school systems of to-day, by the separation of Church and State, have been evolved. The second was the parochial-school conception of the Dutch, Moravians, Mennonites, German Lutherans, German Reformed Church, Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptists, and CathoHcs. This type is best represented by Protestant Pennsylvania and Catholic Maryland. It stood for church control of all educational efforts, resented state interference, was dominated only by church pur- poses, and in time came to be a serious obstacle in the way of rational state school organization and control. The third type, into which the second type tended to fuse, con- ceived of public education, aside from collegiate education, as intended chiefly for orphans and the children of the poor, and as a charity which the State was under Kttle or no obligation to assist in supporting. All children of the upper and middle classes in society attended private or church schools, or were taught by tutors in their homes, and for such instruction paid a proper tui- tion fee. Paupers and orphans, in limited numbers and for a limited time, might be provided with some form of useful educa- tion at the expense of either Church or State. This type is best represented by Anglican Virginia, which typified well the laissez- ^ "Perhaps the most remarkable, because the most widespread and complex illus- tration of the educational genius of Calvinism is to be found in the American colo- nies, where the various European streams of Calvinism so converged that the seven- teenth-century colonists were predominantly Calvinists — not merely the Puritans of New England, but the Dutch, Walloons, Huguenots, Scotch, and Scotch-Irish, with a considerable Puritan admixture in Anglican Virginia and Catholic Maryland." (Foster, H. D., in Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education^ vol. i, p. 498.) 374 HISTORY OF EDUCATION faire policy which dominated England from the time of the Protestant Reformation until the latter half of the nineteenth century. These three types of attitude toward the provision of education became fixed American types, and each deeply influenced subse- quent American educational development, as we shall point out in a later chapter. Dominance of the religious motive. The seventeenth century was essentially a period of the transplanting, almost unchanged in form, of the characteristic European institutions, manners, reli- gious attitudes, and forms of government to American shores. Each sect or nationality on arriving set up in the new land the characteristic forms of church and school and social observances known in the old home-land. Dutch, Germans, English, Scotch, Calvinists, Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians — reproduced in the American colonies the main type of schools existing at the time of their migration in the mother land from which they came. They were also dominated by the same deep religious purpose. The dominance of this religious purpose in all instruction is well illustrated by the great beginning-school book of the time, The New England Primer. A digest of the contents of this, with a few pages reproduced, is given in R. 202. This book, from which all children learned to read, was used by Dissenters and Lutherans alike in the American colonies. This book Ford well characterizes in the following words: As one glances over what may truly be called "The Little Bible of New England," and reads its stern lessons, the Puritan mood is caught with absolute faithfulness. Here was no easy road to knowledge and salvation; but with prose as bare of beauty as the whitewash of their churches, with poetry as rough and stern as their storm-torn coast, with pictures as crude and unfinished as their own glacial-smoothed boulders, between stiff oak covers which symbolized the contents, the children were tutored, until, from being unregenerate, and as Jonathan Edwards said, "young vipers, and infinitely more hateful than vipers" to God, they attained that happy state when, as expressed by Judge Sewell's child, they were afraid that they "should goe to hell," and were "stirred up dreadfully to seek God." God was made sterner and more cruel than any living judge, that all might be brought to realize how slight a chance even the least erring had of escaping eternal damnation. One learned to read chiefly that one might be able to read the Catechism and the Bible, and to know the will of the Heavenly Father. There was scarcely any other purpose in the mainte- BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 375 nance of elementary schools. In the grammar schools and the colleges students were ''instructed to consider well the main end of life and studies." These institutions existed mainly to insure a supply of learned ministers for service in Church and State. Such studies as history, geography, science, music, drawing, secu- lar literature, and organized play were unknown. Children were constantly surrounded, week days and Sundays, by the somber Calvinistic religious atmosphere in New England,^ and by the careful religious oversight of the pastors and elders in the colonies where the parochial-school system was the ruling plan for educa- tion. Schoolmasters were required to "catechise their scholars in the principles of the Christian religion," and it was made "a chief part of the schoolmaster's religious care to commend his scholars and his labors amongst them unto God by prayer morn- ing and evening, taking care that his scholars do reverently attend during the same." Religious matter constituted the only reading matter, outside the instruction in Latin in the grammar schools. The Catechism was taught, and the Bible was read and ex- pounded. Church attendance was required, and grammar-school pupils were obliged to report each week on the Sunday sermon. This insistence on the religious element was more prominent in Calvinistic New England than in the colonies to the south, but everywhere the rehgious purpose was dominant. The church parochial and charity schools were essentially schools for instilling the church practices and beUefs of the church maintaining them. This state of affairs continued until well toward the beginning of the nineteenth century. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Compare the conservative and radical groups in the English purification movement with the conservative and radical groups, as typified by Eras- mus and Luther, at the time of the Reformation. 2. Show how, for each group, the schools estabHshed were merely home- land foreign-type religious schools, with nothing distinctively American about them. 1 "To illustrate how omnipresent this religious atmosphere was, I cannot do better than to cite the occasion when Judge Sewell found that the spout which con- ducted the rain water from his roof did not perform its otTice. Af ler patient search- ing, a ball belonging to the small children was found lodged in the spout. There- upon the father sent for the minister and had a season of prayer with his boys that their mischief or carelessness might be set in its proper aspect and that the event might be sanctified to their spiritual good. Powers of darkness and of light were struggling for the possession of every soul, and it was the duty of parents, ministers, and teachers to lose no opportunity to pluck the children as brands from the burning." (Johnson Clifton, Oik-Time Schools and Sclwolbooks, p. 12.) 376 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 3. Show why such copying of home-land types, even to the Latin grammar school, was perfectly natural. 4. The provision of the Law of 1642 requiring instruction in "the capital laws of the country" was new. How do you explain this addition to mother-land practices? 5. Show why the Law of 1642 was Calvinistic rather than Anglican in its origin. 6. Explain the meaning of the preamble to the Law of 1647. 7. Show how the Law of 1647 must go back for precedents to German, Dutch, and Scotch sources. 8. Apply the six principles stated by Mr. Martin, as embodied in the legis- lation of 1647, to modern state school practice, and show how we have adopted each in our laws. 9. Show also that the Law of 1647, as well as modern state school laws, is neither paternalistic nor socialistic in essential purpose. 10. Show that, though the mixture of religious sects in Pennsylvania made colonial legislation difficult, still it would have been possible to have enforced the Massachusetts Law of 1642, or the Pennsylvania laws of 1683 or 1693, in the colony. How do you explain the opposition and failure to do so? 11. Show how the charity schools for the poor, and church missionary-society schools, were the natural outcome of the English attitude toward ele- mentary education. 12. Which of the three type plans in the American colonies by 1750 most influenced educational development in your State? 13. State the important contribution of Calvinism to our new-world life. 14. Explain the indifference of the Anglican Church to general education during the whole of our colonial period. 15. Explain what is meant by "The Puritan Church applied to its servant, the State," etc. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 183. Nichols: The Puritan Attitude. 184. Gov. Bradford: The Puritans leave England. 185. First Fruits: The Founding of Harvard College. 186. First Fruits: The First Rules for Harvard College. (a) Entrance Requirements. {b) Rules and Precepts, (c) Time and Order of Studies. {d) Requirements for Degrees. 187. College Charters: Extracts from, showing Privileges. (o) Harvard College, 1650. {h) Brown College, 1764. 188. Dillaway: Founding of the Free School at Roxburie. 189. Baird: Rules and Regulations for Hopkins Grammar School. 190. Statutes: The Massachusetts Law of 1642. 191. Statutes: The Massachusetts Law of 1647. 192. Court Records: Presentment of Topsfield for Violating the Law of 1642. 193. Statutes: The Connecticut Law of 1650. 194. Statutes: Plymouth Colony Legislation. 195. Flatbush: Contract with a Dutch Schoolmaster. BEGINNINGS IN AMERICA 377 196. New Amsterdam: Rules for a Schoolmaster in. 197. Statutes: The Pennsylvania Law of 1683. 198. Minutes of Council: The First School in Philadelphia. 199. Murray: Early Quaker Injunctions regarding Schools. _ 200. Statutes: Apprenticeship Laws in the Southern Colonies. (a) Virginia Statutes. (b) North CaroHna Court Records. 201. Stiles: A New England Indenture of Apprenticeship. 202. The New England Primer: Description and Digest. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. What does the selection on The Puritan Attitude (183) reveal as to the extent and depth of the Reformation in England? 2. Characterize the feehngs and emotions and desires of the Puritans, as expressed in the extract (184) from Governor Bradford's narrative. 3. Characterize the spirit behind the founding of Harvard College, as expressed in the extract from New England's First Fruits (185). 4. What was the nature and purpose of the Harvard College instruction as shown by the selection 186 a-d? 5. Point out the similarity between the exemptions granted to Harvard College by the Legislature of the colony (187 a) and those granted to mediaeval universities (103-105). Compare the privileges granted Brown (187 b) and those contained in 104. 6. Compare the founding of the Free School at Roxbury (188) with the founding of an English Grammar School (141-43). 7. What does the distribution of scholars at Roxbury (188) show as to the character of the school? 8. State the essentials of the Massachusetts Law of 1642 (190). 9. Compare the Massachusetts Law of 1642 and the English Poor-Law of 1601 (190 with 174) as to fundamental principles involved in each. 10. What does the court citation of Topsfield (192) show? 11. What new principle is added (191) by the Law of 1647, and what does this new law indicate as to needs in the colony for classical learning? 12. Show how the Connecticut Law of 1650 (193) was based on the Massa- chusetts Law (190) of 1642. 13. What does the Plymouth Colony appeal for Harvard College (194 b) indicate as to community of ideas in early New England? 14. What type of school was it intended to endow from the Cape Cod fisheries (194 c)? 15. What is the difference between the Plymouth requirement as to gram- mar schools (194 d) and the Massachusetts requirement (191)? 16. Compare the rules for the New Haven Grammar School (189) with those for Colet's London School (138 a-c). 17. Characterize the early Dutch schools as shown by the rules for the schoolmaster (196) and the Flatbush contract (195). 18. Just what type of education did the Quakers mean to provide for, as shown in the extract from their Rules of DiscipHne (199)? 19. What kind of a school was the first one established in Philadelphia (198)? 20. Compare the proposed Pennsjdvania Law of 1683 (197) and the Massa- chusetts Law of 1642 (190). 21. What conception of education is revealed by the Virginia apprenticeship laws (200 a, 1-3) and the North Carolina court records (200 b, 1-3)? 22. Characterize the New England Indenture of Apprenticeship given in 201. .^78 HISTORY OF EDUCATION SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Boone, R. G. Education in the United States. Brown, S. W. The Secularization of American EdncatiG,i. Cheyney, Edw. P. European Background of A merican Education. Dexter, E. G. A History of Education in the United States. *Eggleston, Edw. The Transit of Civilization. Fisk, C. R. "The English Parish and Education at the Beginning of American Civihzation"; in School Review, vol. 23, pp. 433-49. (Sep- tember, 191 5.) *Ford, P. L. The New Englafid Primer. *Heatwole, C. J. A History of Education in Virginia. Jackson, G. L. The Development of School Support in Colonial Massa- chusetts. *Kilpatrick, Wm. H. The Dutch Schools of New Netherlands and Colonial New York. *Knight, E. W. Public School Education in North Carolina. *Martin, Geo. H. Evolution of the Massachusetts Public School System. Seybolt, R. F. Apprenticeship and Apprentice Education in Colonial New York and New England. *Small, W. H. "The New England Grammar School"; in School Review vol. 10, pp. 513-31. (September, 1902.) Small, W. H. Early New Englatui Schools. CHAPTER XVI THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY New attitudes after the eleventh century. From the begin- ning of the twelfth century onward, as we have already noted, there had been a slow but gradual change in the cnaracter of hu- man thinking, and a slow but certain disintegration of the Medi- aeval System, with its repressive attitude toward all independent thinking. Many different influences and movements had con- tributed to this change — the Moslem learning and civilization in Spain, the recovery of the old legal and medical knowledge, the revival of city life, the beginnings anew of commerce and indus- try, the evolution of the universities, the rise of a small scholarly class, the new consciousness of nationality, the evolution of the modern languages, the beginnings of a small but important ver- nacular literature, and the beginnings of travel and exploration following the Crusades — all of which had tended to transform the mediaeval man and change his ways of thinking. New ob- jects of interest slowly came to the front, and new standards of judgment gradually were applied. In consequence the mediaeval man, with his feeling of personal insignificance and lack of self- confidence, came to be replaced by a small but increasing number of men who were conscious of their powers, possessed a new self- confidence, and realized new possibiHties of intellectual accom- plishment. The Revival of Learning, first in Italy and then elsewhere in western Europe, was the natural consequence of this awakening of the modern spirit, and in the careful work done by the human- istic scholars of the ItaHan Renaissance in collecting, comparing, questioning, inferring, criticizing, and editing the texts, and in reconstructing the ancient life and history, we see the beginnings of the modern scientific spirit. It was this same critical, question- ing spirit which, when applied later to geographical knowledge, led to the discovery of America and the circumnavigation of the globe; which, when appKed to matters of Christian faith, brought on the Protestant Revolts; which, when appHed to the problems of the universe, revealed the many wonderful fields of modern science; and which, when applied to government, led to a ques- 38o HISTORY OF EDUCATION tioning of the divine right of kings and the rise of constitutional government. The awakening of scientific inquiry and the scien- tific spirit, and the attempt of a few thinkers to apply the new method to education, to which we now turn, may be regarded as only another phase of the awakening of the modern inquisitive spirit which found expression earlier in the rise of the universities, the recovery and reconstruction of the ancient learning, the tiwakening of geographical discovery and exploration, and the questioning of the doctrines and practices of the Mediaeval Church. Insufficiency of ancient science. From the point of viev/ of scientific inquiry, all ancient learning possessed certain marked fundamental defects. The Greeks had — • their time and age in world-civilization considered — made many notable scientific observations and speculations, and had prepared the way for future advances. Thales (636P-546? B.C.), Xenophanes (628?- 520? B.C.), Anaximenes (557-504 B.C.), Pythagoras (570-500 B.C.), Heraclitus (c. 500 B.C.), Empedocles (46o?-36i? B.C.), anc' Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) had all made interesting speculations as to the nature of matter,^ Aristotle finally settUng the question by naming the world-elements as earth, water, air, fire, and ether. Hippocrates (460-367? B.C.), as we have seen (p. 197), had ob- served the sick and had recorded and organized his observations in such a manner ^ as to form the foundations upon which the science of medicine could be established. The Greek physician, Galen (130-200 a.d.) added to these observations, and their com- bined work formed the basis upon which modern medical science has slowly been built up. On the other hand, some of what each wrote was mere specula- tion and error,^ and modern physicians were compelled to begin all over and along new lines before any real progress in medicine 1 Thales had guessed that water was the primal element from which all had been derived; Anaximanes guessed air; Heraclitus fire ; Pythagoras held that number was the essence of all things; Empedocles thought that fire and heat, accompanied by "indestructible forces," formed the basis; Xenophanes had guessed air, fire, water, and earth, and had worked out a complete scheme of creation. For an in- teresting discussion of these early attempts to explain creation, see J. W. Draper, History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, vol. i, chap. iv. 2 Among the treatises by him accepted as genuine are On Airs, Waters, and Places ; On Epidemics; On Regimen in Acute Diseases; On Fractures; and On Injuries of the Head. ' For example, Hippocrates hdd held that the human body contains four "hu- mors" — blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile — and that disease was caused by the undue accumulation of some one of these humors in some organ , which it was the business of the physician to get rid of by blood-letting, blistering, purging, or other means. THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 381 could be made. Aristotle had done a notable work in organiz- ing and codifying Greek scientific knowledge, as the list of his many scientific treatises in use in Europe by 1300 (R. 87) will show, but his writings were the result of a mixture of keen ob- servation and brilliant speculation, contained many inaccuracies, and in time, due to the reverence accorded him as an authority by the medieeval scholars and the church authorities, proved serious obstacles to real scientific progress. At Alexandria the most notable Greek scientific work had been done. Euclid (323-283 B.C.) in geometry; Aristarchus (third century B.C.), who explained the motion of the earth; Eratos- thenes (270-196 B.C.), who measured the size of the earth; Archi- medes (27o?-2i2 B.C.), a pupil of Euclid's, who applied science in many ways and laid the foundations of dynamics; Hipparchus (160-125 B.C.), the father of astronomy, who studied the heavens and catalogued the stars, were among the more famous Greeks who studied and taught there in the days when Alexandria had succeeded Athens as the intellectual capital of the Greek world. Some remarkable advances also were made in the study of human anatomy and medicine by two Greeks, Herophilus (335-280 B.C.) and Erasistratus (d. 280 B.C.), who apparently did much dissecting. But even at Alexandria the promise of Greek science was unful- filled. Despite many notable speculations and scientific ad- vances, the hopeful beginnings did not come to any large fruitage, and the great contribution made by the Greeks to world civiliza- tion was less along scientific lines than along the Hues of Hterature and philosophy. Their great strength lay in the direction of philosophic speculation, and this tendency to speculate, rather than to observe and test and measure and record, was the funda- mental weakness of all Greek science. The Greeks never ad- vanced in scientific work to the invention and perfection of instru- ments for the standardization of their observations. As a result they passed on to the mediaeval world an extensive "book sci- ence" and not a little keen observation, of which the works of Aristotle and the Alexandrian mathematicians and astronomers form the most conspicuous examples, but little scientific knowl- edge of which the modern world has been able to make much use. The "book science" of the Greeks, and especially that of Aris- totle, was highly prized for centuries, but in time, due to the many inaccuracies, had to be discarded and done anew by modern scholars. 382 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The Romans, as we have seen (chapter iii), were essentially a practical people, good at getting the work of the world done, but not much given to theoretical discussion or scientific speculation. They were organizers, governors, engineers, executives, and hter- ary workers rather than scientists. They executed many im- portant undertakings of a practical character, such as the build- ing of roads, bridges, aqueducts, and public buildings; organized government and commerce on a large scale; and have left us a literature and a legal system of importance, but they contributed little to the realm of pure science. The three great names in sci- ence in all their history are Strabo the geographer (63 B.C.-24 A.D.); PHny the Elder (23-79 a.d.), who did notable work as an observer in natural history; and Galen (a Roman-Greek), in medicine. They, like the Greeks, were pervaded by the same fear that their science might prove useful, whereas they cultivated it largely as a mental exercise (R. 203). The Christian reaction against inquiry. The Christian attitude toward inquiry was from the first inhospitable, and in time be- came exceedingly intolerant. The tendency of the Western Church, it will be remembered (p. 94), was from the first to re- ject all Hellenic learning, and to depend upon emotional faith and the enforcement of a moral life. By the close of the third century the hostihty to pagan schools and Hellenic learning had become so pronounced that the Apostolic Constitutions (R. 41) ordered Christians to abstain from all heathen books, which could contain nothing of value and only served " to subvert the faith of the un- stable." In 401 A.D. the Council of Carthage forbade the clergy to read any heathen author, and Greek learning now rapidly died out in the West. For a time it was almost entirely lost. In con- sequence Greek science, then best represented by Alexandrian learning, and which contained much that was of great importance, was rejected along with other pagan learning. The very meager scientific knowledge that persisted into the Middle Ages in the great mediaeval textbooks (p. 162), as we have seen in the study of the Seven Liberal Arts (chapter vii), came to be regarded as useful only in explaining passages of Scripture or in illustrating the ways of God toward man. The one and only science worthy of study was Theology, to which all other learning tended (see Figure 44, p. 154). The history of Christianity throughout all the Dark Ages is a listory of the distrust of inquiry and reason, and the emphasis of THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 383 blind emotional faith. Mysticism, good and evil spirits, and the interpretation of natural phenomena as manifestations of the Di- vine will from the first received large emphasis. The worship of saints and relics, and the great development of the sensuous and symbolic, changed the earher rehgion into a crude polytheism. During the long period of the Middle Ages the miraculous flour- ished. The most extreme superstition pervaded all ranks of soci- ety. Magic and prayers were employed to heal the sick, restore the crippled, foretell the future, and punish the wicked. Sacred pools, the royal touch, wonder-working images, and miracles through prayer stood in the way of the development of medicine (R. 204). Disease was attributed to satanic influence, and a regu- lar schedule of prayers for cures was in use. Sanitation was un- known. Plagues and pestilences were manifestations of Divine wrath, and hysteria and insanity were possession by the devil to be cast out by whipping and torture. One's future was deter- mined by the position of the heavenly bodies at the time of birth. Eclipses, meteors, and comets were fearful portents of Divine displeasure: Eight things there be a Comet brings, When it on high doth horrid rage; Wind, Famine, Plague, and Death to Kings, War, Earthquakes, Floods, and Direful Change.^ The literature on magic was extensive. The most miraculous happenings were recorded and believed. Trial by ordeal, follow- ing careful religious formulae, was common before 1200, though prohibited shortly afterward by papal decrees (1215, 1222). The insistence of the Church on "the willful, devilish character of heresy," and the extension of heresy to cover almost any form of honest doubt or independent inquiry, caused an intellectual stag- nation along lines of scientific investigation which was not re- lieved for more than a thousand years. The many notable ad- vances in physics, chemistry, astronomy, and medicine made by Moslem scholars (chapter viii) were lost on Christian Europe, and had to be worked out again centuries later by the scholars of the western world. Out of the astronomy of the Arabs the Chris- tians got only astrology; out of their chemistry they got only al- chemy. Both in time stood seriously in the wa}^ of real scientific thinking and discovery. 1 From a collection of doggerel rhymes put out by two pastors and doctors of theology at Basle, in 1618, by the names of Grassner and Gross, to interpret the srthodox theory of comets to peasants and school children. 384 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Growing tolerance changed by the Protestant Revolts. After the rise of the universities, the expansion of the minds of men which followed the Crusades and the revival of trade and indus- try, the awakening which came with the revival of the old learn- ing and the rise of geographical discovery, the church authorities assumed a broader and a more tolerant attitude toward inquiry and reason than had been the case for hundreds of years. It would have been surprising, with the large number of university- trained men entering the service of the Church, had this not been the case. By the middle of the fifteenth century it looked as though the Renaissance spirit might extend into many new direc- tions, and by 1500 the world seemed on the eve of important prog- ress in almost every Hne of endeavor. As was pointed out earlier (p. 259), the Church was more tolerant than it had been for cen- turies, and about the year 1500 was the most stimulating time in the history of our civilization since the days of Alexandria and ancient Rome. In 151 7 Luther nailed his theses to the church door in Witten- berg. The Church took alarm and attempted to crush him, and soon the greatest contest since the conflict between paganism and Christianity was on. Within half a century all northern lands had been lost to the ancient Church (see map, p. 296); the first successful challenge of its authority during its long history. The effect of these religious revolts on the attitude of the Church toward intellectual liberty was natural and marked. The tolerance of inquiry recently extended was withdrawn, and an era of steadily increasing intolerance set in which was not broken for more than a century. In an effort to stop the further spread of the heresy, the Church Council of Trent (1545-63) adopted stringent regulations against heretical teachings (p. 303), while the sword and torch and imprisonment were resorted to to stamp out opposition and win back the revolting lands. A century of merciless warfare ensued, and the hatreds engendered by the long and bitter struggle over religious differences put both Catholic and Protestant Europe in no tolerant frame of mind toward in- quiry or new ideas. The Inquisition, a sort of universal mediae- val grand Jury for the detection and punishment of heretics, was revived, and the Jesuits, founded in 1 534-40, were vigorous in de- fense of the Church and bitter in their opposition to all forms of independent inquiry and Protestant heresy. It was into this post-Reforn\ation atmosphere of suspicion and THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 385 distrust and hatred that the new critical, inquiring, questioning spirit of science, as applied to the forces of the universe, was born. A century earlier the first scientists might have obtained a respect- ful hearing, and might have been permitted to press their claims; after the Protestant Revolts had torn Christian Europe asunder this could hardly be. As a result the early scientists found them- selves in no enviable position. Their theories were bitterly as- sailed as savoring of heresy; their methods and purposes were alike suspected; and any challenge of an old long-accepted idea was likely to bring a punishment that was swift and sure. From the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury was not a time when new ideas were at a premium anywhere in western Europe. It was essentially a period of reaction, and periods of reaction are not favorable to intellectual progress. It was into this century of reaction that modern scientific inquiry and reasoning, itself another form of expression of the intellectual attitudes awakened by the work of the humanistic scholars of the Italian Renaissance, made its first claim for a hearing. The beginnings of modern scientific method. One of the great problems which has always deeply interested thinking men in all lands is the nature and constitution of the material universe, and to this problem people in all stages of civilization have worked out for themselves some kind of an answer. It was one of the great speculations of the Greeks, and it was at Alexandria, in the period of its decadence, that the Egyptian geographer Ptolemy (138 A.D.) had offered an explanation which was accepted by Christian Europe and which dominated all thinking on the sub- ject during the Middle Ages. He had concluded that the earth was located at the center of the visible universe, immovable, and that the heavenly bodies moved around the earth, in circular motion, fixed in crystalline spheres.^ This explanation accorded perfectly with Christian ideas as to creation, as well as with Christian conceptions as to the position and place of man and his relation to the heavens above and to a hell beneath. This theory 1 "The earth is-^ sphere, situated in the center of the heavens; if it were not, one side of thp^iieavens would appear nearer to us than the other, and the stars would b©-tefger there. The earth is but a point in comparison to the heavens, because the stars appear of the same magnitude and at the same distance ifiter se, no matter where the observer goes on the earth. It has no motion of translation. ... If there were a motion, it would be proportionate to the great mass of the earth and would leave behind animals and objects thrown into the air. This also dis- proves the suggestion made by some, that the earth, while immovable in space, turns round on its own axis." (Ptolemy, Digest of argument of Book i of the Almagest.) 386 HISTORY OF EDUCATION was obviously simple and satisfactory, and became sanctified with time. As we see it now the wonder is that such an explana- tion could have been accepted for so long. Only among an unin- quisitive people could so imperfect a theory have endured for over fourteen centuries. In 1543 a German-Polish church canon and physician named Nicholas Copernicus published his De Revolutionibus Orhium Celestium, in which he set forth the explan- ation of the universe which we now know. He piously dedicated the work to Pope Paul III, and wisely refrained from pub- lishing it until the year of his death. ^ Any- thing so completely upsetting the Christian conception as to the place and position of man in the universe could hardly be ex- pected to be accepted, particularly at the time of its publication, without long and bitter opposition. In the dedicatory letter (R. 205), Coper- nicus explains how, after feeling that the Ptolemaic explanation was wrong, he came to arrive at the conclusions he did. The steps he set forth form an excellent example of a method of think- ing now common, but then almost unknown. They were: 1, Dissatisfaction with the old Ptolemaic explanation, 2, A study of all known literature, to see if any "better explanation had been offered, 3, Careful thought on the subject, until his thinking took form in a definite theory, 4, Long observation and testing out, to see if the observed facts would support his theory, 5, The theory held to be correct, because it reduced all known facts to a systematic order and harmony. This is as clear a case of inductive reasoning as was L. Valla's exposure of the forgery of the so-called " Donation of Constan- tine," an example of deductive reasoning. Both used a new method — the method of modern scholarship. In both cases the results were revolutionary. As Valla stands forth as the first Critical classical scholar of modern times, so Copernicus stands " In the dedicatory letter Copernicus states that he had had the completed manu- script in his study for thirty-six years, and published it now only on the urging of friends. Fig. 113. Nicholas Kopernik (Copernicus), (1473-1543) THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 387 forth as the first modern scientific thinker. The beginnings of all modern scientific investigation date from 1543. Of his work a recent writer (E. C. J. Morton) has said: Copernicus cannot be said to have flooded with light the dark places of nature — in the way that one stupendous mind subsequently did — but still, as we look back through the long vista of the history of science, the dim Titanic figure of the old monk seems to rear itself out of the dull flats around it, pierces with its head the mists that overshadow them, and catches the first gleam of the rising sun, . . . Like some iron peak, by the Creator Fired with the red glow of the rushing mom. The new method of inquiry applied by others. At first Coper- nicus' work attracted but little attention. An Italian Dominican by the name of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), deeply impressed by the new theory, set forth in Latin and Italian the far-reaching and majestic impHcations of such a theory of creation, and was burned at the stake at Rome for his pains. A Dane, Tycho Brahe, after twenty-one years of careful observation of the heavens, during which time he collected "a magnificent series of observations, far transcending in ac- curacy ^ and extent anything that had been accomplished by his predecessors," showed Aristotle to be wrong in many particulars. His observations of the comet of 1577 led him to conclude that the theory of crystalHne spheres was im- possible, and that the common view of the time as to their nature ^ was absurd. In 1609 a German by the name of Johann Kepler (15 71-1630), using the records of observations which Tycho Brahe had accu- mulated and applying them to the planet Mars, proved the truth of the Copernican theory and framed his famous three laws for planetary motion. ^ To secure the greatest possible accuracy he constructed a wooden outdoor quadrant some ten feet in radius, with a brass scale, thus permitting readings to a fraction of an inch. - "The current view was that comets were formed by the ascending of human sins from the earth, that they were changed into a kind of gas, and ignited by the anger of God. This poisoned stuff then fell down on people's heads, causing all kinds of mischief, such as pestilence, sudden death, storms, etc." (Dryer, J. L. E.. Tycho Brahe.) Fig. 114. Tycho Brake (1546-1601) 388 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 115. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Finally an Italian, Galileo Galilei, a professor at the University of Pisa, developing a telescope that would magnify to eight diam- eters, discovered Jupiter's satellites and Saturn's rings. The story of his discovery of the satellites of Jupiter is another interesting illustration of the careful scientific reasoning of these early workers (R. 206) . Gahleo also made a number of discoveries in physics, through the use of new scientific methods, which completely upset the teachings of the Aristotelians, and made the most notable advances in mechanics since the days of Archimedes. For his pronounced advo- cacy of the Copernican theory he was called to Rome (16 15) by the Cardinals of the Inquisition, the Copernican theory was condemned as '' absurd in philosophy " and as "expressly contrary to Holy Scripture," and Galileo was compelled to recant (1616) his error.^ For daring later (1632) to assume that he might, under a new Pope, defend the Copernican theory, even in an indirect manner, he was again called before the inquisitorial body, compelled to recant and abjure his errors (R. 207) to escape the stake, and was then virtually made a prisoner of the Inquisition for the remainder of his life. So strongly had the forces of mediasvalism reasserted themselves after the Protestant Re- volts! Finally the EngHsh scholar Newton (1642-1727), in his Principia (1687), settled permanently all discussions as to the Copernican theory by his won- derful mathematical studies. He dem- onstrated mathematically the motions of the planets and comets, proved Kepler's laws to be true, ex- plauied gravitation and the tides, made clear the nature of light, 1 "For over fifty years he was the knight miHtant of science, and almost alone did successful battle with the hosts of Churchmen and Aristotehans who attacked him on all sides — one man against a world of bigotry and ignorance. If then . . . when face to face with the terrors of the Inquisition he, like Peter, denied his Master, no honest man, knowing all the circumstances, will be in a hurry to blame him." (Fahie, J. J., Galileo, His Life and Work.) Fig. 116. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 389 and reduced dynamics to a science. Of his work a recent writer, Karl Pearson, has said: The Newtonian laws of motion form the starting point of most modern treatises on dynamics, and it seems to me that physical science, thus started, resembles the mighty genius of an Arabian tale emerging amid metaphysical exhalations from the bottle in which for long centu- ries it had been corked down. So far-reaching in its importance was the scientific work of New- ton that Pope's couplet seems exceedingly applicable : Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light. The new method applied in other fields. The new method of study was soon applied to other fields by scholars of the new type, here and there, and always with fruitful results. The EngHsh- man, William Gilbert (i 540-1603) pubhshed, in 1600, his De Arte Magnetica, and laid the foundations of the modern study of electricity and magnetism. A German-Swiss by the name of Ho- henheim, but who Latinized his name to Paracelsus (1493-1541), and who became a professor in the medical faculty at the Univer- sity of Basle, in 1526 broke with mediaeval traditions by being one of the first university scholars to refuse to lecture in Latin. He ridiculed the medical theories of Hippocrates (p. 197) and Galen (p. 198), and, regarding the human body as a chemical compound, began to treat diseases by the administra- tion of chemicals. A Saxon by the name of Landmann, who also Latinized his name to Agricola (1494-1555), applied chemistry to mining and metallurgy, and a French potter named Bernard Palissy (c. 1500-88) applied chemistry to pottery and the arts. To Paracelsus, Agricola, and Palissy we are indebted for having laid, in the sixteenth century, the founda- tions of the study of modern chemistry. A Belgian by the name of Vesalius (1514-64) was the first modern to dissect the human body, and for so doing was sentenced by the Inquisition to perform a penitential journey to Jerusalem. One of his disciples discovered the valves in the veins and was the teacher of the Englishman, William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood and Fig. 117. William Harvey (1578-1657) 390 HISTORY OF EDUCATION later (1628) dared to publish the fact to the world. These men established the modern studies of anatomy and physiology. Another early worker was a Swiss by the name of Conrad Gess- ner (1516-65), who observed and wrote extensively on plants and animals, and who stands as the first naturalist of modern times. The sixteenth century thus marks the rise of modern scientific inquiry, and the beginnings of the study of modern science. The number of scholars engaged in the study was still painfully small, and the religious prejudice against which they worked was strong and powerful, but in the work of these few men we have not only the beginnings of the study of modern astronomy, physics, chem- istry, metallurgy, medicine, anatomy, physiology, and natural history, but also the beginnings of a group of men, destined in time to increase greatly in number, who could see straight, and who sought facts regardless of where they might lead and what preconceived ideas they might upset. How deeply the future of civilization is indebted to such men, men who braved social ostra- cism and often the wrath of the Church as well, for the, to them, precious privilege of seeing things as they are, we are not likely to over-estimate. In time their work was destined to reach the schools, and to materially modify the character of all education. Human reason in the investigation of nature. To the English statesman and philosopher, Francis Bacon, more than to any one else, are we indebted for the proper formulation and statement of this new scientific method. Though not a sci- entist himself, he has often been termed "the father of modern sci- ence." Seeing clearly the importance of the new knowledge, he broke en- tirely with the old scholastic deduc- tive logic as expressed in the Organon, of Aristotle, and formulated and ex- pressed the methods of inductive rea- soning in his Novum Organum, pub- ^^°" 'fi'.Ji^i6?6^) ^^^^"^ ^^^^^ ^^ '^^°- ^^ ^^^ ^^ showed the ■^ " insufficiency of the method of argu- mentation; analyzed and formulated the inductive method of reasoning, of which his study as to the nature of heat ^ is a good 1 See Routledge, R., A Popular History of Science, pp. 135-36, for a good digest of bacon's inductive investigation, as a result of which he arrived at the conclusion that •'Heat is an expansive bridled motion, struggling in the small particles of bodies." THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 391 example; and pointed out that knowledge is a process, and not an end in itself; and indicated the immense and fruitful field of science to which the method might be apphed. By showing how to learn from nature herself he turned the Renaissance energy into a new direction, and made a revolutionary break with the disputations and deductive logic of the Aristotehan scholastics which had for so long dominated university instruction. In formulating the new method he first pointed out the defects of the learning of his time, which he classified under the head of *' distempers," three in number, and as follows: 1. Fantastic learning: Alchemy, magic, miracles, old- wives' tales, credulities, superstitions, pseudo-science, and impostures of all sorts inherited from an ignorant past, and now conserved as treasures of knowledge. 2. Contentious learning: The endless disputations of the Scholastics about questions which had lost their significance, deductive in char- acter, not based on any observation, not aimed primarily to arrive at truth, "fruitful of controversy, and barren of effect." 3. Delicate learning: The new learning of the humanistic Renais- sance, verbal and not real, stylish and polished but not socially impor- tant, and leading to nothing except a mastery of itself. As an escape from these three types of distempers, which well characterized the three great stages in human progress from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries, Bacon offered the inductive method, by means of which men would be able to distinguish true from false, learn to see straight, create useful knowledge, and fill in the great gaps in the learning of the time by actually working out new knowledge from the unknown. The collecting, organiz- ing, comparing, questioning, and inferring spirit of the humanistic revival he now turned in a new direction by organizing and formu- lating for the work a new Organum to take the place of the old Organon of Aristotle. In Book I he sets forth some of the difficul- ties (R. 208) with which those who try new experiments or work out new methods of study have to contend from partisans of old ideas. The Novum Organum showed the means of escape from the er- rors of two thousand years by means of a new method of thinking and work. Bacon did not invent the new method — it had been used since man first began to reason about phenomena, and was the method by means of which WycUffe, Luther, Magellan, Co- pernicus, Brahe, and Gilbert had worked — but he was the first to formulate it clearly and to point out the vast field of new and use- 392 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ful knowledge that might be opened up by applying human rea- son, along inductive lines, to the investigation of the phenomena of nature. His true service to science lay in the completeness of his analysis of the inductive process, and his declaration that those who wish to arrive at useful discoveries must travel by that road. As Macaulay well says, in his essay on Bacon: He was not the maker of that road; he was not the discoverer of that road ; he was not the person who first surveyed and mapped that road. But he was the person who first called the public attention to an inex- haustible mine of wealth which had been utterly neglected, and which was accessible by that road alone. To stimulate men to the discovery of useful truth, to turn the energies of mankind — even slowly — from assumption and dis- putation to patient experimentation/ and to give an impress to human thinking which it has retained for centuries, is, as Macau- lay well says, "the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits." Macaulay's excellent summary of the importance of Bacon's work (R. 209) is well worth reading at this poiht. The new method in the hands of subsequent workers. By the middle of the seventeenth century many important advances had been made in many different lines of scientific work. In the two centuries between 1450 and 1650, the foundations of modern mathematics and mechanics had been laid. At the beginning of the period Arabic notation and the early books of Euclid were about all that were taught; at its end the western world had worked out decimals, symbolic algebra, much of plane and spher- ical trigonometry, mechanics, logarithms (1614) and analytic ge- ometry (1637), and was soon to add the calculus (1667-87). Mercator had published the map of the world (1569) which has ever since born his name, and the Gregorian calendar had been introduced (1572). The barometer, thermometer, air-pump, pen- dulum clock, and the telescope had come into use in the period. Alchemy had passed over into modern chemistry ; and the astrolo- ger was finding less and less to do as the astronomer took his place. The English Hippocrates, Thomas Sydenham (1624-89), during this period laid the foundations of modern medical study, and the microscope was apphed to the study of organic forms. Modern ideas as to light and optics and gases, and the theory of gravita- ^ Bacon himself died a victim of one of his inductive experiments. Wishing to try out his theory that cold would prevent or retard putrefaction, he killed a chicken, cleaned it, and packed it in snow. In so doing he contracted a cold which caused his death. THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 393 Fig. 119. The Loss and Recovery of the Sciences EacTi short horizontal line indicates the life-span of a very distinguished scholar in the science. Mohammedan scientists have not been included. The relative neg- lect or ignorance of a science has been indicated by the depth of the shading. The great loss to civilization caused by the barbarian inroads and the hostile attitude of the early Church is evident. tion, were about to be set forth. All these advances had been made during the century following the epoch-making labors of Copernicus, the first modern scientific man to make an impression on the thinking of mankind. Accompanying this new scientific work there arose, among a few men in each of the western European countries, an interest in scientific studies such as the world had not witnessed since the days of the Alexandrian Greek. This interest found expression in the organization of scientific societies, wholly outside the univer- sities of the time, for the reporting of methods and results, and for the mingling together in sympathetic companionship of these seekers after new truth. The most important dates connected with the rise of these societies are: 1603. The Lyncean Society at Rome. 1619. Jungius founded the Natural Science Association at Rostock. 1645. The Royal Society of London began to meet; constituted in 1660; chartered in 1662. 1657. The Academia del Cimento at Florence. 1662. The Imperial Academy of Germany. 1666. The Academy of Sciences in France. 1675. The National Observatory at Greenwich established. After 1650 the advance of science was rapid. The spirit of modern inquiry, which in the sixteenth century had animated but a few minds, by the middle of the seventeenth had extended to all 394 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the principal countries of Europe. The striking results obtained during the seventeenth century revealed the vast field waiting to be explored, and filled many independent modern-type scholars with an enthusiasm for research in the new domain of science. By the close of the eighteenth century the main outlines of most of the modern sciences had been established. Leading thinkers outside the universities. During the seven- teenth century, and largely during the eighteenth as well, the ex- treme conservatism of the universities, their continued control by their theological faculties, and their continued devotion to theo- logical controversy and the teachings of state orthodoxy rather than the advancement of knowledge, served to make of them such inhospitable places for the new scientific method that practically all the leading workers with it were found outside the universities. This was less true of England than other lands, but was in part true of EngHsh universities as well. As civil servants, court at- taches, pensioners of royalty, or as private citizens of means they found, as independent scholars reporting to the recently formed scientific societies, a freedom for investigation and a tolerance of ideas then scarcely possible anywhere in the university world. Tycho Brahe and Kepler were pensioners of the Emperor at Prague. Lord Bacon was a lawyer and political leader, and be- came a peer of England. Descartes, the mathematician and founder of modern philosophy, to whom we are indebted for conic sections; Napier, inventor of loga- rithms; and Ray and Willoughby, who did the first important work in botany and zoology in England, were all inde- pendent scholars. The air-pump was in- vented by the Burgomaster of Madgeburg. Huygens, the astronomer and inventor of the clock was a pensioner of the King of France. Cassini, who explained the mo- tion of Jupiter's satelHtes, was Astron- omer Royal at Paris. Halley, who demon- strated the motions of the moon and who first predicted the return of a comet, held a similar position at Greenwich. Van Helmont and Boyle, who together laid the foundations of our chemical knowl- edge, were both men of noble Hneage who preferred the study of the new sciences to a life of ease at court. Harvey was a physi- Fig. 1 20. Rene Descartes (i 506-1650) THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 395 cian and demonstrator of anatomy in London. Sydenham, the English Hippocrates, was a pensioner of Cromwell and a physi- cian in Westminster. The German mathematical scholar, Leib- nitz, who jointly with Newton discovered the calculus, scorned a university professorship and remained an attache of a German court. Newton, though for a time a professor at Cambridge, dur- ing most of his mature life held the royal office of Warden of the Mint. These are a few notable illustrations of scientific scholars of the first rank who remained outside the universities to obtain advantages and freedom not then to be found within their walls. Much these same conditions continued throughout most of the eighteenth century, during which many remarkable advances in all lines of pure science were made. By the close of this century the universities had been sufficiently modernized that scientific workers began to find in them an atmosphere conducive to scien- tific teaching and research; during the nineteenth century they became the homes of scientific progress and instruction; to-day they are deeply interested in the promotion of scientific research. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Show that the rise of scientific inquiry was but another manifestation of the same inquiring spirit which had led to the recovery of the ancient hteratures and history. 2. What do you understand to be meant by the failure of the Greeks to standardize their observations by instruments? 3. Show that it would be possible largely to determine the character of a civilization, if one knew only the prevailing ideas and conceptions as to scientific and religious matters. 4. Show the two different types of reasoning involved in the deduction of L. Valla (p. 246) and the induction of Copernicus. 5. Of which type was the reasoning of Galileo as to Jupiter's satellites? 6. Show that the three "distempers" described by Bacon characterize the three great stages in human progress from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. 7. How do you explain the long rejection of the new sciences by the univer- sities? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are repro- duced: 203. Macaulay: Attitude of the Ancients toward Scientific Inquiry. 204. Franck: The Credulity of Mediaeval People. 205. Copernicus: How he arrived at the theory he set forth. 206. Brewster: Galileo's Discovery of the Satellites of Jupiter. 207. Inquisition: The Abjuration of Galileo. 208. Bacon: On Scientific Progress. 209. Macaulay: The Importance of Bacon's Work. 396 HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. How do you explain the attitude of the ancients toward scientific inquiry (203, 208)? 2. State the ancient purpose in pursuing scientific studies (203). 3. Contrast Bacon and Plato as to aims (203). 4. Show that the thinking of Copernicus as to the motions of the heavenly bodies (205) was an excellent example of inductive thinking. 5. Show that the discovery and reasoning of Galileo (206) was an example of the common method of reasoning of to-day. 6. Were the difficulties that surrounded scientific inquiry and progress, as described by Bacon (208), easily removed? 7. Explain the readiness with which the clergy have so commonly opposed scientific inquiry for fear that the results might upset preconceived theo- . logical ideas. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Ball, W. R. R. History of Mathematics at Cambridge. *Libby, Walter. An Introduction to the History of Science. Ornstein, Martha. Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century. *Routledge, Robert. A Popular History of Science. *Sedgwick, W. T. and Tyler, H. W. A Short History of Science. *White, A. D. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology, 2 vols. Wordsworth Christopher. Scholce Academicce; Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century. CHAPTER XVII THE NEW SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS The rise of realism in education. As will be remembered from our study of the educational results of the Revival of Learning (chapter xi), the new schools established, in the reaction against mediaevahsm, to teach pux£_Latin and Greek, in time became formal and lifeless (p. 283), and their aim came to be almost en- tirely that of imparting a masterjLfif the Qceronian style, both in_ v/riting and in speech. This idea, first clearly inaugurated by Sturm at Strassburg (R. 137), had now become fixed, and in its extreme is illustrated by the teachings of the Jesuit Campion at Prague (R. 146). As a reaction against this extreme position of the humanistic scholars there arose, during the sixteenth century, and as a further expression of the new critical spirit awakened by the Revival of Learning, a demand for a type of education which would make truth rather than beauty, and the reaHties of the life of the time rather than the beauties of a life of Roman days, the aim and purpose of education. This new spirit became known as Realism, was contemporaneous with the rise of scientific inquiry, and was an expression of a similar dissatisfaction with the learning of the time. As applied to education this new spirit may be said to have manifested itself in three different stages, as follows: 1. Humanistic reaHsm. 2. Social realism. 3. Sense realism. We will explain each of these, briefly, in order. I. HUMANISTIC REALISM A new aim in instruction. Humanistic realism represents the beginning of the reaction against form and style and in favor of ideas and content. The humanistic reaUsts were in agreement with the classical humanists that the old classical literatures and the Bible contained all that was important in the education of youth. The ancient literatures, they held, presented "not only the widest product of human intelhgence, but practically all that was worthy of man's attention." The two groups differed, how- ever, in that the classical humanists conceived the aim of educa- 398 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tion to be the mastery of the vocabulary and style of Cicero, and the production of a new race of Roman youths for a revived Latin scholarly world, while the new humanistic realists wanted to use the old literatures as a means to a new end — that of teaching knowledge that would be useful in the world in which they lived. Monroe has so well expressed the humanistic-realist attitude that a passage from his History is worth quoting here. He says: Not only did ancient philosophy contain the true philosophy of this life, but languages were the key to the real understanding of the Chris- tian religion. Not only did mastery of these languages give power of speech, and hence influence over one's fellows; but, if military science was to be studied, it could in no place be better searched for than in Caesar and in Xenophon; was agriculture to be practiced, no better guide was to be found than Virgil or Columella ; was architecture to be mastered, no better way existed than through Vitruvius; was geog- raphy to be considered, it must be through Mela or Solinus; was medi- cine to be understood, no better means than Celsus existed; was natural history to be appreciated, there was no more adequate source of infor- mation than Pliny and Seneca. Aristotle furnished the basis of all the sciences, Plato of all philosophy, Cicero of all institutional life, and the Church Fathers and the Scriptures of all religion. Exponents of humanistic realism. The Dutch international scholar Erasmus (i467?-i536) (p. 274), the Frenchman Rabelais (1483-1553), and the English poet Milton (1608-74) stand as the clearest representatives of this new humanistic realism. Erasmus had clearly distinguished between the education of words and the education of things, had pointed out the ease with which real truth is learned and retained, and had urged the study of the content rather than the form of the ancient authors. In his System of Studies he said : From these very authors (Latin and Greek), whom we read for the sake of improving our language, incidentally, in no small degree is a knowledge of things gathered. In his Ciceronian he had ridiculed those who mistook the form for the spirit of the ancients. The French non-conforming monk, cure, physician, and uni- versity scholar, Frangois Rabelais, in his satirical Life of Gargan- tua (1535) and The Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel (1533) had set forth, even more clearly, the idea of obtaining from a study of the ancient authors (R. 210) knowledge that would be useful. Writ- ing largely in the character of a clown and a fool, because such was a safer method, he protested against the formal, shallow, and in- SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 399 sincere life of his age. He made as vigorous a protest against mediaevalism and formalism as he dared, for he lived in a time when new ideas were dangerous commodities for one to carry about or to try to express. He ridiculed the old scholastic learning, set forth the idea of using the old classics for realistic as well as humanistic ends, and also advocated physical, moral, social, and religious edu- cation in the spirit of the best writers and teachers of the Italian Renaissance. His book was extensively read and had some influence in shaping thinking, though Rabe- lais's importance in the history of education lies rather in his influence on later educa- tional thinkers than on the life of his time. Perhaps the clearest example of human- ^ 121. Francois ,. . r J • 4.U V f ^u Rabelais (1483-1553) istic realism is found in the writings of the English poet and humanitarian, John Milton. His Tractate on Education (1644) was extensively read, and was influential in shaping educational practice in the non-conformist secondary academies which arose a Httle later in England. Still later his ideas indirectly somewhat influenced American development. Milton first gives us an excellent statement of the new religious- civic aim of post-Reformation education (R. 211), and then points out the defects of the existing education, whereby boys "spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latine and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He then presents his plan for "a compleat and generous Education" for "noble and gentle youths," and tells "how all this may be done between twelve and one and twenty, less time than is now bestowed in pure trifling at Grammar and Sophistry." The course of study he outHnes (R. 212) is enormous. The first year, that is beginning at twelve, the boy is to learn Latin grammar, arithmetic, and geometry, and to read simple Latin and Greek. During the next three or four years the pupil is to master Greek, and to study agriculture, geog- raphy, natural philosophy, physiology, mathematics, fortifica- tion, engineering, architecture, and natural history, all by reading the chief writings of the ancients, in prose and poetry, on these subjects. During the remaining years to twenty-one the pupil, similarly, is to obtain ethical instruction from the Greeks and the 400 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Bible; learn Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Saxon law; learn Italian and Hebrew; and study economics, politics, history, logic, rhet- oric, and poetry by reading selected ancient authors. What Rabelais suggested in Jest for his giant, Milton adopted as a pro- gram for the school. In addition, in thoroughly characteristic modern English fashion, he makes careful provision for daily exer- cise and play. Aside, though, from its impossibihty of accom- plishment except by a superior few, Milton's plan is thoroughly representative of the new humanistic- reaUstic point of view — that is, that edu- cation should impart useful information, though the information as Milton con- ceived it was to be drawn almost entirely from the books of the ancients. Educational results of humanistic real- ism. The importance of humanistic real- ism in the history of education lies largely in that it was the first of a series of reac- tions that led later to sense-realism — that is, to the study of science and the appHcation of scientific method in the schools. In England it possesses still larger im- portance. Milton had called his insti- tution an "Academy." ^ After the restoration of the Stuarts (Charles II, 1660), some two thousand non-conforming clergy- men were "dispossessed" by the Act of Conformity (1662; R. 166), and soon after this the children of Non-Conformists were excluded from the grammar schools and universities. Many of these clergymen now turned to teaching as a means of earning a livelihood and serving their people, and the ideas of the non-conformist Milton were influential in turning the schools thus estabHshed even further toward the study of useful subjects. Many of the new schools offered instruction in the modern languages, logic, rhetoric, ethics, geography, astronomy, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, navigation, history, oratory, ^ See footnote i, p. 272, on the origin of the term. Six years before the publica- tion of the Tractate, Milton had visited Italy, and had been much entertained in Florence by members of the Academy and University there. In the Tractate he outlined a plan for a series of classical Academies for England, many of which were established. From England the term was carried to America, and became the name for a great development of semi-private secondary schools which flourished during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. i^ Fig. 122. John Milton (1608-74) SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 401 economics, and natural and moral philosophy, as well as the old classical subjects. All teaching, too, was done in English, and the study of English language and literature was emphasized. This made these non-conformist academies in many respects superior to the older Latin grammar schools. After the enactment of the Toleration Act, in 1689, these schools were allowed to incorporate and were gradually absorbed into the existing Latin grammar- school system of England, but unfortunately without producing much change in the character of these older institutions. The idea of offering instruction in these new studies was in time carried to America, where better results were obtained. At first a few of the subjects, such as the mathematical studies, sur- veying, navigation, and EngKsh, were introduced into the existing Latin grammar or other schools of secondary grade. Especially was this true in the colonies south of New England. After 1751, and especially after about 1780, distinct Academies arose in the United States (chapter xviii), whose^purpose was to offer instruc- tion in all these new subjects of study. From these our modern high schools have been derived. II. SOCIAL REALISM Montaigne and Locke. Social realism represents a still further reaction away from the humanistic schools. It was the natural reaction of practical men of the new world against a type of education that tended to perpetuate the pedantry of an earKer age, by devoting its energies to the pro- duction of the scholar and professional man to the neglect of the man of affairs. The social realists were small in number, but powerful because of their important social connections and wealth, and they were very determined to have an educa- tion suited to their needs, even if they had to create it themselves (R. 213). The French nobleman, scholar, author, and civic officer, M. de Montaigne (1533-92), and the English philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704), were the clearest exponents of this new point of view, though it found expression in the writings of many others. Each declared for a practical, useful type of education for the Fig. 123. Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) 402 HISTORY OF EDUCATION young boy who was to live the life of a gentleman in the world of affairs. Neither had any sympathy with the colleges and grammar schools of the time (R. 214), and both rejected the school for the private tutor. This tutor must be selected with great care, and first of all must be a well-bred gentleman — a man, as Montaigne says, ''who has rather a well-made than a well-filled head" (R. 215). Locke cautions that "one fit to educate and fonn the Mind of a young Gentleman is not every where to be found," and of the conunon type of teacher he asks, "When such an one has empty'd out into his Pupil all the Latin and Logick he has brought from the University, will that Furniture make him a fine Gentle- man?" (R.216). Both condemn the school training of their time, and both urge that the tutor train the judgment and the understand- ing rather than the memory. To iinpart good manners rather than mere information, and to train for life in the world rather than for the life of a scholar, seem to both of fundamental im- portance in the education of a boy. "The great world," says Montaigne, "is the mirror wherein we are to behold ourselves. In short, I would have this to be the book my young gentleman should study with the most attention." "Latin and Learning," says Locke, "make all the Noise; and the main Stress is laid upon Proficiency in Things a great Part whereof belong not to a Gentle- man's CalHng; which is to have the Knowledge of a Man of Business, a Carriage suitable to his Rank, and to be eminent and useful to his Country, according to his Station" (R. 216). Both emphasized the importance of travel abroad as an important factor in the education of a gentleman. Their place in the history of education. Both Montaigne and Locke were concerned alone with the education of the sons of gentlemen, individuals now coming rapidly into prominence to dispute place in the world of affairs with the higher nobiHty on the one hand and the clergy on the other. With the education of any other class Montaigne never concerned himself. As for Locke, he was later appointed a King's Commissioner, with cer- tain oversight of the poor, and for the education of the children of such he drew up a careful report which, in true English fashion, provided for their training in workhouses and their apprentice- ship to a trade (R. 217). He wrote nothing with regard tc the education of the children of middle- class workers and tradesmen. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 403 Fig. 124. John Locke ( 1 63 2-1 704) Both authors also deal entirely with the work of a tutor, and not with the work of a teacher in a school. Neither deals specifically with elementary education, but rather with what, in Europe, would be called the second ar}-- school period in the education of a boy, Locke was exten- sively read by the gentry of England, as expressive of the best current practice of their class, and his ideas as to education were also of some influence in shaping the instruction of the non-conformist teachers in the academies there. His place in the history of education is also of some impor- tance, as we shall point out later, for the disciplinary theory of education which he set forth. Still more, Locke later exerted a deep influence on the writings of Rousseau (chapter xxi), and hence helped materi- ally to shape modern educational theory. The new schools for the sons of the gentry. Both Montaigne and Locke, in their emphasis on the importance of a practical edu- cation for the social and political demands of a gentleman con- cerned with the affairs of the modern world, represent a still fur- ther reaction against the humanistic schools of the time than did the humanistic reahsts whom we have just considered. Still more, both are expressive of the attitude of the nobiHty and gen- tr}^ of the time, who had almost deserted the schools as pedantic institutions of httle value. France was then the great country of Europe, and French language, French political ideas, French manners, and French tutors found their way into all neighboring lands. A new social and political ideal was erected — that of the pohshed man of the world, who could speak French, had traveled, knew history and pohtics, law and geography, heraldry and gene- alogy, some mathematics and physics with their applications, could use the sword and ride, was adept in games and dancing, and was skilled in the practical affairs of life. To give such training the French created numerous Academies in their cities. A writer of 1649 states that there were twelve such institutions at that time in Paris alone. Not infrequently some nobleman was at the head. Boys were first educated at home by tutors, and then sent to the Academy to be trained in riding, the nihtary arts, fortification, mathematics, the modern languages, 404 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 125. An Academie des Armes From an early eighteenth-century Parisian poster, advertising an Academy and the many graces of a gentleman. The Englishman, John Evelyn, who was in France in 1644, thus describes the French Academies : At the Palais Cardinal in Paris I frequently went to see them ride and exercise the Create Horse, especially at tl e Academy of Monsieur du Plessis, and de Veau, whose scholes of that art are frequented by the Nobility; and here also young gentlemen are taught to fence, daunce, play on musiq, and something in fortifications and mathe- matics. At Richelieu, near Tours, belongs an Academy where besides the exercise of the horse, armes, dauncing, etc., all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by Professors stipendiated by the great Cardinal. The Academy of Juilly included some study of physical science, mathematics, geography, heraldry, French history, Italian, and Span- ish, besides the riding and gentlemanly arts. In England the tutor in the home became the type form for the education of the sons of a gentleman, the boys frequently being sent abroad to complete their education. In German lands, which in the seventeenth century were in close sympathy with SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 405 French life and thought, Heidelberg being a center for the dis- semination of French ideas, the French academy idea was cop- ied, and what were called Rilterakademieen (knightly academies) were founded in the numerous court cities ^ for the education, along such Unes, of the sons of the many grades of the German nobility. Between 1620 and 1780, before the rise of the German nationalistic movement which sought to replace French ideas by native German culture, was the great period of these German court schools, and during this period they bestowed on the sons of the German nobility the courtly and military education of the French academies. The education of the nobility was in conse- quence segregated from the intellectual life of other classes. "Gallants" and ''pedants" were the respective outputs of the two types of schools. III. SENSE REALISM The new educational aims of this group. This represented a still further and more important step in advance than either of the preceding. In a very direct way sense realism in education was an outgrowth of the organizing work of Francis Bacon. Its aim was: (i) To apply the same inductive method formulated by Bacon for the sciences to the work of education, with a view to organizing a general method which would greatly simplify the instructional process, reduce educational work to an organized system, and in consequence effect a great saving of time; and replace the instruction in Latin by instruction in the vernacu- and to substitute new scientific and social studies, deemed greater value for a modern world, for the excessive devotion to linguistic studies. The sixteenth century had been essentially a period of criticism in education, and the leading thinkers on education, as in other lines of intellectual activity, were not in the schools. In the seven- 1 Unlike England and France, the German lands long remained feudal and not united. As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century Germany was made up of more than three hundred little principalities, of which sixty were free cities. Each little principality was self-governing and maintained its little court. . VRichard Mulcaster (1531-1611), for forty-eight years a famous London Latin J ffra.mmar-school master, often classed as a precursor of the sense reahsts, in two t/books, published in 1581 and 1582, had urged the great importance of a study of the English tongue, and of using it as a medium for instruction. In his Elementarie (1582) he had said: "Our own language bears the joyful title of our liberty and free- dom, the Latin remembers us of our thralldom and bondage. I love Rome, but London better; I favor Italy, but England more. I honor the Latin, but I worship the English," (R. 226.) 406 HISTORY OF EDUCATION teenth century we come to a new group of men who attempted to think out and work out in practice the ideas advanced by the critics of the preceding period. In the seventeenth century we have, in consequence, the first serious attempt to formulate an educational method since the days of the Athenian Greeks and the treatise of Quintilian. The possibiHty of formulating an educational method that would simplify the educational process and save time in in- struction, appealed to a number of thinkers, in different lands. This group of thinkers, due to their new methods of attack and thought, the German historian of education, Karl von Raumer, has called Innovators. The chief pedagogical ideas of the Innova- tors were: 1. That education should proceed from the simple to the complex, and the concrete to the abstract. 2. That things should come before rules. 3. That students should be taught to analyze, rather than to con- struct. 4. That each student should be taught to investigate for himself, rather than to accept or depend upon authority. 5. That only that should be memorized which is clearly understood and of real value. 6. That restraint and coercion should be replaced by interest in the studies taught. 7. That the vernacular should be used as the medium for all instruc- tion. 8. That the study of real things should precede the study of words about things. 9. That the order and course of Nature be discovered, and that a method of teaching based on this then be worked out. 10. That physical education should be introduced for the sake of health, and not merely to teach gentlemanly sports. 11. That all should be provided with the opportunity for an education in the elements of knowledge. This to be in the vernacular. 12. That Latin and Greek be taught only to those likely to complete an education, and then through the medium of the mother tongue. 13. That a uniform and scientific method of instruction could be worked out, which would reduce education to a science and serve as a guide for teachers everywhere. The Englishman, Francis Bacon, whom we have previously con- sidered; the German, Wolfgang Ratichius (or Ratke); and the Moravian bishop and teacher, Johann Amos Comenius, stand as perhaps the clearest examples of this organizing tendency in edu- cation. Ratke and Comenius will be considered here as types. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 407 Wolfgang Ratke. Bacon had believed that the new scientific knowledge should be incorporated into the instruction of the schools, and had suggested, in his Advancement of Learning (1603- 05), a broader course of study for them, and better facihties for scientific investigation and teaching. While Bacon was not a teacher and did not write specifically on school instruction, his writings nevertheless deeply influenced many of those who fol- lowed his thinking. The first writer to apply Bacon's ideas to education and to attempt to evolve a new method and a new course of instruction was a German, by the name of Wolfgang Ratke (i 571-1635), While studying in England he had read Bacon's Advancement of Learning, and from Bacon's suggestions Ratke tried to work out a new method of instruction. This he offered, and with much secrecy, unsuccessfully for sale at various German courts. Fi- nally he issued an "Address " to the princes of Germany, assem- bled at an Electoral Diet at Frankfurt-am-Main, in 161 2. In this he told them of his new method, which followed Nature, and declared that it was "fraught with momentous consequences" for mankind. He claimed that he could: v[. By using the German language in the earlier years: \_^^a) Bring about the use of one common language among the German people, and thus lay the basis for unity in govern- ment and religion; {b) Impart to children a knowledge of the useful arts and sciences. 2. Teach Latin. Greek, and Hebrew better, and in far less time, than had previously been required for one language only. This method he offered to sell to the princes, and he would impart it only on the promise that it be not revealed to others. Two professors were appointed to examine Ratke, and they reported very favorably on his plan. In 161 7 Ratke published, in Leipzig, his Methodus Nova, which was the pioneer work on school method, and is Ratke's chief claim to mention here. In this he laid down the fundamental rules for teaching, as he had thought them cut. They were as follows : 1. The order of Nature was to be sought and followed. 2. One thing at a time, and that mastered thoroughly. 3. Much repetition to insure retention. 4. Use of the mother tongue for all instruction, and the languages to be taught through it. 408 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 5. Everything to be taught without constraint. The teacher to teach, and the scholars to keep order and discipline. 6. No learning by heart. Much questioning and understanding. 7. Uniformity in books and methods a necessity. 8. Knowledge of things to precede words about things. 9. Individual experience and contact and inquiry to replace author- ity. We see here the essentials of the Baconian ideas, as well as the foreshadowings of many other subsequent reforms in teaching method. During the next half-dozen years Ratke was a much-inter- viewed person, as the idea of a more general education of the peo- ple, advanced by the Protestant reformers, had appealed strongly to the imagination of many of the German princes. Finally the necessary money was raised to establish an experimental school,^ printing-presses were set up to print the necessary books, the peo- ple of the village of Kothen, in Anhalt, were ordered to send their children for instruction, and the school opened with Ratke in charge and amid great expectations and enthusiasm. A year and a half later the school had failed, through the bad management of Ratke and his inability to realize the extravagant hopes he had aroused, and he himself had been thrown into prison as an im- postor by the princes. This ended Ratke's work. He is impor- tant chiefly for his pioneer work as the forerunner of the greatest educator of the seventeenth century. Johann Amos Comenius. We now reach not only the greatest representative of sense realism, both in theory and practice, be- fore the latter part of the eighteenth century, but also one of the commanding figures in the history of education. Comenius was born at Nivnitz, in Moravia, in 1592. As a member, pastor, and later bishop of the Moravian church, and as a follower of John Huss, he suffered greatly in the CathoUc-Protestant warfare which raged over his native land during the period of the Thirty Years' War. His home twice plundered, his books and manu- scripts twice burned, his wife and children murdered, and himself at times a fugitive and later an exile, Comenius gave his long Ufe ^ The school was opened with 433 boys and girls enrolled. It was divided into six classes. In the first three German only was used. In the first two classes the children were taught to read and write German, Genesis being the reading book of the second class. In the third class German grammar was studied. Music, religion, and the elements of arithmetic were also taught in these classes. In the fourth class Latin was begun, studying Terence, and Latin grammar was worked out from the constructions. In the sixth and highest class Greek was taught. A good edu- cation was to be given in six years, through the saving of time. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 409 to the advancement of the interests of mankind through rehgion and learning. Driven from his home and country, he became a scholar of the world. While a student at the University of Nassau, at the age of twenty, he read and was deeply impressed by the "Address " of Ratke. Bacon's Novum Organum, which appeared when he was twenty-eight, made a still deeper impression upon him. He seems to have been familiar also with the writings of the educational re- formers of his time in all European lands. He traveled exten- sively, and maintained a large correspondence with the scholars of his time. He was master of a Latin school in Moravia from the age of twenty-two to twenty-four, when he was ordained as a pas- tor of the Moravian Church. Eight years later, in 1632, he was banished, with all Protestant ministers, from his native land, and while an exile for a time took charge of a school at Lissa, in Poland. Here he worked out, in practice, the great work on method which he later published. In 1638 he was invited to reform the schools of Sweden; in 1641 he visited England, in connection with a plan for the organization of all knowledge ; he spent the next eight years working at school reform in Sweden; from 1650 to 1654 he was in charge of a school at Saros-Patak, in Hungary, where he worked out his famous textbooks for teaching language; he was consulted with reference to the presidency of Harvard College, in 1654; the same year he returned to Lissa, and once more lost his books and manuscripts and was made a homeless exile ; and finally he found a patron and asylum in Amsterdam, where he died in 1671, at the age of seventy-nine. The verse beneath his portrait seems an especially appropriate commentary on his life. Comenius and educational method. While teaching at Lissa, in Poland, Comenius had formulated for himself the principles underlying school instruction, as he saw it, in a lengthy book which he called The Great Didactic} The title page (R. 218) and the table of contents (R. 219) will give an idea as to its scope. In this work Comenius formulated and explained his two funda- mental ideas, namely, that all instruction must be carefully graded and arranged to follow the order of nature, and that, in imparting knowledge to children, the teacher must make constant ^ This was written out in his native Czech tongue, but was not published at the time. A quarter of a century later it appeared in Latin, with his collected works, as published by his patron at Amsterdam (1657). It was then forgotten for two centuries. In 1841 the manuscript was found at Lissa, and published in the original at Prague, in 1848. The first English edition appeared in i8q6. 410 HISTORY OF EDUCATION appeal through sense-perception to the understanding of the child. We have here the fundamental ideas of Bacon apphed to the school, and Comenius stands as the clearest exponent of sense realism in teaching up to his time, and for more than a century afterward. Deeply religious by nature and training, Comenius held the Holy Scriptures to contain the beginning and end of all learning; to know God aright he held to be the highest aim ; and with true Protestant fervor he contended that the education of every hu- man being was a necessity if mankind was to enter into its re- ligious inheritance, and piety, virtue, and learning were to be brought to their fruition. Unlike those who were enthusiasts for religious education only, Comenius saw further, and held an ideal of service to the State and Church here below for which proper training was needed. Still more, he beUeved in the educa- tion of human beings simply because they were human beings, and not merely for salvation, as Luther had held. Comenius was the first to formulate a practicable school method, working along the new lines marked out by Bacon. He had no psychology to guide him, and worked largely by analogies from nature. A great idea with him was that we should study and follow nature, and this led him to the conclusions that educa- tion should proceed from the easy to the difficult, the near to the remote, the general to the special, and the known to the un- known, and that the great business of the teacher was imparting and guiding, and not storing the memory. These conclusions seem commonplaces to us of to-day, but what is commonplace to- day was genius three hundred years ago. To select the subject- matter of instruction carefully and on the basis of utility, to elimi- nate needless materials, not to attempt too much at a time, to use concrete examples, to have frequent repetitions to fix ideas, to ad- vance by carefully graded steps, to tie new knowledge to old, to learn by observing and doing, and to learn by use rather than by precept — were still other of the present-day commonplaces which Comenius worked out and formulated in his Didaciica Magna} His plea for a mild and gentle discipline in place of the brutality of his tmie, his emphasis of the vernacular and the reali- ties of life, his conception as to the importance of early education, his careful gradation of the school, and his ability to see the use- ^ See the English edition edited by M. W. KeaLinge, A. and C. Black, London i8q6. E,y:fum£;M: S : r i.oe,here a/L C>iiLc \ jvJip t^ Jcruc htJ Q^J ' Qlk sliar^Mf fajl:ca £furuuajas^/iury J\£^^ (wkoja IcaniuWrJ tdu, ^ fmc fvartli, betfu^ kmnirne \Jo aLltfi^- rvorul, makof a.11 me jv^ld kis^fjpw'nc Plate io. John Amos Comenius (1592-1671) The Moravian Bishop at the age of tifty. (After an engraving by Glover, printed as a frontispiece to Hartlib's .4 Reformation oj Schoolcs. London, 1642.) SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 411 fulness of Latin without over-emphasizing its importance — all stamp him as a capable and practical schoolmaster who saw deeply into the nature of the educational process. Comenius* ideas as to the organization of schools. In his Di- dactica Magna Comenius divided the school life of a child into four great divisions. The first concerned the period from infancy to the age of six, which he called The Mother School. For this period he wrote TJie School of Infancy (1628), a book intended primarily for parents, and one of such deep insight and funda mental importance that parents and teachers may still read it with interest and profit. In it he anticipated many of the ideas of the kindergarten of to-day. The next division was The Vernac- ular School, which covered the period from the ages of six to twelve. For this period six classes were to be provided, and the emphasis was to be on the mother tongue. This school was to be for all, of both sexes, and in it the basis of an education for life was to be given. It was to teach its pupils to read and write the mother tongue; enough arithmetic for the ordinary business of life, and the commonly used measures; to sing, and to know cer- tain songs by rote; to know about the real things of life; the Cate- chism and the Bible; a general knowledge of history, and espe- cially the creation, fall, and redemption of man; the elements of geography and astronomy; and a knowledge of the trades and occupations of life; all of which, says Comenius, can be taught better through the mother tongue than through the medium of the Latin and Greek. In scope this school corresponds with the vernacular school of modern Europe. The next school was The Latin School, covering the years from twelve to eighteen, and in this German, Latin, Greek, and He- brew were to be taught, by improved methods, and with physics and mathematics added. This school he di\aded into six classes, named from the principal study in each, as follows: (i) Grammar, (2) Physics, (3) Mathematics, (4) Ethics, (5) Dialectics, (6) Rhet- oric. He also later outhned a plan for a sLx-class Gymnasium for Saros-Patak (R. 220), culminating in a seventh year for prepara- tion for the ministry, which was an improvement on the Latin School and very modern in character. Had such a school be- come common, secondary education in Europe might have been a century in advance of where the nineteenth century found it The La'in school was to be attended only by those of abihty who V ere likely to enter the service of Church or State, or wha 412 HISTORY OF EDUCATION intended to pass on to the University. This last was to cover the period from eighteen to twenty-four. Unlike all educational practice of his time and later, Comenius here provides for an edu- cational ladder of the present-day American type, wholly unlike the European two- class school system which (p. 353) later evolved. Comenius' work in reforming language teaching. At the time Comenius lived and wrote, the languages constituted almost the only subject of study, and Latin grammar was the great introduc- tory subject. The mediaeval grammars (Donatus; Alexander de Villa Dei; pp. 156, 155) had been so poor that the instruction was difficult and, in consequence, long drawn out. Lily's Latin Gram- mar (p. 276), published in 1513, and Melanchthon's Latin Gram- mar, pubHshed in 1525, had represented marked advances. Still the subject remained difficult, even when taught from these new types of grammars. Comenius early became convinced, as a result of his teaching and studies in educational method, that the ancient classical authors were not only too difficult for boys beginning the study of Latin, but that they also did not contain the type of real knowledge he felt should be taught in the schools. He accord- ingly set to work to construct a series of introductory Latin read- ers which would form a graded introduction to the study of Latin, and which would also introduce the pupil to the type of world knowledge and scientific information he felt should be taught. His plan eventually embraced a graded series of five books, as follows: 1. The Orbis Sensualium Pictus, or the World of Sense Objects Pictured. This was an illustrated primer and first reader, which ap- peared in 1658, and was the first illustrated book ever written for chil- dren (R. 221). 2. The Vesiibulum (Vestibule, or gate). An easy first reader, con- sisting of but a few hundred of the most commonly used Latin words and sentences, with a translation into the vernacular in parallel col- umns. This book required about a half-year for its completion. 3. The Janua Linguarum Reserata, or Gate of Languages Unlocked. This was the first of the series printed (i 631), the Vestibulum being an easy introduction to it, and the Orbis Pictus being the Janua simplified and illustrated. The Janua contained some eight thousand Latin words, arranged in simple sentences, with the vernacular equivalent in parallel columns; included information on a variety of subjects; ^ and 1 The following is illustrative: _ B D "Sec. 518 (Geometria). Ex concursu linearum fit angulus qui / est vel rectus, quern linea incidens perpendicularis efficit, ut est |/ (in subjecto schemate) angulus A C B; vel acutus, minor recto, ^_ , _ Ut B C D; vel obtusus, major recto, ut A C D," SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 413 was a regular Noah's Ark for vocabulary purposes. It embraced sufficient reading material and grammar for a year. 4. The A trium. This was an expansion of the Janua, and treated the same topics more in detail. It was intended to be an advanced reader, based, as was the Janua, on studies about the real things of life. The vocabulary now was Latin-Latin, instead of Latin-vernacular. 5. The Thesaurus, which was never completed, but was planned to be a collection of graded extracts from easy Latin authors — Corne- lius Nepos, Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Vergil, Horace, Pliny — to furnish the needed reading material for the three upper years of the Latin School. The textbooks illustrated. Beginning in the Janua, and after- wards in the Vestibulum and Orhis Pictus as well, Comenius not only simplified the teaching of Latin by producing the best text- books for instruction in the subject the world had ever known, but he also shifted the whole emphasis in instruction from words to things, and made the teaching of scientific knowledge and use- ful world information the keynote of his work. The hundred different chapters of the Janua, and the hundred and iifty-one chapters of the Orbis Pictus, were devoted to imparting informa- tion as to all kinds of useful subjects. The following selections from the chapter titles of the Orhis Pictus illustrate how large a place the new scientific studies occupied in his conception of the school : The Wodd The Heavens Fire Wind Water Clouds Earth Fruits Metals Trees Herbs Flowers Birds Cattle Fish Parts of Man Flesh and Bowels Chanels and Bones Senses Deformities Husbandry Bees and Honey Butchery Cookery Weaving Philosophy Tailor Prudence Barber Diligence Schoolmaster Temperance Shoemaker Fortitude Carpenter Humanity Potter Justice Printing Consanguinity Geometry A City The Planets Merchandizing Eclipses A Burial Europe Religious Forms The accompanying illustrations (Figs. 126, 127) reveal the nature of the text-books he prepared. (See also R. 221 for four ad- ditional pages of illustrations from the Orhis Pictus.) The success of these textbooks was immediate and very great. Within a short time after the publication of the Janua it had been translated into Flemish, Bohemian, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish, as well as into Arabic, Mongolian, Russian, and Turkish. The The Barbers Shop. LXXV. TotJpwa. T^f Barber, i. ?« r^ff Barbers- fliop, 2. cutteth off the Uzir and the Beard vp'ith a pair 0/ Sizzars, 3. cr fhaveth with a Razor, vphich he taketh out of hii Cafe, 4. Avd he wajfjeth one ever a Bafon, 5. with Suds rumitig out of a Laver, 6. andalfo with Sppe, j* andwipeth him with a Towel, B, combeth him with a Comb, 9. md curleth him with a Crifping Iron, lo. Sometimes he cutteth a Vein »/>/; 4 Pen-knife, 11. where the Blood fpir Pet h out ^12. Tonfor^ r, inTonfirinay 2* tondec Crines & Barbam Forcipe, 3. vel radit Novaculi, quam e Theca, 4. depromlt. Ec lavat fuper Ft/i;/w, 5, Lixivio defluentc e CutturniOj 6. uc & Sapone^ 7. & tergit LinteOy 8» peftic FeHine^ 9. crifpac CalamifirOy 10. Interdum Venam fecac ScalpcUoy II, ubi Sanguis propullulat, 12, Fig. 126. A Sample Page from the "Orbis Pictus" The illustration and Latin text is from the first edition of 1658; the English translation from the Enghsh edition of 1727 SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 415 Orbis Pictus was an even greater success.^ It went through many editions, in many languages; stood without a competitor in Europe for a hundred and fifteen years; and was used as an intro- ductory textbook for nearly two hundred years. An Ameri- can edition was brought out in New York City, as late as 18 10. The Portal to the GaEte oFTt^Sguas. Qtiatuor Evangeliftaf ,quiirqiie fenfuSife:; profefti die*. Septem peclcionesin Oracione Dominica« Ofto diet /iinc feptimans* Ter tria funr norcm- Decern preccpca Dei* Undccim Apoftoli, dennpto Juda. Diiodecim Me\ articuli. Triginu dies font menfis. Centum anni funt feculum. Saranis eft mille fraadoin tr- tifex. FoHrEviftgtliJiitfivefenfesjfi* "S«M pttitions in ^bt Lora**]^^^ ^^ Zight ettjei *rt a ipn^. i,«nda/riit rhrictih'ftarenint. hiiTrc»rff TinCommandttHMiofQod^ aameJt'o^ iUven ApefiUSijfudMt keihgii' ,heLoi4» cepted. Supper rwtlve Articles of the faith, ^"ide* Thirty dajes art « maneth. ®' A hundred jetrs are tn tgn Sum it, the forger of < theitftBH deceits. Fig. 127. Part of a Page from a Latin-English Edition of THE "VeSTIBULUM" Thousands of parents, who knew nothing of Comenius and cared nothing for his educational ideas, bought the book for their chil- dren because they found that they liked the pictures and learned the language easily from it.^ Place and influence of Comenius. Comenius stands in the history of education in a position of commanding importance. He introduces the whole modern conception of the educational process, and outlines many of the modern movements for the im- provement of educational procedure. What Petrarch was to the revival of learning, what Wycliffe was to reUgious thought, what Copernicus was to modern science, and what Bacon and Des- cartes were to modern philosophy. Comenius was to educational practice and thinking (R. 222). The germ of almost all eight- eenth- and nineteenth-century educational theory is to be found in his work, and he, more than any one before him and for at least two centuries after him, made an earnest effort to introduce the ^ A very good reprint of the 1727 English edition, with pictures from the first edition of 1658, was brought out by C. W. Bardeen, of Syracuse, New York, in 1887. This ought to be in all libraries where the history of education is taught. ^ Basedow's Elementarwerk mil Kupfern (Elementary Reading Book, with copper- pfate pictures), published in 1773 (see p. 535), was the first attempt, and not a particularly successful one either, to improve on the Orbis Pictus. 4i6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION new science studies into the school. Far more liberal than his Lutheran or Calvinistic or AngHcan or Catholic contemporaries, he planned his school for the education of youth in religion and learning and to fit them for the needs of a modern world. Unlike the textbooks of his time, and for more than a century afterward, his were free from either sectarian bigotry or the intense and gloomy atmosphere of the age. Yet Comenius Hved at an unfortunate period in the history of human progress. The early part of the seventeenth century was not a time when an enthusiastic and aggressive and liberal- minded reformer could expect much of a hearing anywhere in western Europe. The shock of the contest into which western Christendom had been plunged by the challenge of Luther had been felt in every corner of Europe, and the culmination of a cen- tury of warfare was then raging, with all the bitterness and brutal- ity that a religious motive develops. Christian Europe was too filled with an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust and hatred to be in any mood to consider reforms for the improvement of the education of mankind. As a result the far-reaching changes in method formulated by Comenius made but slight impression on his contemporaries; his attempt to introduce scientific studies awakened suspicion, rather than interest; and the new method which he formulated in his Great Didactic was ignored and the book itself was forgotten for centuries. His great influence on educational progress was through the reform his textbooks worked in the teaching of Latin, and the slow infiltration into the schools of the scientific ideas they contained. As a result, many of the fundamentally sound reforms for which he stood had to be worked out anew in the nineteenth century. It is sad to con- template how far our western world might have been advanced in its educational organization and scientific progress, by the close of the eighteenth century, had it been in a mood to receive and util- ize the reforms in aims and methods, and to accept the new scien- tific subject-matter, proposed and worked out by this far-sighted Moravian teacher. Religious bigotry has, in all lands and ages, proved itself one of the most serious of all obstacles in the path of human progress. IV. REALISM AND THE SCHOOLS The vernacular schools. The ideas for which the realists just described had stood were adopted in the people's schools but SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 417 slowly, and came only after long waiting. The final incorpora- tion of science instruction into elementary education did not come until the nineteenth century, and then was an outgrowth of the reform work of Pestalozzi on the one hand, and the new social, political, economic, and industrial forces of a modern world on the other. The Peace of Westphaha (1648), which closed a century of bit- ter and vindictive religious warfare, was followed by another cen- tury of hatred, suspicion, and narrow religious intolerance and reaction. All parties now adopted an extremely conservative at- titude in matters of religion and education, and the protection of orthodoxy became the chief purpose of the school. Reading, re- ligion, a little counting and writing, and, in Teutonic lands, music, came to constitute the curriculum of such elementary vernacular schools as had come to exist, and the religious Primer and the Bible became the great school textbooks. The people were poor, much of Europe was impoverished and depopulated as a result of long-continued reHgious strife, the common people still occupied a very low social position, there were as yet no qualified teachers, and no need for general education aside from religion. Still more, during more than a thousand years the Church had established the tradition of providing free education, and when the governing authorities of the States which turned to Protestantism had taken from the Church both the opportunit}^ to continue the schools and the wealth with which to maintain them, they were seldom wilHng to tax themselves to set up institutions to continue the work formerly done gratis by the Church. In consequence, re- gardless of Protestant educational theory as to the need for gen- eral education, but little progress in providing vernacular schools was made during the whole of the seventeenth and eighteenth coxturies. Here and there in Teutonic lands, however, the new studies found an occasional patron. In 1619 schools were organized for the little Duchy of Weimar (p. 317) by a pupil of Ratke, and sense realism was given a place in them. The schoolmaster, An- dreas Reyher, who in 1642 drew up the Schule Methodus for Duke Ernest of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, was famihar with the work of both Ratke and Comenius, and made provision for in- struction in ''the natural and useful sciences" (R. 163) for Duke Ernest's children. Here and there a few other attempts to pro- vide schools and add instruction in the new Realien were made. 41 8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The number of such attempts was not large, but their work was influential, and as a result vernacular schools and science instruc- tion finally became established among German-speaking peoples \ /before they did in any other land. The secondary schools. The influence of Milton's Tractate on the non- conformist Academies of England has been traced, and the transfer of the idea of instruction in the new mathematical, scientific, literary, historical, and political subjects to the new American Academies has been mentioned. That these new stud- ies also entered into the education of a gentleman in England and France, under the private- tutor and the courtly- academy system, and were copied from the French and constituted a large part of the instruction organized for the Ritterakademieen of the numer- ous court cities in German lands, has also been mentioned. In both England and France such private instruction exerted but little influence on the existing Latin grammar schools, and in consequence the schools of both countries remained largely un- changed in direction and purpose until the second half of the nine- teenth century. In German lands the Ritterakademieen idea experienced a further development, which proved to be of large Importance for the future of German education. Francke's "Institutions." With the introduction of French ideas and training into the German courts, French skepticism in matters of rel'gion developed in the court circles. Under the influence of a pious Lutheran clergyman, Philip Spener (1635- 1705), who tried to emphasize religion as an affair of the heart rather than the head; and especially as a result of the work of his spiritual successor, Augustus Hermann Francke, a movement s,rose in German lands, during the closing years of the seven- teenth century, which became known as Pietism} Disgusted with the lifeless and insincere religion of the time, these two strove to substitute a rehgion of both head and heart. In 1695, moved by pity for the poor, Francke estabhshed at Halle the first of his famous ''Institutions," — a school for poor chil- dren. A pay school for the well-to-do was soon added, and soon another school for the children of nobility. An orphan school also was in time provided. The school for the poor developed into a vernacular or Burgher {volks; peoples) school; the school for the pay pupils into a Latin School, or Gymnasium; and the school for 1 This term was at first applied in derision, just as Methodism was applied to the English religious reformers in the eighteenth century, but the term wa^j soon made reputable by the earnestness and ability of those who accepted it. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 419 nobles into a higher scientific school, or Padagogium as it was called. At first Francke encountered some theological opposition, but the "Institutions" prospered, and at the time of his death contained over 2200 pupils, and over 300 teachers, workers, and attendants. The interesting thing about Francke's work was the courses of instruction he provided for his schools.^ In the Burgher School he gave the children instruction in history, geography, and animal life, in addition to the reading, writing, counting, music, and religion of the isual German^ vernacular school. Into the Gynmasium he introduced instruc- tion in history, geography, music, sci- ence, and mathematics, in addition to the usual Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He also changed the purpose of the language instruction. Greek was stud- ied to be able to read the New Tes- tament in the original, and Hebrew better to understand the Old. The Padagogium was provided with a bo- tanical garden, a cabinet of natural history, physical apparatus, a laboratory for the study of chem- istry and anatomy, and a workshop for turning and glass cutting. Independent of the work of Comenius, but as an outgrowth of the new movement for the study of science now beginning to influence educational thought, we have here the most important attempt at the introduction into the school of sense realism, or Realien, as the Germans say, that the modern world had so far witnessed. In 1697 Francke added a. Seminar ium PrcEceptorium, to train teachers in his new ideas. This was the first teachers' training-school in German lands, and the teachers he trained served to scatter his educational ideas over the German States.- 1 Francke's father had been counselor to Duke Ernest of Gotha, who had created for his little duchy the most modern-type school system of the seventeenth century. How much Francke's progressive ideas in educational matters go back to the work of Duke Ernest forms an interesting speculation. 2 "Francke had the rare ability to see clearly what needed doing, and then to do it regardless of obstacles or consequences. The magnitude of his work in Halle is simply marvelous, and yet what he actually accomplished is insignificant in com- parison with what he inspired others to do. He showed how practical Christianity could be incorporated in the work of the common schools; his plan was immediately adopted by P'rederick William I and made well-nigh universal in Prussia. He \^.c^ Fig. 128. Augustus Hermann Francke (1663-1727) 420 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The first Realschule. Associated with Francke as a teacher was one Christopher Semler (i 669-1 740), who became deeply in- terested in the new studies of the secondary school. In 1706 Semler had submitted a plan to the government of Magdeburg for the teaching of the practical studies. This was referred to the Berlin Society of Sciences, which approved the plan, and later elected Semler to membership in the Society. For years Semler . continued as a teacher at Halle, but without carrying the idea far enough to create a new type of school. In 1739 Semler pubhshed a paper "Upon the Mathematical, Mechanical, and Agricultural Real School in the City of Halle," in which he described the in- struction given there. This was probably the first use of the term ''real school" {Realschule). The important subjects described as taught, aside from religion, were "the useful and in daily life wholly indispensable sciences," such as mathematics, drawing, geography, history, natural history, agriculture, and economics, with much emphasis on observation by the pupils. The work at Halle soon stimulated complaints as to the existing Latin schools, where children, destined for business or the service of the State, were kept trying to learn Latin, "to the neglect of more practical and more useful studies." The usefulness of the new real studies now began to be more correctly estimated, and the conviction gradually grew that those boys who were destined for trade — now a rapidly increasing number — should not be obliged to follow the same course as those destined to be scholars. In 1720 Rector Gesner, of the gymnasium at Rotenburg, wrote, rather sarcastically : The one class, who will not study, but will become tradesmen, mer- chants, or soldiers, must be instructed in writing, arithmetic, writing letters, geography, description of the world, and history. The other class may be trained for studying. In 1742 the Rector at Dresden, Schottgen, issued a "Humble proposal for the special class in public city schools" to provide for those children "who are to remain without (that is, cannot learn) Latin." Instead of forcing them to attempt to learn Donatus, which he said was useless for them, he urged that a special class (school) be organized to train them to become useful merchants, showed how the Realien could be profitably employed in a Latin school, and even made a constituent part of a university preparatory course; as a result of his methods, and especially of his suggestion that schools should be founded for the exclusive purpose of fitting the youth of the citizen class for practical life, there has since grown up in Germany a class of iieaZ-schools." (Russell, J. E., German Higher Schools, p. 64.) SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 421 artists, and mechanics. In 1751 Rector Henzky, of Prenzlau, issued a treatise to show "That Real schools can and must be- come common." In 1756 Gesner, professor at the new Univer- sity of Gottingen, in a pamphlet ''On the organization of a gym- nasium" (R. 223), urged that there were three classes of youths for whom schools should be provided, one of which needed the Realschtde. In 1747 a clergyman by the name of Julius Hecker (i 707-1 768), who had been a pupil in, and later had taught in Francke's "In- stitutions," went to Berlin and opened there the first distinct German Realschtde. In this school Hecker provided instruction in religion, ethics, German, French, Latin, mathematics, drawing, history, geography, mechanics, architecture, and a knowledge of nature and of the human body. Classes were organized in archi- tecture, agriculture, bookkeeping, manufacturing, and mining. The school prospered from the first, and in time became the "Royal Realschule" of Berlin, In answer to a growing demand for advanced education for that constantly increasing number of youths destined for the trades or a mercantile career, the real- schule idea was copied in a number of the important cities of Ger- many. Thus early — • a century in advance of other nations, and a century and a quarter ahead of the United States — • did Prussia lay the foundations of that scientific and technical education which, later on, did so much toward creating modern industrial Germany. The universities and the new scientific learning. Though the theological persecution of scientific workers largely died out after about the middle of the seventeenth century, and was never much of a factor in lands which had embraced some form of Protestantism, the new sciences nevertheless made but little head- way in the universities until after the beginning of the eighteenth century. Up to the close of the seventeenth century the universi- ties in all lands continued to be dominated by their theological faculties, and instruction still remained largely encompassed by mediasvalism. England represents perhaps the most notable ex- ception to this statement, scientific studies ha\dng been received with greater tolerance by the universities there than in other lands. In both CathoHc and Protestant lands the need was felt for orthodox training, through fear of further heresy, and many petty restrictions were thrown about study and teaching which were stifling to free thinking and investigation. Each Httle King- 422 HISTORY OF EDUCATION dom or State now took over the supervision of some old university within its borders, or established a new one, that it might more completely control orthodoxy and prepare its own civil servants. Of the seventeenth century, Paulsen ^ well says: It was essentially the period of the territorial-confessional university, and is characterized by a preponderance of theological-confessional interest. . . . Many new foundations, both Catholic and Protestant, now appeared. The chief impetus leading to these numerous founda- tions was the accentuation of the principle of territorial sovereignty, from the ecclesiastical as well as the political point of view. The con- sequence was that the universities began to be instrumentia denom- inationis of the government as professional schools for its ecclesiasti- cal and secular officials. Each individual government endeavored to secure its own university in order — (i) to make sure of wholesome instruction, which meant, of course, instruction in harmony with the confessional standards of its established church; (2) to retain training of its secular officials in its own hands; and finally (3) render attend- ance at foreign universities unnecessary on the part of its subjects, and thus keep the money in the country. Large amounts of money were not needed to establish a new univer- sity. A few thousand guilders or thalers sufficed for the salaries of ten or fifteen professors, a couple of preachers and physicians would undertake the theological and medical lectures, and some old monas- tery would supply the needed buildings. After the Reformation the law faculty increased to the place of first importance in Protestant lands, because the Reformation had created a new demand for judges and higher court officials to replace the rule of the clergy. The medical faculty continued to be, as in the mediaeval universities, the smallest of all the faculties and amounted to httle before the nineteenth century.^ The arts faculty, or philosophical as it came to be termed in German lands, offered lectures in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and a general course in philosophy, but the Aristotelian texts and to some extent medi- aeval methods in instruction continued to be used until the begin- ning of the eighteenth century. Here and there some professor "read" on mathematics, and in Protestant lands on the new astronomy, and the study of botany began as the study of herbs in the medical faculty,^ but during 1 Paulsen, Fr., The German Universities, p. 36. 2 As late as 1805, according to Paulsen, of the whole number of students in the universities of Prussia, there were but 144 in the combined medical faculties, as against 555 in theology, and 1036 in law. ^ Francke relates that, as a student at Erfurt (c. 1675), he was able to study physics and botany, along with his theological studies. Oxford records show the publication of a list of plants in the "Physick Garden" there as early as 1648. The garden was endowed about that time by the Earl of Danby, and in 1764 lectures on SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 423 the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries few professors or students were interested in the scientific subjects. By 1675 Bacon's N^o- vum Organum had begun to be taught at both Oxford and Cam- bridge, and by 1700 the Newtonian physics had begun to displace Aristotle at Oxford. By 1740 it was well established there. At first instruction in the new subjects was offered as an extra and for a fee by men not having professional rank (R. 224), and later the instruction was given full recognition by the university. By 1700 Cambridge had become a center for mathematical study (R. 225), and with the growth in popularity of the Newtonian philoso- phy, mathematical studies there took the place held by logic in the mediasval university. Cambridge has ever since remained a center for mathematical and, since the beginning of the nine- teenth centur}^, for scientific studies as well. Between 1680 and 1700 the University of Paris was reformed, and the mathe- matical and philosophical studies of Descartes (p. 394) began to be taught there. The universities of the Netherlands began to teach the new mathematical and scientific studies even earlier. Aside from the above described Realschule development, the new scientific movement for a time largely passed over German lands, and in consequence the German universities remained unre- formed until the eighteenth century. During the seventeenth century they sank to their lowest intellectual level. In 1694, largely in protest against the narrowness of the old universities, the new University of Halle was founded. It received into its faculty certain forward-looking men who had been driven from the old universities,^ and is generally considered as the first mod- ern university. The new scientific and mathematical subjects and a reformed philosophy were introduced; the instruction in Greek and Latin was reformed; German was made the medium of classroom instruction; and a scientific magazine in German was begun. In 1737 the University of Gottingen became a second center of modern influence, and from these two institutions the new scientific spirit gradually spread to all the Protestant univer- botany were begun there. Lord Bacon, in his Advancement of Learning (1605), had written: "We see hkewise that some places instituted for physic (medicinas) have annexed the commodity of gardens for simples of all sorts, and do likewise command the use of dead bodies for anatomies." ' Thomasius was made professor of theology, and Francke professor of Greek and Oriental languages. Both had been expelled from the University of Leipzig. Christian Wolfif, who had been banished by Frederick William I, was recalled and made professor of philosophy. It was he who "made philosophy talk German." 424 HISTORY OF EDUCATION sities of German lands. A century later they were the leading universities of the world. The transition now practically complete. From the time Pe- trarch made his first "find" at Liege (1333), in the form of two previously unknown orations of Cicero (p. 244), to the pubhca- tion of the Principia (p. 388) of Newton (1687), is a period of ap- proximately three and a half centuries. During these three and a half centuries a complete transformation of world-hfe had been effected, and the mediaeval man, with his eyes on the past, had given place to the modern man with his eyes on the future. Dur- ing these three and a half centuries revolutionary forces had been at work in the world of ideas, and the transition from mediaeval to modern attitudes had been accomplished. From 1333 to 1433 was the century of "literary finds," and during this period the monastic treasures were brought to light and edited and the classical literature of Rome restored. Greek also was restored to the western world, and a reformed Latin, Greek, and Hebrew were given the place of first importance in the new humanistic school. The invention of printing took place in 1423; 1456 wit- nessed the appearance of the first printed book, and the perfection of the new means for the multiplication of books and the dissemi- nation of ideas. Before 1500 the great era of geographical dis- covery had been inaugurated; a sea-route to India was found in 1487; and a new continent in 1492. In 1519-22 Magellan's ships rounded the world. In 1 5 17 Luther issued the challenge, the shock of which was felt in every corner of Christian Europe, and within a half-century much of northern and western Europe had been lost to the origi- nal Roman Church. Soon independence in thinking had been extended to the problem of the organization of the universe, and in 1 543 Copernicus issued the book that clearly marks the begin- ning of modern scientific thinking and inquiry. Bacon had done his organizing work by 1620, and Newton's Principia (1687) fi- nally established modern scientific thought and work. Comenius died in 167 1, his great organizing work done, and his textbooks, with their many new educational ideas, in use all over Europe. The mediaeval attitude still continued in religion and govern- ment, but the world as a whole had left mediaeval attitudes be- hind it, and was facing the future of modern world organization and life. To the educational organization of this modern world we now turn, though before doing so we shall try to present a SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 425 cross-section, as it were, of the development in educational theory and practice which had been attained by about the middle of the eighteenth century. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Explain why the scholars of the time were so intent on producing a new race of Roman youths for a revived Latin scholarly world. 2. Show that a reaction against humanism was certain to arise, and why. 3. How do you explain the very small influence exerted on the Latin gram- mar schools of England by the non-conformist Academies, after they had been absorbed into the existing English non-state system of higher schools? 4. Compare Milton and Montaigne. 5. What would be the most probable effect "on education of the erection of the poHshed-man-of-the- world ideal? 6. Enumerate the forces favoring and opposing the change of the language of instruction from Latin to the vernacular. 7. How many of the thirteen principles of the Innovators do we still hold to be vahd? 8. Just what was new in the nine fundamental rules laid down by Ratke, in his Met hod us Nova? g. What is your estimate of the vernacular schools as outlined by Comenius? Of the plans for a gymnasium at Saros-Patak? 10. Compare Comenius' Latin school with the College of Calvin (p. 330). 11. State the new ideas in instruction embodied in the textbooks of Comenius. 12. Show that Comenius dominates modern educational ideas, even though his work was largely lost, in the same way that Petrarch or Wycliffe or Copernicus do modern work in their fields. 13. Explain the very slow development of vernacular schools after the Protestant Revolts. 14. Why would the introduction of real studies into them be especially slow? 15. What explanation can you offer for the much earlier beginnings in scien- tific instruction in German lands than in England or America, when much more of the important early scientific work was done by English- men than by Germans? and the failure of science for a time to find a home in the German universities? 16. Explain the continued dominance of the theological faculty in the uni- versities of the seventeenth century. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following illustrative selections are reproduced: 210. Rabelais: On the Nature of Education. 211. Milton: The Aim and Purpose of Education. 212. Milton: His Program for Study. 213. Adamson: Discontent of the Nobility with the Schools. 214. Montaigne: Ridicule of the Humanistic Pedants. 215. Montaigne: His Conception of Education. 216. Locke: Extracts from his Thoughts on Education. 217. Locke: Plan for Working Schools for Poor Children. 218. Comenius: Ti tie-Page of the Greai Didactic. 426 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 219. Comenius: Contents of the Grcal Didactic. 220. Comenius: Plan for the (lymnasium at Saros-Patak. 221. Comenius: Sample pages from the Orhis P id lis. (a) A page from a Latin-German edition of 1740. {b) Two pages from a Latin-English edition of 1727. (c) A page from the New York edition of 1810. 222. Butler: Place of Comenius in the History of Education. 223. Gesner: Need for Realschulen for the New Classes to be Educated. 224. Handbill: How the Scientific Studies began at Cambridge. 225. Green: Cambridge Scheme of Study of 1707. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Show that Rabelais (210) was in close sympathy with the best of the new humanists of his age. 2. Would Milton's definition of the purpose of education (211) be true, still? 3. Show from Milton's program of studies (212) that he represents a transi- tion type, and also that his program contains the nucleus of the more modern studies of the secondary school. 4. Explain the discontent of the nobility (213) with the existing Church schools. 5. Assuming Montaigne's description of the education of his time (214) to be true, explain why this might naturally be the case. 6. Just what kind of an education does Montaigne outline (215), and how great a reaction was this from existing conditions? 7. In how far would Locke's ideas (216) still apply to the education of a boy of the leisure class? 8. Show that Locke's plan for work-house schools (217) was in thorough accord with English post-Reformation ideas as to the duty of the State in matters of education, and also that it contained the beginnings of the pauper-school idea of education which we later had to combat. 9. From the title-page (218) and the table of contents (219) of Comenius' Great Didactic, point out the originality and novelty of his ideas. 10. Compare Comenius' plan for the Saros-Patak Gymnasium (220) with such schools as Sturm's (137), the college of Guyenne (136), the college of Calvin (175), and the Jesuits (p. 340). ir. Compare Comenius' plan (220) with the instruction in an American high school of seventy-five years ago. .2. Compare the Alphabet page of Comenius' Orhis Pictus (221) with the same page in the New England Primer (202). 13. When so many educational reforms were inaugurated so early by Co- menius (222), explain their neglect, and our having to work them out anew in the nineteenth century. 14. What does the need for Realschulen (223) indicate as to the evolution of German society and the recuperation from the ravages of war? 15. Compare the beginnings of scientific study at Cambridge (224) with beginnings of new subjects to-day in our schools. 16. Just what does the Cambridge Scheme of Study (225) indicate as being taught there? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Adamson, J. W. Pioneers of Modern Education, 1600-1700. Barnard, Henry. German Teachers and Educators. SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SCHOOLS 427 *Butler, N. M. "The Place of Comenius in the History of Education"; in Proc. N. E. A., 1892, pp. 723-28. Browning, Oscar, Editor. Millon's Tractate on Education. *Comenius, J. A. Orbis Pictiis (Bardeen; Syracuse). Hanus, Paul H. "The Permanent Influence of Comenius"; in Educa tional Review, vol. 3, pp. 226-36 (March, 1892). Laurie, S. S. History of Educational Opinion since the Renaissance. *Laurie, S. S. John Amos Comenius. Quick, R. H., Editor. Locke's Thoughts on Education. *Quick, R. H. Essays on Educational Reformers. *Vostrovsky, Clara. "A European School of the Time of Comenius (Prague, 1609) "; in Education, vol. 17, pp. 356-60 (February, 1897.) Wordsworth, Christopher. Scholce Academicce; Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century. CHAPTER XVIII THEORY AND PRACTICE BY THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY We have now reached, in our history of the transition age which began with the Revival of Learning — the great events of which were the recovery of the ancient learning, the rediscovery of the historic past, the reawakening of scholarship, and the rise of re- ligious and scientific inquiry — the end of the transition period, and we are now ready to pass to a study of the development and progress of education in modern times. Before doing so, however, we desire to gather up and state the progress in both educational theory and practice which had been attained by the end of this transition period, and to present, as it were, a cross-section of education at about the middle of the eighteenth century. To do this, then, before passing to a consideration of educational develop- ment in modern times, will be the purpose of this chapter. We shall first review the progress made in evolving a theory as to the educational purpose, and then present a cross-section view of the schools of the time under consideration. I. PRE-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDUCATIONAL THEORIES The state purpose of the Greeks and Romans. As we saw, early in our study of the rise and progress of the education of peo- ples, the City-States of Greece were the first consciously to evolve a systematic plan of schooling and a prolonged course of training for those who were to guide and direct the State. In Sparta the training was almost wholly for military efficiency and tribal safety, but in Athens we found a people using a well-worked-out system of training to develop individual initiative, advance civi- lization, and promote the welfare of the State. The education provided was for but a class, to be sure, and a small ruling class at that, but it was the first evidence of the new western, individualis- tic, and democratic spirit expressing itself in the education of the young. There also we found, for the first time, the thinkers of the State deeply concerned with the education of the youth of the State, and viewing education as a necessity to make life worth living and to secure the State from dangers, both without and THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 429 within. The training there given produced wonderful results, and for two centuries the men educated by it ably guided the des- tinies of Athens. The essentials of this Greek training were later embodied in the private-adventure school system that arose in Rome, which was adapted to conditions and needs there, and which was used for the training of a few Roman youths of the wealthier famiUes for a po- litical career. Schooling at Rome, though, never attained the im- portance or rendered the service that characterized education at Athens, and never became an instrument of the State used con- sciously for State ends. One Roman writer, Quintilian, as we have seen (R. 25), worked out a careful statement of the whole process of educating a youth for a pubhc career, and this, the first practical treatise on education, was for long highly prized as the best-written statement of the educational art. The future-life conception of the Christians. With the decline of Roman power and influence, and the victory of Christianity throughout the Roman world, the State conception of education was entirely lost to western Europe, and more than a thousand years elapsed before it again arose in the western world. The Church now became the State, and the need for any education for secular life almost entirely passed away. For centuries the aim was almost entirely a preparation for life in the world to come. Throughout all the early Middle Ages this attitude continued, supplemented only by the meager education of a few to carry on the work of the Church here below. After the tenth century we noted the rise of some more or less independent study in some of the monastery and cathedral schools, and after the twelfth century the rise of studia generalia marked the congregation into groups of the few interested in a studious life. These in turn gave rise to the university founda- tions, and to the beginning of independent and secular study once more in the western world. The Revival of Learning, the recov- ery of the ancient manuscripts, the revival of the study of Greek in the West, the founding of Ubraries, the invention of paper and printing, and the revival of trade and commerce — all were new forces tending to give a new direction to scholarly study, and as a result a new race of scholars, more or less independent of the Church, now arose in western Europe. They were, however, a class, and a very small class at that, and though the result of their work was the creation of a new humanistic secondary school, 430 HISTORY OF EDUCATION this still ministered to the needs of but a few This few was in tended either for the service of the Church, for the governmental service of the towns which had by this time attained their inde- pendence, or for the governments of the rising principalities or states. For the great mass of the people, whose purpose in life was to work and believe and obey, agriculture, warfare, the rising trades with their guilds (p. 209), and the services of the Church (p. 121) constituted almost all in the way of education which they ever re- ceived. To be useful to his overlord and master here and to be saved hereafter were the chief life-purposes of the common man. The former he must himself undertake in order to be able to live Xt all; the latter the Church undertook to supply to those who followed her teachings. The rise of the vernacular religious school. For the first time in history, if we except the schools of the early Christian period, the Protestant Revolts created a demand for some form of an ele- mentary religious school for all. The Protestant theory as to per- sonal versus collective salvation involved as a consequence the idea of the education of all in the essentials of the Christian faith and doctrine. The aim was the same as before — personal salva- tion — but the method was now changed from that of the Church as intermediary to personal knowledge and faith and eiTort. To be saved, one must know something of the Word of God, and this necessitated instruction. To this end, in theory at least, schools had to be established to educate the young for membership in the new type of Church relationship. Reading the vernacular^a little counting and writing, in Teutonic countries a little m.usic, and careful instruction in a religious Primer (R. 202), the Catechism, and the Bible, now came to constitute the subject matter of a new vernacular school for the children of Protestants, and to a certain extent in time for the children of Catholics as well. As we pointed out earlier (p. 353), between this new type of school for religious ends and the older Latin grammar school for scholarly purposes there was ahnost no relationship, and the two developed wholly independently of one another. In the Latin grammar schools one studied to become a scholar and a leader in the politi- cal or ecclesiastical world; in the vernacular religious school one learned to read that he might be able to read the Catechism and die Bible, and to know the will of the Heavenly Father. There was scarcely any other purpose to the maintenance of the ele- THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 431 mentary vernacular schools. This condition continued until well into the eighteenth century. Early unsuccessful educational reformers. Back in the seven- teenth century, as we have pointed out in the preceding chapter, a very earnest effort was made by Ratke and Comenius to intro- duce a larger conception of the educational process into the ele- FiG. 1 29. A French School before the Revolution (After an etching by Boisseau, 1 730-1809) nientary vernacular school, to eliminate the gloomy religious ma- terial from the textbooks, to substitute a human-welfare purpose for the exclusively life-beyond view, and to transform the school into an institution for imparting both learning and religion. Co menius in particular hoped to make of the new elementary reli gious school a potent instrument for human progress by introduc- ing new subject-matter, and by formulating laws and developing methods for its work which would be in harmony with the new scientific procedure so well stated by Francis Bacon. Comenius stands as the commanding figure in seventeenth-century peda- gogical thought. He reasoned out and introduced us to the whole modern conception of the educational process and purpose (p. 415), and gave to the school of the people a solid theoretical and practical basis. Living, though, at an unfortunate period in hu- man history, he was able to awaken little interest either in ra- 432 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tional teaching-method or in reforms looking to the advancement of the welfare of mankind. Instead he roused suspicion and dis- trust by the innovations and progressive reforms he proposed ; his now-celebrated book on teaching method (Rs. 218, 219) was not at the time understood and was for long forgotten, while the fundamentally sound ideas and pedagogical reforms which he proposed and introduced were lost amid the hatreds of his time, and had to be worked out again and reestablished in a later and a more tolerant age. Another unsuccessful reformer of some importance, and one whose work antedated that of both Ratke and Comenius, was the London_^choolmaster, Richard Mulcaster (1531-1611), for twenty-five years headmaster of the famous Merchant Taylors' School (p. 278), and later Master of Saint Paul's School (p. 275). In 1 581 he issued his Positions, a pedagogical work so far in ad- vance of his time, and written in such a heavy and affected style, that it passed almost unnoticed in England, and did not become known at all in other lands. Yet the things he stood for became the fundamental ideas of nineteenth-century educational thought. These were: 1. That the end and aim of education is to develop the body and the faculties of the mind, and to help nature to perfection. 2. That all teaching processes should be adapted to the pupil taught, 3. That the first stage in learning is of large importance, and re- quires high skill on the part of the teacher. 4. That the thing to be learned is of less importance than the pupil learning. 5. That proper brain development demands that pressure and one- sided education alike be avoided. 6^That the mother tongue should be taught first and well, and / -'' should be the langUageoT the school from six to twelve. 7. That music and drawing should be taught. 8. That reading and writing at least should be the common right of all, and that girls should be given equal opportunity with boys. 9. That training colleges for teachers should be established and maintained. The modern nature of many of Mulcaster's proposals may be seen from the table of contents of his volume (R. 226). Mulcaster, like Comenius, thought far in advance of his age, and in conse- quence his book was soon and for long forgotten. Yet what Quick ^ says of him is very true : ^ Quick, R. H, Essays on Educational Reformers, 2d ed., p. 97. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 433 It would have been a vast gain to all Europe if Mulcaster had been followed instead of Sturm^^^^e was one of the earliest advocates of the use of the vernacular instead of Latin, and good reading and \mting in English wefeToT5e secured before Latin was begun. His elementary course included five things: English reading, English writing, drawing, singing, playing a musical instrument. If this were made to occupy the school time up to twelve, Mulcaster held that more would be done between twelve and sixteen than between seven and seventeen in the ordinary (Latin grammar school) way. There would be a further gain in that the children would not be set against learning. John Locke, and the disciplinary theory of education. An- other commanding figure in seventeenth-century pedagogical thought was the English scholar, philosopher, teacher, physician, and poKtical writer, John Locke (163 2-1 704). In the preceding chapter we pointed out the place of Locke as a wTiteron the edu- cation of the sons of the English gentry, and illustrated by an ex- tract from his Thoughts (R. 216) the importance he placed on such a practical type of education as would prepare a gentleman's son for the social and political demands of a world fast becoming modern. Locke's place in the history of education, though, is of much more importance than was there (p. 402) indicated. Locke was essentially the founder of modern psychology, based on the application of the micthods of modern scientific investigation to a study of the mind,^ and he is also of importance in the history of educational thought as ha\ang set forth, at some length and with much detail, the disciplinary conception of the educational process. Locke had served as a tutor in an English nobleman's family, had worked out his educational theories in practice and thought them through as mind processes, and had become thoroughly con- vinced that it was the process of learning that was important, rather than the thing learned. Education to him was a process of disciplining the body, fixing good habits, training the youth in moral situations, and training the mind through work with stud- 1 Locke was the first to lay the basis for modem scientific psychology to supersede the philosophic psychology of Plato and Aristotle. In his Essay on the Conduct of the Human Understanding (1690) upon which he spent many years of labor, he first applied the methods of scientific observation to the mind, analyzed experiences, and employed introspection and comparative mental study. He thus built up a psychol- ogy based on the analysis of experiences, and came to the conclusion that our knowl- edge is derived by reflection on experience coming through sensation. He is conse- quently called the founder of empirical psychology, and the forerunner of modern experimental psychology and child study. His philosophy, and his theory of educa- tion as well, thus came to be a philosophy of experience — a rejection of mere authority, and a constant appeal to reason as a guide. 434 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ies selected because of their disciplinary value. This conception of education he sets forth well in the following paragraph, taken from his Thoughts: The great Work of the Governor is to fashion the Carriage and form the Mind; to settle in his Pupils good Habits and the Principles oi Virtue and Wisdom ; to give him by little and little a View of Mankind, and work him into a Love and Imitation of what is excellent and praise- worthy; and in the Prosecution of it, to give him Vigor, Activity, and Industry. The Studies which he sets him upon, are but as it were the Exercise of his Faculties, and Employment of his Time, to keep him from Sauntering and Idleness, to teach him Application, and accustom him to take Pains, and to give him some little Taste of what his own Industry must perfect (§ 94). In his Thoughts Locke first sets forth at length the necessity for disciplining the body by means of diet, exercise, and the harden- ing process. "A sound mind in a sound body " he conceives to be " a short but full description of a happy state in this world," and a fundamental basis for morality and learning. The formation of good habits and manners through proper training, and the proper adjustment of punishments and rewards next occupies his atten- tion, and he then explains his theory as to making all punishments the natural consequences of acts. Similarly the mind, as the body, must be disciplined to virtue by training the child to deny, subordinate desires, and apply reason to acts. The formation of good habits and the disciplining of the desires Locke regards as the foundations of virtue. On this point he says: As the Strength of the Body lies chiefly in being able to endure Hardship, so also does that of the Mind. And the great Principle and Foundation of all Virtue and Worth is plac'd in this : — That a Man is able to deny himself his own Desires, cross his own Inclinations, and purely follow what Reason directs as best, tho' the Appetite lean the other Way (§ t,^). Similarly, in intellectual education, good thinking and the em- ployment of reason is the aim, and these, too, must be attained through the proper disciphne of the mind. Good intellectual edu- cation does not consist merely in studying and learning, he con- tends, as was the common practice in the grammar schools of his time, but mu^t be achieved by a proper drilling of the powers of the mind through the use of selected studies. The purpose of education, he holds, is above all else to make man a reasoning creature. Nothing, in his judgment, trains to reason closely so well as the study of mathematics, though Locke would have his THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 435 boy "look into all sorts of knowledge," and train his understand- ing with a wide variety of exercises. In the education given in the grammar schools of his time he found much that seemed to him wasteful of time and thoroughly bad in principle, and he used much space to point out defects and describe better methods ol teaching and management, giving in some detail reasons there- for. His ideas as to needed reforms in the teaching of Latin (R. 227) are illustrative. Locke on elementary education. For the beginnings of educa- tion, and for elementary education in general, Locke sticks close to the prevaihng religious conception of his time. As for the edu- cation of the common people, he writes: The knowledge of the Bible and the business of his own calling is enough for the ordinary man; a Gentleman ought to go further. Continuing regarding the beginnings of education and the studies and textbooks of his day, he says: The Lord's Prayer, the Creeds, and the Ten Commandments, 't is necessary he should learn perfectly by heart. . . . What other Books there are in English of the Kind of those above-mentioned (besides the Primer) fit to engage the Liking of Children, and tempt them to read, 1 do not know; . . . and nothing that I know has been considered of this Kind out of the ordinary Road of the Horn Book, Primer, Psalter, Testament, and Bible (§ 157). Locke does, however, give some very sensible suggestions as to the reading of the Bible (R. 228), the imparting of rehgious ideas to children, and the desirabiUty of transforming instruction so as to make it pleasant and agreeable, with plenty of natural playful activity.^ On this point he writes: He that has found a Way how to keep up a Child's Spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to restrain him from many Things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to Things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education (§ 46). Influence of Locke's Thoughts. The volume by Locke con- tains much that is sensible in the matter of educating a boy. The 1 " Freedom and self-reliance, these are the watchwords of these two marvelously modern men (Montaigne and Locke). Expansion, real education, drawing out, widening out, that is the burden of their preaching; and voices in the wilderness theirs were! Narrowness, bigotry, flippancy, inertia, these were the rule until Rousseau's time, and even his voice was to fall upon deaf ears in England." (Mon- roe, Jas. P., Evolution of the Educational Ideal, p. 122.) 436 HISTORY OF EDUCATION emphasis on habit formation, reasoning, physical activities and play, the individuality of children, and a reformed method in teaching are its strong points. The thoroughly modern character of the book, in most respects, is one of its marked characteristics. The volume seems to have been much read by middle and upper- class Englishmen, and copies of it have been found in so many old colonial collections that it was probably well known among early eighteenth-century American colonists. That the book had an important influence on the attitude of the higher social classes of England toward the education of their sons and, consciously or unconsciously, in time helped to redirect the teaching in that most characteristic of English educational institutions, the Eng- lish Public (Latin Grammar) School, seems to be fairly clear. On elementary religious and charity-school education it had practi- cally no influence. Locke's great influence on educational thought did not come, though, for nearly three quarters of a century afterward, and it came then through the popularization of his best ideas by Rous- seau. Karl Schmidt ' well says of his work: Locke is a thorough Englishman, and the principle underlying his education is the principle according to which the English people have developed. Hence his theory of education has in the history of peda- gogy the same value that the English nation has in the history of the world. He stood in strong opposition to the scholastic and formalized education current in his time, a living protest against the prevailing pedantry; in the universal development of pedagogy he gives impulse to the movement which grounds education upon sound psychological principles, and lays stress upon breeding and the formation of char- acter. Restating and expanding the leading ideas of Locke in his Emile (chapter xxi), and putting them into far more attractive literary form, Rousseau scattered Locke's ideas as to educational reform over Europe, /in particular Rousseau popularized Locke's ideas as to the replacement of authority by reason and investiga- tion, his emphasis on physical activity and health, his contention that the education of children should be along lines that were natural and normal for children, and above all Locke's plea for education through the senses rather than the memory^ In so popularizing Locke's ideas, and at a time when all the political tendencies of the period were in the direction of the rejection of ^ Schmidt, Karl, Geschichte der Padagogik, translated in Barnard's American Journal jj Education. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 437 authority and the emphasis of the individual, those educational reformers who were inspired by the writings of Rousseau created and appKed, largely on the foundations laid down by John Locke, a new theory as to educational aims and procedure which domi- nated all early nineteenth-century instruction. This we shall trace further in a subsequent chapter (chapter xxi). It was at this point that the educational problem stood, in so far as a theory as to educational aims and the educational process was concerned, when Rousseau took it up (1762). Before passing to a consideration of his work, though, and the work of those in- spired by him and by the French revolutionary writers and states- men, let us close this third part of our history by a brief survey of the development so far attained, the purpose, character, aims, and nature of instruction in the schools, and their means of sup- port and control at about the middle of the century in which Rousseau wrote, and before the philosophical and political revolu- tions of the latter half of the eighteenth century had begun to in- fluence educational aims and procedure and control. II. MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS The purpose. The purpose of maintaining the elementary vern acula r school, in all European lands, remained at the middle of the eighteenth century much as it was a century before, though in the German States and in the American Colonies there was a noticeable shifting of emphasis from the older exclusively religious purpose toward a newer conception of education as preparation for life in the world here. Still, one learned to read chiefly ''to learn some orthodox Catechism," "to read fluently in the New Testament," and to know the will of God, or, as stated in the law of the Connecticut Colony (R. 193), "in some competent measure to understand the main grounds and principles of Christian re- ligion necessary to salvation." The teacher was still carefully looked after as to his "soundness in the faith" (R. 238 a); he was required "to catechise his scholars in the principles of the Chris- tian religion," and "to commend his labors amongst them unto God by prayer morning and evening,^ taking care that his scholars do reverently attend during the same." The minister in practi- cally all lands examined the children as to their knowledge of the Catechism and the Bible, and on his visits quizzed them as to the Sunday sermon. In Boston (17 10) the ministers were required, * Rules for the schools of Dorchester, Massachusetts. 438 HISTORY OF EDUCATION on their school visits, to pray with the pupils, and "to entertain them with some instructions of piety adapted to their age." In Church-of- England schools "the End and Chief Design" of the schools established continued to be instruction in " the Knowledge and Practice of the Christian Religion as Professed and Taught in the Church of Ehgland" (R. 238 b). In German lands the ele- mentary vernaci?lar school was still regarded as "the portico of the Temple," " (Jhristianity its principal work," and not as "mere establishments preparatory to pubhc life, but be pervaded by the I'eligious spirit." ' The uniform system of pubhc schools ordered .•established for Prussia by Frederick the Great, in 1763, were after ah httle more than religious schools (R. 274), conducted for pur- poses of both Church and State. As Frederick expressed it, "we find it necessary and wholesome to have a good foundation laid in the schools by a rational and a Christian education of the young for the fear of God, and other useful ends." In the schools of La Salle's organization, which was most prominent in elementary vernacular education in Catholic France, the aim continued to be (R. 182) "to teach them to live honestly and uprightly, by in- structing them in the principles of our holy religion and by teach- ing them Christian precepts." Weakening of the old religious theory. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, there is a noticeable weakening of the hold of the old religious theory on the schools in most Protes- tant lands. In England there was a marked relaxation of the old religious intolerance in educational matters as the century proceeded, and new textbooks, embodying but little of the old gloomy religious material, appeared and began to be used. By a series of decisions, between 1670 and 1701 (chapter xxiv), the English courts broke the hold of the bishops in the matter of the licensing of elementary schoolmasters, and by the Acts of 17 13 and 1 7 14 the Dissenters were once more allowed to conduct schools of their own. Coincident with this growth of religious tolerance among the English we find the Church of England re- doubling its efforts to hold the children of its adherents, by the organization of parish schools and the creation of a vast system of charitable religious schools. In German lands, too, a marked shifting of emphasis away from solely religious ends and toward the needs of the government began, toward the end of the eight- 1 Duke Eberhard Louis's Renewed Organization of the German School, 1720; re published 1782. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 439 eenth century, to be evident. In Wiirttemberg, which was some- what typical of late eighteenth-century action by other German States, a Circular of the General Synod, of November 1787, de- clares the German schools to be "those nurseries in which should be taught the true and genuine idea of the duties of men — cre- ated with a reasoning soul — ■ toward God, government, their fel- low-men, and themselves, and also at least the first rudiments of useful and indispensable knowledge." It was in the American Colonies, though, that the waning of the old religious interest was most notable. Due to rude frontier conditions, the decline in force of the old religious-town govern- ments, the diversity of sects, the rise of new trade and civil in- terests, and the breakdown of old-home connections, the hold on the people of the old religious doctrines was weakened .there ear- lier than in the old world. By 1750 the change in rehgious think- ing in America had become quite marked. As a consequence many of the earlier parochial schools had died out, while in the New England Colonies the colonial governments had been forced to exercise an increasing state oversight of the elementary school to keep it from dying out there as well. Studies and textbooks. The studies of the elementary vernac- ular school remained, throughout the whole of the eighteenth (' century, much as before, namely, reading, a httle writing and ciphering, some spelhng, rehgion, and in Teutonic countries a httle music. La Salle (R. 182) had prescribed, for the Cathohc vernacular schools of France, instruction in French, some Latin, "orthography, arithmetic, the matins and vespers, le Pater, TAve Maria, le Credo et le Confiteor, the Commandments, responses, Catechism, duties of a Christian, and maxims and precepts drawn from the Testament." The Catechism was to be taught one half- hour daily. The schoolbooks in England in Locke's day, as he tells us (p. 435), were "the Horn Book, Primer, Psalter, Testa- ment, and Bible." These indicate merely a reUgious vernacular school. The purpose stated for the EngHsh Church charity- schools (R. 238 b), schools that attained to large unportance in England and the American Colonies during the eighteenth cen- tury, shows them to have been, similarly, rehgious vernacular schools. The School Regulations which Frederick the Great promulgated for Prussia (1763), fixed the textbooks to be used (R. 274, § 20), and indicate that the instruction in Prussia was still restricted to reading, writing, religion, singing, and a little 440 arithmetic. Myp^ MmMEI Umnopqtjr «R»Xta«f|*2 IntOtiDamtofGODtte DtBrf ai^tt.tt!)Uf) art mDt«. , Dcti.Aaloto(u»< ouTtnCdaOis.a^ Dtt ttatmt tt)nn i|)at trttt«flr ^jilnSUtaitb Itabtui not into l««tij»tKin/Aot t>cuiitrbBfcan» po6Mr.«it>tf»»c.f« tbtT amm. HISTORY OF EDUCATION In colonial America, Noah Webster's description (R. 230) of the schools he attended in Con- necticut, about 1764-70, shows that the studies and textbooks were "chiefly or wholly Dilworth's Spelling Books, the Psalter, Testament, and Bible," with a little writing and ciphering. A few words of description of these older books may prove useful here. , The Horn Book. The Horn Book goes back to the close of the fifteenth cen- tury,^ and by the end of the sixteenth century was in common use throughout England. Somewhat similar alphabet boards, lacking the handle, were also used in Holland, France, and in Ger- man lands. This, a thin oak board on which was pasted a printed shp, cov- ex^d by translucent horn, was the book from which children learned their letters „ A TT T. and began to read, the mastery of which Fig. 130. A Horn Book ,, ^ . ' . -^ „ usually required some time. Lowper thus describes this little book: Neatly secured from being soiled or torn Beneath a pane of thin translucent horn, A book (to please us at a tender age 'T is called a book, though but a single page) Presents the prayer the Savior designed to teach, Which children use, and parsons — when they preach. The Horn Book was much used well into the eighteenth century, but its reading matter was in time incorporated into the school Primer, now evolved out of an earlier elementary religious man- ual. The Primer. Originally the child next passed to the Cate- chism and the Bible, but about the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury the Primer began to be used. The Primer in its original form was a simple manual of devotion for the laity, compiled 1 One of the earliest horn books known appears in the illuminated manuscript shown in Figure 44, which dates from 1503. The first definitely known horn book in England dates from 1587, while most of the specimens found in museums date from about the middle of the eighteenth century. As improvements or variations of the horn book, cardboard sheets and wooden squares, known as battledores, ap- peared after 1 770. On these the illustrated alphabet was printed. (See Tuer, A. W., History of the Horn Book, 2 vols., illustrated, London, 1886, for detailed descriptions.) THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 441 without any thought of its use in the schools. It contained the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and a few of the more commonly used prayers and psalms.^ The Catechism soon was added, and with the prefixing of the alphabet and a few syllables and words it was transformed, as schools arose, into the first reading book for children. There was at first no attempt at grading, illustration, or the introduction of easy reading material. About the close of the seventeenth century the illustrated Primer, with some attempt at grading and some additional subject-mat- ter, made its appearance, both in England and America, and at once leaped into great popularity. The idea possibly goes back to the Orbis Picius (1654) of Co- menius (p. 413: R. 221), the first illustrated schoolbook ever written. The first English Primer adapted to school use was The Protestant Tutor, a rather rabid anti-Catholic work which ap- peared in London, about 1685. A later edition of this contained the alphabet, some syllables and words, the figures and letters, the list of the books of the Bible, an alphabet of lessons, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and a poem, long famous, on the death of the martyr, John Rogers.^ It was an abridgement of this book which the same publisher brought out in Boston, about 1690, under the name of The New England Primer (R. 202). This at once leaped into great popularity, and became the accepted reading book in all the schools of the Ameri- can Colonies except those under the Church of England. For the next century and a quarter it was the chief school and reading book in use among the Dissenters and Lutherans in America. Schoolmasters drilled the children on the reading matter and the Catechism it contained, and the people recited from it yearly in the churches. It was also used for such spelling as was given. It was the first great American textbook success, and was still in use in the Boston dame schools as late as 1806. It was reprinted in England, and enjoyed a great sale among Dissenters there. Its sales in America alone have been estimated at least three million copies. The sale in Europe was also large. It was followed in ^ The diversity of religious primers which had grown up by 1565 led Henry VIII to cause to be issued a unified and official Primer, containing the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo, and the Ten Commandments. 2 The title-page of an edition of 1715 declares that edition to be: " The Protestant Tutor, instructing Youth and Others, in the compleat method of Spelling, Reading, and Writing True English: Also discovering to them the Notorious Errors, Damnable Doctrines, and cruel Massacres of the bloody Papists which England may expect from a Popish Successor." 44^ HISTORY OF EDUCATION England by other Primers and other introductory reading books, of which The History of Genesis (1708), a series of simple stories retold from the first book of the Bible, and The Child's Weeks- Work (17 1 2), containing proverbs, fables, conundrums, lessons on behavior, and a short catechism, are types. Frederick the Great, in his list of required textbooks for Prussian schools (R. 274, § 20), does not mention a Primer. The Catechism. In all Protestant German lands the Shorter Catechism prepared by Luther, or the later Heidelberg Cate- chism; in Calvinistic THE SHORTER CATECHISM, Agreed upon by the Reverend Assemble of Oi V 1 N E$ at Wtfttninfitt, Ojrntl A r U tU ehUf Eoa of Man P l^ A* Man's chief End i$ to gloriff God and tsjoy him forever. Q. IVhot Rule hcth C«dghtt) to diuB ut finx) \oe may gUtiff and enfcy him f /. The Word of God which is contained in the Strip*ure$of the Old and New Teftament, E« the onty rule to dired us boiv Ave in&) Storify trtdenjoj Him. Q. )Vhat d9 the Seripture^ principally f((ichf A, The Scirpiurci principally teach vwhat Man is lu believe coftcemlfigGod, and what Duty God requires of Man. Q, ffhai ii God t A* God lsa$p{rit„ Infinite, Eternal and Unchangesble, In his Being, Wifdomi PaV- H, Holincfs, JjOice, Goodnefs and Tnuh* Q* Art thtre more Godi than Oat f Fig. 131. The Westminster CATEcmsM (A page from The New England Primer, natural size) lands the Catechism of Calvin; and in England and the American Col- onies the Westminster Catechism/ formed the backbone of the rehgious instruction. Teachers drilled their pupils in these as thoroughly as on any other subject, writing masters set as copies sentences from the book, children were required to memorize the answers, and the doc- trines contained were emphasized by teacher and preacher so that the children were saturated with the rehgious ideas set forth. No book ex- cept the Bible did so much to form the char- acter, and none so much to fix the rehgious bias of the children. Ahnost equal importance was given to the Catechism in Catholic lands (R. 182, §§ 21-22), though there supplemented by more religious influences derived from the ceremonial of the Church. 1 This was compiled by the Westminster Assembly of Divines, called together by ParHament, in 1643, composed of 121 clergymen, 30 of the laity, and 5 special commissioners from Scotland. It held 1163 sessions, extending over six years, and framed the series of 107 questions and answers which appeared in the Primer as "The Shorter Catechism." THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 443 Spellers. The next step forward, in the transition from the re- ligious Primer to secular reading matter for school children, came in the use of the so-called Spellers. Probably the first of these was The English School-Master of Edmund Coote (R. 229), first is- sued in 1596. This gave thirty- two pages to the alphabet and spelling; eighteen to a shorter Cat- echism, prayers, and psalms; five to chronology ; two to writing cop- ies; two to arithmetic; and twenty to a list of hard words, alpha- betically arranged and explained. As will be seen from this analysis of contents, this was a schoolmas- ter's general manual and guide. After about 1740 such books be- came very popular, due to the publication that year of Thomas Dilworth's A New Guide to the English Tongue. This book con- tained, as the title-page (R. 229) declared, selected Hsts of words with rules for their pronunciation, a short treatise on grammar, a col- lection of fables with illustrations for reading, some moral selections, and forms of prayer for children Fig. 132. Thomas Dilworth (?-i78o) The most celebrated English text- book writer of his day. (From the Frontispiece of his School- master's Assistant, 1743) It became very popular in New as well as in old England, and was followed by a long line of imitators, culminating in America in the pubKcation of Noah Webster's famous blue-backed American Spelling Book, in 1783. This was after the plan of the Enghsh Dilworth, but was put in better teaching form. It contained numerous graded Hsts of words, some illustrations, a series of graded reading lessons, and was largely secular in character. It at once superseded the expir- ing New England Primer in most of the American cities, and contin- ued popular in the United States for more than a hundred years. ^ ^ So great was the sale of this book that the author was able to support his fam- ily, during the twenty years (1807-27) he was at work on his Dictwnary of the Eng- lish Language, entirely from the royalties from the Speller though the copyright re- turns were less than one cent a copy. At the time of his death (1843), the sales vere still approximately a million copies a year, and the book is still on sale. 444 HISTORY OF EDUCATION It was the second great American textbook success, and was followed by a long list of popular Spellers and Readers, leading up to the excellent secular Read- ers of the present day. Arithmetic and Writing. The first English Arithmetic, published about 1540 to 1542, has been en- tirely lost, and was probably read by few. The first to attain any popularity was Cocker's Arithmetic (1677), this "Being a Plain and Familiar Method suitable to the meanest Capacity, for the un- derstanding of that incomparable Art." A still more popular book was Arithmetick: or that Necessary Art Made Most Easie, by J. Hod- der, Writing Master, a reprint of which appeared in Boston, in 1 7 19. The first book written by an American author was Isaac Greenwood's Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, which appeared in Boston, in 1729. In 1743 appeared Dilworth's The Schoolmaster's Assistant, a book which retained its popularity in both England and America until after the beginning of the nineteenth century. No text in Arithmetic is mentioned in the School Regulations of Frederick the Great (R. 274, § 20), or in scarcely any of the de- scriptions left us of eighteenth-century schools. The study itself was common, but not universal, and was one that many teachers were not competent to teach. To possess a reputation as an " arithmeticker " was an important recommendation for a teacher, while for a pupil to be able to do sums in arithmetic was unusual, and a matter of much pride to parents. The subject was fre- quently taught by the writing master, in a separate school,^ while the reading teacher confined himself to reading, spelling, and re- ligion. Thus, for example, following earlier English practice, the Town Meeting of Boston, in 1789, ordered ''three reading schools ^ In Nuremberg, as an example of German practice, the guild of writing and arithmetic masters continued, throughout all of the eighteenth century, and even into the nineteenth, as an organization separate from that of other types of te&chers. Fig. 133. Frontispiece to Noah Webster's "American Spelling Book" This is from the 1827 edition, reduced one third in size. THEORY AND ^^RACTICE BY 1750 445 and three writing schools established in the town" for the in- struction of children between the ages of seven and fourteen, the subjects to be taught in each being: The reading schools Spelling Accentuation Reading of prose and verse English grammar and composition The writing scJwols Writing Arithmetic HOLDER'S ARITHMETICK OR. THAT NecefTaryART Made Moft Eafie ; Being explain 'd in a-Wiy familiar to the Capacity of any that de- fire to learn it in a little Time. By J. Hodder, Wiiting-Maftcr. 7X. atom ani ^tooitietl) C»itioa, «£ The teacher might or might not possess an arithmetic of his own, but the instruction to the pupil was practically always dictated and copied instruction. Each pupil made up his own book of rules and solved problems, and few pupils ever saw a printed arithmetic. Many of the early arithmetics were prepared after the catechism plan. There was almost no attempt to use the subject for drill in reasoning or to give a concrete type of instruction, before about the middle of the eigh- teenth century,^ and but Httle along such reform hues was accomplished until after the beginning of the nine- teenth century. Writing, similarly, was taught by dictation and practice, and the art of the "scrivener," as the writing master was called, was one thought to be difficult to learn. The lack of prac- tical value of the art, the high cost of paper, and the necessity usually for special lessons, all alike tended to make writing a much less commonly known art than reading. Fees also were frequently charged for instruction in writing and arithmetic; reading, spelling, and religion being the only free subjects. The scrivener and the arithmetic teacher also frequently moved about, ^ Francke, in his Institutions at Halle (p. 418), had tried to develop a number- toncept, and apply the teaching. In the Braunschweig-Liineburg school decree of 1737 appeared directions for beginning number work by counting the fingers, apples, etc., and basing the multiplication table on addition. A few German writers during the eighteenth century suggested better instruction; Basedow (chapter xxii) tried to institute reform in the teaching of the subject^ but it was left for Pestalozzi ^chapter xxi) to give the first real impetus to the rational teaching of the subiect, By William Hume, Philomalh. LO S D ON: PKnted lor D. Midwuittr, A Btt'^-.'Xna. anj C.JiitJi. R.fUmJln. A.hfarJ, J. J-Claikc, in tiuJl-Une. 1739. \- Fig. 134. Title-Page of Hodder's Arithmetic An early reprint of this famous book appeared in Boston in 1 7 19. 446 HISTORY OF EDUCATION as business warranted, and was not fixed as was the teacher of the reading school. / The teachers. The development of the vernacular school was retarded not only by the dominance of the religious purpose of the school, but by the poor quaHty of teachers found everywhere iii the schools. The evolution of the elementary-school teacher of to-day out of the church sexton, bell-ringer, or grave-digger,^ or out of the artisan, cripple, or old dame who added school teaching to other employment in order to live, forms one of the interesting as well as one of the yet-to-be-written chapters in the history of the evolution of the elementary school. Teachers in elementary schools everywhere in the eighteenth century were few in number, poor in quality, and occupied but a lowly position in the social scale. School dames in England (R. 235) and later in the American Colonies, and on the continent of Europe teachers who were more sextons, choristers, beadles, bell-ringers, grave-diggers, shoemakers, tailors, barbers, pension- ers, and invalids than teachers, too often formed the teaching body for the elementary vernacular school (Rs. 231, 232, 233). In Switzerland, the Netherlands, and some of the American Colo- nies, where schools had become or were becoming local semi-civic affairs, the standards which might be imposed for teaching also were low. The grant of the tailoring monopoly to the elementary teachers of Prussia,^ in 1738, and Kriisi's recollections of how he became a schoolmaster in Switzerland, in 1793 (R. 234), were quite typical of the time. In Catholic France, and in some German Catholic lands as well, teaching congregations (p.345), someof whose members had some rudimentary training for their work, were in charge of the existing parish schools. These provided a some- what better type of teaching body than that frequently found in Protestant lands, though by the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury the beginnings of teacher-training are to be seen in some of the German States. The Church of England, too, had by this ^ Such offices were not considered in any sense as degrading, and the attaching of the new duty of instructing the young of the parish in reading and religion dignified still more the other church office. As schools grew in importance there was a grad- ual shifting of emphasis, and finally a dropping of the earlier duties. Many early school contracts in America (Rs. 105; 236) called for such church duties on the part of the parish teacher. See also footnote, p. 370. 2 In 1722 country schoolmasters in Prussia were ordered selected from tailors, weavers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and carpenters, and in 1738 they were granted the tailoring monopoly in their villages, to help them to live. Later Frederick the Great ordered that his crippled and superannuated soldiers should be given teaching positions in the elementary vernacular schools of Prussia. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 447 Fig. 135. A "Christian Brothers" School La Salle teaching at Grenoble. Note the adult type of dress of the boys. time organized strong Societies ^ for the preparation of teachers for Church-of-England schools, both at home and abroad. In Dutch, German, and Scandinavian lands, and in colonies founded by these people in America, the parish school, closely tied up with and depen- 'l^^^^^Mk^^^^^^r dent upon the parish church, was the prevaiHng type of vernacular school, and in this the teacher was regarded as essentially an assistant to the pastor (R. 236) and the school as a depend- ency of the Church. In England, in addition to regular parish schools and endowed element- ary schools, three peculiar institutions, known as the Dame School, the reli- gious charity-school, and the private- adventure or ''hedge school" had grown up, and the first two of these had reached a marked development by the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury. Because these were so charac- teristic of early EngHsh educational effort, and also played such an important part in the American Colonies as well, they merit a few words of description at this point. The Dame School. The Dame School arose in England after the Reformation. By means of it the increasing desire for a rudi- mentary knowledge of the art of reading could be satisfied, and at the same time certain women could earn a pittance. This type of school was carried early to the American Colonies, and out of it was in time evolved, in New England, the American elementary school. The Dame School was a very elementary school, kept in a kitchen or living-room by some woman who, in her youth, had obtained the rudiments of an education, and who now desired .to earn a small stipend for herself by imparting to the children of her neighborhood her small store of learning. For a few pennies a week the dame took the children into her home and explained to them the mysteries connected with learning the beginnings of reading and spelling. Occasionally a little writing and counting 1 The "Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge," organized in 1600 to aid the Church and provide schools at home, and the "Society for the Propaga- tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," organized in 1702 to supply ministers and teach- ers for churches and schools in the English colonies. 448 HISTORY OF EDUCATION also were taught, though not often in England. In the American Colonies the practical situations of a new country forced the em- ployment as teachers of women who could teach all three sub- jects, thus early creating the American school of the so-called "3RS" — "Reading, Riting, Rithmetic." The Dame School ap- FiG 136 An English Dame School (From a drawing of a school in the heart of London, after Barclay) pears so frequently in English literature, both poetry and prose, that it must have played a very important part in the beginnings of elementary education in England. Of this school Shenstone (1714-63) writes (R. 235): In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame. The Reverend George Crabbe (1754-1832), another poet of homely life, writes (R. 235) of a deaf, poor, patient widow who sits And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives who pay. Some trifling price for freedom through the day. This school flourished greatly in America during the eighteenth century, but with the coming of Infant Schools, early in the nine- THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 449 teenth, was merged into these to form the American Primary School. The religious charity-school. Another thoroughly characteris- tic English institution was the church charity-school. The first of these was founded in WTiitechapel, London, in 1680. In 1699, when the School of Saint Anne, Soho (R. 237), was founded by "Five Earnest Laymen for the Poore Boys of the Parish," it was the sixth of its kind in England. In 1699 the ''Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge" (S.P.C.K.) was founded for the purpose, among other things, of establishing catechetical schools for the education of the children of the poor in the princi- ples of the Established Church (R. 238 b). In 1701 the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" (S.P.G.) was also founded to extend the work of the Anglican Church Fig. 137. Gravel Lane Charity-School, Southwark Founded in 1687, and one of the earliest of the Non-Conformist English charity- schools. Still carrying on its work in the original schoolroom at the time this picture appeared, in Londina lUustrata, in 1819. abroad, supply schoolmasters and ministers, and establish schools, to train children to read, write, know and understand the Cate- chism, and fit into the teachings and worship of the Church. To develop piety and help the poor to lead industrious, upright, self-respecting lives, "to make them loyal Church members, 450 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and to fit them for work in that station of life in which it had pleased their Heavenly Father to place them," were the prin- cipal objects of the Society. All were taught reading, spelling, and the Cat- echism, and instruction in writing and arithmetic might be added. The training might also be coupled with that of the ''schools of industry" (workhouse schools, as described by Locke [R. 217]) to augment the economic efficiency of the boy. Girls seem to have been provided for al- most equally with boys, and, in addition to being- taught to read and spell, were taught "to knit their Stockings and Gloves, to Mark, Sew, and make and mend their Cloathes." Both boys and girls were usually provided with books and cloth- ing,^ a regular uniform being worn by the boys and girls of each school. The chief motive in the establishment of these schools, though, was to decrease the "Prophaness and Debauchery . . . owing to a gross Igno- rance of the Christian ReHgion" (R. 237) and to educate "Poor Children in the Rules and Principles of the Christian Religion as professed and taught in the Church of England." Writ- ing, in 1742, Reverend Griffith Jones, an organizer for the S.P.C.K. in Wales, said: It is but a cheap education that we would desire for them [the poorj, only the moral and religious branches of it, which indeed is the most necessary and indispensable part. The sole design of this charity is to inculcate upon such ... as can be prevailed upon to learn, the knowl- edge and practice, the principles and duties of the Christian religion ; and to make them good people, useful members of society, faithful servants of God, and men and heirs of eternal life. These schools multiplied rapidly ard soon became regular in- stitutions, as the following table, showing the growth of the S.P.C.K. schools in London alone, shows: ^ In 1704 the ordinary charge in London for a *' School of 50 Boys Cloathed comes to about £75 per Annum, for which a School-Room, Books, and Firing are provided, a Master paid, and to each Boy is given yearly, 3 Bands, i Cap, i Coat, i Pair of Stockings, and one Pair of Shooes." A girls' school of the same size cost £60 per annum, which paid for the room, books, mistress, fixing and oroviding each girl with " 2 Coyfs, 2 Bands, i Gown and Petticoat, i Pair of knit Gloves, i Pair of Stockings, and 2 Pair of Shooes." Fig. 138. A Charity- ScHOOL Girl IN Uniform Saint Anne's, Soho, England THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 451 Year Schools Boys Girls Total 1699 1704 54 1386 745 2131 1709 88 2181 1221 3402 1714 117 3077 1741 4818 In England and Ireland combined the Society had, by 17 14, a total of 1073 schools, with 19,453 pupils enrolled, and by 1729 the number had increased to 1658, with approx- imately 34,000 pupils. From England the charity-school idea was early carried to the Anglican Colonies in America and became a ^ed institution in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mar^dand, and somewhat in the Colonies farther south. In the Pennsylvania constitution of 1790 we find the following directions for the establishment of a state charity-school system to supplement the par- ish schools of the churches: Sec. I. The legislature shall, as soon as con- veniently may be, provide, by law, for the estab- lishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis. Fig. 139. A Charity-School Boy in Uniform Saint Anne's, Soho, England This was a school The first Pennsylvania school law of 1802 carried this direction into effect by providing for pauper schools in the counties, a condi- tion that was not done away with until 1834. In New Jersey the system lasted until 1838. The private-adventure, or " hedge," school, analogous to the Dame School, but was kept by a man instead of a woman, and usually at his home or shop. Plate 15, showing a shoe cobbler teaching, represents one type of such schools. The term ''hedge schools" arose in Ireland, where teaching was for- bidden the Cathohcs, and secret schools arose in which priests and others taught what was possible. Of these McCarthy writes: ^ On the highways and on the hillsides, in ditches and behind hedges, in the precarious shelter of the ruined walls of some ancient abbey, or under the roof of a peasant's cabin, the priests set up schools and taught the children of their race. The term soon came to be applied to any kind of a poor school, taught in an irregular manner or place. Similar irregular schools. ^ McCarthy, Justin H., Ireland since the Union, p. 13. 452 HISTORY OF EDUCATION under equivalent names, also were found in German lands/ the Netherlands, and in France, while in the American Colonies "in- dentured white servants" were frequentty let out as schoolmas- ters. The following advertisement of a teacher for sale is typical of private-adventure elementary school- keeping during the colo- To Be DISPOSED of, A Likely Servant Mans Time for 4 Years who is very well Qualified for a Clerk or to teach a School, he Reads, Writes, underftands Arithmetick aod Accompts very well, Enquire of thePrioecr hereof. Fig. 140. Advertisement for a Teacher to Let (From the American Weekly Mercury of Philadelphia, 1735) nial period. These schools were taught by itinerant school-keep- ers, artisans, and tutors of the poorer type, but offered the begin- nings of elementary education to many a child who otherwise would never have been able to learn to read. In the early eight- eenth century these schools attained a remarkable development in England. A new influence of tremendous future importance — general reading — was now coming in; the vernacular was fast supplant- ing Latin ; newspapers were being started ; little books or pam- phlets (tracts) containing general information were being sold; books for children and beginners were being written; the popular novel and story had appeared; - and all these educative forces were creating a new and a somewhat general desire for a knowl- edge of the art of reading. This in turn caused a new demand for schools to teach the long-locked-up art, and this demand wai capitalized to the profit of many types of people. The apprenticing of orphans and children of the poor. The compulsory apprenticing of the children of the poor, as we have seen (p. 326), was an old English institution, and workhouse train- ing, or the so-called "schools of industry," became, by the eight- eenth century, a prominent feature of the EngHsh care of the poor. These represented the only form of education supported ^ Frederick the Great, in the General School Regulations issued in 1763 (R. 274, § 15), strictly prohibited the keeping of "hedge schools" in the towns and rural dis- tricts of Prussia. 2 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678,) Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), and Gulliver's Travels (1726). The publication of these tremendously stimulated the desire to read. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 453 by taxation, and the only form of education to which Parliament gave any attention during the whole of the eighteenth centur}^ This type of institution also was carried to the Anglican Colo- nies in America, as we have seen in the documents for Virginia (R. 200 a), and became an established institution in America as well. The apprenticing of boys to a trade, a still older institution, was also much used as a means for training youths for a life in the trades, not only in England and the American Colonies, but throughout all European lands as well. The conditions surround- ing the apprenticing of a boy had by the eighteenth century be- come quite fixed. The " Indenture of Apprenticeship " was drawn up by a lawyer, and by it the master was carefully bound to clothe and feed the boy, train him properly in his trade, look after his morals, and start him in Hfe at the end of his apprenticeship. This is well shown in the many records which have been preserved, both in England (R. 242) and the American Colonies (R. 201). For many boys this t^-pe of education was the best possible at the time, and worthily started the possessor in the work of his trade. In the eighteenth century different English church parishes be- gan to set up workhouse schools of various types, and to maintain these out of parish "rates." The one established in Bishopsgate Street, London, in 1701, is typical. This cared for about 375 children and in it, by 1720, there had been educated and placed forth 1420 children, and in addition 123 had died. Of this school it is recorded that poor children "being taken into the said Workhouse are there taught to Read and Write, and kept to Work until they are qualified to be put out to be Apprentices, and for the Sea Service, or otherwise disposed; . . . The Habit of the Children is all the same, being made of Russit Cloth, and a round Badge worn upon their Breast, representing a poor Boy, and a Sheep; the Motto: ' God's Providence is our Inheritance.' "... In this worldiouse children were "taught to spin Wool and Flax, to Sow and Knit, to make their own Cloaths, Shoes, and Stockings, and the like Employments ; to inure them betimes to labour. They are also taught to read, and such as are capable, to write and cast Accounts; and also the Catechism, to ground them in Principles of Religion and Honesty." ^ The school established by Saint John's parish, Southwark, Lon- don, in 1735, and designed to train and "put out" girls for domes- tic service (R. 241), and which cared for, clothed, and trained forty girls, is also typical of these parish schools "for the children of the industrious poor." ^ Strype, John, Stowe's Survey of London, 1720; bk. i, pp. 199, 201-02. 454 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Methods of instruction. Throughout the eighteenth century the method of instruction commonly employed in the vernacular schools was what was known as the individual method. This wa*:" wasteful of both time and effort, and unpedagogical to a high de- gree (R. 244). Everywhere the teacher was engaged chiefly in hearing recitations, testing memory, and keeping order. The pupils came to the master's desk, one by one (see Figures 98, 99), and recited what they had memorized. Aside from imposing dis- cipline, teaching was an easy task. The pupils learned the as- signed lessons and recited what they had learned. Such a thing as methodology — ■ technique of instruction — was unknown. The dominance of the religious motive, too, precluded any liberal attitude in school instruction, the individual method was time- consuming, school buildings often were lacking, and in general there was an almost complete lack of any teaching equipment, books, or suppHes. Viewed from any modern standpoint the schools of the eighteenth century attained to but a low degree of efficiency (R. 244). The school hours were long, the schoolmas- ter's residence or place of work or business was commonly used as a schoolroom, and such regular schoolrooms as did exist were dirty and noisy and but poorly suited to school purposes. Schools everywhere, too, were ungraded, the school of one teacher being like that of any other teacher of that class. So wasteful of time and effort was the individual method of in- struction that children might attend school for years and get only a mere start in reading and writing. Paulsen,^ writing of schools in German lands at an even later date, says that even in the better type of vernacular schools many children never achieved anything beyond a little reading anc knowing a few things by heart. . . . The instruction in reading was never anything else but a torture, protracted through years, from saying the alphabet and formation of syllables to the deciphering of complete words, without any real success in the end, while writing was nothing but a wearisome tracing of the letters, the net result of all the toil being the gabbling of the Catechism and a few Bible texts and hymns, learned over and over again. The imparting of information by the teacher to a class, or a class discussion of a topic, were almost unknown. Hearing lessons, assigning new tasks, setting copies, making quill pens, dictating sums, and imposing order completely absorbed the time and the attention of the teacher. ' Paulsen, Friedrich, German Education, p. 141. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 455 School discipline. The discipline everywhere was severe. "A boy has a back; when you hit it he understands," was a favorite pedagogical maxim of the time. Whipping-posts were sometimes set up in the schoolroom, and practically riiM all pictures of the schoolmasters of the time show a bundle of switches near at hand. Boys in the Latin grammar schools were flogged for petty offenses (R. 245). The abihty to impose order on a poorly taught and, in consequence, an unruly school was always an impor- FiG. 141. A School WfflPPING-POST Drawn from a picture of a five- foot whipping-post which once stood in the floor of a school- house at Sunderland, Massa- chusetts. Now in the Deerfield Museum. tant requisite of the schoolmaster. A Swab- ian schoolmaster, Hau- berle by name, with characteristic Teutonic attention to details, has left on record ^ that, in the course of his fifty- one years and seven months as a teacher he had, by a moder- ate computation, given 911,527 blows with a cane, 124,010 blows with a rod, 20,989 blows and raps with a ruler, ' Barnard, Henry. Trans- lated from Karl von Raumer; in his American Journal of Education, vol. v, p. 509. Fig. 142. An Eighteenth-Century German School Reproduction of an engraving by J. Mettenleiter, now in the Kupferstichkabinet, Munich, and printed in Joh. Ferd. Schlez's Dorfschulen zu Langenhausen. Nuremberg, 1795. 456 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 136,715 blows with the hand, 10,235 blows over the mouth, 7,905 boxes on the ear, 1,115,800 raps on the head, and 22,763 nolabenes with the Bible, Catechism, singing book, and grammar. He had 777 times made boys kneel on peas, 613 times on a triangu- lar piece of wood, had made 3001 wear the jackass, and 1707 hold the rod up, not to mention various more unusual punishments he had contrived on the spur of the occasion. Of the blows with the cane, 800,000 were for Latin words; of the rod 76,000 were for texts from the Bible or verses from the singing book. He also had- about 3000 expressions to scold with, two thirds of which were native to the German tongue and the remainder his invention. Another illustration of German school discipline, of many that might be cited, was the reform work of Johann Ernest Christian Haun, who was appointed, in 1783, as inspector of schools in the once famous Gotha (p. 317). Due to warfare and neglect the schools there had fallen into disrepute. Haun drove the incapa- ble teachers from the work, and for a time restored the schools to something of their earlier importance. Among other reforms it is recorded that he forbade teachers to put irons around the boys' necks, to cover them with mud, to make them kneel on peas, or to brutally beat them. Diesterweg (R. 244) describes similar pun- ishments as characteristic of eighteenth-century German schools. The eighteenth-century German schoolmaster shown in Fig. 142 was probably a good sample of his class. Pedagogical writers of the time uniformly complain of the se- vere discipline of the schools, and the literature of the period abounds in allusions to the prevailing harshness of the school dis- cipline. A few writers condemn, but most approve heartily of the use of the rod. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" had for long been a well-grounded pedagogical doctrine. Among many literary extracts that might be cited illustrating this belief, the following poem by the Enghsh poet Crabbe (1754-1832) is interesting. He puts the following words into the mouth of his early schoolmaster: Students like horses on the road, Must be well lashed before they take the load; They may be willing for a time to run, But you must whip them ere the work be done; To tell a boy, that if he will improve. His friends will praise him, and his parents love, Is doing nothing — he has not a doubt But they will love him, nay, applaud without; Let no fond sire a boy's ambition trust, To make him study, let him learn he must. THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 457 Conditions surrounding childhood. It is difficult for us of to- day to re-create in imagination the pitiful life-conditions which surrounded children a century and a half ago. Often the lot of the children of the poor, who then constituted the great bulk of all children, was little less than slavery. Wretchedly poor, dirty, unkempt, hard- worked, beaten about, knowing strong drink early, ilHterate, often vicious — their lot was a sad one. For the children of the poor there were few, if any, educational opportuni- ties. Writing on the subject David Salmon says: ^ The imagination of the twentieth century cannot fathom the pov- erty of the eighteenth. The great development of mines and manu- factures, which has brought ease and independence within the reach of industrious labour everywhere, had hardly begun ; employment was so scarce and intermittent, and wages were so low, that the working classes lived in hovels, dressed in rags, and were familiar with the pangs of hunger; while those who were forced to look to the rates for hovels, rags, and food sufficient to maintain a miserable life numbered a sixth of the whole population. In the towns children were apprenticed out early in life, and for long hours of daily labor. Child welfare was almost entirely neg- lected, children were cuffed about and beaten at their work, Juve- nile dehnquency was a common condition, child mortahty was heavy, and ignorance was the rule. Schools generally were pay institutions or a charity, and not a birthright, and usually existed only for the middle and lower-middle classes in the population who were attendants at the churches and could afford to pay a little for the schooling given. Reading and rehgion were usually the only free subjects. Only in the New England Colonies, where the beginnings of town and colony school systems were evident, and in a few of the German States where state control was begin- ning to be exercised, was a better condition to be found. Among the middle and upper social classes, particularly on the continent of Europe, a stiff artificiaHty everywhere prevailed. Children were dressed and treated as miniature adults, the normal activities of childhood were suppressed, and the natural interests and emotions of children found little opportunity for expression. Wearing powdered and braided hair, long gold-braided coats, em- broidered waistcoats, cockaded hats, and swords, boys were treated more as adults than as children. Girls, too, with their long dresses, hoops, powdered hair, rouged faces, and demure ^ Salmon, David, " The Education of the Poor in the Eighteenth Century " ; in Educational Record, London, 1908. 458 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig, 143. Children as Miniature Adults Children leaving school, from an eighteenth-century drawing by Saint Aubin. manner, were trained in a, for children, most unnatural man- ner.^ The dancing master for their manners and graces, and the religious instructor to develop in them the ability to read and to go through a largely, meaningless ceremonial, were the chief guides for the period of their childhood. 1 "If you would comprehend the success of Rousseau's Emile, call to mind the children we have described, the embroidered, gilded, dressed-up, powdered little gentlemen, decked with sword and sash, . . . alongside of these, little ladies of six years, still more artificial, — so many veritable dolls to which rouge is applied, and with which a mother amuses herself for an hour and then consigns them to tier maids for the rest of the day. This mother reads Entile. It is not surprising that she immediately strips the poor little thing (of its social harness of whalebone, iron, and hair) and determines to nurse her next child herself." (Taine, H. A., The Ancient Regime, vo'. 11, p. 273.) THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 459 School support. No uniform plan, in any country, had as yet been evolved for even the meager support which the schools of the time received. The Latin grammar schools were in nearly all cases supported by the income from old "foundations" and frorr students' fees, with here and there some state aid; The new ele- mentary vernacular schools, though, had had assigned to them few old foundations upon which to draw for maintenance, and in consequence support for elementary schools had to be built up from new sources, and this required time. In England the Act of Conformity of 1662 (R. 166), it will be remembered (p. 324), had laid a heavy hand on the schools by driving all Dissenters from positions in them, and the Five-Mile Act of 1665 had borne even more severely on the teachers in the schools of the Dissenters. Fortunately for elementary education in England, however, the Enghsh courts, in 1670, had decided in a test case that the teacher in an elementary school could not be de- prived of his position by failure of the bishop to license him, if he were a nominee of the founder or the lay patron of the school. The result of this decision was that, between 1660 and 1730, 905 endowed elementary schools were founded in England, and 72 others previously founded had their endowments increased. The number continued to increase throughout the eighteenth century, and by 1842 had reached a total of 2194. These new foundations probably gave the best schooling of the time, and tended to stir the Estabhshed Church to action. Accordingly we find that dur- ing the eighteenth century the vestries of the different church parishes began the creation of parish elementary schools for the children of the poor of the parish, supporting a teacher for them out of the parish rates, and without specific legal authorization to do so. These new parish schools also contributed somewhat to the provision of elementary education, and mark the beginning of the church "voluntary schools" which were such a characteristic feature of nineteenth-century English education. We thus have, in England, endowed elementary schools, parish schools, dame schools, private- adventure schools of many types, and charity- schools, all existing side by side, and drawing such support as they could from endowment funds, parish rates, church tithes, subscriptions, and tuition fees. The support of schools by sub- scription lists (R. 240) was a very common proceeding. Educa- tion in England, more than in any other Protestant land, early came to be regarded as a benevolence which the State was under 46o HISTORY OF EDUCATION no obligation to support. Only workhouse schools were provided for by the general taxation of all property. In the Netherlands and in German lands church funds, town funds, and tuition fees were the chief means of support, though here and there some prince had provided for something approach- ing state support for the schools of his little principahty. Fred- erick the Great had ordered schools established generally (1763) and had decreed the compulsory attendance of children (R. 274), but he had depended largely on church funds and tuition fees (§7) for maintenance, with a proviso that the tuition of poor and or- phaned children should be paid from "any funds of the church or town, that the schoolmaster may get his income " (§8). In Scot- land the church parish school was the prevailing type. In France / the religious societies (p. 345) provided nearly all the elementary y \^ vernacular religious education that was obtainable. In the Dutch Provinces, in the New England Colonies, and in some of the minor German States, we find the clearest examples of the beginnings of state control and maintenance of elementary schools — something destined to grow rapidly and In the nine- teenth century take over the school from the Church and main- tain it as a function of the State. The Prussian kings early made grants of land and money for endowment funds and support, and state aid was ordered granted by Maria Theresa for Austria (R. 274 a), in 1774. In the New England Colonies the separation of the school from the Church, and the beginnings of state support and control of education, found perhaps their earliest and clearest exemplification. In the other Colonies the lottery was much used (R. 246) to raise funds for schools, while church tithes, sub- scription lists, and school societies after the English pattern also helped in many places to start and support a school or schools. Only by some such means was it possible in the eighteenth cen- tury that the children of the poor could ever enjoy any opportuni- ties for education. The parents of the poor children, themselves uneducated, could hardly be expected to provide what they had never come to appreciate themselves. On the other hand, few of the well-to-do classes felt under any obligation to provide educa- tion for children not their own. There was as yet no realization that the diffusion of education contributed to the welfare of the State, or that the ignorance of the masses might be in any way a public peril. This attitude is well shown for England by the fact that not a single law relating to the education of the people, aside THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 461 from workhouse schools, was enacted by Parliament during the whole of the eighteenth century. The same was true of France until the coming of the Revolution. It is to a few of the German States and to the American Colonies that we must turn for the beginnings of legislation directing school support. This we shall describe more in detail in later chapters. The Latin Secondary School. The great progress made in edu- cation during the eighteenth century, nevertheless,- was in ele- mentary education. Concerning the secondary schools and the universities there is little to add to what has previously been said. During this century the secondary school, outside of German lands, remained largely stationary. Having become formal and Hfeless in its teaching (p. 283), and in England and France crushed by religious-uniformity legislation, the Latin grammar school of England and the surviving colleges in France practically ceased to exert any influence on the national Kfe. The Jesuit schools, which once had afforded the best secondary education in Europe, had so declined in usefulness everywhere that they were about to be driven from all lands. The Act of Conformity of 1 662 (R. 166) had dealt the grammar schools of England a heavy blow, and the eighteenth century found them in a most wretched condi- tion, with few scholars, and their endowments shamefully abused. The Law of 1662, says Montmorency, "involved such a peering into the lives of schoolmasters, such a course of inquisitorial folly, that the position became intolerable. Men would not become schoolmasters. . . . Education had no meaning when none but poUtical and religious hypocrites were allowed to teach. . . . Na- tional education was destroyed," and the grammar schools of England were "practically withdrawn during more than two cen- turies (1662-1870) from the national life." ^ In German lands the old Latin schools continued largely un- changed until near the middle of the eighteenth century, with Latin, taught as it had been for a century or more, as the chief subject of study. Shortly after the coming of Frederick the Great to the throne (1740) the Latin schools of Prussia, and after them the Latin schools in other German States, were reorganized and given a new Hfe. The influence of Francke's school at Halle (p. 418), and the new types of teaching developed there and by his followers elsewhere, began to be felt. German, French, and mathematics were given recognition, and some science work was ^ Montmorency, J. E. G. de., The Progress of Education in England, pp. 46, 50. 462 HISTORY OF EDUCATION here and there introduced. Above all, though, Greek now at- tained to the place of first importance in the reorganized Latin schools. It was not until after 1 740 that the German people awakened to the possibility of an independent national life. Then, under the new impulse toward nationality, French influence and man- ners were thrown off, German Uterature attained its Golden Age, the Ritterakademieen (p. 405) were discarded, and a number of the German Principalities and States revised their school regula- tions and erected, out of the old Latin schools, a series of human- istic gymnasia in which the study of Greek life and culture occu- pied the foremost place. New methods in classical study were tliought out and appHed, and a new pedagogical purpose — ■ cul- ture and discipHne — was given to the regenerated Latin schools. A new Renaissance, in a way, took place in German lands, ^ and a knowledge of Greek was proclaimed by German university and gymnasial teachers as indispensable to a liberal education with an earnestness of conviction not exceeded by Battista Guarino (p. 268) four centuries before. To know Greek and to have some familiarity with Greek literature and history now came to be re- garded as necessary to the highest culture,^ and a pedagogical theory for such study was erected, based on the discipline of the mind,^ which dominated the German classical school throughout the entire nineteenth century. It was in the eighteenth century 1 A change now took place in the intellectual life of Germany: "The nation began to make itself independent of French influence. In literature Klopstock and Lessing broke the fetters of French classicism. An ardent desire for a deeper culture peculiar to the German people asserted itself. But the soil of the national life was too poor in genus for a purely German culture, hence scholars looked for new models and found them in classical antiquity. The ancient authors became again the mas- ters of culture and taste; with this difference, though, that it was not desired to learn how to express their thoughts as well as the learner's thoughts in Latin, but to become familiar with their manner of thinking and feeling, for the purpose of en- larging and ennobling German thought and speech. From this standpoint Greek, on account of ) its more valuable literature, assumed a higher importance, and, by degrees, a superiority over Latin." (Nohle, E., History of the Gertnan School Sys- tem, pp. 48-49.) 2 "If any one be destined for a studious career, let him not shirk his Greek les- sons, inasmuch as he would thereby suffer irretrievable loss. ... He who reads the classic writers, studying mathematical reasoning at the same time, trains his mind to distinguish what is true or false, beautiful or unsightly, fills his memory with manifold fine thoughts, attains skill in grasping the ideas of others as well as in fluently expressing his own, acquires a number of excellent maxims for the improve- ment of the understanding and the will, and thus learns by practice nearly all that a good compendium of philosophy could teach him in systematic order and dog- matic form." (School Regulations for Braunschweig-Liineburg, of 1737.) * "Be assured that if you forget your Greek, yes, even your Latin too, you still have the advantage of having given your mind a training and discipHne that will ga with you into your future occupation." (Friedrich Gedike, 1 755-1803.) THEORY AND PRACTICE BY 1750 463 Fig. 144. A Pennsylvania Academy York Academy, York, Pennsylvania, founded by the Protestant Episcopal Church, in 1787. also that the German States began the development of the scien- tific secondary school (Realschule) , see p. 420, as described in a preceding chapter. Rise of the Academy in America. As we have seen (p. 361), the English Latin grammar school was early (1635) carried to New England, and set up there and elsewhere in the Colonies, but after the close of the seventeenth century its continued main- tenance was something of a struggle. Particularly in the central and southern colonies, where commercial demands early made themselves felt, the tendency was to teach more practical subjects. This tend- ency led to the evolution, about the middle of the eighteenth century, of the distinctively American Academy, with a more practical curriculum, and by the close of the century it was rapidly superseding the older Latin grammar school. Frank- lin's Academy at Philadelphia, which began instruction in 1751, and which later evolved into the University of Pennsylvania, was probably the first American Academy. The first in Massachu- setts was founded in 1761, and by 1800 there were seventeen in Massachusetts alone. The great period of academy develop- ment was the first half of the nineteenth century. The Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, founded in 1788, re- veals clearly the newer purpose of these American secondary schools. The foundation grant of this school gives the purpose to be: to lay the foundation of a pubhc free school or ACADEMY for the purposes of instructing Youth, not only in English and Latin Gram- mar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are com- monly taught; but more especially to learn them the GREAT END AND REAL BUSINESS OF LIVING ... it is again declared that the first and principle object of this Institution is the promotion of TRUE PIETY and VIRTUE; the secotid, instruction in the English, Latin, and Greek Languages, together with Writing, Arithmetic, Music, and the Art of Speaking; the third, practical Geometry, Logic, and Geography; and the fourth, such other liberal Arts and Sciences or Languages, as opportunity and ability may hereafter admit, and as the TRUSTEES shall direct. 464 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Though still deeply religious, these new schools usually were free from denominationaHsm. Though retaining the study of Latin, they made most of new subjects of more practical value. A study of real things rather than words about things, and a new emphasis /on the native EngHsh and on science were prominent features of ', and did much to improve the condition of the Austrian people. A very remarkable woman, Maria Theresa, came to the throne in 1 740, and was followed by her son, Joseph II, in 1 780. He ruled until 1790. To Maria Theresa the Austria of the nineteenth century owed most of its development and power. She worked with seemingly tireless energ\' for the advancement of the welfare of her sub- jects, and toward the close of her reign laid, as we shall see in a later chapter, the beginnings of Austrian school reiorm. Joseph II carried still further his moth- er's benevolent work, and strove to intro- duce " enlightenment and reason " into the administration of his realm. A student of the writings of the eighteenth-century reform philosophers, and deeply imbued with the reform spirit of his time, he attempted to abolish ancient ^ " For the first time since Luther, the German people could call a great hero their own, whether they were the subjects of Frederick or not. Joyous pride in this prince, whose achievements in times of peace were no less than those in time of war, brought national consciousness to life again and this national feeling found expression in literature. It was the restoration of confidence in themselves that gave the Ger- mans the courage to break with French rules and French models, and to seek inde- pendently after ideals of beauty. And this self-confidence they owed to Frederick the Great." (Priest, G. M., History oj German Literature, d. ii6.) Fig. 146. Maria Theresa 476 HISTORY OF EDUCATION privileges, establish a uniform code of justice, encourage educa- tion, free the serfs, abolish feudal tenure, grant religious tolera- tion, curb the power of the Pope and the Church, break the power of the local Diets, centralize the State, and "introduce a uniform level of democratic simplicity under his own absolute sway." He attempted to alter the organization of the Church, abolished six hundred monasteries,^ and reduced the number of monastic per- sons in his dominion from 63,000 to 27,000. Attempting too much, he brought down upon his head the wrath of both priest and noble and died a disappointed man. The abolition of feudal tenure and serfdom on the distinctively Austrian lands, of all his attempted reforms, alone was permanent. His work stands as an interesting commentary on the temporary character of the results which follow attempts rapidly to improve the conditions surrounding the lives of people, without at the same time edu- cating the people to improve themselves. The Spanish reformers. A very similar result attended the reform efforts of a succession of benevolent rulers thrust upon Spain, during the eighteenth century, by the complications of for- eign politics. Over a period of nearly ninety years, extending from the accession of Philip V (1700) to the death of Charles HI (1788), remarkable political progress was imposed by a succession of able ministers and with the consent of the kings. ^ The power of the Church, always the crying evil of Spain, was restricted in many ways; the Inquisition was curbed; the Jesuits were driven from the kingdom; the burning of heretics was stopped; prosecu- tion for heresy was reduced and discouraged; the monastic orders were taught to fear the law and curb their passions; evils in public administration were removed; national grievances were redressed; the civil service was improved; science and literature were en- couraged, in place of barren theological speculations ; and an ear- nest effort was made to regenerate the national life and improve the lot of the common people. All these reforms, though, were imposed from above, and no attempt was made to introduce schools or to educate the people in the arts of self-government. The result was that the reforms never went beneath the surface, and the national life of the peo- ' Though Joseph II claimed to be a good Catholic, he felt that monasticism had outlived its usefulness as an institution, and that its continuance was inimical to the interests of organized society and the State. This view has since been taken by the rulers of every progressive modern nation. 2 The Cortes, or National Parliament, met but three times during the century, and when it did meet possessed but few powers and exercised but little influence. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 477 pie remained largely untouched. Within five years of the death of Charles III all had been lost. Under a native Spanish king, thoroughly orthodox, devout, and lacking in any broad national outlook, the Church easily restored itself to power, the priests resumed their earlier importance, the nobles again began to exact their full toll, free discussion was forbidden, scientific studies were abandoned, the universities were ordered to discontinue the study of moral philosophy, and the political and social reforms which had required three generations to build up were lost in half a decade. Not meeting any well-expressed need of the peo- ple, and with no schools provided to show to the people the de- sirable nature of the reforms introduced, it was easy to sweep them aside. In this relapse to media^valism, the chance for Spain — a country rich in possibilities and natural resources — to evolve early into a progressive modern nation was lost. So Spain has remained ever since, and only in the last quarter of a century has reform from within begun to be evident in this until recently priest-ridden and benighted land. The intelligent despots of Russia. The greatest of these were Peter the Great, who ruled from 1689 to 1725, and Catherine II, who ruled from 1762 to 1796. Catching something of the new eighteenth-century western spirit, these rulers tried to introduce some western enlightenment into their as yet almost barbarous land. Each tried earnestly to lift their people to a higher level of living, and to start them on the road toward civilization and learning. By a series of edicts, despotically enforced, Peter tried to introduce the civJhzation of the western world into his country. He brought in numbers of skilled artisans, doctors, merchants, teachers, printers, and soldiers; introduced many western skills and trades; and made the beginnings of western secondary edu- cation for the governing classes by the estabhshment in the cities of a number of German-type gymnasia.'^ Later Catherine II had the French philosopher Diderot (p. 482) draw up a plan for her for the organization of a state system of higher schools, but the plan was never put into effect. The beginnings of Russian higher civilization really date from this eighteenth-century work. The power of the formidable Greek or Eastern Church remained, how- ever, untouched, and this continued, until after the Russian revo- lution of 191 7, as one of the most serious obstacles to Russian ^ The first Russian university was established at Kiev, in 1588; the second at Dorpat, in 1632; the third at Moscow, in 1755; and the fourth at Kasan, in 1804. The University of Petrograd dates from 1819. 478 HISTORY OF EDUCATION intellectual and educational progress. The serfs, too, remained serfs — tied to the land, ignorant, superstitious, and obedient. By the close of the eighteenth century Russia, largely under Prussian training, had become a very formidable military power, and by the close of the nineteenth century was beginning to make some progress of importance in the arts of peace. Just at present Russia is going through a stage of national evolution quite com- parable to that which took place in France a century and a quar- ter ago, and the educational importance of this great people, as we shall point out further on, lies in their future evolution rather than in any contribution they have as yet made to western development. II. THE UNSATISFIED DEMAND FOR REFORM IN FRANCE The setting of eighteenth-century France. Eighteenth-century France, on the contrary, developed no benevolent despot to miti- gate abuses, reform the laws, abolish privileges, temper the rule of the Church,^ (R. 247), curb the monastic orders, develop the natural resources, begin the establishment of schools, and allevi- ate the hard lot of the serf and the peasant. There, instead, absolute monarchy in Europe reached its most complete triumph during the long reigns of Louis XIV (1643-17 15) and Louis XV (1715-74), and the splendor of the court Hfe of France captivated all Europe and served to hide the misery which made the splendor possible. There the power of the nobles had been completely broken, and the power of the parUaments completely destroyed. "I am the State," exclaimed Louis XIV, and the almost unHmited despotism of the King and his ministers and favorites fully sup- ported the statement. Local liberties had been suppressed, and the lot of the common people — ignorant, hard-working, down- trodden, but intensely patriotic — ■ was wretched in the extreme. Approximately 140,000 nobles ^ and 130,000 monks, nuns, and clergy owned two fifths of the landed property of France, and controlled the destinies of a nation of approximately 25,000,000 people. Agriculture was the great industry of the time, but this ^ The great difference between a church and true religion must always be kept in mind. Religion is a thing of the spirit, and its principle represents the loftiest thoughts of the race; a church is a human governing institution, and clearly subject to its own ambitions and the human frailties of its age. '^ That is, 25,000 to 30,000 famihes. There were also, in even numbers, 83,000 monks in 2500 monasteries (one for every ninety square miles in France), 37,000 nuns in 1500 convents, and 60,000 priests. Of the soil of France, the King and towns owned one fifth, the clergy and the monks one fifth, the nobility one fifth, the bourgeoisie one fifth, and the peasantry one fifth. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 479 was so taxed by the agents of King and Church that over one half of the net profits from farming were taken for taxation. Church and State were in close working alliance. The higher offices of the Church were commonly held by appointed noblemen, who drew large incomes/ led worldly lives, and neglected their priestly functions much as the Italian appointees in German lands had done before the Reformation. Between the nobles and upper clergy on the one hand and the peasant-born lower clergy and the masses of the people on the other a great gulf existed. The real brains of France were to be found among a small bour- geois class of bankers, merchants, shopkeepers, minor officials, lawyers, and skilled artisans, who lived in the cities and who, ambitious and discontented, did much to stimulate the increasing unrest and demand for reform which in time pervaded the whole nation. A king, constantly in need of increasing sums of money; an idle, selfish, corrupt, and discredited nobihty and upper clergy, incapable of aiding the king, many of whom, too, had been influ- enced by the new philosophic and scientific thinking and were willing to help destroy their own orders; an aggressive, discon- tented, and patriotic bourgeoisie, full of new political and social ideas, and patriotically anxious to reform France; and a vast unorganized peasantry and city rabble, suffering much and resisting Uttle, but capable of a terrible fury and senseless destruction, once they were aroused and their suppressed rage let loose ; — these were the main elements in the setting of eighteenth-century France. The French reform philosophers. During the middle decades of the eighteenth century a small but very influential group of reform philosophers in France attacked with their pens the an- cient abuses in Church and State, and did much to pave the way for genuine poHtical and religious reform. In a series of widely read articles and books, characterized for the most part by clear reasoning and telhng arguments, these political philosophers attacked the power of the absolute monarchy on the one hand, and the existing privileges of the nobles and clergy on the other, as both unjust and inimical to the welfare of society (R. 248). The leaders in the reform movement were Montesquieu (1689- 1 In 1788 the 131 bishops and archbishops of France had an average income of 100,000 francs, and S3 abbots and 27 abbesses had incomes ranging from 80,000 to 500,000 francs. The Cardinal de Rohan, Archbishop of Strasbourg, had an income of more than 1,000,000 francs, and the 300 Benedictine monks at Cluny had an incoRie of more than 1,800,000 francs. 480 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 147. Montesquieu (1689-1755) 1755), Turgot (1727-81), Voltaire (1694-1778), Diderot (1713-84)^ and Rousseau (1712-78), Montesquieu. In 1748 appeared Montesquieu's famous book, the Spirit of Laws. In this he pointed out the many excellent features of the constitutional government which the English had developed, and compared English conditions with the many abuses to which the French people were subject. He argued that laws should be expressive of the wishes and needs of the people governed, and that the education of a people "ought to be relative to the principles of good gov- ernment." Montesquieu also stands, with Turgot as the founder of the sciences of comparative politics ^ and the phi- losophy of liistory — new studies which helped to shape the political thinking of eighteenth-century France. Turgot. Two years after the publi- cation of Montesquieu's book, Turgot delivered (1750) a series of lectures at the Sorbonne, in Paris, in which he virtually cre- ated the science of history. Looking at human history compre- hensively, seeing clearly that there had been a hitherto unrecog- nized regularity of march amid the confusion of the past, and that it was possible to grasp the history of the progress of man as a whole, he saw and stated the possibiHty of society to improve itself through intelligent government, and the need for wise laws and general education to enable it to do so.^ 1 "The real importance of Esprit des lots is not that of a formal treatise on law, or even on polity. It is that of an assemblage of the most fertile, original, and in- spiriting views on legal and political subjects, put in language of singular suggestive- ness and vigour, illustrated by examples which are always apt and luminous, per- meated by the spirit of temperate and tolerant desire for human improvement and happiness, and almost unique in its entire freedom at once from doctrinairism, vision- ary enthusiasm, egotism, and an undue spirit of system. The genius of the author for generalization is so great, his instinct in pohtical science so sure, that even the falsity of his premises frequently fails to vitiate his conclusions." (Saintsbury, George, in Encydopcedia Britannka, vol. xviii, p. 777.) 2 "By the captivating prospects which he held out of future progress, and by the picture which he drew of the capacity of society to improve itself, Turgot increased the impatience which his countrymen were beginning to feel against the despotic government, in whose presence amelioration seemed to be hopeless. These, and similar speculations of the time, stimulated the activity of the intellectual classes, cheered them under the persecutions to which they were exposed, and emboldened them to attack the institutions of their native land." (Buckle, H. T., History oj Civilization in England, vol. i, p. 597.) EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 481 In 1774 Turgot was appointed Minister of Finance by the new King, Louis XVI, and during the two years before he was removed Fig. 14S. Turcot (1727-81) Fig. 149. Voltaire (1694-1778) from office he attempted to carry out many needed political and social reforms. Duruy ^ has summarized his suggested reforms as follows: 1. Gradual introduction of a complete system of local self-govern- ment. 2. Imposition of a land tax on nobility and clergy. 3. Suppression of the greater part of the monasteries. 4. Amelioration of the condition of the minor clergy. 5. Equalization of the burdens of taxation. 6. Liberty of conscience, and the recall of the Protestants to France. 7. A uniform system of weights and measures. 8. Freedom for commerce and industry. A single and uniform code of laws. A vast plan for the organization of a system of public instruction throughout France. This list is indicative of the reform philosophy in the light of which he worked. Arousing the natural hostiUty of the nobility and higher clergy, he was soon dismissed, and the reforms he had proposed were abandoned by the King. Voltaire. The keenest and most unsparing critic of the old order was Voltaire. In clear and forceful French he exposed existing conditions in society and government, and particularly the control of affairs exercised by the most ancient and most ^ Duruy, V., History of France, p. 523. 9 ID 482 HISTORY OF EDUCATION powerful organization of his day — the Church. For this he was execrated and hated by the clergy, and in return he made it the chief task of his Ufe to destroy the reign of the priest. Having lived for a time in England, he appreciated the vast difference between the English and French forms of government. With a keen and unsparing pen he exposed the scholasticism, despotism, dogmatism, superstition, hypocrisy, servility, and deep injustice of his age, and poured out the vials of his scorn upon the grubbing pedantry of the Academicians who doted upon the past because ignorant of the present. In particular he stood for the abolition of that reHc of feudalism — serfdom — which still seriously op- pressed the peasantry of France ; for liberty in thought and action for the individual; for curbing the powers and privileges of both State and Church; for an equalization of the burdens of taxation between the different classes in French society; and for the organ- ization of a system of public education throughout the nation. He died before the outbreak of the Revolution he had done so much to bring about, but by the time he died the "Ancient Regime" of privilege and corruption and oppression was already tottering to its fall. His conception of the relations that should exist between Church and State are well set forth in a short article from his pen on the subject (R. 248) reprinted from the Encyclopixdia of Diderot. Diderot. Another able thinker and writer was Diderot. Be- sides other works of importance, he gave twenty years of his life (1751-72) to the editing (with D Alembert) of an Encyclo pcEdia of seventeen volumes of text and eleven of plates. Many of the articles were written by himself, and were expressive of his ideas as to reform. Many were frankly critical of existing privileges, abuses, and pretensions. Many interpreted to the French the science of Newton and the discoveries of the age, and awakened a new interest in scientific study. Because of its reform ideas the publication was sup- pressed, in 1759, after the publication of the seventh volume, and had to be carried on surreptitiously thereafter. Viscount Morley, writing recently on Diderot, summarizes the nature and influence of the Encyclo- pedia in the following words: The ecclesiastical party detested the Encyclopcedia, in which they Fig. 150. Diderot (1713-84) EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 483 saw a rising stronghold for their philosophical enemies. To any one who turns over the pages of these redoubtable volumes now, it seems surprising that their doctrine should have stirred such portentous alarm. There is no atheism, no overt attack on any of the cardinal mysteries of the faith, no direct denunciation even of the notorious abuses of the Church. Yet we feel that the atmosphere of the book may well have been displeasing to authorities who had not yet learnt to encounter the modern spirit on equal terms. The Encydopcedia takes for granted the justice of religious toleration and speculative freedom. It asserts in distinct tones the democratic doctrine that it is the common people in a nation whose lot ought to be the chief concern of the nation's government. From beginning to end it is one unbroken process of exaltation of scientific knowledge on the one hand, and pacific industry on the other. All these things were odious to the old governing classes of France.^ Rousseau. The fifth reform writer mentioned as exercising a large influence was Rousseau. In 1749 the Academy at Dijon offered a prize for the best essay on the subject : Has the progress oj the sciences and arts contributed to corrupt or to purify morals? Rousseau took the negative side and won the prize. His essay attracted widespread attention. In 1753 he competed for a second prize on The Origin of Inequality among Men, in which he took the same negative attitude. In 1762 appeared both his Social Contract and Emile. In the former he contended that early men had given to selected leaders the right to conduct their government for them, and that these had in time become auto- cratic and had virtually enslaved the people (R. 249 a). He held that men were not bound to submit to government against their wills, and to remedy existing abuses he advocated the overthrow of the usurping government and the establishment of a republic, with universal suffrage based on "liberty, fraternity, and equal- ity." The ideal State lay in a society controlled by the people, where artificiality and aristocracy and the tyranny of society over man did not exist. Nor could Rousseau distinguish between political and ecclesiastical tyranny, holding that the former inevitably followed from the latter (R. 249 b). Crude as were his theories, and impractical as were many of his ideas, to an age tired of absurdities and pretensions and injus- tice, and suffering deeply from the abuses of both Church and State, his attractively written book seemed almost inspired. The Social Contract virtually became the Bible of the French Revolu- tionists. In the Emile, a book which will be referred to more at ^ Encyclopcedia Britannica, nth ed., vol. viii, p. 204. 484 HISTORY OF EDUCATION length in chapter XXI, Rousseau held that we should revert, in education, to a state of nature to secure the needed educational reforms, and that education to prepare for life in the existing society was both wrong and useless, A revolution in French thinking. These five men — Montes- quieu, Turgot, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau — and many other less influential followers, portrayed the abuses of the time in Church and State and pointed out the lines of poUtical and ecclesiastical reform. Those who read their writings understood better why the existing privileges of the nobility and clergy were no longer right, and the need for reform in matters of taxation and government. Their writings added to the spirit of unrest of the century, and were deeply influential, not only in France, but in the American Colonies as well. Though the attack was at first against the evils in Church and State, the new critical philosophy soon led to intellectual developments of importance in many other directions. At the death of Louis XIV (17 15) France was intellectually prostrate. Great as was his long reign from the point of view of the splendor of his court, and large as was the quantity of litera- ture produced, his age was nevertheless an age of misery, religious intolerance, political oppression, and intellectual decline. It was a reign of centralized and highly personal government. Men no longer dared to think for themselves, or to discuss with any free- dom questions either of poHtics or reHgion. ''There was no popu- lar liberty; there were no great men; there was no science; there was no literature; there were no arts. The largest intellects lost their energy; the national spirit died away." Between the death of Louis XIV and the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) an intellectual revolution took place in France, and for this revo- lution English political progress and political and scientific think- ing were largely responsible. Great English influence on France. In 1715 the EngHsh lan- guage was almost unspoken in France, English science and polit- ical progress were unknown there, and the English were looked down upon and hated. Half a century later English was spoken everywhere by the scholars of the time; the English were looked upon as the political and scientific leaders of Europe; and the scholars of France visited England to study English political, economic, and scientific progress. Locke, an uncompromising advocate of poHtical and religious liberty; Hobbes, the specula- EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 485 tive moral philosopher; and the great scientist Newton were the teachers of Voltaire. More than any other single man, Voltaire moulded and redirected eighteenth-century thought in France.^ Numerous French writers of importance — Helvetius, Diderot, Morellet, Voltaire, Rousseau, to mention but a few — drew their inspiration from Enghsh writers. In the eighteenth century Eng- land became the school for political liberty for France.^ The effect of the work of Isaac Newton (p. 388), as popularized by the writings of Voltaire, was revolutionary on a people who had been so tyrannized over by the clergy as had the French during the reign of Louis XIV. An interest in scientific studies before unknown in France now flamed up, and a new generation of French scientists arose. Physics, chemistry, zoology, and anat- omy received a great new impetus, while botany, geology, and mineralogy were raised to the rank of sciences. Popular scien- tific lectures became very common. The classics were almost abandoned for the new studies. Economic questions now also began to be discussed, such as questions of money, food, finance, and government expenditure. In 1776 the Englishman, Adam Smith, laid the foundations of the new science of political economy by the publication of his Wealth of Nations, and this was at once translated into French and eagerly read. In 1781 a French banker by the name of Necker pubHshed his Compte Rendu, a statistical report on the finances of France. So feverishly eager were men to study prob- lems of government that six thousand copies were sold the day it was published, and eighty thousand had to be printed before the demand for it was satisfied, A half-century earher it would have been read scarcely at all. ^ "The real king of the eighteenth century was Voltaire; but Voltaire, in his turn, was a pupil of the English. Before Voltaire became acquainted with England, through his travels and his friendships, he was not Voltaire, and the eighteenth century was still undeveloped." (Cousin, History of Philosophy.) ^ "The first Frenchmen who in the eighteenth century turned their attention to England were amazed at the boldness with which, in that country, political and religious questions of the deepest moment were discussed — questions which no Frenchman in the preceding age had dared to broach. With wonder they discov- ered in England a comparative freedom of the public press, and saw with astonish- ment how in Parliament itself the government of the Crown was attacked with impunity, and the management of its revenues actually kept under control. To see the civilization and prosperity of England increasing, while the power of the upper classes and the King diminished, was to them a revelation. . . . England, said Helve- tius, is a country where the people are respected, a country where each citizen has z. part in the management of affairs, where men of genius are allowed to enhghten the public upon its true interests." (Dabney, R. H., Causes of the French Revolution. p. 141.) 486 HISTORY OF EDUCATION In the meantime taxes piled up, reforms were refused, the power and arrogance of the clergy and nobility showed no signs of diminution, the nation was burdened with debt, commerce and agriculture declined, the lot of the common people became ever more hard to bear, and the masses grew increasingly resentful and rebellious. As national affairs continued to drift from bad to worse in France, a series of important happenings on the American continent helped to bring matters more rapidly to a crisis. Before describing these events, however, we wish to sketch briefly the rise of government by the people and the ex- tension of liberalism in England — the first great democratic na- tion of the western world. III. ENGLAND THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC NATION Early beginnings of English liberty. The first western nation created from the wreck of the Roman Empire to achieve a meas- urement of self-government was England. Better civilized than most of the other wandering tribes, at the time of their coming to Enghsh shores, the invading Angles, Saxons, and Jutes early accepted Christianity (p. 120) and settled down to an agricultural life. On English shores they soon built up a for-the-time substan- tial civilization. This was later largely destroyed by the pillaging Danes, but with characteristic energy the English set to work to assimilate the newcomers and build up civilization anew. The work of Alfred (p. 146) in reestablishing law and order, at a time when law and order scarcely existed anywhere in western Europe, will long remain famous. Later on, and at a time when German and Hun and Slav had only recently accepted Christianity in name and had begun to settle down into rude tribal governments (p. 120), the Enghsh barons were extorting Magna Charta from King John and laying the firm foundations of Enghsh constitu- tional liberty. In the meadow at Runnymede, on that justly celebrated June day, in 12 15, government under law and based on the consent of the governed began to shape itself once more in the western world. Of the sixty-three articles of this Charter of Liberties, three possess imperishable value. These provided : 1. That no free man shall be imprisoned or proceeded against except by his peers, or the law of the land, which secured trial by jury. 2. That justice should neither be sold, denied, nor delayed. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 487 3. That dues from the people to the king could be imposed only with the consent of the National Council (after 1 246 known as Parlia- ment). So important was this charter to such a liberty-loving people as the English have always been, and so bitterly did kings resent its hampering provisions, that within the next two centuries kings had been forced to confirm it no less than thirty-seven times. By 1295 the first complete Parliament, representative of the three orders of society — Lords, Clergy, and Commons — assem- bled, and in 1333 the Commons gained the right to sit by itself. From that time to the present the Commons, representing the people, has gradually broadened its powers, working, as Tenny- son has said,^ "from precedent to precedent," until to-day it rules the English nation. In 1376 the Commons gained the right to impeach the King's ministers, and in 1407 the exclusive right to make grants of money for any govermnental purpose. Centuries ahead of other nations, this insured an almost continual meeting of the national assembly and a close scrutiny of the acts of both kings and ministers. In 1604 King James I, imitating continental European prece- dents, proclaimed his theory as to the "divine right of kings" to rule,^ and a struggle at once set in which carried the English into Civil War (1642-49); led to the beheading of Charles I (1649); the overthrow and banishment of James II (1688); and the ulti- mate firm establishment, instead, of the "divine right of the common people.'' ^ In an age when the autocratic power and the ^ Tennyson, in his "You ask me why," well describes the growth of constitutional liberty in England when he says that England is : "A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent." 2 James I, in 1604, had declared: "As it is atheism to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do." For this attitude the Commons continually contested his authority, his son lost his crown and his head, and his grandson was driven from the throne and from England. By contrast, and as showing the different attitude toward self-government of the two peoples, the German Emperor William II, three centuries later, so continually boasted of his rule by divine right that "Me and God" became an international joke, and to his assumption the German people took little or no exception. ' The passage of the Bill of Rights (1689) ended the divine-right-of-kings idea in England for all time. This prohibited the King from keeping a standing army in times of peace, gave every subject the right to petition for a redress of grievances, gave Parliament the right of free debate, prohibited the King from interfering in any way with the proper execution of the laws, declared that members ought to be elected to Parliament without interference, and gave the Commons control of all forms of taxation. 488 HISTORY OF EDUCATION divine right of kings to rule was almost unquestioned elsewhere in Europe, the English people compelled their king to recognize that he could rule over them only when he ruled in their interests and as they wished him to do. Though there was a period of struggle later on with the Hanoverian Georges (I, II, and III) , and especially with the honest but stupid George III, England has, since 1688, been a government of and by the people.^ France did not rid itself of the "divine-right" conception until the French Revolution (1789), and Germany, Austria, and Russia not until 1918. Growth of tolerance among the English. The results of the long struggle of the English for liberty under law showed itself in many ways in the growth of tolerance among the people of the English nation. At a time when other nations were bound down in blind obedience to king and priest, and when dissenting minori- ties were driven from the land, the English people had become accustomed to the idea of individual liberty, regulated by law, and to the toleration of opinions with which they did not agree. These characteristically English conceptions of liberty under law and of the toleration of minorities have found expression in many important ways in the Ufe and government of the people (R. 250), and have been elements of great strength in England's colonial poHcy. One of the important ways in which this growth of toler- ance among the English showed itself was in the extension of a larger freedom to those unable to subscribe to the state religion. Though the Reformation movement had stirred up bitter hatreds in England, as on the Continent, the English were among the first of European peoples to show tolerance of opposition in religious matters. The high English State Church, which had succeeded the Roman, had made but small appeal to many Eng- lishmen. The Puritans had early struggled to secure a simplifi- cation of the church service and the introduction of more preach- i^^g (P- 359)? and in the seventeenth century the organization of three additional dissenting sects, which became known as Unitari- ans, Baptists, and Quakers, took place. These sects divided off rather quietly, and their separation resulted only in the enact- ment of new laws regarding conformity, prayers, and teaching. ^ Though the English first developed regulated or constitutional government, they themselves have no single written constitution. Instead, the foundations of English constitutional government rest on Magna Charta (12 15), the Petition of Rights (1628), and the Bill of Rights (1689), these three constituting "the Bible of English Liberty." EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 489 During the latter half of the seventeenth century, after the execution of Charles I (1649), the Puritans had temporarily risen to power, and during their control of affairs had imposed their strict Calvinistic standards as to Sabbath observance and piety on the nation. This was very distasteful to many, and from such strict observances the people in time rebelled. The standards of the English in personal morality, temperance, amusements, and manners at the beginning of the eighteenth century were not especially high, and in the reaction from Puritan control and strict religious observances the great mass of the people degen- erated into positive irrehgion and gross immorality. Drunken- ness, rowdyism, robbery, blasphemy, brutality, lewdness, and prostitution became very common. This moral decline of the people the Church of England seemed powerless to arrest. About 1730 a reform movement was begun under the able leadership of a young Oxford student by the name of John Wesley, ably seconded by George Whitefield (1714- 70), with a view to reaching the classes so completely untouched by the high State Church. By traveling over the country and preaching a gospel of repentance, personal faith, and better living, these two young men made a deep emotional appeal, and soon gained a strong hold on the poorer and more ignorant classes of the people. For- bidden to preach in Anglican churches, and at times threatened with personal violence, these two men were in time forced into open rebellion against the Established Church. Finally they founded a new Church, which became known as the Methodist.^ This new organization bore the same relation to the Church of England that the AngUcan Church two hundred years before had borne to the Church of Rome. Thus was ac- compHshed a second spiritual reformation in England, and one destined in time to spread to the colonies and deeply affect the lives of a large portion of the English people.^ That such a well- 1 At first used as a term of ridicule, from the very methodical manner in which the Wesleyans organized their campaigns. ^ "If we except the great Puritan movement of the seventeenth century, no such appeal had been heard since the days when Augustine and his band of monks landed in Kent and set forth on their mission among the barbarous Saxons. The results answered fully to the zea! that awakened them. Better than the growing prosper- FiG. 151. John Wesley (1707-82) Founder of Methodism 490 HISTORY OF EDUCATION organized sect could arise, such a moral reformation be preached; and the power of the Established Church be challenged so openly and without serious persecution, speaks much for the growth of religious tolerance among the English people since the days of the great Elizabeth. In 1778 the Roman Catholic Relief Act was adopted, and in 1779 dissenting ministers and schoomiasters were relieved from the disabilities under which they had so long re- mained. These acts indicate a further marked growth in reli- gious tolerance on the part of the English nation.^ New emancipating and educative influences. In 1662 the first regular newspaper outside of Italy was established in England, and in 1702 the first daily paper. Small in size, printed on but one side of the sheet, and dealing wholly with local matters, these nevertheless marked the beginnings of that daily expression of popular opinion with which we are now so familiar.^ After about 1705 the cheap political pamphlet made its appearance, and after 1 7 10, instead of merely communicating news, the papers began the discussion of political questions. By 1735 a revolution had been effected in England, and papers and presses began to be established in the chief cities and towns outside of London; the freedom of the press was in a large way ity of extending commerce, better than all the conquests of the East or the West, was the new religious spirit which stirred the people of both England and America, and provoked the National Church to emulation in good works — which planted schools, checked intemperance, and brought into vigorous activity all that was best and bravest in a race that when true to itself is excelled by none." (Montgomery, D. H., English History, p. 322.) 1 The contrast between eighteenth-century England and France, in the matter of religious liberty, is interesting. In France the Church took care, during the whole of the eighteenth century, that the persecution process should go on. "In 1717 an assembly of seventy-four Protestants having been surprised at Andure, the men were sent to the galleys and the women to prison. An edict of 1724 declared that all who took part in a Protestant meeting, or who had any direct or indirect com- munication with a Protestant preacher, should have their heads shaved and be im- prisoned for life, and the men condemned to perpetual servitude in the galleys. Iiv 1745 and 1746, in the province of Dauphine, 277 Protestants were condemned to the galleys and a number of women flogged. From 1744 to 1752 six hundred Prot- estants in the east and south of France were condemned to various punishments. In 1774 the children of a Calvinistof Rennes were taken from him. Up to the verj- eve of the Revolution Protestant ministers were hanged in Languedoc, and dragoons were sent against their congregations." (Dabney, R. H., Causes oj the French Revolution, p. 42.) 2 Back as early as 1695 the Commons had refused to renew the press-licensing act, enacted in 1637, to control heresy. This had confined printing to London, Oxford, and Cambridge, and to twenty master printers and four letter founders for the realm. This refusal marks the beginning of the freedom of the press in England. In 1709 the copyright law was enacted, and in 1776 the redress against pubHshers of libelous articles was confined to the ordinary courts of law. A century ahead of France, and more than two centuries ahead' of Teutonic and Romanic laxidi^ England provided for a free press and open discussion. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 491 completed, and newspapers, for the first time in the history of the world, were made the exponents of public opinion. The press in England in consequence became an educative force of great intel- lectual and political importance, and did much to compensate for the lack of a general system of schools for the people. In 1772 the right to publish the debates in Parhament was finally won, over the strenuous objections^ of George III. In 1780 the first ' Sunday newspaper appeared, "on the only day the lower orders ^had time to read a paper at all," and, despite the efforts of reli- gious bodies to suppress it, the Sunday paper has continued to the present and has contributed its quota to the education and enlightenment of mankind. In 1785 the famous London Times began to appear. In the middle of the eighteenth century de- bating societies for the consideration of pubHc questions arose, and in 1769 "the first public meeting ever assembled in England, in which it was attempted to enlighten Englishmen respecting their political rights" was held, and such meetings soon became of almost daily occurrence. All these influences stimulated polit- ical thinking to a high degree, and contributed not only to a desire for still larger political freedom but for the more general diffusion of the ability to read as well (R. 250). Still other important new influences arose during the early part of the eighteenth century, each of which tended to awaken new desires for schools and learning. In 1678 the first modern printed story to appeal to the masses, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, ap- peared from the press. Written, as it had been, by a man of the people, its simple narrative form, its passionate religious feeling, its picture of the Journey of a pilgrim through a world of sin and temptation and trial, and its Biblical language with which the common people had now become familiar — all these elements combined to make it a book that appealed strongly to all who read or heard it read, and stimulated among the masses a desire to read comparable to that awakened by the chaining of the English Bible in the churches a century before (R. 170). In 17 19 the first great English novel, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and in 1726 Gulliver's Travels, added new stimulus to the desires awak- ened by Bunyan's book. All three were books of the common ^ George III, always consistently wrong, opposed this extension of popular rights. In 1771 he wrote the Prime Minister, Lord North: "It is highly necessary that this strange and lawless method of publishing debates in the papers should be put a stop to. But is not the House of Lords the best court to bring such miscreants before; as it can fine, as well as imprison, and has broader shoulders to suDDort the odiiuu of ao salutary a measure." 492 HISTORY OF EDUCATION people, whereas the dramas, plays, essays, and scholarly works previously produced had appealed only to a small educated class. In 1 75 1 what was probably the first circulating Ubrary of modern times was opened at Birmingham, and soon thereafter similar institutions were established in other EngUsh cities. Science and manufacturing; the new era. England, too, from the first, showed an interest in and a tolerance toward the new ;scientific thinking scarcely found in any other land. This in itself is indicative of the great intellectual progress which the English people had by this time made.^ At a time when Gafileo, in Italy (p. 388), was fighting, almost alone, for the right to think .along the Hues of the new scientific method and being imprisoned ;for his pains, Englishmen were reading with deep interest the (epoch-making scientific writings of Lord Francis Bacon (p. 390). EarUer than in other lands, too, the Newtonian philosophy found a place in the instruction of the national universities (p. 423), and Enghsh scholars began to employ the new scientific method in their search for new truths. The British Royal (Scientific) Soci- ety 2 had begun to meet as early as 1645, and ever since has pub- lished in its proceedings the best of English scientific thinking. By the reign of George I (1714-27) scientific work began to be popularized, and the first Httle booklets on scientific subjects began to appear. These popular presentations of what had been worked out were sold at the book stalls and by peddlers and were •eagerly read; by the beginning of the reign of George III (1760) they had become very common. In 1704-10 the first "Diction- ary of Arts and Sciences" was printed, and in 1768-71 the first edition (three volumes) of the now famous Encyclopcedia Britan- nica appeared. In 1 7 5 5 the famous British Museum was founded. ^ "It is evident that a nation perfectly ignorant of physical laws will refer to supernatural causes all the phenomena by which it is surrounded. But as soon as natural science begins to do its work there are introduced the elements of a great change. Each successive discovery, by ascertaining the law that governs events, deprives them of that apparent mystery in which they were formerly involved. The love of the marvelous becomes proportionally diminished; and when any science has made such progress as to enable it to foretell the events with which it deals, it is dear that the whole of those events are at once withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the supernatural, and brought under the authority of natural powers. . . . Hence it is that, supposing other things equal, the superstition of a nation must always bear an exact proportion to the extent of its physical knowledge." (Buckle, H. T., History of Civilization in England, vol. i, p. 269.) 2 The Charter of this Society stated the purpose to be to increase knowledge bj* direct experiment, and that the object of the Society was the extension ot natural knowledge, as opposed to that which is supernatural. As an institution embodying the idea of intellectual progress it was most bitterly assailed by partisans of the old jhinking. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 493 As early as 1 698 a rude form of steam engine had been patented in England, and by 17 12 this had been perfected sufficiently to be used in pumping water from the coal mines. In 1 765 James Watt made the real beginning of the appHcation of steam to industry by patenting his steam engine; in 1760 Wedgwood estabHshed the pottery industry in England; in 1767 Hargreaves devised the spinning- Jenny, which banished the spindle and distaff and the old spinning-wheel; in 1769 Arkwright evolved his spinning- frame; and in 1785 Cartwright completed the process by invent- ing the power loom for weaving. In 1784 a great improvement in the smelting of iron ores (puddling) was worked out. These inventions, all Enghsh, were revolutionary in their effect on man- ufacturing. They meant the displacement of hand power by machine labor, the breakdown of home industry through the concentration of labor in factories, the rise of great manufacturing cities,^ and the ultimate collapse of the age-old apprenticeship system of training, where the master workman with a few appren- tices in his shop (p. 210) prepared goods for sale. They also meant the ultimate transformation of England from an agricul- tural into a great manufacturing and exporting nation, whose manufactured products would be sold in every corner of the globe. By 1750 a change in attitude toward all the old intellectual problems had become marked in England, and by 1775 attention before unknown was being given there to social, political, eco- nomic, and educational questions. Religious intolerance was dying out, the harsh laws of earlier days had begun to be modified, new social and political interests - were everywhere attracting attention, and the great commercial expansion of England was rapidly taking shape. With England and France leading in the new scientific studies; England in the van in the development of manufacturing and the French to the fore in social influences and polite literature; England and the new American Colonies setting new standards in government by the people; the French 1 Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester, for example, great manufac- turing cities early in the nineteenth century, were insignificant villages in Crom- well's day. The steam engine made the coal and iron deposits of northern England of immense value, and the "smoky mill towns" that arose in the north began to displace southern agricultural England in population, wealth, and importance. ^ For example, in 1774 John Howard began his great work in prison reform; in 1772 pressing to death was abolished; in 1780 the ducking-stool was used for the last time; and soon thereafter the earlier laws relating to the death penalty were modified, and the slave trade abolished. Up to the middle of the eighteenth cen' *^ury as many as one hundred and sixty offenses were punishable by death. 494 HISTORY OF EDUCATION theorists and economists giving the world new ideas as to the function of the State; enlightened despots on the thrones of Prus- sia, Austria, Spain, and Russia; and the hatreds of the hundred years of religious warfare dying out; the world seemed to many, about 1775, as on the verge of some great and far-reaching change in methods of living and in government, and about ready to enter a new era and make rapid advances in nearly all lines of human activity. The change came, but not in quite the manner expected. IV. INSTITUTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA Englishmen in America establish a Republic. Though the early settlement of America, as was pointed out in chapter xv, was made from among those people and from those lands which had embraced some form of the Protestant faith, and represented a number of nationalities and several religious sects, the thirteen colonies, nev- ertheless, were essentially English in origin, speech, habits, observances, and political and religious con- ceptions. This is well shown for the white pop- ulation by the results of the first Federal census, taken in 1790, as given in the adjoining figure. This shows that of all the people in the thirteen orig- inal States, 83.5 per cent possessed names indicat- ing pure EngHsh origin, and that 91.8 per cent had names which pointed to their having come from the British Isles. The largest non-British name- nationality was the German, with 5.6 per cent of the whole, and these were found chiefly in Pennsylvania where they con- stituted 26.1 per cent of the State's population. Next were those having Dutch names, who constituted -but 2 per cent of the total population, and but 16.1 per cent of the population of New York. No other name-nationality constituted over one Fig. 152. Nationality of the WraTE Pop^ ulation, as shown by the family Names in the Census oe 1790 EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 495 half of one per cent of the total. The New England States were aknost as English as England itself, 93 to 96 per cent of the names being pure English, and 98.5 to 99.8 per cent being from the Brit- ish Isles. We thus see that it was from England, the nation which had done most in the development of individual and religious liberty, that the great bulk of the early settlers of America came, and in the New World the English traditions as to constitutional govern- ment and Kberty under law were early and firmly established. The centuries of struggle for representative government in Eng- land at once bore fruit here. Colony charters, charters of rights and liberties, public discussion, legislative assemblies, and liberty under law were from the first made the foundation stones upon which self-government in America was built up. From an early date the American Colonies showed an independ- ence to which even Enghshmen were scarcely accustomed, and when the home government attempted to make the colonists pay some of the expenses of the Seven Years' War, and a larger share of the expenses of colonial administration, there was determined opposition. Having no representation in Parliament and no voice in ley>dng the tax, the colonists declared that taxation with- out representation was tyranny, and refused to pay the taxes assessed. Standing squarely on their rights as Englishmen, the colonists were gradually forced into open rebellion. In 1765, and again in 1774, Declarations of Rights were drawn up and adopted by representatives from the Colonies, and were forwarded to the King. In 1774 the first Continental Congress met and formed a union of the Colonies; in 1776 the Colonies declared their inde- pendence. This was confirmed, in 1783, by the Treaty of Paris; in 1787, the Constitution of the United States was drafted; and in 1789, the American government began. In the preamble to the twenty-seven charges of tyranny and oppression made against the King in the Declaration of Independence, we find a statement of political philosophy ^ which is a combination of the results of the long English struggle for liberty and the French eighteenth- century reform philosophy and revolutionary demands.^ This preamble declared: ^ The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a great admirer of French life and a propagandist for French ideas. ^ Compare the American preamble with the following sentence from the Social Contract (Book i, chap, ix) of Rousseau: "I shall close this chapter and this book with a remark which ought to serve as a 496 HISTORY OF EDUCATION We hold these truths to be self-evident — that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- able rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organiz- ing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. American contributions to world history. The American Revolution and its results were fraught with great importance for the future political and educational progress of mankind. Before the close of the eighteenth century the new American government had made at least four important contributions to world liberty and progress which were certain to be of large political and educa- tional value for the futurci In the first place, the people of the Colonies had erected inde- pendent governments and had shown the possibility of the self- government of peoples on a large scale, and not merely in little city-states or communities, as had previously been the case where self-government had been tried. Democratic government was here worked out and applied to large areas, and to peoples of diverse nationalities and embracing different religious faiths. The possibility of States selecting their rulers and successfully governing themselves was demonstrated. In the second place, the new American government which was formed did something new in world history when it united thir- teen independent and autonomous States into a single federated Nation, and without destroying the independence of the States. What was formed was not a league, or confederacy, as had existed at different times among differing groups of the Greek City- States, and from time to time in the case of later Swiss and tem- porary European national groupings, but the union into a sub- stantial and permanent Federal State of a number of separate States which still retained their independence, and with provi- sion for the expansion of this national Union by the addition of new States. This federal principle in government is probably the greatest political contribution of the American Union to world basis for the whole social system; it is that instead of destroying natural equality, the fundamental pact, on the contrary, substitutes a moral and lawful equality for the physical inequality which nature imposed upon men, so that, although unequal "n strength or intellect, they all become equal by convention and legal right." EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 497 development. In the twentieth-century conception of a League of Nations it has borne still further fruit. In the third place, the different American States changed their old Colonial Charters into definite written Constitutions, each of which contained a Preamble or Bill of Rights which affirmed the fundamental principles of democratic liberty (R. 251). These now became the fundamental law for each of the separate States, and the same idea was later worked out in the Constitution of the United States. These were the first written constitutions of history, and have since served as a type for the creation of con- stitutional government throughout the world. In such docu- ments to-day free peoples everywhere define the rights and duties and obligations which they regard as necessary to their safety and happiness and welfare. Finally, the Federal Constitution provided for the inestimable boon of rehgious liberty, and in a way that was both revolution- ary and wholesome. At the beginning of the War for Independ- ence the Anglican (Episcopal) faith had been declared '' the estab- lished reHgion" in seven of the Colonies, and the Congregational was the established religion in three of the New England Colonies, while but three Colonies had declared for religious freedom and refused to give a preference to any special creed. This religious problem had to be met by the Constitutional Convention, and this body handled it in the only way it could have been intelli- gently handled in a nation composed of so many different reli- gious sects as was ours. It simply incorporated into the Federal Constitution provisions which guaranteed the free exercise of their religious faith to all, and forbade the establishment by Con- gress of any state religion, or the requirement of any religious test as a prerequisite to holding any office under the control of the Federal Government. The American people thus took a stand for religious liberty at a time when the hatreds of the Reformation still burned fiercely, and when tolerance in religious matters was as yet but httle known. Importance of the religious-liberty contribution. The solution of the religious question arrived at was only second in importance for us to the establishment of the Federal Union, and the far- reaching significance to our future national life of the sane and for-the-time extraordinary provisions incorporated into our Na- tional Constitution can hardly be overestimated. This action led to the early abandonment of state religions, religious tests, and 498 HISTORY OF EDUCATION public taxation for religion in the old States, and to the prohibi- tion of these in the new. The importance of this solution of the religious question for the future of popular education in the United States was great, for it laid the foundations upon which our systems of free, common, public, tax-supported, non-sectarian schools have since been built up. How we could have erected a common public-school system on a religious basis, with the many religious sects among us, it is impossible to conceive. Instead, we should have had a series of feeble, jealous, antagonistic, and utterly inefficient church-school systems, chiefly confined to ele- mentary education, and each largely intent on teaching its pecu- liar church doctrines and struggling for an increasing share of public funds. How much the American people owe to the Fathers of the Re- public for this most enlightened and intelligent provision, few who have not thought carefully on the matter can appreciate. To it we must trace not only the great blessing of religious Hberty, which we have so long enjoyed, but also the final establishment of our common, free, public-school systems. The beginning of the new state motive for education, which was soon to supersede the reHgious motive, dates from the establishment with us of republi- can governments; and the beginning of the emancipation of edu- cation from church domination goes back to this wise provision inserted in our National Constitution. This national attitude was later copied in the state constitu- tions, and as a preamble to practically all we find a Bill of Rights, which in almost every case included a provision for freedom of religious worship (Rs. 251, 260). After the middle of the nine- teenth century a further provision prohibiting sectarian teaching or state aid to sectarian schools was everywhere added. V. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION SWEEPS AWAY ANCIENT ABUSES New demands for reform that could not be resisted. More than in any other continental European country France had, by 1783, become a united nation, conscious of a modern national feeling. Yet in France mediaeval abuses in both State and Church had survived, as we have seen, to as great an extent al- most as in any European nation. So determined were the clergy and nobiUty to retain their old powers, not only in France but throughout the continent of Europe as well, that progressive re- form seemed well-nigh impossible. The work of the benevolent EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 499 despots had, after all, been superficial. By the last quarter of the eighteenth, though, a progressive change was under way which was certain to produce either evolution or revolution. The influ- ence of the American experiment in nation-building now became pronounced. In 1779 FrankHn took a copy of the new Pennsyl- FiG. 153. The States-General in Session at Versailles (After a contemporary drawing by Monnet) vania Constitution with him to Paris, and in 1780 John Adams did the same with the Massachusetts Constitution. Frenchmen in- stantly recognized here, in concrete form, the ideas with which their own heads were filled. In 1 783 Franklin published in France a French translation of all the American Constitutions, and the National Constitution of 1787 was as eagerly read and discussed in Paris as in New York or Philadelphia or Boston, America 500 HISTORY OF EDUCATION appeared to the French of that stormy period as an ideal land, where the dreams of Rousseau about the social contract had beeii transformed into realities. Two years later the cahiers of the Third Estate demanded a written constitution for France. The French, too, had aided the American Colonies in their struggle for liberty, and French soldiers returning home carried back new political ideas drawn from the remarkable political progress of the new American Nation. By 1788 the demand for reform in France had become so insistent, and the condition of the treasury of the State was so bad, that it was finally felt necessary to summon a meeting of the States-General — a sort of national parliament consisting of representatives of the three great Estates: clergy, nobility, and commons — which had not met in France since 1614. Besides electing its representatives, each locaHty and order was allowed to draw up a series of instructions, or cahiers (R. 252), for the guidance of its delegates. These cahiers are a mine of infor- mation as to the demands and hopes and interests of the French people,^ and it is interesting to know that the cahiers of nobility, clergy, and commons alike included, among their demands, the organization of a comprehensive plan of education for France.^ France establishes constitutional government. The States- General met May 5, 1789, and soon (June 20) resolved itself into ^ "I read attentively the cahiers drawn up by the three Orders before their union in 1789. I see that here the change of a law is demanded, and there of a custom — and I make note of them. I continue thus to the end of this immense task, and, when I come to put side by side all these particular demands, I see, with a sort of terror, that what is called for is the simultaneous and systematic abolition of all the laws and of all the customs existing in the country; whereupon I instantly perceive the approach of the vastest and most dangerous revolutions that have taken place in the world." (De Tocqueville, A. C, State of Society in France before the Revolu- tion of 1789, p. 219.) * For example, the clergy of Rodez and Saumur demanded "that there may be formed a plan of national education for the young"; the clergy of Lyonslhat educa- tion be restricted " to a teaching body whose members may not be removable except for negligence, misconduct, or incapacity; that it may no longer be conducted ac- cording to arbitrary principles, and that all public instructors be obliged to conform to a uniform plan adopted by the States-General"; the clergy of Blois that a system of colleges under church control be formed (R. 252); the nobility of Lyons that "a national character be impressed on the education of both sexes " ; the nobility of Pans that "public education be perfected and extended to all classes of citizens"; the nobility of Blois that "better facilities for the education of children, and elementary textbooks adapted to their capacity, wherein the rights of man and the social duties shall be clearly set forth" shall be provided, and to this end that "there be estab- lished a council composed of the most enlightened scholars of the capital and of the provinces and of the citizens of the different orders, to formulate a plan of national education, for the benefit of all classes of society, and to edit elementary textbooks." The Third Estate of Blois demanded the establishment of free schools in all the rural parishes. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 501 the National or Constituent Assembly. Terrified by the upris- ings and burnings of chateaux throughout France, on the night of August fourth, in a few hours, it adopted a series of decrees which virtually abohshed the Ancien Regime of privileges for France, The nobility gave up most of their old rights, the serfs ^ were freed, and the special privileges of towns were surrendered. Later the Assembly adopted a "Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (R. 253), much like the American Declaration of In- dependence. This declared, among other things, that all men were born free and have equal rights, that taxes should be propor- tional to wealth, that all citizens were equal before the law and have a right to help make the laws, and that the people of the na- tion were sovereign. These principles struck at the very founda- tions of the old system. Soon a Constitution for France, the first ever promulgated in modern Europe, was prepared and adopted (1791). This abol- ished the ancient privileges and reorganized France as a self-gov- erning nation, much after the American plan. Local government was created, and the absolute monarchy was changed to a limited constitutional one. Next the property of the Church was taken •over by the State, the monasteries were suppressed, and the priests and bishops were made state officials and paid a fixed state salary. The Jesuits had been expelled from France in 1764; and in 1792 the Brothers of the Christian Schools were not allowed longer to teach. Among other important matters, the Constitu- tion of 1 791 declared that: There shall be created and organized a system of public instruction common to all citizens, and gratuitous, with respect to those branches of instruction which are indispensable for all men. Up to this point the Revolution in France had proceeded rela- tively peacefully, considering the nature of the long-standing abuses which were to be remedied. In August, 1792, the King was imprisoned, and in January, 1793, he was executed and a Re- pubUc proclaimed.^ Then followed a reign of terror, which we do ^ See footnote i, page 165. One of the great results of the French Revolution was the abolition of serfdom in central and western Europe. The last European nation to emancipate its serfs was Russia, where they were freed in 1861. ^ "Great was the difference between France at the end of 1791 and at the end of 1793. At the former date all looked hopeful for the future; the king was the father of his people; the Constitution of 179 1 was to regenerate France, and set an example to Europe; all old institutions had been renovated; everything was new, and popular on account of its novelty. . . . By the end of 1793 all looked threatening for the fu- ture; for the purpose Qf repelling her foreign foes, who included nearly the whole of 502 HISTORY OF EDUCATION not need to follow, and which ended only when Napoleon became master of France. Beneficent results of the Revolution. The French Revolution was not an accident or a product of chance, but rather the inevita- ble result of an attempt to dam up the stream of human progress and prevent its orderly onward flow. The Protestant Revolts were the first great revolutionary wave, the Puritan revolution in England was another, the formation of the American Republic and the institution of constitutional government and religious freedom another, while the French Revolution brought the rising movement to a head and swept away, in a deluge of blood, the very foundations of the mediaeval system. Along with much that was disastrous, the French Revolution accompKshed after all much that was of greatest importance for human progress. The world at times seems to be in need of such a great catharsis. Progress was made in a decade that could hardly have been made in a century by peaceful evolution. The old order of privilege came to an end, medieevalism was swept away, and the serf was evolved into the free farmer and citizen. One fifth of the soil of France was restored to the use of the people from the monaster- ies, and an additional one third from the Church and nobility. The new principles of citizenship — Liberty, Equality, and Fra- ternity — were for France revolutionary in the extreme, while the assertion that the sovereignty of a nation rests with the people rather than with the king, here successfully promulgated, ended for all time the *'divine-right-of -kings" idea for France. After poHtical theory had for a time run mad, the organizing genius of Napoleon consolidated the gains, gave France a strong govern- ment, a unifonn code of laws,^ and began that organization of schools for the nation which ultimately meant the taking over of education from the Church and its provision at the expense of and in the interests of the nation, Europe, France submitted to be ground down by the most despotic and arbitrary government ever known in modern history, — the Great Committee of Pubhc Safety; the Reign of Terror was in full exercise, and it was doubtful whether the energy, audacity, and concentrated vigour of the Great Committee would enable France to be victorious over Europe, and thus secure for her the right of deciding on the character of their own government. She was to be successful, but at what a cost!" (Stephens, H. M., The French Revolution, vol. ii, p. 512.) ^ The Code Napoleon, prepared in 1804, was the first modern code of civil laws, though Frederick the Great had earlier prepared a partial code of Prussian laws. What the Justinian Code was to ancient Rome, this, organized into better form, was to modern France. This Code, prepared under Napoleon's direction, substituted one uniform code of laws worthy of a modern nation for the thousands of local laws which formerly prevailed in France, EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 503 The national idea extends to other lands. The reform work in France, together with the examples of English and American lib- erty, soon began to have their influence in other lands as well. People everywhere began to see that the old regime of privilege and misgovemment ought to be replaced. Other countries abol- ished serfdom, introduced better laws, and made reforms in the abuses of both Church and State. French armies and rulers car- ried the best of French ideas to other lands, and, where the French rule continued long enough, these ideas became fixed. In particu- lar was the Code Napoleon copied in the Netherlands^ the ItaHan States, and the States of southern and western Germany. The national spirit of Italy was awakened, and the Itahan Uberals be- gan to look forward to the day when the small Italian States might be reunited into an Italian Nation, with Rome as its capital. This became the work of nineteenth-century Itahan statesmen. For the first time in Spanish history, too, the people became conscious, under French occupation, of a feehng of national unity, and simi- larly the national spirit of German lands was stirred by the con- quests of Napoleon. A constitution was obtained in Spain, in 181 2, and between 1815 and 1821 all of Spain's South American colonies — -Argen- tina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela — revolted, became independent, and set up republics with constitutional governments, some of the larger ones based on the federal principle, as in the United States. Brazil similarly freed itself from Portugal and set up a constitu- tional and federated monarchy, in 1822. The Kingdom of Naples obtained constitutional government in 1820, and Sardinia in 1821. In 1823, when Spain with Austria's aid prepared to reconquer the Spanish South American RepubHcs, President Monroe trans- mitted to the American Congress his message in which he de- clared that any attempt on the part of European nations to sup- press repubhcanism on the American continent would be consid- ered by the United States as an unfriendly act. This has since been known as the Monroe Doctrine. In 1829 Greece obtained her independence from Turkey, and in 1843 ^ constitutional form of government was obtained. Important consequences of the democratic movement. Since the closing decades of the eighteenth century, when democratic government and written constitutions began, the sweep of demo- cratic government has become almost world wide. Nation aftei 504 HISTORY OF EDUCATION nation has chcuged to democratic and constitutional forms of government, the latest additions being Portugal (1911), China (1912), Russia (1917), and Germany (1918). New English colo- nies, too, have carried English self-government into almost every continent. The World War of 1 914-18 gave a new emphasis to democracy, and there is good reason to believe that government of and by and for the people is ultimately destined to prevail among all the intelligent nations and races of the earth. With the development of democratic government there has everywhere been a softening of old laws, the growth of humani- tarianism, the wider and wider extension of the suffrage, impor- tant legislation as to labor, a previously unknown attention to the poor and the dependents of society, a vast extension of educa- tional advantages, and the taking over of education from the Church by the State and the erection of the school into an im- portant institution for the preservation and advancement of the national welfare. These consequences of the onward sweep of new-world ideas we shall trace more in detail in the chapters which follow. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Show the importance, for human progress, of each of the meanings of the new eighteenth-century HberaUsm, as enumerated on pages 471-72. 2. How do you explain the lack of any permanent influence on Spanish life of the work of the benevolent despots in Spain? 3. Show the liberahzing influence of the rise of scientific investigation and economic studies, for a nation still oppressed by mediasvalism and bad government. 4. Enumerate the new sciences which arose in the eighteenth century. 5. Indicate the iiiportance of the freedom of the press in the development of English political liberty. 6. Explain how the religious-freedom attitude of the American national constitution conferred an inestimable boon on the States in the matter of public education. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following illustrative selections are reproduced: 247. Dabney: Ecclesiastical Tyranny in France. 248. Voltaire: On the Relation of Church and State. 249. Rousseau: Extract from the Social Contract. 250. Buckle: Changes in English Thinking in the Eighteenth Century, 251. Pennsylvania Constitution: Bill of Rights in. 252. Clergy of Blois: Cahicr of 1779. 253. France: Declaration of the Rights of Man. EIGHTEENTH A TRANSITION CENTURY 505 QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS t. Explain why ecclesiastical tyranny should have awakened such a spirit of rebellion in France (247), and not in Spain or in ItaHan lands. 2. Just what attitude toward religion is shown in the extract from Voltaire (248)? 3. Bolshevists in Russia and in America talk to-day as did Rousseau in the Social Contract (249). Compare the justification of each with the eighteenth-century France of Rousseau. \. What do all the changes enumerated by Buckle (250) indicate as to the spread of general education, irrespective of schools, among the English people? 5. Compare the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights of 1776 (251) with that of your own present-day state constitution. 5. Just what type of educational provisions, and what administrative organization, did the recommendations of the Clergy of Blois (252) con- template? Indicate its shortcomings for eighteenth-century France. 7. Compare the main ideas of 251 and 253. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Dabney, R. H. The Causes of the French Revolution. Taine, H. A. The Ancient Regime. CHAPTER XX THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION I. NEW CONCEPTIONS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE The state as servant of the Church. With the rise of the Prot- estant sects we noted, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and for the first time since Christianity became supreme in the west- em world, the beginnings of a state connection with the education of the young. The Protestant reformers, obtaining the support of the Protestant princes and kings, had successfully used this support to assist them in the organization of church schools as an aid to the reformed faith. Luther, it will be recalled (p. 312), had made a strong appeal to the mayors and magistrates of all German lands to establish schools as a part of their civic duties (R. 156), and had contended that a solemn obHgation rested upon them to do so. The Dutch Provinces had worked closely with the Dutch Protestant synods (p. 334) in ordering schools estab- lished and in providing for their financing; Calvin had organized a religious City-State at Geneva (p. 330), of which religion and learning had been the corner-stones; the Scottish Parliament, by the laws of 1633 and 1646 (p. 335), had ordered schools for Scot- tish children in connection with the churches; and in the Scandi- navian countries and in Finland the beginnings of a connection with the State had also been made (p. 315). Finally, in the new Massachusetts Colony the laws of 1642 and 1647 (p. 366) had, for the first time in the English-speaking world, ordered that children be taught "to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country" (p. 364), and that schools be es- tabHshed by the towns, under penalty if they refused to do so. In all Protestant lands we saw that the reformers appealed, from time to time, to what were then the servants of the churches — the rising civil governments and principalities and States — to use their civil authority to force the people to meet their new religious obligations in the matter of schoohng. The purpose of the schoohng ordered estabHshed, however, was almost wholly reHgious. Massachusetts, in ordering instruction in the "capital laws of the country," as well as reading and re- ligion, had formed a marked exception. In nearly all lands the rising state governments merely helped the Protestant churches BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 507 to create the elementary vernacular religious school, and to make of it an auxiliary for the protection of orthodoxy and the advance- ment of the faith. Even in the new state school systems of the German States — Saxony, Wurtemberg (p. 317), Brunswick, Weimar, Gotha — the elementary schools established were for re- ligious rather than for state ends. This condition continued until well toward the middle of the eighteenth century. The new state theory of education. After about the middle of the eighteenth century a new theory as to the purpose of educa- tion, and one destined to make rapid headway, began to be ad- vanced. This theory had already made marked progress, as we shall see, in the New England Colonies, and had also found ex- pression, as we shall also see in a later chapter, in the organizing work of Frederick the Great in Prussia. It was from the French political philosophers of the eighteenth century, though, that its clearest definition came. They now advanced the idea that schools were essentially civil affairs, the purpose of which should be to promote the everyday interests of society and the welfare of j the State, rather than the welfare of the Church, and to prepare ^ for a life here rather than a life hereafter. After about 1750 a critical and reformatory pedagogy rapidly began to take shape in France, and the second half of the eight- eenth century became a period of criticism and discontent and reconstruction in education, as well as in politics and religion. This criticism and discontent in France was greatly stimulated by the decline in character and influence of the Jesuit schools. Unwilling to change their instruction to meet the needs of a chang- ing society, their schools had become formal in character (R. 146), and were now engaged chiefly in stifling thinking rather than in promoting it. In consequence the schools had fallen into disre- pute throughout all France. The Society, too, in the eighteenth century, came to be a powerful political organization which strove to dominate the State. So bad had the situation become b} 1762, that the different parhaments in the provinces and in Paris had formulated complaints against the Jesuits and their schools,^ 1 The complaints were largely along such lines as that the instruction was confined to a few Latin authors; that instruction in the French language was neglected; that instruction in the history and geography of France should be introduced; that time was wasted "in copying and learning notebooks filled with vain distinctions and frivolous questions"; that training in the use of the French language should be substituted for the disputations in Latin; that in religion the study of the Bible was neglected for books of devotion and propaganda compiled by the members of the Order; that moral casuistry and religious bigotry were taught; and that the disci- pline was unnecessarily severe and wrong in character. 5o8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and, in 1764, the king was induced to suppress the Order. ^ This decline in influence and final suppression of the Society gave rise to some rather remarkable pedagogical Uterature, which looked to the creation of a system of state secondary schools in France to replace those of the Jesuits. The outcome was the rise of a new national and individual con- ception of the educational purpose. This was destined in time to spread to other lands and to lead to the rise of complete state school systems, financed and managed by the State and conducted ^or state ends, and to the ultimate divorce of Church and State, in all progressive lands, in the matter of the education of the young. Teachers trained and certificated by the State were in time to supplant the nuns and brothers of the religiouc congregations in Catholic lands, as well as teachers who served as assistants to the pastors in Protestant lands and whose cliief purpose was to up- hold the teachings and advance the interests of the sect; citizens were to supplant the ecclesiastic in the supervision of instruction; and the courses of instruction were to be changed in direction and vastly broadened in scope to make them minister to the needs of the State rather than the Church, and to prepare pupils for useful life here rather than for life in another world. II. THE NEW STATE THEORY IN FRANCE The French political theorists. The leading French pohtical theorists of the two decades between 1760 and 1780 now began to discuss education as in theory a civil affair, intimately con- nected with the promotion of the welfare of the State. The more important of these, and their chief ideas were: I . Rousseau. The first of the critical and reformatory pedagogical writers to awaken any large interest and obtain a general hearing was Jean- Jacques Rousseau. The same year (1762) that his Social Contract appeared and attacked the foundations of the old pohtical system (p. 483), his Emile also appeared and attacked with equal vigor the rehgious and 1 In 1759 the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal, in 1767 from Spain, and in 1773 the Pope at Rome, "recqgnizing that the members of this Society have not a little troubled the Christian commonwealth, and that for the welfare of Christendom it were better that the Order should disappear," abolished the Society entirely. Forty years later it was reconstituted in a modernized form. Fig. 154. Rousseau ( 1712-78) BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 509 social theory as to education then prevailing throughout western Europe. For the stiff and unnatural methods in education, under~""\ which children were dressed and made to behave as adults/ the / harsh discipline of the time, and the excessive emphasis on rehgious instruction and book education, he preached the substitution of Ufe amid nature, childish ways and sports, parental love, and an education that considered the instincts and natural development of children. Gathering up the political and social ideas of his age as to ec- clesiastical and political despotism; the nature of the social con- tract; that the " state of nature " was the ideal one, and the one in which men had been intended to live; that human duty called for a return to the "state of nature," whatever that might be; and that the artificiality and hypocrisy of his age in manners, dress, rehgion, and education were all wrong — Rousseau restated hisN pohtical philosophy in terms of the education of the boy, Fmile^ Despite its many exaggerations, much faulty reasoning, and many imperfections, the book had a tremendous influence upon Europe in laying bare the limitations and defects and abuses of the formal and ecclesiastical education of the time.^ He may be regarded as the first important writer to sap the foundations of the old system of religious education, and to lay a basis for a new type of child training (R. 254). Though Rousseau's enthusiasm took the form of theory run mad, and the educational plan he proposed was largely impossible, he nevertheless popularized education, not only in France, but among the reading public of the progressive European States as well. After he had written, the old Umited and narrow religious education was on the defensive, and, though time was required, the transition to a more secular t>pe of educa- tion was inevitable as fast as nations and peoples could shake off the dominance of the Church in state affairs. 2. La Chalotais. The year following the publication of Rous- seau's Emile appeared La Chalotais's Essai d' education nationale (1763). Rene de la Chalotais, a SoHci tor-General for the Parlia- ment of Bretagne, was one of the notable French parliamentari- 1 Little boys wore their hair long and powdered, carried a sword, and had coats with gilded cuffs, while little girls were dressed in imitation of the lady of fashion. Proper deportment was an important part of a child's training. '^ The iconoclastic nature of Rousseau's volume may be inferred from its opening sentence, in which he says: "Everything is good as it comes from the hand of the author of nature; everything degenerated in the hand of man." In another place he breaks out: "Man is born, lives, and dies in a state of slavery. At his birth he is stitched into swaddling clothes, at his death he is nailed in his coffin; and as long as he preserves the human form he is held captive by our institutions." 510 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 1 55 La Chalotais (1701-83) ans of the middle of the eighteenth century. Unlike Rousseau's highly imaginary, exaggerated, sentimental, and paradoxical vol- ume, La Chalotais produced a practical and philosophical discus- sion of the problem of the education of a people. Declaring firmly that education was essentially a civil affair; that it was the function of government to make citizens con- tented by educating them for their sphere in society; that citizen and secular teachers should not be excluded for celibates; ^ that the real purpose of education should be to prepare citizens for France; that the poor were deserving of education; and that "the most enlightened people will always have the advantage" in the struggles of a modem world, La Chalotais produced a work which was warmly approved by such political phil- osophers as Voltaire, Diderot, and Turgot, and which was translated into several European languages (R. 255). Though far less widely read than Rousseau's Emile, it was far more influential in shaping subse- quent political theory and action regard- ing the relations of education to the State. Nearly every proposal for educational legislation during the days of the Revo- lution went back in idea to this philoso- phic discussion of the question by La Chalotais and to the practical proposals of Rolland and Turgot. 3. Rolland. In 1768 Rolland, presi- dent of the Parliament of Paris, presented to his colleagues a report in which he outlined a national system of educa- tion to replace both the schools of the Jesuits and those of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. La Chalotais had proposed a more modern system of state schools chiefly to replace those of the Jesuits, but Rolland went further 1 "I do not presume to exclude ecclesiastics, but I protest against the exclusion of laymen. I dare claim for the nation an education which depends only on the State, because it belongs essentially to the State; because every State has an inalien- able and indefeasible right to instruct its members; because, finally, the children of the State ought to be ^ucated by the members of the State." (La Chalotais.) Fig. 156. Rolland (1734-93) BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 511 and proposed the extension of education to all, and the supervi- sion of all schools by a central council of the Government. By means of a centralized control, a central university to which the other universities of France were to be subordinate, a higher normal school to train teachers for the colleges (secondary schools), and universal education, 1 RoUand hoped to develop for France a national spirit, a national character, and a national gov- ernment and code of laws, and to bring the youth of the provinces into harmony with the best of all French ideas. 4. Turgot. In 1774 Turgot was appointed Minister of Finance (p. 481), and in 1775 he made a series of recommendations to the King in which he set forth ideas analogous to those of Rolland, and presented an eloquent plea for the formation of a national council of public instruction and the estabhshment of a system of civil and national education for the whole of France. In closing he wrote : Your kingdom, Sir, is of this world. Without opposing any obstacle to the instructions whose object is higher, and which already have their rules and their expounders, I think I can propose to you nothing of more advantage to your people than to cause to be given to all your subjects an instruction which shows them the obligations they owe to society and to your power to protect them, and the interest they have in ful- Bling those duties for the public good and their own. This moral and social instruction requires books expressly prepared, by competition, and with great care, and a schoolmaster in each parish to teach them to children, along with the art of writing, reading, counting, measuring, and the principles of mechanics. The study of the duty of citizenship ought to be the foundation of all the other studies. . . . There are methods and establishments for training geometricians, physicists, and painters, but there are none for training citizens, 5. Diderot. In 1776 Diderot, editor with D'Alembert of the £wcyc/o/»(^Jia (1751-72), prepared, at the request of Catherine II (p. 477), under the title of Plan of a University, a complete scheme for the organization of a state system of public instruction for Russia. Though the plan was never carried out, it was printed and much discussed in France, and is important as coming from one of the most influential Frenchmen of his time. He commends as an example to be followed the work of the German States in the organization of popular instruction. For Russia he outlines first ^ "Education cannot be too widely diffused, to the end that there may be no class of citizens who may not be brought to participate in its benefits. It is expedi- ent that each citizen receive the education which is adapted to his needs." (Rol- land.) 512 HISTORY OF EDUCATION a system of people's schools, which shall be free and obligatory for all, and in which instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, mor- als, civics, and rehgion shall be taught. "From the Prime Minis- ter to the lowest peasant," he says, "it is good for every one to know how to read, write, and count." For the series of secondary schools to be established, he condemns the usual practice of devot- ing so much of the instruction to the humanities and a mediaeval type of logic and ethics, and urges instead the introduction of in- struction in mathematics, in the modern sciences, literature, and the work of governments. Classical studies he would confine to the last years of the course. Science, history, drawing, and music find a place in his scheme. All this instruction Diderot would place under the supervisory control of an administrative bureau to be known as the University of Rusna, at the head of which should be a statesman, who should exercise control of all the work of public instruction beneath. Though never carried out in Russia, the University of France of 1808 is largely an embodiment of the ideas he proposed in 1776. Legislative proposals to embody these ideas. During the quar- ter of a century between the publication of Rousseau's Emile and the summoning of the States-General to reform France (1762-88), the educational as well as the political ideas of the French reform- ers had taken deep root with the thinking classes of the nation. The cahiers of 1789, of all Orders (p. 500), gave evidence of this in their somewhat general demand for the creation of some form of an educational system for France (R. 252). From the first days of the Revolution pedagogical literature became plentiful, and the successive National Asseniblies found time, amid the in- ternal reorganization of France, constitution-making, the trou- bles with and trial of the King, and the darkening cloud of foreign intervention, to listen to reports and addresses on education and to enact a bill for the organization of a national school system. The more important of these educational efforts were: I. The Constituent Assembly (June 17, 1789, to September 30, 1791). In the Constituent Assembly, into which the States-Gen- eral resolved itself, June 17, 1789, and which continued until after it had framed the constitution of 1791, two notable addresses and one notable report on the organization of education were made. The Count de Mirabeau, a nobleman turned against his class and elected to the States-General as a representative of the Third Estate, made addresses on the "Organization of a Teaching BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 513 Fig. 157 Count de Mirabeau (1749-91) Body," and on the ''Organization of a National L>'cce." In the first he advocated the estabhshment of primary schools throughout France. In the second he proposed the establishment of colleges of Hterature in each department, with a National Lycee at Paris for higher (uni- versity) education, and to contain the es- sentials of a national normal school or teachers' college as well. Mirabeau 's proposals represent rather a transition in thinking from the old to the new, but the Report of Talleyrand (1791), former Bishop of Autun, now turned revo- lutionist, embodies the full culmination of revolutionary educational thought. Pub- lic instruction he termed ''a power which embraces everything, from the games of infancy to the most imposing fetes of tlie Nation." He definitely proposed the or- ganization of a complete state system of public instruction fcr France, to consist of a primary school in every canton (com- munity, district), open to the children of peasants and workmen ■ — classes heretofore unprovided with edu- cation; a secondary school in every depart- ment (county) ; a series of special schools in the chief French cities, to prepare for the professions; and a National Institute, or University, to be located at Paris. In- spired by Montesquieu's principle that "the laws of education ought to be rela- tive to the principles of government," Talleyrand proposed a bill designed to give effect to the provisions of the Con- stitution of 1 791 relating to education (p. 501), and to provide an education for the people of France who were now to exercise, through elected representatives, the legis- lative power for France. Instruction he held to be the necessary counterpoise of Hberty, and every citizen was to be taught to know, obey, love, and protect the new constitution. PoHtical, social, and personal morahty were to take the place of religion in the cantonal schools, which were to be free and equally open to Fig. 158. Talleyrand (1758-1838) 514 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 159. CoNDORCET (1743-94) all. As the Constituent Assembly was succeeded by the newly elected Legislative Assembly within three weeks after Talleyrand submitted his Report, no action was taken on his bill. 2. The Legislative Assembly (October i, 1791, to September 21, 1792). This new legislative body was far more radical in char- acter than its predecessor, and far more radical than was the sentiment of France at the time. Among other acts it abolished (1792) the old uni- versities and confiscated (1793) their prop- erty to the State. To it was submitted (April 20-21, 1792) by the mathematician, philosopher, and revolutionist, Marquis de Condorcet,^ on behalf of the Committee on Public Instruction and as a measure of reconstruction, a Report and draft of a Law for the organization of a complete democratic system of public instruction for France (R. 256). It provided for the organizing of a primary school for every four hundred inhabitants, in which each individual was "to be taught to direct his own conduct and to enjoy the pleni- tude of his own rights," and where principles would be taught, calculated to "insure the perpetuation of Hberty and equality." The bill also provided, for the first time, for the organization of higher primary schools in the principal towns; colleges (sec- ondary schools) in the chief cities (one for every four thousand inhabitants); a higher school for each "department"; Lycees, or institutions of still higher learning, at nine places in France; and a National Society of Sciences and Arts to crown the edu- cational system at Paris. The national S3^stem of education he proposed was to be equally open to women, as well as men, and to be gratuitous throughout. Teachers for each grade of school were to be prepared in the school next above. Sunday lectures for workingmen and peasants were to be given by teachers every- where. Public morahty, political intelhgence, human progress, and the preservation of liberty and equality were the aims of the instruction. The necessity for education in a constitutional government he saw clearly. "A free constitution," he writes, 1 Condorcet had not been a member of the Constituent Assembly, but for some years had been deeply interested in the idea of public education, and had pubUshed five articles on the subject. His Report was a sort of embodiment, in legal form, of his previous thinking on the question. BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 515 "which should not be correspondent to the universal instruction of citizens, would come to destruction after a few conflicts, and would degenerate into one of those forms of government which cannot preserve the peace among an ignorant and corrupt peo- ple." Anarchy or despotism he held to be the future for peoples who become free without being enlightened. He held it to be a fundamental principle that: The order of nature includes no distinctions in society beyond those of education and wealth. To establish among citizens an equality in fact, and to realize the equality confirmed by law, ought to be the primary object of national instruction. The bill proposed by Condorcet, while too ambitious for the France of his day, was thoroughly sound as a democratic theory of education, and an accurate prediction of what the nineteenth century brought gener- ally in to existence. Con- dorcet's Report was dis- cussed, but not acted upon. 3. The National Con- vention (September 2 1 , 1792, to October 26, 1795). The Convention was also a radical body, deeply interested in the creation of a system of state schools for the peo- ple of France. To higher education there was for a time marked opposi- tion, though later in its history the Convention erected a number of im- portant higher technical institutions and schools. Fig. 160. The Institute of France Founded by Article 298 of the Constitution of Year III (1793) among the most important of which was the Institute of France. There was also in the Convention marked opposition to all forms of clerical control of schools. The schools of the Brothers of the Christian Schools were suppressed by it, in 1792, and all secular and endowed schools and colleges were abolished and their prop- erty confiscated, in 1 793 . The complete supremacy of the State in 5i6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION all educational matters was now asserted. Great enthusiasm was manifested for the organization of state primary schools, which were ordered estabhshed in 1793 (R. 258 a), and in these: Children of all classes were to receive that first education, physical, moral, and intellectual, the best adapted to develop in them republican manners, patriotism, and the love of labor, and to render them worthy of liberty and equality. The course of instruction was to include: "to speak, read, and write correctly the French language; the geography of France; the rights and duties of men and citizens; ^ the first notions of natural and familiar objects; the use of numbers, the compass, the level, the system of weights and measures, the mechanical powers, and the measurement of time. They are to be taken into the fields and the workshops where they may see agricultural and mechanical operations going on, and take part in the same so far as their age will allow." What a change from the course of instruction in the religious schools just preceding this period! A multiplicity of reports, bills, and decrees, often more or less contradictory but still embodying ideas advanced by Condorcet and Talleyrand, now appeared. Whereas the preceding legislative bodies had con- sidered the subject carefully, but without taking action, the Convention now acted. The nation, though, was so engrossed by the internal chaos and foreign aggression that there was neither time nor funds to carry the decrees into effect. The most extreme proposal of the period y >^ ^^^.MvV^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Lepelletier le Saint-Fargeau ^ j,y to create a national system of education ' y' ^ modeled closely after that of ancient Sparta. Fig. 161. Lakanal Y\x' schoolroom in Switzerland. NEW THEORY AND SUBJECT-MATTER 543 only the intellectual qualities of perception, Judgment, and reason- ing need exercise, but the moral powers as well. To provide such exercise and direction was the work of the school. Pestalozzi also resented tJie brutal discipline which for ages had characterized all school instruction, believed it by its very nature immoral, and tried to substitute for this a strict but loving dis- cipline — a " thinkingJove^!!Jie calls it — and to make the school as nearly as possibleTike a gentle and refined home. To a Swiss father, who on visiting his school exclaimed, ''Why, this is not a school, but a family," Pestalozzi answered that such a statement was the greatest praise he could have given him. The consequences of these ideas. The educational conse- quences of these new ideas were very large. They in time gave aim and purpose to the elementary school of the nineteenth cen- tury, transforming it from an instrument of the Church for church ends, to an instrument of society to be used for its own regenera- tion and the advancement of the welfare of all.^ The introduc- tion of the study of natural objects in place of words, and much talking about what was seen and studied instead of parrot-like reproductions of the words of a book, revolutionized both the methods and the subject-matter of instruction in the developing elementary school. Observation and investigation tended to supersede mere memorizing; class discussion and thinking to su- persede the reciting of the words of the book; thinking about what was being done to supersede routine learning; and class in- struction to supersede the wasteful individual teaching which had for so long characterized all school work. It meant the reorgani- zation of the work of the vernacular school on a modern basis, with class organization and group instruction, and a modern- world purpose (R. 269). /The work of Pestalozzi also meant the introduction of new~ 4ubject-matter for instruction, the organization of new teaching subjects for the elementary school, and the redirection of the el- ementary education of children. Observation led to the devel- opment of elementary-science study, and the study of home geography; talking about what was observed led to the study of 1 "What he did was to emphasize the new purpose in education, but vaguely perceived, where held at all, by others; to make clear the new meaning of education which existed in rather a nebulous state in the public mind; to formulate an entirely new method, based on new principles, both of which were to receive a further devel- opment in subsequent times, and to pass under his name; and finally, to give an entirely new spirit to the schoolroom." (Monroe, Paul, Text Book in the History oj Education, p. 609.) 544 HISTORY OF EDUCATION language usage, as distinct from the older study of grammar; and counting and measuring led to the study of number, and hence to a new type of primary arithmetic. The Jading of the school also changed both in character and purpose. In other words, in place of an elementary education based on reading, a little writing and spelling, and the catechism, all of a memoriter type and with re- ligious ends in view, a new primary school, essentially secular in character, was created by the work of Pestalozzi. This new school was based on/the study of real objects, learning through sense impressions,^-^e individual expression of ideas, child activ- ity, and the development of the child's powers in an orderly way. --^n fact, "the development of the faculties" of the child became a by-word with Pestalozzi and his followers. Pestalozzi's deep abiding faith in the power of education to re- generate society was highly influential in Switzerland, throughout western Europe, and later in America in showing how to deal with orphans, vagrants, and those suffering from physical defects or in need of reformation, by providing for such a combination of intellectual and industrial training. The spread and influence of Pestalozzi's work. So famous did the work of Pestalozzi become that his schools at Burgdorf and Yverdon came to be "show places," even in a land filled with nat- ural wonders. Observers and students came from America (R. 268) and from all over Europe to see and to teach in his school, and draw inspiration from seeing his work (R. 270) and talking with him.^ In particular the educators of Prussia were attracted by his work, and, earlier than other nations, saw the far-reaching significance of his discoveries. Herbart visited his school as early as 1799, when but a young man of twenty-three, and wrote a very sympathetic description of his new methods. Froebel spent the years 1808 to 1810 as a teacher at Yverdon, when he was a young 1 In 1809 the German, Carl Ritter, a former pupil of Salzmann (see footnote 2, p. 538) and the creator of modern geographical study, visited Pestalozzi at Yverdon. Of this visit he writes: "I have seen more than the' paradise of Switzerland, I have seen Pestalozzi, I have learned to know his heart and his genius. Never have I felt so impressed with the sanctity of my vocation as when I was with this noble son of Switzerland. I cannot recall without emotion this society of strong men, struggling with the present, with the aim of clearing the way for a better future, men whose only joy and reward is the hope of raising the child to the dignity of man. " I left Yverdon resolved to fulfill my promise made to Pestalozzi to carry his method into geography. . . . Pestalozzi did not know as much geography as a child in our Primary Schools, but, none the less, have I learned that science from him, for it was in listening to him that I felt awaken within me the instinct of the natural methods; he showed me the way." (Guimps, Baron de, Pestalozzi, his Aim and Work, p. 167.) NEW THEORY AND SUBJECT-MATTER 545 man of twenty-six to eight. ''It soon became e\ddent to me," wrote Froebel, " that 'Pestalozzi' was to be the watchword of my life." The philosopher Fichte, whose Addresses (1807-08) on the condition of the German people (page 568), after their hu- mihating defeat by Napoleon, did much to reveal to Prussia the possibilities of national regeneration by means of education, had taught in Zurich, knew Pestalozzi, and afterward exploited his work and his ideas in Berlin.^ As early as 1803 an envoy, sent by the Prussian King,' reported favorably on Pestalozzi's work, and in 1804 Pestalozzian methods were authorized for the primary schools of Prussia. In 1808 seventeen teachers were sent to Switzerland, at the expense of the Prussian Government, to spend three years in studying Pestalozzi's ideas and methods. On their return, these and others spread Pestalozzian ideas through- out Prussia. A pastor and teacher from Wiirtemberg, Karl August Zeller (i 774-1847), came to Burgdorf in 1803 to study. In 1806 he opened a training-school for teachers in Zurich, and there worked out a plan of studies based on the work of Pesta- lozzi. This was printed and attracted much attention. In 1808 the King of Wiirtemberg listened to five lectures on Pestalozzian methods by Zeller, and invited him to a position as school inspec- tor in his State. Before he had done but a few months' work he was called to Prussia, to organize a normal school and begin the introduction of Pestalozzian ideas there. From Prussia the ideas and methods of Pestalozzi gradually spread to the other German States. Many Swiss teachers were trained by Pestalozzi, and these also helped to extend his work and ideas over Switzerland. Particu- larly in German Switzerland did his ideas take root and reorgan- ize education. As a result modem systems of education made an early start in these cantons. One of Pestalozzi's earliest and most faithful teachers, Hermann Kriisi, became principal of the Swiss normal school at Gais, and trained teachers there in Pestalozzian 1 The young German student of geology and mineralogy, Karl George von Rau- mer (1783-1865), was in Paris, in 1808. While there he read Pestalozzi's How Ger- trude teaches her Children, and what Fichte had said of his work in his Addresses to the German Nation (see chapter xxii). These sent him to Yverdon to see for him- self. He remained two years, and returned to Germany as a teacher. In 1846 he published his four-volume Geschichte der Pddagogik, the first important history of education to be written. 2 In 1814 King Frederick William III himself visited Pestalozzi, at Neufchatel. His queen, Louise, was deeply touched by reading the Emile, and frequently spent hours in the Prussian schools witnessing work conducted after the ideas of Pesta- 546 HISTORY OF EDUCATION methods. Zeller's pupils, too, did much to spread his influence among the Swiss. Pestalozzi's ideas were also carried to England, but in no such satisfactory manner as to the German States. Where German lands received both the method and the spirit, the English obtained largely the form. Later Pestalozzian ideas came to the United States, at first largely through EngHsh sources, and, after about i860, resulted in a thoroughgoing reorganization of American elementary education. After Pestalozzi's institution had become celebrated, and visi- tors and commissions from many countries had visited him and it, and after governments had vied with one another in intro- ducing Pestalozzian methods and reforms, the vogue of the Pesta- lozzian ideas became very extended. Many excellent private schools were founded on the Pestalozzian model, while on the other hand self-styled Pestalozzian reformers sprang up on all sides. All this imitation was both natural and helpful; the fool- ishness and charlatanism in time disappeared, leaving a real ad- vance in the educational conception. The manual-labor school of Fellenberg. Of the Swiss associ- ates and followers of Pestalozzi one of the most influential was Phillip Emanuel von Fellenberg (17 71-1844). The son of a Swiss official of high poUtical and social position, possessed of wealth, having traveled extensively, Fellenberg, having become con- vinced that correct early education was the only means whereby the State might be elevated and the lot of man made better, resolved (1805) to devote his life and his fortune to the working- out of his ideas. For a short time associated with Pestalozzi, he soon withdrew and estabhshed, on his own estate, an Institution which later (1829) came to comprise the following: 1. A farm of about six hundred acres. 2. Workshops for manufacturing clothing and tools. 3. A printing and lithographing establishment. 4. A literary institution for the education of the well-to-do. 5. A lower or real school, which trained for handicrafts and middle- class occupations. 6. An agricultural school for the education of the poor as farm laborers, and as teachers for the rural schools. By 1810 the Institution had begun to attract attention, and soon pupils and visitors came from distant lands to study in and to ex- amine the schools. The agricultural school in particular aroused interest. More than one hundred Reports (R. 272) were pub- Plate 12. Fellenberg's Institute at Hofwyl The first Agricultural and Mechanical CoUege. This school contained the germ-idea of all our agricultural education. NEW THEORY AND SUBJECT-MATTER 547 lished, in Europe and America, on this very successful experi- ment in a combined intellectual and manual-labor type of educa- tion. Fellenberg died in 1844, and his family discontinued the school in 1848. Fellenberg's work was a continuation of the social-regeneration conception of education held by Pestalozzi, and contained the germ-idea of all our agricultural and industrial education. His plan was widely copied in Switzerland, Ger- many, England, and the United States. It was well suited to the United States because of the very democratic condi- tions then prevaiHng among an agri- cultural people possessed of but little wealth. The plan of combining farm- ing and schooling made for a time a strong appeal to Americans, and such schools were founded in many parts of the country. The idea at first ^'^- f/^yf-^,™"^^^ was to unite training in agriculture with schooling, but it was soon extended to the rapidly rising mechanical pursuits as well. The plan, however, was rather short-lived in the United States, due to the rise of manufacturing and the opening of rich and cheap farms to the westward, and lasted with us scarcely two decades. A generation later it reap- peared in the Central West in the form of a new demand for col- leges to teach agricultural and mechanical arts, but with the manual-labor idea omitted. This we shall refer to again, later on (chapter xxrx). IV. REDIRECTION OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Significance of this work. Though some form of parish school for the elements of religious instruction had existed in many places during the later Middle Ages, and foundations pro\dding for some type of elementary instruction had appeared here and there in almost all lands, the elementary vernacular school, as we have previously pointed out, was nevertheless clearly the out- come of the Protestant movement in the sixteenth century, and in its origin was essentially a child of the Church. A child of the Church, too, for more than two centuries the elementary vernacu- lar school remained. During these two centuries the elementary 548 HISTORY OF EDUCATION school made slow but rather unsatisfactory progress, due largely to there being no other motive for its maintenance or expansion than the original religious purpose. Only in the New England Colonies in North America, in some of the provinces of the Neth- erlands, and in a few of the German States had any real progress been made in evolving any different type of school out of this early religious creation, and even in these places the change was in form of control rather than in subject-matter or purpose. The school remained religious in purpose, even though its control was beginning to pass from the Church to the State. Now, within half a century, beginning with the work of Rous- seau (1762), and by means of the labors of the political philoso- phers of France, the Revolutionary leaders in the American Colo- nies, the legislative Assemblies and Conventions in France, and the experimental work of Basedow and his followers in German lands and of Pestalozzi and his disciples in Switzerland, the whole purpose and nature of the elementary vernacular school was changed. The American and French poHtical revolutions and the more peaceful changes in England had ushered in new concep- tions as to the nature and purpose and duties of government. As a consequence of these new ideas, education had come to be re- garded in a new light, and to assume a new importance in the ey£s of statesmen. In place of schools to serve religious and sec- tarian ends, and maintained as an adjunct of the parishes or of a State Church, the elementary vernacular school now came to be conceived of as an instrument of the State, the chief purpose of which was to seive state ends. Some time would, of course, be required to develop the state support necessary to effect the com- plete transformation in control, and the forces of reaction would naturally delay the process as much as possible, but the theory of state purpose had at last been so effectively proclaimed, and the forces of a modern world were pushing the idea so steadily for- ward, that it was only a question of time until the change would be effected. A new impetus for change in control. Basedow and Pestalozzi, too^ad^ven the movement for a transfer of controFa new ini- petus by working out new methods in instruction and in organiz- ing new^ubject-matter for the school, and methods and subject- matter which harmonized with the spirit and principles of the new democracy that had been proclaimed. Pestalozzi in particular had sousrht. guided by a clearer insight into the educational prob- NEW THEORY AND SUBJECT-MATTER 549 lem than Basedow possessed (R. 271), to create a school in which children might, under the wise guidance of the teacher, develop and strengthen their own "faculties" and thus evolve into reason- ing, self-directing human beings, fitted for usefulness and service in a modem world. To make intelligent and reasoning individu- als of all citizens, to develop moral and civic character, to train for life in organized society, and to serve as an instrument by means of which an ignorant, drunken, immoral, and shiftless working-class and peasantry might be elevated into men and women of character, intelligence, and directive power, was in Pestalozzi's conception the_underlying meaning of the school. After Pestalozzi, the earher conception as to the religious purpose of the elementary vernacular schools, by means of which children were to be trained almost exclusively "in the principles of our holy religion" and to become "loyal church members," and to "fit them for that station in life in which it hath pleased their Heavenly Father to place them," was doomed. In its stead there was certain to arise a newer conception of the school as an (instrument of that form of organized society known as the State, 'and maintained by the State to train its future citizens for intelli- gent participation in the duties and obligations of citizenship, and for social, moral, and economic efiiciency. The way now becoming clear. After two hundred and fifty years of confusion and political failure, the way was now at last becoming clear for the creation of national instead of church sys- tems of elementary education, and for the firm estabUshment of the elementary vernacular school as an important obligation to its future citizens of every progressive modern State and the com- mon birthright of all. This became distinctively the work of the nineteenth century. It also became the work of the nineteenth century to gather up the old secondary-school and university foundations, accumulated through the ages, and remould them to meet modern needs, fuse them into the national school systems created, and connect them in some manner with the people's schools. To see how this was done we next turn to the begin- nings of the organization of national school systems in the German States, France, Italy, England, and the United States. These may be taken as types. As Prussia was the first modern State to grasp the significance of national education, and to organize state schools, we shall begin our study by first tracing the steps by which this transformation was effected there. 550 HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Compare the statement of the valuable elements in the theories of Rous- seau (p. 530) with the main ideas of Basedow (p. 535); Ratke (p. 607); Comenius (p. 409). 2. Do we accept all the fourteen points of Rousseau's theory to-day? 3. Might a Rousseau have done work of similar importance in Russia, early in the twentieth century? Why? 4. Explain the educational significance of "self-activity," "sense impres- sions," and "harmonious development." 5. What were the strong points in the experimental work of Basedow? 6. Explain the great enthusiasm which his rather visionary statements and plans awakened. 7. Show the importance of such work as that of Basedow in preparing the way for better-organized reform work. 8. How far was Pestalozzi right as to the power of education to give men intellectual and moral freedom? 9. What do you understand Pestalozzi to have meant by " the development of the faculties"? State the importance of the work of Pestalozzi from the point of view of showing the world how to deal with orphans and defectives. Show how the germs of agricultural and technical education lay in the work of Fellenberg. Explain the greater popularit}^ of the Emile in German lands. State the change in subject-matter and aims from the vernacular church school to the school as thought out by Pestalozzi. 14. Show that it was a fortunate conjunction that brought the work of Pesta- lozzi alongside of that of the political reformers of France. 15. What differences might there have been had Comenius lived and done his work in the time of Pestalozzi? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections, illustrative of the contents of this chapter, are reproduced: 264. Rousseau: Illustrative Selections from the Emile. 265. Basedow: Instruction in the Philanthropinum. 266. Basedow: A Page from the Elementarwerk. 267. Pestalozzi: Explanation of his Work. 268. Griscom: A Visit to Pestalozzi at Yverdon. 269. Woodbridge: An Estimate of Pestalozzi's Work. 270. Dr. Mayo: On Pestalozzi. 271. Woodbridge: Work of Pestalozzi and Basedow compared. 272. Griscom: Hofwyl as seen by an American. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Show the fallacy of Rousseau's reasoning (264 d) as to society being a denominator which prevents man from realizing himself. 2. What are the elements of truth and falsity in Rousseau's idling- to-the- twelfth-year (264 d) idea? 3. Would such a training up to twelve (264 e) be possible, or desirable? 4. What tjqje of education is presupposed in 264 f? 5. Show the similarity in the conceptions of the Orbis Pictus (221) and tho Elementarwerk (266). NEW THEORY AND SUBJECT-MATTER 551 6. What types of schools and conceptions of education were combined in the Philanthropinum (265)? 7. Just what did Pestalozzi attempt (267) to accomphsh? 8. Compare the accounts as to purpose and instruction given by Pestalozzi (267) and Griscom (268). 9. What do the tributes of Woodbridge (269) and Mayo (270) reveal as to the character of Pestalozzi and his influence? 10. Analyze the courses of instruction (272) at Hofwyl. 11. State the points of similarity and difference between the work of Basedow / and Pestalozzi (271), and the points of superiority in the work of Pesta- lozzi. SELECTED REFERENCES *Anderson, L. F. "The Manual-Labor-School Movement"; in Educa- tional Review, vol. 46, pp. 369-88. (November, 1913.) Barnard, Henry. Pestalozzi and his Educational System. *Compayre, G. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ; *Compayre, G. Pestalozzi and Elementary Education. *Guimps, Roger de. Pestalozzi: his Aim and Work. *Kriisi, Hermann, Jr. Life and Work of Pestalozzi. *Parker S. C. History of Modern Education, chaps. 8, 9, 13-16. *Pestalozzi, J. H. Leonard and Gertrude. Pestalozzi, J. H. How Gertrude teaches her Children. Pinloche, A. Pestalozzi and the Foundations of the Modern Elementary School. CHAPTER XXII NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA I. THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION Early German progress in school organization. The first mod- em nation to take over the school from the Church, and to make of it an instrument for promoting the interests of the State was Prussia, and the example of Prussia was soon followed by the other German States, The reasons for this early action by the German States will be clear if we remember the marked progress made in establishing state control of the churches (p. 318) which followed the Protestant Revolts in German lands. Figure 96, page 319, reexamined now, will make the reason for the earlier evolution of state education in Germany plain. Wiirtemberg, as early as 1559, had organized the first German state=church school system, and had made attendance at the rehgious instruc- tion compulsory on the parents of all children. The example of Wiirtemberg was followed by Brunswick (1569), Saxony (1580), Weimar (1619), and Gotha (1642). In Weimar and Gotha the compulsory-attendance idea had even been adopted for elementary-school instruction to all children up to the age of twelve. By the middle of the seventeenth century most of the German States, even including Cathohc Bavaria, had followed the example of Wiirtemberg, and had created a state-church school system which involved at least elementary and secondary schools and the beginnings of compulsory school attendance. Notwithstanding the ravages of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), the state-church schools of German lands contained, more definitely than had been worked out elsewhere, the germs of a separate state school organi- zation. Only in the American Colonies (p. 364) had an equal de- velopment in state-church organization and control been made. As state-church schools, with the religious purpose dominant, the German schools remained until near the middle of the eighteenth century. Then a new movement for state control began, and within fifty years thereafter they had been transformed into in- stitutions of the State, with the state purpose their most essential characteristic. How this transformation was effected in Prussia, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 553 the leader among the German States, and the forces which brought about the transformation, it will be the purpose of this chapter to relate. The new University of Halle. The turning-point in the history of German educational progress was the founding of the Univer- sity of Halle, in 1694. This institution, due to its entirely new methods of work, has usually been designated as the first modern university. A few forward-looking men, men who had been ex- pelled from Leipzig because of their critical attitude and modern ways of thinking, were made professors here. Its creation was due to the sympathy for these men felt by the Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg, later the first King of Prussia. The King clearly intended that the new institution should be representative of modern tendencies in education. To this end he installed as professors men who could and would reform the instruction in theology, law, medicine, and philosophy. In consequence Aristotle was displaced for the new scientific philosophy of Descartes and Bacon, and Latin in the classrooms for the German speech. The sincere pietistic faith of Francke (p. 418) was substituted for the Lutheran dogmatism which had sup- planted the earUer CathoHc. The instruction in law was reformed to accord with the modern needs and theory of the State. Medi- cal instruction, based on observation, experimentation, and de- duction, superseded instruction based on the reading of Hip- pocrates and Galen. The new sciences, especially mathematics and physics, found a congenial home in the philosophical or arts faculty. Free scientific investigation and research, without in- terference from the theological faculty, were soon established as features of the institution, and in place of the fixed scientific knowledge taught for so long from the texts of Aristotle (Rs. 113- 15) and other ancients, a new and changing science, that must prove its laws and axioms, and which might at any time be changed by the investigation of any teacher or student, here now found a home. Under the leadership of Christian Wolff, who was Professor of Philosophy from 1707 to 1723, when he was ban- ished by a new King at the instigation of the Pietists for his too great liberaHsm in religion, and again from 1740 to 1754, after his recall by Frederick the Great, ^ philosophy was "made to speak German" and the AristoteHan philosophy was permanently dis- ^ One of the first acts of the reign of Frederick the Great was to recall Wolff from banishment. In doing so he said: "A man that seeks truth, and loves it, must be leckoned precious in any human society." 554 HISTORY OF EDUCATION placed. ''Nothing without sufficient cause" was the ruling prin- ciple of Wolff's teaching. Changes wrought in old established procedure. The introduc- tion of the new scientific and mathematical and philosophical studies soon changed the arts or philosophy faculty from a pre- paratory faculty for the faculties of law, medicine, and theology, as it had been for centuries, to the equal of these three profes- sional faculties in importance, while the elementary instruction in Latin and Greek was now relegated to the Gymnasia below. These were now in turn changed into preparatory schools for all four faculties of the university. The university instruction in the ancient languages was now placed on a much higher plane, and a new humanistic renaissance took place (p. 462) which deeply in- fluenced both university and gymnasial training. New standards of taste and judgment were drawn from the ancient literatures and applied to modern life, and students were trained to read and enjoy the ancient classics. This reawakening of the best spirit of the Italian Renaissance marked the first outburst of a national feeling of a people as yet possessed of no national literature of im- portance, but unwilling longer to depend on foreign (French) in- fluences for the cultural elements in their intellectual life. It was at Halle, too, that Gundling, in 171 1, discussed "the office of a university " and laid down the modern university theory of Lehrfreiheit und Lernfreiheit — that is, freedom from outside interference in teaching and studying, both teachers and students to be free to follow the truth wherever the truth might lead, and without reference to what preconceived theories might be upset thereby. This was a revolution in university procedure, ^ and the importance of the establishment of this new conception of uni- versity work can scarcely be overestimated. It was a contribu- tion to intellectual progress of large future value. It meant the end of the old-type university, ruled by a narrow theological dog- matism and maintained to give support to a particular religious faith, and the ultimate transformation of the old university foun- 1 "It was a bold declaration, but one which exactly described the great change which had taken place. The older university instruction was everywhere based upon the assumption that the truth had already been given, that instruction had to do with its transmission only, and that it was the duty of the controUing authori- ties to see to it that no false doctrines were taught. The new university instruction began with the assumption that the truth must be discovered, and that it was the duty of instruction to qualify and guide the student in this task. By assuming this attitude the university was the first to accept the consequences of the condi- tions which the Reformation had created." (Paiilsen, Fr., The German Universities^ p. 46.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 555 dations into institutions actuated by the methods and purposes of a modern world. In 1734 another new university was founded at Gottingen, and in this Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) raised the new hu- manistic learning to the place of first importance. This new uni versity became a nursery for the new hterary humanism, ably sup- plementing the work done at Halle. From these two universities teachers of a new type went out, filled with the spirit of "The En- lightenment," as this eighteenth-century German renaissance was called, and they in time regenerated all the German universi- ties. Still more, they regenerated the secondary schools of Ger- man lands as well, and gave Greek Hterature and life that place of first importance in their instruction which was retained until the latter part of the nineteenth century. Gesner at Gottingen, and later Ernesti at Leipzig, did much to formulate the new pedagogi- cal purpose ^ of instruction in the ancient languages and litera- tures for the higher schools of German lands. The earliest school laws for Prussia. In 1 7 13 there came to the kingship of Prussia an organizing genius in the person of Frederic WiUiam I (1713-40). Under his direction Prussia was given, for the first time, a centralized and uniform financial administration, and the beginnings of state school organization were made. He freed the State from debt, provided it with a good income, devel- oped a strong army, and began a vigorous colonization and com- mercial poHcy. Though he cared nothing and did nothing for the universities, the religious reform movement of Francke, as well as his educational undertakings (p. 419), found in the new King a warm supporter. Largely in consequence of this the King be- came deeply interested in attempts to improve and advance the education of the masses of his people. The first year of his reign he issued a Regulatory Code for the Reformed Evangelical and Latin schools of Prussia, and in 1717 he issued the so-called "Advisory Order," relating to the people's schools. In this latter parents were urged, under penalty of "vigorous punishment," to send their children to school to learn 1 "He who reads the works of the ancients will enjoy the acquaintance of the greatest men and the noblest souls who ever lived, and will get in this way, as it happens in all refined conversation, beautiful thoughts and expressive words. "We thus receive, in early childhood, doctrines and philosophy and wisdomof life from the wisest and best educated men of all ages; we thus learn to recognize and understand clearness, dignity, charm, ingenuity, deUcacy, and elegance in language and action, and gradually accustom ourselves to them." (Gesner, Johann Matthias.) 556 HISTORY OF EDUCATION religion, reading, writing, to calculate, and "all that could serve to promote their happiness and welfare." The tuition fees of poor children he ordered paid out of the community poor-box (R. ^273). The following year he directed the authorities of Lithuania to reHeve the existing ignorance there, and sent commissioners to provide the villages with schoolmasters. From time to time he Fig. 168. The School of a Handworker Conducted in his home. A gentleman visiting the school. After a drawing in the German School Museum in Berhn. renewed his directions. To insure a better class of teachers for the towns and rural schools, he, in 1722, directed that no one be admitted to the office of sacristan-schoolmaster ^ except tailors, weavers, smiths, wheelwrights, and carpenters, and in 1738 he further restricted the position of teacher in the town and rural schools to tailors. Becoming especially Interested in providing schools for the pre- viously neglected province of East Prussia, he gave the sum of ^ The sacristan or custodian cf the church was frequently also the teacher of th» elementary school, the two offices being combined in one person. Out of this com' bination the elementary teacher was later evolved. (See p. 446.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 557 fifty thousand thalers as an endowment fund, the interest to be used in assisting communities to build schoolhouses and maintain schools, and he also set aside large tracts of land for school uses. Within a few years over a thousand elementary schools had been established, and some eighteen hundred new schools in Prussia owed their origin to the interest of this King. He also took a similar interest in the establishment of schools in Pomerania (R. 273), a part of which had but recently been wrested from Sweden. In 1737 the King issued his celebrated Principia Regulative, which henceforth became the fundamental School Law for the province of East Prussia. This prescribed conditions for the building of schoolhouses, the support of the schoolmaster, tuition fees, and government aid. The following digest of the section of the Principia relating to these matters gives a good idea as to the nature of the school regulations the King sought to enforce: 1. The parishes forming school societies were obliged to build school- houses and to keep them in repair. 2. The State was to furnish the necessary timber and firewood. 3. The expenses for doors, windows, and stoves to be obtained from collections. 4. Every church to pay four thalers a year toward the support of the schoolmaster. 5. Tuition fees for each child, from four to twelve years of age, to be four groschen per year. 6. Government to pay the fee when a peasant sends more than one child to school. 7. The peasants to furnish the teacher with certain provisions. 8. The teacher to have the right of free pasture for his small stock and some fees from every child confirmed. 9. Government to give the teacher one acre of land, which villagers were to till for him. In 1738 the King further regulated the private schools and teachers in and about Berhn, in particular dealing with their qualifications and fees. The King showed, for the time, an inter- est in and solicitude for the education of his people heretofore al- most unknown. That his decrees were in advance of the possibili- ties of the people in the matter of school support is not to be won- dered at. Still, they rendered useful service in preparing the way for further organizing work by his successors, and in particular in accustoming the people to the ideas of state oversight and local school support. Under his successor and son, Frederick the Great, the preparatory work of the father bore important fruit- 558 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The organizing work of Frederick the Great. In 1740 Freder- ick II, surnamed the Great, succeeded his father, and in turn guided the destinies of Prussia for forty-six years. His benevo- lently despotic rule has been described on a preceding page (p. 474). Here we will consider only his work for education. In 1740, 1 741, and again in 1743 he issued "regulations concerning the support of schools in the villages of Prussia," in which he di- rected that new schools should be established, teachers provided for them, and that "the existing school regulations and the ar- rangements made in pursuance thereto should be permanent, and ^Jiat no change should be made under any pretext whatever." In 1750 he effected a centralization of all the provincial church i;onsistories, except that of Catholic Silesia, under the Berlin Con- sistory. This was a centralizing measure of large future impor- tance, as it centralized the administration of the schools, as well as that of the churches, and transformed the Berlin Consistory into an important administrative agent of the central government. To this new centralized administrative organization the King is- sued instructions to pay special attention to schools, in order that they might be furnished with able schoolmasters and the young be well educated. One of the results of this centralization was the gradual evolution of the modern German Gymnasien, with uni- form standards and improved instruction, out of the old and weakened Latin schools of various types within the kingdom. From 1756 to 1763 Frederick was engaged in a struggle for existence, known as the Seven Years' War, but as soon as peace was at hand the King issued new regulations "concerning the maintenance of schools," and began employing competent school- masters for his royal estates. In April, 1763, he issued instruc- tions to have a series of general school regulations prepared for all Prussia. These were drawn up by Julius Hecker, a former pupil and teacher in Francke's Institution (p. 418) and now a pastor in BerHn and counselor for the Berlin Consistory. After approval by the King, these were issued, September 23, 1763, under the title of General Land-Schule Reglement (general school regulations for the rural and village schools) of all Prussia (R. 274). These new regulations constituted the first general School Code for the whole kingdom, and mark the real foundation of the Prussian elementary-school system. Two years later (1765) a similar but stronger set of regulations or Code was drawn up and promul- gated for the government of the CathoUc elementary schools in NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 559 Eaat from 16* Greenwloll 18° Fig. 169. The Kingdom of Prussia, 1740-86 the province of Silesia (R. 275). This was a new province which Frederick had wrested by force a few years previously (1748) from Maria Theresa of Austria, and the addition of a large number of Catholics to Prussia caused Frederick to issue specific regula- tions for schools among them. These two School Codes did not so much bring already existing schools into a state system, but rather set up standards and obli- gations for an elementary-school system in part to be created in the future. The schools were still left under the supervision and direction of the Church, but the State now undertook to tell the Church what it must do. To enforce the obligation the State Inspectors of Prussia were directed to make an annual inspection (R. 274, § 26) of all schools, and to forward a report on their in- spection to the Berlin Consistory, and for CathoHc Silesia the following significant injunction was placed in the Code: § 51. In order to render as permanent as possible this reform of schools, which lies near our heart, we cannot be satisfied with commit- ting the care of the schools to the clergy alone. We find it necessary that our bureau of War and Domain, the bureau of the Episcopal Vicariate, and the dioceses in our Silesian and Glatz districts, as well as our special school inspectors, give all due attention to this subject, so important to the State. The Prussian School Codes of 1763 and 1765. The regulations of 1763 were issued, so the introduction reads (R. 274), because 56o HISTORY OF EDUCATION "the instruction of youth" in the country had "come to be greatly neglected" and "the young people were growing up in stupidity and ignorance." The King, therefore, issued the new regulations "to the end that ignorance, so injurious and unbe- coming to Christianity, may be prevented and lessened, and the coming time may train and educate in the schools more enlight- ened and virtuous subjects." To this end the King ordered compulsory education for the children of all subjects from the ages of five to thirteen or four- teen, all apprentices to be taught, and leaving certificates to be issued on completion of the course (R. 274, §§ 1-4). The school hours were fixed, Sunday and summer instruction regulated, tui- tion fees standardized, and the fees of the children of the poor were ordered paid (R. 274, §§ 5-8). A school census, and fines on parents not sending their children to school were provided for (R. 274, §§ lo-ii). The requirements for a teacher, his habits, his qualifications and examination, the license to teach, and the ex- tent to which he might ply his trade or business, were all laid down in some detail (R. 274 §§ 12-17). The organization, in- struction, textbooks, order of exercises, and discipline for all schools were prescribed at some length (R. 274, §§ 19-21). The Code closed with a series of regulations covering the relations of the schoolmaster and clergyman, and the supervision of the in- struction by the clergyman and clerical superintendents (R. 274, §§ 25-26). Incapable teachers were ordered suspended or de- posed. As a final injunction relative to school attendance the Code closed with the following sentence: In general we here confirm and renew all wholesome laws, published in former times, especially, that no clergyman shall admit to confirma- tion and the sacrament, any children not of his parish, nor those unable to read, or who are ignorant of the fundamental principles of evangeli- cal religion. The Code of 1765 for the Catholic schools of Silesia followed much the same line as the Code of 1763, though in it the King placed special emphasis on the training of schoolmasters, a sub- ject in which he had become much interested (R. 275 a) ; the regu- lation of the conditions under which teachers lived and worked (R. 275 b); and the supervision of instruction by the clergyman of the parish (R. 275 e). These directions throw much light on the conditions surrounding teaching near the middle of the eight- eenth century. The nature of instruction in the Catholic schools, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 561 and the compulsion to attend, were also definitely stated (R. 275 c-d). These new Codes met with resistance everywhere. The money for the execution of such a comprehensive project was not as yet generally available; parents and churches objected to taxation and to the loss of their children from work ; the wealthy landlords objected to the financial burden; the standards for teachers later on (1779) had to be lowered, and veterans from Frederick's wars installed; and the examinations of teachers had to be made easy ^ to secure teachers at all for the schools. While there continued for some decades to be a vast difference between the actual condi- tions in the schools and the requirements of these Codes, and while the real establishment of a state school system awaited the first decade of the nineteenth century for its accomplishment, much valuable progress in organization nevertheless was made. In principle, at least, Frederick the Great, by the Codes of 1763 and 1765, effected for elementary education a transition from the church school of the Protestant Reformation, and for Catholic Silesia from the parish school of the Church, to the state school of the nineteenth century. It remained only for his successors to realize in practice what he had made substantial beginnings of in law. Nowhere else in Europe that early had such progress in educational organization been made. The Prussian example followed in other German States. The \ example of Prussia was in time followed by the other larger Ger- man States. Wiirtemberg issued a new School Code in 1792, which remained the ruling law for the church schools throughout the eighteenth century. The Saxon King, Augustus the Just, in- spired by the example of Frederick, issued a mandate, in 1766, reminding parents as to their duty to send children to school, and in 1773 issued a new Regulation, filled with "generous enthusiasm for the cause." A teachers' training-school was founded at Dresden, in 1788, and four others before the close of the century. In 1805 a comprehensive Code was issued. This required that every child must be able to read, write, count, and know the truths of religion to receive the sacrament; clergymen were ordered to supervise the schools; school attendance was re- 1 "When the schoolmaster had to pass an examination before the clergyman of the place by order of the inspector, the local authorities, owing to the lamentable life of a schoolmaster, were glad to find persons at all who were willing to accept an engagement for such a position. In consequence an otherwise intolerable indulgence in examining and employing teachers took place, especially in districts where large landholders had patriarchal sway." (Schmid, K. A., Encydopadie, vol. vi, p. 287.) 562 HISTORY OF EDUCATION quired from six to fourteen; the pay of teachers and the govern- ment appropriations for schools were increased; and a series of fines were imposed for violations of the Code. Bavaria issued new school Codes in 1770 and 1778, and additional schoolhouses were built and new textbooks written. After the suppression of the Jesuits (1773) a new progressive spirit animated the Cathohc States, and Austria in particular, under the leadership of Maria Theresa and Joseph II (p. 475), made marked progress in school organization and educational reform. In 1770 Maria Theresa appointed a School Commission to have charge of education in Lower Austria; in 1771 established the first Austrian normal school in Vienna; and in 1774 promulgated a General School Code (R. 276), drawn up by the Abbot Felbiger, who had been most prominent in school organization in Silesia. This Code provided for School Commissions in all provinces ; ^ ordered the estabhshment of an elementary school in all villages and parishes, a ** principal" or higher elementary school in the principal city of every canton, and a normal school in every prov- ince; laid down the course of study for each; and gave details as to teachers, instruction, compulsory attendance, support, and in- spection similar to Frederick's Silesian Code (R. 275). Continua- tion instruction up to twenty years of age also was ordered. That such demands were much in advance of what was possible is evi- dent, and it is not surprising that, in the reaction under Francis I, following the outburst of the French Revolution, we find a de- cree (1805) that the elementary school shall be curtailed to "ab- solutely necessary limits," and that the common people shall get in elementary school only such ideas as will not trouble them in their work, and which will not make them dis- contented with their condition; their intelligence shall be directed toward the fulfillment of their moral duties, and prudent and diligent fulfillment of their domestic and communal obligations. ' The beginnings of teacher-training. The beginning of teacher- training in German lands was the Seminarium PrcBceptorum of Francke, established at Halle (p. 419), in 1697. In 1738 Johann Julius Hecker (1707-68), one of Francke's former students and teachers, and the author of the Prussian Code of 1763, estabHshed the first regular seminary for teachers in Prussia, to train intend- 1 Austria at that time included not only the Austro-Hungarian Empire of 19 14, but extended further into the German Empire and Italy, and included Belgium and Luxemburg as well. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 563 ing theological students for the temporary or parallel occupation of teaching in the Latin schools. In 1747 he established a private Lehrerseminar in Berlin, in connection with his celebrated Real- schule (p. 420), and there demonstrated the possibilities of teacher- training. Frederick the Great was so pleased with the result that, in 1753, he gave the school a subsidy and changed it into a royal institution, and on every fitting occasion recommended school authorities to it for teachers. Similar institutions were opened in Hanover, in 1751 ; Wolfenbiittel, in 1753; in the county of Glatz in Silesia, in 1764 (R. 275) ; in Breslau, in 1765 and 1767; and in Carlsruhe, in 1768. In the Silesian Code of 1765 Frederick specified (R. 275 a, § 2) six institutions which he had designated as teacher-training schools. " These early Prussian institutions laid the foundations upon which the normal-school system of the nineteenth century has been built. In Prussia first, but soon thereafter in other German States (Austria, at Vienna, 1771; Saxe-Weimar, at Eisenach, in 1783; and Saxony, at Dresden, 1788) the Teachers' Seminary was erected into an important institution of the State, and the idea has since been copied by almost all modern nations. This early development in Prussia was influential in both France and the United States, as we shall point out further on. Despite these many important educational efforts, though, the type and the work of teachers remained low throughout the whole of the eighteenth century. In the rural and village schools the teachers continued to be deficient in number and lacking in prepa- ration. Often the pastors had first to give to invalids, cripples, shoemakers, tailors, watchmen, and herdsmen the rudimentary knowledge they in turn imparted to the children. In the towns of fair size the conditions were not much better than in the vil- lages. The elementary school of the middle-sized towns generally had but one class, common for boys and girls, and the magis- trates did little to improve the condition of the schools or the teachers. In the larger cities, and even in Berlin, the number of elementary schools was insufficient, the schools were crowded, and many children had no opportunity to attend schools.^ In Leipzig there was no pubHc school until 1792, in which year the city free school was established. Even Sunday schools, supported by subscription, had been resorted to by Berlin, after 1798, to provide journeymen and apprentices with some of the rudiments ^ Bassewitz, M. Fr. von, Die Kurniark Brandenhurg, p. 342. (Leipzig, 1847. ■> 5^4 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 1 70. A German late Eighteenth-Century School (After a picture in the German School Museum in Berlin) of an education. The creation of a state school system out of the insufhcient and inefi&cient religious schools proved a task of large dimensions, in Prussia as in other lands. Even as late as 1819 Dinter found discouraging conditions (R. 27g) among the teachers of East Prussia. Further late eighteenth-century progress. Frederick the Great died in 1786. In the reign of his successors his work bore fruit in a complete transfer of all schools from church to state con- trol, and in the organization of the strongest system of state schools the world had ever known. The year following the death of Frederick the Great (1787), and largely as an outgrowth of the preceding centralizing work with reference to elementary educa- tion, the Superior School {OherschulcoUegium) Board was estab- lished to exercise a similar centralized control over the older sec- ondary and higher schools of Prussia. Secondary and higher edu- cation were now severed from church control, in principle at least, as elementary education had been by the "Regulations" of 1763 and 1765. The year following (1788) "Leaving Examinations" NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 565 (Maturitdtspriifung) were instituted to determine the completion of the gymnasial course. These, for a time, were largely ineffec- tive, due to clerical opposition, but the centralizing work of this Superior School Board for the supervision of higher education, and the state examinations for testing the instruction of the sec- ondary schools, were from the first important contributing influ- ences. In 1794 came the culmination of all the preceding work in the pubhcation of the General Civil Code (Allgemeine Landrecht) for the State, in which, in the section relating to schools, the following important declaration was made: Schools and universities are state institutions, charged with the instruction of youth in useful information and scientific knowledge. Such institutions may be founded only with the knowledge and con- sent of the State. All public schools and educational institutions are under the supervision of the State, and are at all times subject to its examination and inspection. The secular authority and the clergy were still to share jointly in the control of the schools, but both according to rules laid down by the State. In all cases of conflict or dispute, the secular authority was to decide. This important document forms the Magna Charta for secular education in Prussia. During the decade which followed the promulgation of this declaration of state control but little additional progress of im- portance was accomplished, though the Minister of Justice, to whom (1798) the administration of Lutheran church and school affairs had been given, maintained a correspondence for some years with the King regarding "provisions for a better education and instruction of the children of citizens and peasants," and stated to the King that "the object of reform is national educa- tion, and its field of operation, therefore, all provinces of the monarchy." The King, though, a weak, deeply religious, and unimaginative man (Frederick WilHam III, 1 797-1 840), who lacked the energy and foresight of his predecessors, did little or nothing. Under Frederick William III the State lacked vigor and drifted; the Church regained something of its former power; and the army and the civil service became corrupt. In 1806 a blow fell which brought matters to an immediate crisis and forced important action. 566 HISTORY OF EDUCATION II. A STATE SCHOOL SYSTEM AT LAST CREATED The humiliation of Prussia. At the close of 1804 France, by- vote, changed from the Repubhc to an Empire, with Napoleon Bonaparte as first Emperor of the French, and for some years he took pains that Frenchmen should forget "Liberty and Equal- ity" amid the surfeit of "Glory" he heaped upon France. The great nations outside France, fearful of Napoleon's ambition and power, did not take his accession to the throne of France so com- placently, and, in 1805, England, Sweden, Austria, and Russia formed the "Third Coahtion" against Napoleon in an effort to restore the balance of power in Europe. Of the great powers of Europe only Prussia held aloof, refused to take sides, and in con- sequence enjoyed a temporary prosperity and freedom from in- vasion. For this, though, she was soon to pay a terrible price. Having humiliated the Austrians and vanquished the Russians, Napoleon now goaded the Prussians into attacking him, and then utterly humiliated them in turn. At the battle of Jena (October 14, 1806) the Prussian army was utterly routed, and forced back almost to the Russian frontier. Officered by old generals and pohtical favorites who were no longer efficient, and backed by a state service honeycombed with inefficiency and corruption, the Prussian army that had won such victories under Frederick the Great was all but annihilated by the new and efficient fighting machine created by the Corsican who now controlled the destinies of France. By the Treaty of Tilsit (July 7, 1807) Prussia lost all her lands west of the Elbe and nearly all her steahngs from Poland — in all about one half her "territory and population — and was almost stricken from the list of important powers in Europe. In all its history Prussia had experienced no such humihation as this. In a few months the constructive work of a century had been un- done. The regeneration of Prussia. The new national German feel- ing, which had been slowly rising for half a century, now burst forth and soon worked a regeneration of the State. In the school of adversity the King and the people learned much, and the task of national reorganization was entrusted to a series of able minis- ters whom the King and his capable Queen, Louise, now called into service. His chief minister. Stein, created a free people by aboHshing serfdom and feudal land tenure (1807); eliminated feudal distinctions in business; granted local government to the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 567 cities; and broke the hold of the clergy on the educational system. His successor, Hardenburg, extended the rights of citizenship, and laid the foundations of government by legislative assemblies. Another minister, Scharnhorst, reorganized the Prussian army (1807-13) by dismissing nearly all the old generals, and introduc- ing the principle of compulsory mihtary service. In all branches of the government service there were reorganizations, the one thought of the leaders being to so reorganize and revitalize the State as to enable it in time to overthrow the rule of Napoleon and regain its national independence. Though the abohtion of serfdom, the reform of the civil service, and the beginnings of local and representative government were important gains, nothing was of secondary importance to the complete reorganization of education which now took place. The education of the people was turned to in earnest for the regenera- tion of the national spirit, and education was, in a decade, made the great constructive agent of the State. Said the King: Though we have lost many square miles of land, though the country has been robbed of its external power and splendor, yet we shall and will gain in intrinsic power and splendor, and therefore it is my earnest wish that the greatest attention be paid to public instruction. . . . The State must regain in mental force what it has lost in physical force. His minister Stein said: We proceed from the fundamental principle, to elevate the moral, religious, and patriotic spirit in the nation, to instil into it again cour- age, self-reliance, and readiness to sacrifice everything for national honor and for independence from the foreigner. ... To attain this end, we must mainly rely on the education and instruction of the young. If by a method founded on the true nature of man, every faculty of the mind can be developed, every noble principle of life be animated and nourished, all one-sided education avoided, and those tendencies on which the power and dignity of men rest, hitherto neglected with the greatest indifference, carefully fostered — then we may hope to see grow up a generation, physically and morally vigorous, and the begin- nings of a better time. Fichte appeals to the leaders. Still more did the philosopher Fichte (1762-18 14), in a series of "Addresses to the German Na- tion," delivered in Berlin during the winter ^ of 1807-08, appeal to the leaders to turn to education to rescue the State from the miseries which had overwhelmed it. Unable forcibly to resist, ^ These lectures were listened to by Napoleon's police and passed to print by his censor, not being regarded as containing anything seditious or dangerous. 568 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and with every phase of the government determined by a foreign conqueror, only education had been overlooked, he said, and to this the leaders should turn for national redemption (R. 277). He held that it rested with them to determine whether you will be the end and last of a race ... or the beginnings and germ of a new time, glorious beyond all your imaginings, and those from whom posterity will reckon the years of their welfare. ... A na- tion that is capable, if it were only in its highest representation and leaders, of fixing its eyes firmly on the vision from the spiritual world, Independence, and being possessed with a love of it, will surely prevail over a nation that is only used as a tool of foreign aggressiveness and for the subjugation of independent nations. With a fervor of emotion that was characteristic of a romantic age, impelled by a conviction that the distinctive character of the German people was indispensable to the world, and holding that what was necessary also was possible, Fichte made the German leaders feel, with him, that to reshape reality by means of ideas is the business of man, his proper earthly task; and nothing can be impossible to a will confident of itself and of its aim.^ Fichte's Addresses stirred the thinkers among the German peo- ple as they had not been stirred since the days of the Reforma- tion,2 and a national reorganization of education, with national ends in view, now took place. As Duke Ernest remade Gotha, after the ravages of the Thirty Years' War, by means of education (p. 317), so the leaders of Prussia now created a new national spirit by taking over the school from the Church and forging it into one of the greatest constructive instruments of the State. The result showed itself in the "Uprising of Prussia," in the win- ter of 181 2-13; the "War of Liberation," of 1813-15; the utter defeat of Napoleon at the battle of Leipzig by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, in 18 13; and again at the battle of Waterloo by Eng- ^ "He set all his hopes for Germany on a new national system of education. One German State was to lead the way in establishing it, making use of the same right of coercion to which it resorted in compelling its subjects to serve in the army, and for the exercise of which certainly no better justification could be found than the common good aimed at in national education." (Paulsen, Fr., German Education, Past and Present, p. 240.) 2 "Never have the souls of men been so deeply stirred by the idea of raising the whole existence of mankind to a higher level. Something like the enthusiasm which had taken hold of the minds at the outbreak of the French Revolution was again at work, the only difference being that the strong current of national feeling directed it toward an aim which, if more limited, was, for that very reason, more practicable and more defined." (Paulsen, Fr., German Education, Past and Present, p. 183.) (N V *■ — ^ w >, H a :n >. CO 2 Ph :u£Ji«c«^^ NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 569 land and Prussia/ in 181 5. Still more clearly was the result shown in the humihating defeat of France, in 1870, when it was commonly remarked that the schoolmaster of Prussia had at last triumphed. The regeneration of Prussia in the early part of the nineteenth century, as well as its more recent humiliation, stand as eloquent testimonials to the tremendous influence of education on national destiny, when rightly and when wrongly directed. The reorganization of elementary education. The first step in the process of educational reorganization was the abolition (1807) of the Oherschulcollcgium Board, established (p. 564) in 1787 to supervise secondary and higher education, in order to get rid of clerical influence and control. The next step was the creation in- stead (1808) of a Department of Public Instruction, organized as a branch of the Interior Department of the State. One of the first steps of the acting head of the new department was to send seventeen Prussian teachers (1808) to Switzerland to spend three years, at the expense of the Government, in studying Pestalozzi's ideas and methods, and they were particularly en- joined that they were not sent primarily to get the mechanical side of the method, but to warm yourselves at the sacred fire which burns in the heart of this man, so full of strength and love, whose work has remained so far below what he originally desired, below the essential ideas of his life, of which the method is only a feeble product. You will have reached perfection when you have clearly seen that education is an art, and the most sublime and holy of all, and in what connection it is with the great art of the education of nations. In 1809 Carl August Zeller (i 774-1847), a pupil of Pestalozzi, who had established two Pestalozzian training-colleges in Switzer- land and had just begun to hold Pestalozzian institutes in Wiir- temberg (p. 545), was called to Prussia to organize a Teachers' Seminary (normal school) to train teachers in the Pestalozzian methods. The seventeen Prussian teachers, on their return from study with Pestalozzi, were also made directors of training insti- tutions, or provincial superintendents of instruction. In this way Pestalozzian ideas were soon in use in the elementary school rooms of Prussia, and so effective was this work, and so readily did the Prussian teachers catch the spirit of Pestalozzi's endeav- ^ As a result of the overthrow of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna restored to Prussia and France substantially the boundaries they had at the opening of the Napoleonic Wars. Still more important for the future was the consolidation of some four hundred States and petty uerman kingdoms into thirty-eight States. 570 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 171. DiNTER (1760-1831) Director of Teachers' Seminaries in Saxony; Superintendent of Educa- tion in East Prussia. ors, that at the BerHn celebration of the centennial of his birth, in 1846, the German educator Diesterweg ^ said: By these men and these means, men trained in the Institution at Yverdon under Pestalozzi, the study of his publications, and the appli- cations of his methods in the model and normal schools of Prussia, after 1808, was the present Prussian, or rather Prussian-Pestalozzian school sys- tem established, for he is entitled to at least one half the fame of the German popular schools. Similarly Gustavus Friedrich Din- ter, who early distinguished himself as principal of a Teachers' Seminary in Saxony, was called to Prussia and made School Counselor (Superin- tendent) for the province of East Prussia. Wherever Prussia could find men, in other States, who knew Pestalozzian methods and possessed the new conception of education, they were called to Prussia and put to work, and the statement of D inter was characteristic of the spirit which animated their work. He said: ^ I promised God, that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God, if I did not pro- vide him with the best education, as a man and a Christian, which it was possible for me to provide. Work of the Teachers' Seminaries. Napoleon had unposed heavy financial indemnities on Prussia, as well as loss of territory, and the material means with which to establish schools were scanty indeed. With a keen conception of the practical difficul- ties, the leaders saw that the key to the problem lay in the crea- tion of a new type of teaching force, and to this end they began from the first to establish Teachers' Seminaries. Those who de- sired to enter these institutions were carefully selected, and out of them a steady stream of what Horace Mann described (R. 278) as a "beneficent order of men" were sent to the schools, *'mould- ^ Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg became a pupil in one of the eariiest normal schools in Prussia, that at Frankfort; then a teacher; and in 1820 became a director of a Teachers' Seminary at Moers. From 1833 to 1849 he was head of the normal school at Berlin. He has often been called "der deutsche Pestalozzi." * Made in a letter to Baron von Altenstein, Prussian Minister for Education. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 571 ing the character of the people, and carrying them forward in a career of civilization more rapidly than any other people in the world are now advancing." Mann described, with marked approval, both the teacher and the training he received. So successful were these institutions that within a decade, under the glow of the new national spirit animating the people, the elementary schools were largely transformed in spirit and pur- pose, and the position of the element- ary-school teacher was elevated from the rank of a trade (R. 279) to that of a profession (R. 278). By 1840, when the earlier fervor had died out and a reaction had clearly set in, there were in Prussia alone thirty-eight Teachers' Seminaries for elementary teachers, ap- proximately thirty thousand element- ary schools, and every sixth person in Prussia was in school. In the other German States, and in Holland, Swe- den, and France, analogous but less extensive progress in providing normal schools and elementary schools had been made; but in Austria, which did not for long follow the Prussian example, the schools remained largely sta- tionary for more than half a century to come. Nationalizing the elementary instruction. That the system of \J elementary vernacular or people's schools (the term Volksschule now began to be applied) now created should be permeated by a strong nationalistic tone was, the times and circumstances con- sidered, only natural. Though the Pestalozzian theories as to the development of the mental faculties, training through the senses, and the power of education to regenerate society were accepted, along with the new Pestalozzian subject-matter and methods in instruction (p. 543,) all that could be rendered useful to the Prussian State in its extremity naturally was given special emphasis. Thus all that related to the home country — geogra- phy, history, and the German speech — was taught as much from the patriotic as from the pedagogical point of view. Music was given special emphasis as preparatory for participation in the Fig. 172. DiESTERWEG (1790-1866) Director of Teachers' Semina- ries at Maurs (1820-33) and Ber- lin (1833-49). "Der deutsche Pestalozzi" 572 HISTORY OF EDUCATION patriotic singing-societies and festivals, which were organized at the time of the "Uprising of Prussia" (1813). Drawing and arithmetic were emphasized for their practical values. Physical exercises were given an emphasis before unknown, because of their hygienic and miHtary values. Finally religion was given an importance beyond that of Pestalozzi's school, but with the em- phasis now placed on moral earnestness, humility, self-sacrifice, and obedience to authority, rather than the earlier stress on the Catechism and church doctrine. Clearly perceiving, decades ahead of other nations, the power of such training to nationalize a people and thus strengthen the State, the Prussian leaders, in the first two decades of the nine- teenth century, laid the foundations of that training of the masses, and of teachers for the masses (R. 280), which, more than any other single item, paved the way for the development of a na- tional German spirit, the unification of German lands into an Im- perial German Empire, and that blind trust in and obedience to authority which has recently led to a second national humiliation. The reorganization of secondary education. Alongside this elementary-school system for the masses of the people, the older secondary and higher school system for a directing class (p. 553) also was largely reorganized and redirected. The first step in this direction was the appointment, in 1809, of Wilhelm von Hum- boldt (1767-1835), "a philosopher, scholar, philologist, and statesman" of the first rank, to the headship of the new Prussian Department of Public Instruction. During the two and a half years he remained in charge important work in the reorganization of secondary and higher education was accomplished. In 18 17 the Department of Public Instruction was changed from a bureau to an independent Ministry for Spiritual and Instructional Af- fairs. By 1825, when governing school boards were ordered es- tablished in each province, and made responsible to the Ministry for Education at BerHn, the organization of the state school sys- tem was virtually complete. For the next half-century the changes made were in the nature of the perfection of bureaucratic organization, rather than any fundamental organizing change. During the early years improvements of great future importance for secondary education were effected in the creation of a well- educated, professional teaching body, and in the standardization of courses and of work. In 1 810 the examination of all secondary-school teachers, ac- NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 573 cording to a uniform state plan, was ordered. The examinations were to be conducted for the State by the university authorities; to be based on university training in the g>'mnasial subjects, with an opportunity to reveal special preparation in any subject or sub- jects; and no one in the future could even be nominated for a posi- tion as a gymnasial teacher who had not passed this examination. This meant the erection of the work of teaching in the secondary schools into a distinct profession ; the elimination from the schools of the theological student who taught for a time as a stepping- stone to a church living; and the end of easy local examination and approval by town authorities or the patrons of a school. To insure still better preparation of candidates, Pedagogical Seminars were begun in the universities ^ for imparting to future g>'mnasial teachers some pedagogical knowledge and insight, while Philo- logical Seminars also appeared, about the same time,- to give ad- ditional training in understanding the spirit of instruction in the chief subjects of the gymnasial course — the classics. In 1826 a year of trial teaching before appointment {Prohejahr) was added for all candidates, and in 183 1 new and more stringent regulations for the examination of teachers were ordered.^ At least two gen- erations ahead of other nations, Prussia thus developed a body of professional teachers for its secondary schools. Unification of the secondary schools. In 181 2 the Leaving Examinations {Maturitdtspriifung), instituted in 1788, but in- effective through clerical opposition, were revived and strictly enforced. In 1834 the passing of such an examination was made necessary to entering nearly all branches of the state civil service, thus securing an educated body of minor public officials. This same year the universities gave up their entrance examinations, and have since depended entirely on the Leaving Examinations of the State. ^ "Herbart's seminar at the university of Konigsberg was officially recognized, in 1810; Gedike's seminar in Berlin was formally taken over by the university, in 1812; the seminar in Stettin, founded in 1804, was reorganized in 1816; Breslau began pedagogical work, in 1813; and in 1817 it was stated that the purpose of the reorganized seminar in Halle was ' the training of skilled teachers for the Gymnasien.' " (Russell, James E., German Higher Schools, p. 97.) 2 Gesner at Gottingen and Wolff at Halle laid down the Hnes for these in the middle eighteenth century. The early nineteenth-century foundations were at Konigsberg, 1810; Berlin, 181 2; Breslau, 181 2; Bonn, 1819; Griefswald, 1820; and Miinster, 1825. ' AH prospective gymnasial teachers, whether graduates of the universities or not, were now required to take examinations in philosophy, pedagogy, theology, and the main gymnasial subjects, showing marked proficiency in one of the following groups, and a reasonable knowledge of the other two: namely, (i) Greek, Latin, German; (2) Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; (3) History and Geography. 574 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The immediate effect of the reinstitution of the Leaving Ex- aminations was to unify the work of all the different surviving types of classical secondary schools — Gymnasium, Lyceum, Pddagogium, Collegium, Lateinische Schule, Akademie — all standard nine-year schools henceforth taking the name of Gym- nasien. Those institutions which could not meet the standards of a nine-year classical school were either permitted to do the first six years of the work, being known as Pro-Gymnasien, or the mod- ern languages were substituted for the ancient, and they became middle-class institutions under the name of Biirgerschulen. A few Realschulen also were in existence, and these were permitted to continue, as middle-class institutions, but without any state recognition. Thus, without the destruction of institutions, the accumulated foundations of the centuries were transformed into a series of organized state schools to serve the needs of the State. The next step was the promulgation of a uniform course of in- struction for all Gymnasien and Pro-Gymnasien. This was done in 1816. The studies were Latin, Greek, German, mathematics, history, geography, religion, and science, the amount of time to be devoted to each ranging, in the order Hsted, from a maximum for Latin to a minimum for science. Up to 1824 Greek was not absolutely required; from 1824 to 1837 it was required, unless the substitution of a modern language was permitted; but after 1837, when the type of German secondary school had become fairly well fixed, and the devotion to humanistic studies had reached a climax, Greek became a fixed and unvarying requirement.^ Founding of the University of Berlin. One result of the Treaty of Tilsit (p. 566) was that Prussia had lost all her universities, except three along the Baltic coast. Both Halle and Gottingen were lost, and the loss of Halle was a severe blow. In 1807 Fichte, who had been a professor at Jena, drew up a plan and sub- mitted it to the King for the organization of a new university at Berlin. When Humboldt came to the head of the Department of Public Instruction the idea at once won his enthusiastic approval. In May, 1809, he reported favorably on the project to the King, and three months later a Cabinet Order was issued creating the new university, giving it an annual money grant, and assigning a royal palace to it for a home. The spirit with which the new in- stitution was founded may be inferred from the following extract 1 See Russell, Jas. E., German Higher Schools, p. loi, for the detailed "Gymna- sial Program" promulgated in 1837. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 575 from a memorial, published by Humboldt, in 18 10. In this he said: The State should not treat the universities as if they were higher classical schools or schools of special sciences. On the whole the State should not look to them at all for anything that directly concerns its own interests, but should rather cherish a conviction that, in fulfiUing their real destination, they will not only serve its own purposes, but serve them on an infinitely higher plane, commanding a much wider field of operation, and affording room to set in motion much more eflacient springs and forces than are at the disposal of the State itself. This university was indeed a new creation, and of far more sig- nificance for the future of university work than even the founding of Halle had been. To the selection of its first faculty Humboldt devoted almost all his energies during the period he remained in office. From the first, high attainment in some branch of knowl- edge, and the ability to advance that knowledge, was placed ahead of mere teaching skill. The most eminent scholars in all lines were invited to the new "chairs," and when it opened (1810) its first faculty represented the highest attainment of scholarship in German lands. From the first the instruction divested itself of almost all that characterized the school. The lecture replaced the classroom recitation, and the seminar, in which small groups of advanced students investigate a problem under the direction of a professor, was given a place of large importance in the institution. Original research and contributions to knowledge marked the work of both students and professors, the object being, not to train teachers for the schools, but to produce scholars capable of advancing knowledge by personal research. Even more than at Halle, the institution was a place where professors and students worked to discover truth, uninfluenced by any preconceived no- tions and unmindful of what older ideas might be upset in the process. The value of such pioneer work for university scholars everywhere is not likely to be overestimated. Specialization in university instruction emphasized. Speciali- zation in some field of knowledge soon came to be the ruling idea, and this proved exceedingly fruitful in the years which followed. There Bopp developed the study of comparative grammar on the basis of the Sanskrit. There Dietz founded Romance philology. RitschI turned his students to the study of Latin inscriptions to reconstruct the past. Lepsius began the study of Egyptology with a spade. Niebuhr's Roman History (181 1) was the institu- tion's fijst fruit, and his successor, Ranke, showed his students 576 HISTORY OF EDUCATION how to study history from the sources. Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Lotze made over philosophy. Fechner and Wundt began there the study of experimental psychology. Stahl and von Savigny created new standards in the study of law. Miiller in- troduced the microscope into the study of pathological anatomy. Schultze systematized zoology. Liebig, who had opened at Giessen (1824) what was probably the first chemical laboratory in the world open to students, was drawn to Berlin and created there a new chemistry. Still later, Helmholtz created there a new physics. The effect of all this on the expansion of the work of the philo- sophical faculty was marked. The new philological and historical sciences, the biological sciences, and the mathematical sciences, were all greatly expanded in scope, and the new philosophical faculty, evolved out of the old arts faculty (p. 554), now attained to the place of first importance in the university — a position it has ever since retained. Law and medicine were also given a new direction and emphasis, and even the teaching of theology was greatly improved under the specialization in instruction and the freedom in teaching which now became the rule. The effect on the other German universities was marked. Some of the older institutions (Erfurt, Wittenberg, Cologne, Mainz) died out, while new foundations (Breslau, 181 1; Bonn, 1818; Munich, 1826) after the new model, took their place. Those that continued were changed in character,^ and a new unity was established throughout the German university world. By 1850 exact scientific research, in both libraries and laboratories, and a sober search for truth, had become the watchword of all the German universities. In consequence they naturally assumed a world leadership, and were frequented by students from many lands. Especially has the United States been influenced in its university development by the large number of university teach- ers who received their specialized training in the German univer- sities ^ during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The lec- 1 In 1840 there were six Prussian universities; by 1900 the number had increased to eleven, and three technical universities in addition. In the other German States eleven additional universities and six technical universities were in existence, in 1900. 2 Benjamin Franklin visited Gottingen, as early as 1766, but the first American student to take a degree at a German university was Benjamin S. Barton, of Phila- delphia, who took his doctor's degree at Gottingen, in 1799. By 1825 ten American students had studied one or more semesters at Gottingen. That year tlie first American student registered at Berlin, and in 1827 the first at Leipzig. (See Hins- ?!alej B. A., in Report, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1897-98, vol. i, pp. 603-16.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 577 21 :~---a;. ture, the seminar, laboratory investigation, research, the doctor- ate, and academic freedom in study and teaching are distinctive contributions to our university development drawn from German lands, and superimposed on our earlier EngUsh-type college. The founding of Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, in 1876, on the German model, marked the erection of the first dis- tinctively research university in America. A two-class state school system created. We thus see that Prussia by 181 5, clearly by 1825, had taken over education from the Church and made of it an instru- ment of the State to serve State ends. For the masses there was the Volks- schule, superseding the old religious vernacular school and clearly designed to create an intelligent but obedient and patriotic citizenship for the Father- land, and in this school the great ma- jority of the children of the State re- ceived their education for citizenship and for life. This was for both sexes, and was entirely a German school. At- tendance upon this school was made compulsory, and beyond this some con- tinuation education early began to be provided (Rs. 274, §6; 275 d; 276, § 15). Within the past half-century continuation education, especially along vocational lines, as we shall point out in a subsequent chapter, has re- ceived in German lands a very re- markable development. To insure that this school should serve the State in the way desired. Teachers' Seminaries, for the training of Volksschule teachers, were from the first made a feature of the new state system. For those who were to form the official and directing class of society — a closely limited, almost entirely male, intellectual aristocracy — education in separate classical schools, with uni- versity or professional training superimposed, was provided, and this type of training ofTered a very thorough preparation for a wnall and a carefully selected class. Out of this class the leaders 10 Transfer 9— Educates Educates about 92 ' about 8 ", Fig. 173. The Prussian State School System Created Compare with Fig. 209 and note the difference between a European two-class school sys- tem and the American demo- cratic educational ladder. 578 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of Germany for a century have been drawn. ^ For this classical school also the universities were early directed to prepare a well- educated body of teachers. The Prussian plan was followed in all its essentials in the other German States, so that the drawing given (Fig. 173) was true for Germany as a whole, as well as for Prussia, up at least to 19 14. New nineteenth-century tendencies manifested. In this early evolution of the Prussian state school systems we find two promi- nent nineteenth-century ideas expressing themselves. The first is the new conception of the State as not merely a government organized to secure national safety and protection from invasion, but rather an organization of the people to promote pubHc wel- fare and reahze a moral and political ideal. To this end state control of the whole range of education, to enable the State to promote intellectual and moral and social progress along lines use- ful to the State, became a necessity, and some form of this educa- tion, in the interests of the public welfare, must now be extended to all. Though France and the new American nation gave earlier political expression to this new conception of the State, it was in Prussia that the idea attained its earliest concrete and for long its most complete realization. Seeing further and more clearly than other nations the possibilities of education, the practical workers of Prussia, and after them the other German States, took over education as a function of the State for the propagation of the na- tional ideas and the promotion of the national culture. Of this development Paulsen says: In the nineteenth century Germany took the lead in the educational movement among the nations of Europe. The German universities have become acknowledged centers of scientific research for the whole world. ... In the domain of primary and technical education Ger- many has also become the universal teacher of Europe. But it must not be forgotten, in this connection, that the German people had been the pupils of their neighbors during a greater length of time and with greater assiduity than any other European nation. Thus, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Germany imported the culture of Humanism from Italy. During the seventeenth and eight- eenth centuries she introduced the modern courtly culture and lan- guage of the French people, besides giving admission, since the middle ^ The remark attributed to Bismarck is interesting in this connection. "Ot the students who attend the German universities," he said, "one-third die prema- turely as the result of disease arising from too great poverty and under-nourishment while students; another one-third die prematurely or amount to little due to bad habits and drinking and disease contracted while students; the remaining third rule Europe." NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 579 of the eighteenth century, to the philosophy, science, and Hterature of English middle-class society. Lastly, since the end of the eighteenth century, the Germans have yielded themselves to the influence of the Hellenic spirit with greater fervor than any other nation. The second nineteenth-century idea which early found expres- sion in the Prussian State, and one which became a dominant fac- tor during the latter half of the century, was the idea of utilizing the schools, as state institutions, to promote national ends — to unify and nationalize peoples. National self-consciousness here first found concrete expression, and with wonderful practical re- sults. From a geographical expression, consisting of nearly four hundred petty self-governing cities, principalities, and states, and some fourteen hundred independent noblemen and prelates, be- fore the Napoleonic wars, their close found the German people free from serfdom, united in spirit, and organized politically into thirty- eight modern- type States. In 1870, largely as a result of the na- tionalizing efforts of government and education, working hand in hand, an Lnperial Empire of twenty-two States and three Free Cities was formed. The struggle for national realization, begun by Prussia after 1807, and with education as the important con- structive tool of the State, has since been copied by nation after nation and has become the dominant force of modern history. To awaken a national self-consciousness, to acquire national unity, and to infuse into all a common culture has supplanted the humanistic cosmopolitanism of the eighteenth century and become the dominant characteristic of nineteenth-century polit- ical history. In this Prussia led the way. The period of reaction. Through the period preceding the Wars of Liberation (1813-15), and afterward for a few years, an educational zeal animated the Government. The schools dur- ing this period were free on the one hand from politics and on the other from minute official regulation. As one writer well stated: ^ It was diflficult to decide whether the schools derived their impor- tance from the life which surged around them, or whether their impor- tance was due to their intrinsic power, very carefully fostered by the state authorities. . . . There was spirit and life in Prussia; there was much activity and liberty in contriving, with little outward parade. Any foreigner, visiting Prussia, might observe that the vitalizing breath of government, like the spirit of God, was acting upon the whole people. ^ Barnard, Henry, American Journal of Education, vol. xx, p. 365. 58o HISTORY OF EDUCATION Napoleon was finally vanquished at Waterloo (1815) and sent to Saint Helena, and the Congress of Vienna (181 5) remade the map of Europe. In doing so it forgot that the people wanted constitutional government, instead of a return to absolute rulers. It restored old thrones, rights, and territories, and inaugurated a policy of poHtical reaction which increased in intensity with time and dominated the governments of continental Europe until after the middle of the century. Under the lead of the Austrian minis- ter, Metternich, and by "third-degree" methods, the so-called Holy Alliance ^ of continental Europe suppressed free speech, democratic movements, political liberties, university freedom, and liberalism in government and reHgion. The governments in this Alliance redirected and restricted the people's schools, as much as could be done, to make them conform in purpose to their reactionary ideas. In consequence, the development of popular education in Germany, as well as in France and other continental lands, was for a time checked. The great start obtained by Frussia and the German States before 1820, though, was such that what had been done there could not be wholly undone. In France, Spain, the Italian Kingdoms, the Austrian States, and Russia, on the other hand, what had not been developed to any extent could be prevented from developing, and in these lands popular education was given back to the Church to control and direct. In England, also, though for other reasons there, the Church retained its control over elementary education for half a century longer. Change in the spirit of the schools. The King of Prussia, Frederick William III (i 797-1 840), though he had given full ad- herence to the movement for general education during the dark period of Prussian history, was after all never fully in sympathy with the liberal aspect of the movement. After Austria, by the settlement at Vienna, became the leader of the German States, and Metternich the dominating political personality of Europe, the King came more and more to favor a restriction of liberties and the holding of education to certain rather limited lines, fearful that too much education of the people might prove harmful to the Government. Accordingly, under the influence of the King and 1 This was proposed by Czar Alexander I of Russia in 1815, and became a per- sonal alliance of the Czar of Russia, the Emperor of Austria, and the King of Prussia, "to promote religion, peace, and order." Other princes were asked to join this continental League to enforce peace and, under the rule of Prince Metternich, chief minister of Austria, it dominated Europe until after the political revolutions il 1848. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 581 against the desires of the liberal leaders, Prussia now changed di- rection and embarked on a policy of reaction which checked nor- mal educational progress; led to the unsuccessful revolution of 1848 and the subsequent almost fanatical governmental opposi- tion to reforms; and was in large part responsible for the disaster of 1918. It is an interesting speculation as to how different the future German and world history might have been had Prussia and the German States held to the liberal ideas of the earlier pe- riod, and drawn their political conceptions from England and the new American nation, rather than from Austria and Russia. Accordingly, in November, 181 7, the Department of Public Instruction was replaced by a Ministry for Spiritual, Educa- tional, and Medical Afifairs, and Karl, Baron von Altenstein, was made Minister. He continued in office until his death, ^ in 1840, and his administration was marked by an increasing state cen- tralization and limitation of the earlier plans. In 1819 he codi- fied all previous practices into a general school law for the king- dom. While the King never really approved and issued it, it nevertheless became a basis for future work and is the law so en- thusiastically described by Cousin, in 1830 (R. 280). Under his administration the earlier creative enthusiasm and the energy for the execution of great ideas disappeared, and the earlier ''stimu- lating and encouraging attitude on the part of the authorities was now replaced by the timid policy of the drag and the brake." The earlier preparatory work in the development of Teachers' Seminaries and the establishment of elementary schools was al- lowed to continue; Pestalozzian ideas were for a time not seri- ously restricted; compulsory attendance was more definitely or- dered enforced, in 1825; the abolition of tuition fees for Volks- schule education was begun in 1833, but not completed until 1888; and a more careful supervision of schools was instituted, in 1834. The great change was rather in the spirit and direction of the instruction. The early tendency to emphasize nationalism and religious instruction (p. 571) was now stressed, and the lib- eral aspects of Pestalozzianism were increasingly subordinated to the more formal instruction and to nationalistic ends. The sol- dier and the priest joined hands in diverting the schools to the ^ As a young man Altenstein had been in charge of a subordinate division of the Department of Public Instruction under Humboldt, and was a man of somewhat liberal ideas. Now he v/as compelled to fall in with the ideas of the political leaders and the wishes of the king, though he still did something to hold back the reactionary forces and preserve much of what had been gained. 582 HISTORY OF EDUCATION" creation of intelligent, devout, patriotic, and, above all else, obedi- ent Germans, while the universal military idea, brought in by the successful work of Scharnhorst (p. 567), and retained after the War of Liberation as a survival of the old dynastic and predatory conception of the State, was more and more emphasized in the work of the schools and the life of the citizen. When Horace Mann reported on his visit to the schools of the German States, in 1843, he called attention to this element of weakness (R. 281), as well as to their many elements of strength. Further intolerance and reaction. The reactionary tendencies which set in after the settlement of Vienna had, by 1840, produced stagnation in the life of the Governments of Europe, and the revo- lutions of 1848, which broke out in France, Italy, Switzerland, and the different German and Austrian States, were revolts against the reactionary governmental rule and an expression of disappointment at the failure to secure constitutional govern- ment. The revolutions were both successful and unsuccessful — successful in that the greater liberty they sought came later on, but unsuccessful at the time. In consequence, immediately fol- lowing 1848, an even more reactionary educational policy was instituted. University freedom was markedly restricted; the in- stitutions lost their earlier vigor; and the number of students suf- fered a marked decline in consequence. The secondary schools also felt the new influences. Latin and Greek were made com- pulsory; uniform programs for work were insisted upon; and Latin in particular was reduced to a grammatical drill that de- stroyed the spirit of the earlier instruction and put gymnasia' teaching back almost to the type made so popular by Sturm The few Realschulen, which had continued to exist and were tol- erated before, were now treated with positive dislike. In 1859 they, were able to force their first official recognition, but only when changed from practical schools for the middle classes to secondary schools, on the same basis as the Gymnasien, and for parallel ends. It was upon the elementary schools (Volksschulen) and the Teachers' Seminaries that the most severe official displeasure now fell. A number of Volksschtile teachers had been connected with the revolutions of 1848, and "over-education" was regarded as responsible. The Teachers' Seminary at Preslau, which had for long given a high grade of training, was closed, and the head of the Seminary at Berlin, Diesterweg, was dismissed because of his NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 583 strong advocacy of Pestalozzian ideas. Anything savoring of individualism was especially under the ban. Bitter reproaches were heaped upon the elementary- school teachers, and the new King, Frederick WiUiam IV (1840-61) considered their work as the very root of the political evils of the State. To a conference of Seminary teachers, held in 1849 in Berlm, he said: ^ You and you alone are to blame for all the misery which the last year has brought upon Prussia! The irreligious pseudo-education of the masses is to be blamed for it, which you have been spreading under the name of true wisdom, and by which you have eradicated religious belief and loyalty from the hearts of my subjects and alienated their affections from my person. This sham education, strutting about like a peacock, has always been odious to me. I hated it already from the bottom of my soul before I came to the throne, and, since my accession, I have done everything I could to suppress it. I mean to proceed on this path, without taking heed of any one, and, indeed, no power on earth shall divert me from it. Thus easily did an autocratic Hohenzollern cast upon the shoul- ders of others the burden of his own failure to grasp the evolution in political thinking ^ which had taken place in Europe, since 1789. Unfortunately for the future of the German people he was able to force his will upon them. In 1854 new "Reg- ulations" were issued which put the course of instruction for ele- mentary schools back to the days of Freder- ick the Great. The one-class rural ele- mentary school was made the standard. Everything beyond reading, writing, a little arithmetic, and religious instruction in strict accordance with the creeds of the Church, was considered as superfluous, and was to be allowed only by special permit. The elimination of illiteracy, 1 Paulsen, Fr., German Education, Past and Present, p. 246. 2 It was this same Frederick William IV who had for a time refused to grant con- stitutional government to Prussia, saying: "No written sheet of paper shall ever thrust itself like a second providence between the Lord God in heaven and this land." In 1850, however, he was forced to grant a Hmited form of constitutional government to his people. Progress of Elementary Education as shown BY THE Decrease in Illiteracy in Prussia, BY Provinces (From Rep. U.S. Com. Educ, 1899-1900, i, p. 781) Provinces East Prussia. . . . West Prussia . . . . Brandenburg. . . Pomerania Posen Silesia Saxony , Westphalia Rhenish Prussia. Hohenzollern . . . The State. 1841 Per cent. 1 15-33 2.47 1.23 41.00 9. 22 1. 19 2.14 7.06 1864-65 Per cent. 16. S4 .96 1.47 16.90 3.78 • 49 1.03 1. 13 Per cent. J 7.05 - 79 2.38 1894-95 Per cent. 99 23 584 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the creation of obedient citizens, and the nationalizing of new elements became the aim of the schools. The instruction in the Teachers' Seminaries was reduced to the merest necessities, and they were given clearly to understand that they were to train teachers, and not to prepare educated men. All theory of education, all didactics, all psychology were elimi- nated. A return was made to the subject-matter theory of educa- tion, and a limited subject-matter at that, and it once more be- came the business of the teacher to see that this was carefully learned. Religious instruction naturally once more came to hold a place of first importance. Similar reactionary movements took place in other German States, all being sensitive to the re- actionary spirit of the time and the leadership of Austria and Prussia. The modern German educational purpose. After about i860, largely in response to modern scientific and industrial forces among a people turning from agriculture toward industriahsm, a slight relaxation of the reactionary legislation began to be evident. This expressed itself chiefly in a diminution of the time given to memoriter work in religion, and the introduction in its place of work in German history and geography, with some work in natu- ral science. In the Teachers' Seminaries instruction in German literature, formerly rigidly excluded, was now added. It was not, however, until after the unification of Germany, following the Franco-Prussian War, and the creation of Imperial Germany under the directive guidance of Bismarck, that any real change took place. Then the changes were due to new political, religious, social, industrial, and economic forces which belong to the later period of German history. In 1872 a new law gave to the Prussian elementary schools a new course of study; reasserted the authority of the State in edu- cation ; extended the control of the pubHc authorities ; and made the State instead of the Church the authority even for their reli- gious instruction.^ The schools were now to be used as of old to build up and strengthen the nation, but particularly to support the new Prussian idea as to the work and function of the State. ^ "The motive which dictated the law of 1872 on school supervision (namely, placing the State in complete control of the supervision of religious as well as other instruction) was, as is well understood, to strengthen the hands of the government in its struggle with the Catholic hierarchy, which was then prominently before the public. The law affirmed again the sovereign right of the State over the whole school system, including the elementary or people's schools." (Nohle, Dr. E., History oj the German School System, p. yg.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 585 Realien were given a new prominence, because of new industrial needs, and the instruction in religion was revamped. The old memoriter work was greatly reduced, and in its place an emotional and political emphasis was given to the religious instruction. To make the school of the people an instrument for fighting the growtli of social democracy, and a support for the throne and government, instruction in religion was "placed in the center of the teacher's work," and teachers were given to understand that they were "members of an educational army and expected loy- ally to follow the flag." The secondary schools also were redi- rected. A new emphasis on scientific subjects and modern lan- guages replaced the earlier emphasis on Greek. The Emperor interfered (R. 368) to force a revision of the gymnasial programs better to adapt them to modern needs. In particular were the universities of all the States unified and nationalized, and great technical universities created. Science, commerce, technical work, modern languages, and government were stressed in the in- struction of the leaders. Deciding clearly where the nation was to go and the route it was to follow, and that education for national ends was one of the important means to be employed, the different parts of the edu- cational systems in the States — ■ elementary schools, secondary schools, universities, normal schools, professional schools, techni- cal schools, continuation schools — were carefully integrated into a unified state system, thoroughly national in spirit, and given a definite function to perform in the work which the Nation set itself to carry through. Nowhere have teachers been so well trained to play their part in a national plan, and nowhere have teachers acquitted themselves more worthily, from the point of view of the Government. As Alexander ^ has well said : During the nineteenth century the leaders of Germany decided that Germany should assume leadership in the world in every line of en- deavor, particularly in commerce and world power. They set this as the very definite goal of their national ambition. The next question was how that aim could be accomplished. It was to be done through education. Accordingly school systems were organized with this aim in view. In a State such as the Germans proposed building there were to be leaders and followers. The followers were to be trained for a docile, efiicient German citizenship; that is, the lower classes were to be made into God-fearing, patriotic, economically-independent Ger- mans. This was the task of the Volksschule, and it has been wonder- 1 Alexander, Thomas, The Prussian Elementary Schools, pp. 537-38. 586 HISTORY OF EDUCATION fully well accomplished. This type of German is created to do the manual labor of the State. The leaders were to be trained in middle and higher schools and in the universities. There were to be different grades of leaders; leaders in the lower walks of life, leaders in the middle walks of life, and leaders of the nation. The higher schools and the universities were employed to produce these types of leaders. . . . The leaders think and do; the followers merely do. The schools were organized for the express pur- pose of producing just these types. So well was this system and plan working that, had the Imperial Government not been so impatient of that slower but surer prog- ress by peaceful means, and staked all on a gambler's throw, in another half-century the German nation might have held the world largely in fee. As it is, the results which the Germans at- tained by reason of definite aims and definite methods are both an encouragement and a warning to other nations. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Point out the extent of the educational reorganization which resulted from the reform work begun at Halle. 2. How do you explain the very early German interest in compulsory school attendance, when such was unknown elsewhere in Europe? 3. Compare the Prussian Regulations of 1737 with what was common at that time in practice in the parishes of the American Colonies. 4. Show the wisdom of the early Prussian kings in working at school reform through the Church. Could they well have worked otherwise? Why? 5. How do you explain such a slow development of a professional teaching body in Prussia, when all the state influences had for so long been favor- able to educational development? 6. Show that the OberschulcoUegium Board marked the beginnings of a State Ministry for Education for Prussia. 7. Show that the spirit of the Prussian leaders, after 1806, was a further expansion of the German national feeling which arose in the Period of Enlightenment. 8. Show that the reorganization of elementary education, and the creation of the University of Berlin, were almost equally important events for the future of German lands. 9. Show that the work of Prussia, in using the schools for national ends, was: (o) in keeping with the work of the French Revolutionary leaders, and (b) only a further extension of the organizing work done by Frederick the Great. 10. Show how the universities of Germany early took the lead of the univer- sities of the world, and the influence of this fact on national progress. 11. Enumerate the new nineteenth-century tendencies observable in the early educational organization in Prussia. i2. Explain the marked mid-nineteenth-century reaction to educational development which set in. 13. Explain the early and marked welcome accorded science-study in Ger- man lands. 14. Explain in what ways Prussia attained an educational leadership, ahead of other nations. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN PRUSSIA 587 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections, illustrative of the contents of this chapter, are reproduced: 273. Barnard: The Organizing Work of Frederick William I. 274. Prussia: The School Code of 1763. 275. Prussia: The Silesian School Code of 1765. 276. Austria: The School Code of 1774. 277. Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation. 278. Mann: The Prussian Elementary Teacher and his Training. 279. Dinter: Prussian Schools and Teachers as he found them. 280. Cousin: Report on Education in Prussia. 281. Mann: The Military Aspect of Prussian Education. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Explain the interest of Frederick William I (273) in elementary educa- tion. 2. Characterize, from the Codes of 1763 (274) and 1765 (275), and cite paragraph to show: (a) The type of instruction ordered provided; {b) the type of teacher expected; (c) the character of the attendance re- quired; and {d) the character of the continuation training ordered. 3. Show the similarity in their main lines of the Prussian (274) and Aus- trian (276) Codes. 4. Would the reasoning of Fichte (277) apply to any crushed nation? Illustrate. 5. Do we select teachers for training as carefully in the United States to- day as they did in Prussia eighty years ago (278)? Could we? 6. Did such conditions as Dinter describes (279) exist, even later, with us? 7. Was the Prussian school system, as described by Cousin (280), a cen- tralized or a decentralized system? 8. Show that Mann's reasoning as to the strength of the Prussian school system (281) was thoroughly sound. SELECTED REFERENCES *Alexander, Thomas. The Prussian Elementary Schools. *Barnard, Henry. "Public Instruction in Prussia"; in American Journal of Education, vol. xx, pp. 333-434. Barnard, Henry. German Teachers and Educators. *Cassell, Henry. "Adolph Diesterweg"; in Eddcational Review, vol. I, PP- 345-56. (April, 1891.) Friedel, V. H. The German School as a War Nursery. Lexis, W. A General View of the History and Organization of Ptiblic Edu- cation in the German Empire. *Nohle, E. "History of the German School System"; in Report U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1897-98, vol. i, pp. 3-82. Translated from Rein's Encyclopddisches Handbuch der Padagogik. *Paulsen, Fr. German Education, Past and Present. *Paulsen, Fr. The German Universities. *Russell, James. German Higher Schools. Seeley, J. R. Life and Times of Stein, vol. i. CHAPTER XXIII NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE AND ITALY I. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE Lines of development marked out by the Revolution. The Revolution proved very disastrous to the old forms of education In France. The old educational foundations, accumulated through the ages, were swept away, and the teaching congrega- tions, which had provided the people with whatever education they had enjoyed, were driven from the soil. The ruin of educa- tional and religious institutions in Russia under the recent rule of the Bolshevists is perhaps comparable to what happened in France. Many plans were proposed by the Revolutionary philos- ophers and enthusiasts, as we have seen (chapter xx), to replace what had once been and to provide better than had once been done for the educational needs of the masses of the people, but with results that were small in comparison with the expectations of the legislative assemblies which considered or approved them. Nevertheless, the directions of future progress in educational organization were clearly marked out before Napoleon came to power, and the work which he did was largely an extension, and a reduction to working order, of what had been proposed or estab- lished by the enthusiasts of the pre-revolutionary and revolution- ary periods. At the time of the Revolution the State definitely took over the control of education from the Church, and the work of Napoleon and those who came after him was to organize pubhc instruction into a practical state-controlled system. In effecting this organization, the preceding discussions of edu- cation as a function of the State and the desirable forms of organi- zation to follow all bore important fruit, and the forms finally adopted embodied not only the ideas contained in the legislation of the revolutionary assemblies, but the earlier theoretical discus- sion of the subject by Rolland (p. 510), Diderot (p. 511), and Talleyrand (p. 513) as well. They embodied also the peculiar administrative genius of France — that desire for uniformity in organization and administration — and hence stand in contrast to the state educational organizations worked out about the same time in German lands. The German States, as we have seen, had NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 589 for long been working toward state control of education, but when this was finally attained they still permitted a large degree of local initiative and control. The French, on the contrai-y, made the transition in a few years, and the system of state control which they established provided for uniformity, and for central- ized supervision and inspection in the hands of the State. The Fig. 174. An Old Foundation transformed This was an ancient chateau in France. In 1604 Henry IV gave it to the Jesuits for a school. In 1791 it became national property, and was transformed into a Military College forms for state control and education adopted in the two coun- tries were also expressive of age-long tendencies in each. For three centuries German political organization, as we have seen, had been extremely decentralized on the one hand, and had been slowly evolving a system of education under the joint control of the small States and the Church on the other. In France, on the contrary, centralization of authority and subordination to a cen- tral government had been the tendency for an even longer period. When the time arrived for the State to take over education from the Church, it was but natural that France should tend toward a much more highly centralized control than did the German States, and the differing political situations of the two countries, at the opening of the nineteenth century, gave added emphasis to these differing tendencies. In consequence, Prussia and the other German States early achieved a form of state educational organization which empha- 590 HISTORY OF EDUCATION sized local interest and the spirit of the instruction, whereas France created an administrative organization which emphasized central control and, for the time, the form rather than the spirit of instruction. This was well pointed out by Victor Cousin (R. 280), in contrasting conditions in Prussia with those existing in France. Napoleon begins the organization of education. In 1799 Na- poleon became First Consul and master of France, and in 1804 France, by vote, changed from a Republic to an Empire, with Napoleon as first Emperor. Until his banishment to Saint He- lena (1815) he was master of France. A man of large executive capacity and an organizing genius of great ability, whether he turned to army organization, governmental organization, the codification of the laws, or the organization of education. Napo- leon's practical and constructive mind quickly reduced parts to their proper places in a well-regulated scheme. Shortly after he became Consul he took up, among other things, the matter of educational organization. His first effort was in 1800, when he transformed the old hu- manistic College Louis le Grand (founded 1567) and created four military colleges from its endowment. One of these colleges he later, in characteristic fashion, transformed into a School of Arts and Trades (R. 282). In 1802 he signed the famous Concordat with the Pope. This restored the priests to the churches, with state aid for their stipends, and virtually turned over primary education again to the Church for care and control. The "Brothers of the Christian Schools" (p. 515) were recalled the next year and especially favored, and soon established themselves more firmly than before the Revolution. In 1802 Napoleon first turned his atten- tion to a general organization of public in- struction by directing Count de Fourcroy, a distinguished chemist who had been a teacher in the Polytechnic School, and whom he appointed Di- rector of Public Instruction, to draw up, according to his ideas, an organizing law on the subject. This became the Law of 1802. It was divided into nine chapters, as follows : Fig. 175. Count de Fourcroy (1755-1809) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 591 I. Degrees of Instruction. VI. The Military School. II. Primary Schools. VII. The National Pupils. III. Secondary Schools. VIII. The nationales pensions IV. Lycees. IX. General regulations. V. Special Schools. I. Primary schools. The chapter on primary schools virtually reenacted the Law of 1795 (R. 258 b). Each commune ^ was re- quired to furnish a schoolhouse and a home for the teacher. The teacher was to be responsible to local authorities, while the super- vision of the school was placed under the prefect of the Depart- ment. The instruction was to be limited to reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the legal authorities were enjoined " to watch that the teachers did not carry their instructions beyond these limits." The teacher was to be paid entirely from tuition fees, though one fifth of the pupils were to be provided with free schooling. The State gave nothing toward the support of the primary schools. The interest of Napoleon w^as not in primary or general educa- tion, but rather in training pupils for scientific and technical efl^\ ciency, and youths of superior ability for the professions and for executive work in the kind of government he had imposed upon France. To this end secondary and special education were made particular functions of the State, while primary education was left to the communes to provide as they saw fit. They could pro- vide schools and the parents could pay for the teacher, or not, as they might decide. There was no compulsion to enforce the re- quirement of a primary school, and no state aid to stimulate local effort to create one. In consequence not many state primary schools were established, and primary education remained, for an- other generation, in the hands of private teachers and the Church. 2. Secondary schools. Chapters iii and iv of the Law of 1802 made full provision for two types of secondary schools — the Communal Colleges and the Lycees ^ — to replace the Central Higher Schools established in 1795 (p. 518). These latter had lacked sadly in internal organization. They were merely day schools, lacking the dormitory and boarding arrangements which for over three centuries had characterized the French colleges. As ^ The commune in France was the smallest unit for local government, and corre- sponded to the district, town, or township with us, or with the Church parish under the old regime. There were approximately 37,000 communes in France. The Department was a much larger unit, France being divided, for administrative pur- poses, into 82 Departments, these corresponding to a rather large county. ^ By this term what is known elsewhere as secondary school must be understood. See footnote, page 272, for explanation of the term. 592 HISTORY OF EDUCATION a result they had not prospered. The Law of 1802 now replaced them with two types of residential secondary schools, in which the youth of the country, under careful supervision and discipline, might prepare for entrance to the higher special schools. These fixed the lines of future French development in secondary schools. The standard secondary school now became known as the Lycee. These institutions corresponded to the Colleges under the old regime, of which the College of Guyenne (R. 136) was a type. The instruction was to include the ancient languages, rhetoric, logic, ethics, belles-lettres, mathematics, and physical science, with some provision for additional instruction in modern lan- guages and drawing. Each was to have at least eight "profes- sors," an administrative head, a supervisor of studies, and a steward to manage the business affairs of the institution. The State usually provided the building, often using some former church school which had been suppressed, and the cities in which the Lycees were located were required to provide them with furniture and teaching equipment. The funds for maintenance came from tuition fees, boarding and rooming income, and state scholarships, of which six thousand four hundred were provided. Besides the Lycees, every school established by a municipality, or kept by an individual, which gave instruction in Latin, French, geography, history, and mathematics was designated as a sec- ondary school, or Communal College. These institutions usually offered but a partial Lycee course, and were tuition schools, being patronized by many parents whose tastes forbade the sending of their children to the lower-class primary schools. A license from the Government to operate was necessary before masters could be employed. They were to be maintained by the municipality, without any state encouragement beyond some grants for capable teachers and scholarships in the Lycees for meritorious pupils. Within two years after the enactment of the Law of 1802 there had been created in France 46 Lycees, 378 secondary schools of various degrees of completeness, and 361 private schools of sec- ondary grade had been opened. A number of these disappeared later, in the reorganization of 1808. For the supervision of all these institutions the Director General of Public Instruction ap- pointed three Superintendents of Secondary Studies; and for the work of the schools he outhned the courses of instruction in detail, laid down the rules of administration, prepared and selected the textbooks, and appointed the "professors." NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 593 Special or Higher Schools. The chapter of the Law of 1802 on Special Schools made provision for the creation of the follow- ing special "faculties" or schools for higher education for France: 3 medical schools, to replace the Schools of Health of 1794 (p. 518). 10 law schools; increased to 12 in 1804 (Date of Code Napoleon, p. 518). 4 schools of natural history, natural philosophy, and chemistry. 2 schools of mechanical and chemical arts. I mathematical school. I school of geography, history, and political economy. A fourth school of art and design. Professors of astronomy for the observatories. In 1803 the School of Arts and Trades was added (R. 282), and in 1804, after Napoleon had signed the Concordat with the Pope, thus restoring the Catholic religion (abolished 1791), schools of theology were added to the above list. We have here, clearly outlined, the main paths along which French state educational organization had been tending and was in future to follow. The State had definitely dispossessed the Church as the controlling agency in education, and had definitely taken over the school as an instrument for its own ends. Though primary education had been temporarily left to the communes, and was soon to be turned over in large part to be handled by the Church for a generation longer, the supervision was to remain with the State. The middle-class elements were well provided for in the new secondary schools, and these were now subject to complete supervision by the State. For higher education groups of Special Schools, or Teaching Faculties, replaced the older uni- versities, which were not re-created until after the coming of the Third RepubHc (187 1). The dominant characteristics of the state educational system thus created, aside from its emphasis on secondary and higher education, were its uniformity and central- ized control. These characteristics were further stressed in the reorganization of 1808, and have remained prominent in French educational organization ever since. Creation of the University of France. By 1806 Napoleon was ready for a further and more complete organization of the public instruction of the State, and to this end the following law was now enacted (May 10, 1806): Sec. I. There will be formed, under the name of Imperial Univer- sity, a body exclusively commissioned with teaching and public educa- tion throughout the Empire. 594 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Sec. 2. The members of this corporation can contract civil, special, and temporary obligations. Sec. 3. The organization of this corps will be given in the form of a law to the legislative body in the session of 1810. In 1808, without the formality of further legislation, Napoleon issued an Imperial Decree creating the University of France. This was not only Napoleon's most remarkable educational crea- tion, but it was an administrative and governing organization for education so in harmony with French spirit and French govern- mental ideas that it has persisted ever since, though changed somewhat in form with time. The Decree began by declaring that "public instruction, in the whole Empire, is confined exclusively to the University," and that ''no school, nor establishment for instruction, can be formed independent of the Imperial University, and without the author- ity of its chief." Unlike the University of Berlin (p. 574), created a year later, this was not a teaching university at all, but instead a governing, examining, and disbursing corporation,^ presided over by a Grand Master and a Council of twenty- six members, all appointed by the Emperor. This Council decided all matters of importance, and exercised supervision and control over education of all kinds, from the lowest to the highest, throughout France.^ To assist the Council, general inspectors for medicine, law, the- ology, letters, and science were provided for, to visit and "exam- ine the condition of instruction and discipline in the faculties, lycees, and colleges ; to inform themselves in regard to the fidelity and ability of professors, regents, and ushers; to examine the students ; and to make a complete survey of those institutions, in their whole administration." Beneath the Grand Master and Council the State was divided into twenty- seven "Academies" (administrative districts), each of which had a Rector, a Council of ten, and Inspectors, all appointed by the Grand Master. These 1 The University had at its disposal approximately 2,500,000 francs a year. This was derived from a state grant of 400,000 francs, the income from the property still remaining from the old confiscated universities, and the remainder largely from examination fees. In 1850 its property was taken over by the State, and the University was changed into a state department. 2 This type of administrative organization is at first not easy for the American student to understand. The University of the State of New York — ^^ virtually the department of pubHc instruction for the State — is our closest American analogy. On the banishment of Napoleon and the restoration of the monarchy, in 1815, the Grand Master and Council were replaced by a Commissioner of Public Instruction, with Assistant Commissioners for the different divisions, and in 1820 this was further changed into a Royal Council of Public Instruction. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 595 exercised jurisdiction over teachers and pupils in all schools, and decided all local matters, subject to appeal to the Grand Master and Council. Under this new administrative organization but little change was made in the schools from that provided for in the law of 1802. Primary education remained as before, private schools and Church schools supplying most of the need. All were under the supervision of the University, and all were instructed to make as a basis of their instruction: (i) the precepts of the Catholic religion; (2) fidehty to the Emperor, to the imperial monarchy, the depository of the happiness of the people, and to the Napoleonic dynasty, the conservator of the unity of France, and of all the ideas proclaimed by the Constitution. The Lycees and Communal Colleges continued, much as be- fore,^ and during the half-century which followed, experienced a steady and substantial growth. Development of the Lycees Year i8og 1811 1813 1829 1847 1866 Lycees 35 36 36 36 S4 74 Pupils 9,068 10,926 14,492 15.087 23,207 34,442 < Free pupils.. . 4,199 4,008 3,500 1,600 Development of the Communal Colleges Year 1809 1815 1830 1849 1855 1866 Colleges 273 323 332 306 244 251 Pupils 18,507 19.320 27,308 31J06 32,500 33,038 The Special Higher Schools were also continued, and to the list given (p. 593) Napoleon added (1808) a Superior Normal School (R. 283) to train graduates of the Lycees for teaching. This opened in 18 10, with thirty-seven students and a two-year course of instruction, and in 181 5 a third year of method and practice work was added. With some varying fortunes, this institution has continued to the present. The new interest in primary education. The period from 181 5 to 1830 in France is known as the Restoration. Louis XVIII was made King and ruled until his death in 1824, and his brother Charles X who followed until deposed by the Revolution of 1830. Though a representative of the old regime was recalled on the abdication of Napoleon, the great social gains of the Revolution were retained. There was no odious restoration of privilege and absolute monarchy. Frenchmen continued to be equal before 1 In 1909 a decree restored Greek and Latin to their old place of first importance in the Lycees, thus destroying the strong interest in scientific instruction, in so far as the higher secondary schools were concerned, which had characterized the Revolution, 596 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the law; a form of constitutional government was provided; the right of petition was recognized ; and the system of public instruc- tion as Napoleon had organized it continued almost unchanged. For a decade at least there was less political reaction in France than in other continental States. In matters of education, what had been provided was retained, and there seems (R. 285) to have been an increasing demand for additions and improvements, particularly in the matter of pri- mary and middle-class schools, and a willingness on the part of the communes to provide such advantages. Some small progress had been made in meeting these demands, before 1830. In 1816 a small treasury grant (50,000 francs) was made for school books, model schools, and deserving teachers in the pri- mary schools, and in 1829 this sum was increased to 300,000 francs. In 1818 the " Brothers of the Christian Schools" were permitted to be certificated for teaching on merely presenting their Letter of Obedience from the head of their Order, and in 1824 the cantonal school committees were remodeled so as to give the bishops and clergy entire control of all Catholic primary schools. Monitorial instruction was introduced from England by private teachers, in an effort to supply the beginnings of education at small expense, and for a time this had some vogue, but never proved very successful. In 181 5 the Lycees were renamed Royal Colleges, but in 1848 the old name was restored, and has since been retained. In 181 7 there were thirty-six Lycees, receiving an annual state subsidy of 812,000 francs; thirty years later the fifty- four in existence were receiving 1,500,000 francs. From 1822 to 1829 the Higher Normal School was suppressed, and twelve ele- mentary normal schools were created in its stead. Early work under the Monarchy of 1830. In July, 1830, Charles X attempted to suppress constitutional liberty, and the people rose in revolt and deposed him, and gave the crown to a new King, Louis-Philippe. He ruled until deposed by the crea- tion of the Second Republic, in 1848. The "Monarchy of 1830" was supported by the leading thinkers of the time, prominent among whom were Thiers and Guizot, and one of the first affairs of State to which they turned their attention was the extension downward of the system of public instruction. The first steps were an increase of the state grant for primary schools (1830) to a million francs a year; the overthrow of the control by the priests of the cantonal school committees (1830); the aboHtion (1831) of NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 597 the exemption of the religious orders from the examinations for teaching certificates; and the creation (1830-31) of thirty new- normal schools. The next step was to send (183 1) M. Victor Cousin — Director of the restored Higher Normal School of France — on a mission to the German States, and in particular to Prussia, to study and report on the system of elementary education, teacher training, and educational organization and administra- tion which had done so much for its regen- eration. So convincing was Cousin's Report ^ that, despite bitter national antipathies, it carried conviction throughout France. 'Tt demonstrated to the government and the people the immense superiority of all the German States, even the most insignificant duchy, over any and every Department of France, in all that concerned institutions of primary and secondary education." Cousin pronounced the school law of Prussia (R. 280) " the most comprehensive and perfect ^, ^'^' IJ . ... T • 1 Victor Cousin legislative measure regarding primary edu- (i 792-1867) cation" with which he was acquainted, and declared his conviction that "in the present state of things, a law concerning primary education is indispensable in France." The chief question, he continued, was "how to procure a good one in a country where there is a total absence of all precedents and experience in so grave a matter." Cousin then pointed out the bases, derived from Prussian experience and French historical de- velopment, on which a satisfactory law could be framed (R. 284 a-c); the desirabihty of local control and liberty in instruction (R. 284 f-g); and strongly recommended the organization of higher primary schools (a new creation; first recommended (1792) by Condorcet, p. 514) as well as primary schools (R. 284 e) to meet the educational needs of the middle classes of the population of France. The Law of 1833. On the basis of Cousin's Report a bill, mak- ing the maintenance of primary schools obligatory on every com- mune ; providing for higher primary' schools in the towns and cit- ies; additional normal schools to train teachers for these schools; a 1 Report on the Condition of Public Instruction in Germany, and Particularly in Prussia. Paris, 1831. Reprinted in London, 1834; New York City, 1835. 598 HISTORY OF EDUCATION corps of primary school inspectors, to represent the State; and normal training and state certification required to teach in any- primary school, was prepared. In an address to the Chamber of Deputies, in introducing the bill (1832), M. Guizot,^ the newly appointed Minister for Public Instruction, set forth the history of primary instruction in France up to 1832 (R. 285 a) ; described the two grades of primary instruction to be created (R. 285 b) ; and, emphasizing Cousin's maxim that "the schoolmaster makes the school," dwelt on the necessity for normal training and state cer- tification for all primary teachers (R. 285 c). In preparing the bill it was decided not to follow the revolutionary ideas of free instruction, by lay and state teachers, or to enforce compulsion to attend, and for these omis- sions M. Guizot, in his Me- moires (R. 286), gives some very interesting reasons. The bill became a law the following year, and is known officially as the Law of 1833. This Law forms the founda- tions upon which the French system of national elemen- tary education has been de- veloped, as the Napoleonic Law of 1802 and the Decree of 1808 have formed the basis for secondary education and French state administrative organization. A primary school was to be established in every commune, which was to provide the building, pay a fixed minimum salary to the teacher, and where able main- tain the school. The State re- served the right to fix the pay of the teacher, and even to approve his appointment. A tuition fee was to be paid for attendance, but those who could not pay were to ^ Franfois Pierre Guillaume Guizot was Minister for Public Instruction from 1832 to 1837, and head of the French government from 1840 to 1848. He was throughout his entire poHtical career a conservative, anxious to preserve constitu- tional government under a monarchy and stem the tide of republicanism. Elementary- Secondary Fig. 177. Outline of the Main Features of the French State School System Plate 14. Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (i 787-1874) Creator of the French nnmary school system NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 599 be provided with free places. The primary schools were to give in- struction in reading, writing, arithmetic, the weights and meas- ures, the French language, and morals and religion. The higher primary schools were to build on these subjects, and to offer in- struction in geometry and its applications, linear drawing, sur- veying, physical science, natural history, history, geography, and music, and were to emphasize instruction in "the history and geography of France, and in the elements of science, as they apply it every day in the office, the workshop, and the field." ^ These latter were the Biirgerschulen, recommended by Cousin (R. 284 e) on the basis of his study of Prussian education.^ The primary schools were to follow a uniform plan, and as a guide a Manual of Primary Instruction was issued, giving de- tailed directions as to what was to be done. In sending out a copy of the Law to the primary teachers of France, M. Guizot en- closed a personal letter to each, informing him as to what the government expected of him in the new work (R. 287). During the four years that M. Guizot remained Minister of Public In- struction he rendered a remarkable service, well described by Matthew Arnold (R. 288), in awakening his countrymen to the new problem of popular education then before them. The results under the Law of 1833 were large, ^ and the subse- quent legislation under the monarchy of 1830 was important. For the first time in French history an earnest effort was made to i provide education suited to the needs of the great mass of the peo- ple, and the marked development of schools which ensued showed / how eagerly they embraced the opportunities offered their chil/ 1 We see here the beginnings of education in agriculture, in which the French were pioneers. ^ The schools, though, were not very successful, because of social reasons. Par- ents who could afford to do so sent their children to the much higher-priced Com- munal Colleges or Lycees, where Latin was the main study, in preference to sending them to a scientific, modern-type, middle-class school, as conferring a better social distinction on both pupils and parents. * By 1838 there were 14,873 public schools the property of the communes; by 1847 there were 23,761; and by 1851 but 2500 out of approximately 37,000 com- munes were without schools. There were also over six thousand religious schools by 1850. By 1834 the number of boys in the communal schools was 1,656,828, and a decade later over two millions. The thirteen normal schools of 1830 had grown to seventy-six by 1838, with over 2500 young men then in training for teaching. In 1836 the Law of 1833 was extended to include, where possible, schools for girls as well, and the creation of a new set of normal schools to train schoolmistresses wa= begun. By 1848 over three and a half millions of children, of both sexes, were re- ceiving instruction in the primary schools. In 1835 primary inspectors, those "sinews of public instruction," as Guizot termed them, were estabhshed, one for every Department, by royal decree. By 1847 there were two inspectors-general, and 13 inspectors and sub-inspectors at work in France. 6oo HISTORY OF EDUCATION Development of Infant Schools Year 1827 1837 1840 1843 1846 1850 1863 1886 1897 Schools.. I 251 555 1489 1861 173s 3308 6696 5683 dren, though the schooHng was neither compulsory nor gratui- tous. In 1837 Infant Schools, for still younger children, were au- thorized, and in 1840 state aid for these was begun. In 1836 classes for adults, first begun in Paris in 1820, were authorized generally, but it was not until 1867 that these were formally in- corporated into the state school system. In 1845 state aid for the Communal Colleges, as well as for the Lycees, was begun. Reaction after 1848. In France, as in Europe generally, the people were steadily becoming more liberal, as they became better educated, while the rulers were becoming more autocratic. The result was the series of revolutions of 1848, which broke out first in France, and finally extended to most of the countries of conti- nental Europe. In France the King, Louis-Philippe, was forced to abdicate; a Republic, based on universal manhood suffrage, was proclaimed; and Louis Napoleon, a nephew of Napoleon I, was elected President. In 1851 Napoleon established himself as Dictator; prepared a new constitution providing for an Empire; and, in 1852, dissolved the Second Republic and assumed the title of Emperor Napoleon III. This Second Empire lasted until 1870, when France was humiliated by the Prussians as the latter had been by Napoleon I in 1806. The Emperor and his armies were taken prisoners (1870) and, in 187 1, the Prussians occupied Paris and crowned the new Emperor of united and Imperial Ger- many in the palace of the French Kings at Versailles. A Third Republic now succeeded, and this has lasted to the present time. The period from 1848 to 1870 in France was a period of middle- class rule, and reaction in education as in government. In 1848 a Sub-Commission on Primary Education reported in opposition to the state primary schools. The troubles of 1848 had brought to view the political restlessness which had taken possession of the teachers, as well as other classes in society. The new schools were naturally suspected of being the source of the popular discontent. Many teachers had sympathized with, and some had taken part in the disturbances, and teachers generally were now placed under close surveillance. Some of the leaders were forced into exile un- til after 1870. Religious schools, regarded as more favorable to monarchical needs and purposes, were now encouraged, and the number of religious schools increased from 6464 in 1850, to 11,391 L' NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE 6oi by 1864. Private schools, too, were given full freedom to com- pete with the state schools, and the pa}^ of the primary teachers was reduced. The course in the normal schools was condemned as too ambitious, and, in 185 1, was cut down. The course of in- struction in the primary schools, on the other hand, was, unlike in Prussia, broadened instead of restricted, and in particular empha- sis was placed, in keeping with nearly a century of French tradi- tion, on scientific and practical subjects.^ The law of 1850 stated the requirements for primary schools as follows : Art. 23. Primary instruction comprises moral and religious instruc- tion, reading, writing, the elements of the French language, computa- tion, and the legal system of weights and measures. It may comprise, in addition, arithmetic appHed to practical operations, the elements of history (a required subject after 1867) and geography, notions of the physical sciences and of natural history applicable to the ordinary pur- poses of life, elementary instruction in agriculture, trade, and hygiene; and surveying, leveling, linear drawing, singing, and gymnastics. Religious instruction prospered under the Second Empire, and the state primary schools lost in importance. The Lycees con- tinued largely as classical institutions, though after 1865 the crowding of the rising sciences began to dispute the supremacy of classical studies. There were, however, many voices of discon- tent, particularly from exiled teachers (R. 289) , and the way was rapidly being prepared for the creation of a stronger and better state school system as soon as poHtical conditions were propitious. Revolutionary ideals at last realized. With the creation of the Third Republic, in 1870, a change from the old conditions and old attitudes took place. Up to about 1879 the new government was in the control of those who were at heart sympathetic with the old conditions, but were forced to accept the new; from 1879 to 1890 was a transition period; and since 1890 the RepubHc has grown steadily in strength and regained its position among the great powers of the world. The first few years of the new Repub- lic were devoted to paying the Prussian indemnity and clearing the soil of France of German armies, but, after about 1875, edu- cation became a great national interest among the leaders of France.^ France saw, somewhat as did Prussia after 1806, the ^ This was in large part due to manufacturing and business needs, as France was rapidly forging ahead during the period as a manufacturing and commercial nation. ^ Prominent among these, perhaps most prominent, was Jules Ferry, Mayor of Paris during the trying period of 1870-71, then member of the French legislature, and Minister of Public Instruction in a number of cabinets between 1879 and 1885. Drawing his inspiration from Condorcet's Plati of Education (p. 514; R- ^r6) and 602 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Progress of Primary Education in France, during the Nineteenth Cen- tury, AS SHOWN BY THE REDUCTION IN THE Percentage of Illiteracy AMONG Army Conscripts, and among Persons signing the Marriage Rec- ords Marriage records ' Years Army conscripts Men Women 1790 1827 1833 1840 184s 1850 I8SS i860 i86s 1870 187s 1880 188s 1890 1896 1901 0% S3 0% necessity for creating a strong state system of primary, secondary, and higher schools to train the youth of the land in the principles of the Republic, strengthen the national spirit, advance the wel- fare of the State, and protect it from dangers both within and without. Millions were put into the building of schoolhouses (1878- 88); new normal schools were established; a normal school for women was created in each of the eighty-seven depart- ments of France; the academic and superior councils of public instruction were reorganized to eliminate clerical influences (1881); religious instruction was replaced by moral and civic instruction (R. 290) ; and cleri- cal "Letters of Obedience" were no longer accepted, and all teachers were required to be certificated by the State. The Law of 1881, eliminating instruc- tion in religion from the elementary schools, was followed, in 1886, by a law providing for the gradual replacement of clerical by lay teachers. In 1904, the teaching congregations of France were suppressed. All elementary education now became public, free, compulsory, and secular,^ and teachers were required to be neutral in religious matters.^ Edgar Quinet's Instruction of the People (R. 289), he brought about the enactment of a series of reform school laws commonly known as the "Ferry Laws." These provided for free, compulsory, elementary education, to be given by laymen; sec- ondary education for girls; the extension of normal schools; and enlarged aid by the State in the building up of popular education. 1 "The non-sectarian school is not the work of a few advanced thinkers imposed upon a docile country. They would not have been able to create anything enduring if the French conscience had not been ready to follow them. This is what the adversaries of our schools do not wish to understand, cannot understand, or are anxious to conceal from those whom they direct. Certainly they have the right to 2 "To each man his proper sphere; to the minister of religion the liberty of preaching the doctrine of the different churches, to teachers who teach in the name of the State, that is, of society, the right of limiting themselves to the field of univer- sal human morals, together with the duty of refraining from any attack on religious beliefs. Neutrality is guaranteed by the secularization of the teaching body, and it must be strictly observed." (Compayre, Gabriel.) 73 0% NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY 603 Since 187 1, also, technical and scientific education has been emphasized; the primary and superior-primary schools have been made free (1881) and compulsory (1882); classes for adults have been begun generally; the state aid for schools has been very greatly increased; lycees and colleges for women have been created (1880); the lycees modernized in their instruction;^ and the re- organization and reestabhshment of a series of fifteen state uni- versities of a modern type, begun in 1885, was completed in 1896. The reorganization and expansion of education in France since 1875 is a wonderful example of republican interest and energy, and is along entirely different lines from those followed, since the same date, in German lands. After the lapse of nearly a century we now see the French Revolutionary ideas of gratuity, obligation, and secularization finally put into effect, and the state system of public instruction outlined by Condorcet (p. 514), in 1792, at last an accomplished fact. II. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY Importance of the work of Napoleon. So much has been writ- ten about the deluge of blood that took place in Paris in the days of the Commune and the time of the National Conventions, and of the military victories and autocratic rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, that it is difficult to appraise the importance of either, from the point of view of the progress of civilization and of the organiza- tion of modern political institutions, at its true worth. The faults attempt a reaction according to their own preferences. They have no right to believe, nor even to allow it to be beheved, that the creation of the non-sectarian school was the coup de force of an audacious minority. The non-sectarian school has come because the nation wished it. The program of moral instruction, long prophesied, conceived, and hoped for, was in the traditions of France as she marched forward toward her republican aspirations. This program is not only the conscious effort of the men who gave the school a new mission — that of laying the foundation of social peace through elementary instruction; it is the expression of the republican conscience of 1882." (Moulet, Alfred, D'une education morale democratique.) 1 "The most striking feature is that, in place of the one single and uniform course for all pupils, several are provided for their selection. Here is obvious the influence of the elective courses common in the United States, whose existence and success were reported on to the Minister of Public Instruction by the Commission to the World Exposition at Chicago, in 1893. The courses last seven years. The school period is divided into two cycles, first one of four years, and then one of three. In the first cycle, the pupils have a choice of two sections, one emphasizing the ancient and modern languages, the other the modern languages and science. In the second cycle there are four sections, viz., Graeco-Latin; Latin-modem languages; Latin- scientific; and scientific-modern languages." (Compayre, Gabriel, Education in France.) 6o4 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of both are prominent and outstanding, but it nevertheless was the merit of the Revolution that it enabled France, and along with France a good portion of western Europe, to rid itself of the worst survivals of the Middle Ages, while to Napoleon much of western Europe is indebted for the foundation of its civil institu- Longitude West 10° from 0: r~^ France in 1799 KHfa^-il French additions under Naool Slates dependent on Napol Fig. 178. Europe in i8io Showing the control of France when Napoleon was at the height of his power tions, unified legal procedure, beginnings of state educational organization, and modern governmental forms. Writing on this subject, Matthew Arnold ^ well said : With all his faults, his [Napoleon's] reason was so clear and strong that he saw, in its general outhnes at least, the just and rational type of civil organization which modern society needs, and wherever his armies went he instituted it. ^ Arnold, Matthew, Schools and Universities on the Continent, p. 115, (London, 1868.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY 605 That the French Revolution's merit and service was a real one is shown by all the world, as it improves, getting rid more and more of the Middle Ages. That Napoleon's merit and service was a real one is shown by the bad governments which succeeded him having always got rid, when they could, of his work, and by the progress of improve- ment, when these governments became intolerable, and are themselves got rid of, always bringing it back. Where governments were not wholly bad, and did not get rid of Napoleon's good work, this work turns out to have the future on its side, and to be more likely to assim- ilate the institutions round it to its pattern than to be itself assimilated by them. In the Italian States, the Netherlands, some of the French can- tons of Switzerland, the Rhine countries, and the Danish penin- sula, in particular, the rule of Napoleon, imposed by his armies, carried out by rulers of his selection, and maintained for a long enough period that the legal organization, civil order, unified gov- ernment, and taste of educational opportunities of a new type which his rule brought became attractive to the people, in time proved deeply influential in their political development. ^ All these nations still show traces of the French influence in their state educational organization. We shall take the Italian States as a type, and examine briefly the influence on the development of state educational organization there which resulted from con- tact with the forward-looking rule of "The Great Emperor." Decline in importance of education in Italy. In a preceding chapter (p. 503), we mentioned that the rule of Napoleon in northern Italy awakened the national spirit from its long leth- argy, and caused Italian liberals to look forward, for the first time since the days of the Revival of Learning, to the time when the Italian States might be united into one Italian nation, with Rome as its capital. This became the work of the mid-nineteenth cen- tury (see dates, Fig. 179), though not fully completed until the World War of 19 14-18. Italy stands to-day a great united na- tion, with a large future ahead of it, but as such it is entirely a nineteenth-century creation. From the time of its intellectual decline following the Renaissance, to the middle of the nineteenth century, Italy remained "sl geographical expression" and split up into a number of little independent States; up to the time of Napo- leon it was a part of the German-ruled "Holy Roman Empire." ^ For example, by the Peace of Luneville (1801), by which Napoleon took from the Germans all territory west of the Rhine and consohdated it, he extinguished 118 free cities, principahties, and petty states. In addition, he extinguished the sepa- rate existence of 160 others east of the Rhine. The importance of such consolida- tions for the future of Germany has been large. 6o6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION After the great patriotic effort of the period of the Revival of Learning (p. 264) in Italy, and the rather feeble and unsuccessful attempts at a reform of religion which followed, the intellectual development of Italy was checked and turned aside for centuries by the triumph of an improgressive and anti-intellectual atti- tude on the part of the dominant Church. The persecution of Galileo (p. 388) was but a phase of the reaction in religion which had by that time set in. Education was turned over to the re- ligious orders, such as the Jesuits and the Barnabites, and in- struction was turned aside from liberal culture and the promo- tion of learning to the support of a religion and the stamping out of heresy. Though a number of educational foundations were made, and some important undertakings begun after the days when her universities were crowded and Florence and Venice vied with one another for the intellectual supremacy of the west- ern world, the spirit nevertheless was gone, and both education and government settled down to a tenacious preservation of the existing order. Scholars ceased to frequent the schools of Italy; the universities changed from seats of learning to degree-confer- ring institutions; ^ the intellectual capitals came to be found north of the Alps; and the history of educational progress ceased to be traced in this ancient land. In the early part of the eighteenth century the schools there reached perhaps their lowest intellectual level. The beginnings of reform in Savoy. The first and almost the only attempt to change this condition, before Napoleon's armies went crashing through the valley of the Po, was made in the eight- eenth century by two Dukes of Savoy. By decrees of 1729 and 1772 they took the control of the secondary (Latin) schools in their little duchy from the religious orders, and established a Council of Public Instruction to reform the university examina- tions, see that teachers were prepared for the Latin schools, and take over in the name of the authorities of the duchy the control of education. Though inspired by a political interest, the two dukes brought into their little kingdom the much-needed ideas of honest work, effective administration, and public spirit, and laid the foundations for the control of education by the public au- thorities later on. The only other attempt to improve conditions ^ Bologna, for example, had 166 professors in the early seventeenth century, but by 1737 it had but 62. The universities came chiefly to be places where young men obtained degrees but not learning. At Naples a noble family by the name of Avel- lino came to have the power of virtually selling degrees in law and medicine. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY 607 came in Lombardy, in 1774, which then was a part of the Austrian dominions and felt the short-Hved reforms of Maria Theresa (p, 562 ; R. 276) . Elsewhere in Italy conditions remained unchanged until the time of Napoleon. Napoleon revives the national spirit. In 1796 Napoleon's ar- mies invaded Sardinia, Lombardy, and the valley of the Po, and he soon extended his control to almost all the Italian peninsula. For nearly two decades thereafter this collection of little States felt the unifying, regenerating influence of the organizing French. Monasteries and convents and religious schools were transformed into modern teaching institutions, brigandage v/as put down, and efficient and honest government v,^as established. The ideas of the French Law of 1802 as to education were applied. Every town was ordered to estabUsh a school for boys, to teach the read- ing and writing of Italian and the elements of French and Latin: the secondary schools were modernized; and the universities were completely reorganized. Some of the universities were re- duced to licei {lycees; secondary schools), while others were strengthened and their revenues turned to better purposes. The universities at Naples and Turin in particular were transformed into strong institutions, with a decided emphasis on scientific studies. A normal school was founded at Pisa, on the model of the one at Paris. New standards in education were set up, the study of the sciences was introduced into the secondary schools, and the study of medicine and law was regenerated. With the fall of Napoleon his work was largely undone. The firm, just, and intelligent government which he had given Italy — something the land had not known for ages — came to an end. The little States were "handed back to the reactionary dynasts whose rule was neither benevolent nor intelligent, while the ever- ready Austrian army crushed out any local movement for liberal institutions." The laws regarding education were repealed, and the schools the French had established were closed as revolution- ary and dangerous. The normal school at Pisa ceased to exist; the university at Naples was dismantled; the one at Turin was closed; and the Jesuits were allowed to return and reorganize in- struction. The result was that a common discontent with ensu- ing conditions made Italians conscious of their racial and histori- cal unity, and this finally expressed itself in the revolutions of 1848. These failed at the time, and the heel of the Austrian op- pressor came down harder than before. Liberty of the press 6o8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION practically ceased. The national leaders went into exile for safety. The prisons were filled with political offenders. The schools were closed or ceased to influence. The Pope, fearing the .- - '«";» ■.■'■■^1/ -•-''' -L",\'-csJi- ;> '1 P.-OtV-— -^AL-.v. ,.'1^!., •• jLsi 10' Loceltude Eaat 12 ° from G Fig. 179. The Unification of Italy, since 1848 end of his earthly kingship approaching, united firmly with the Austrians to resist liberal movements. Finally, under the leader- ship of the enlightened King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel (1849- 78) and his Prime Minister, Count of Cavour, the Austrians were driven out (1859-66) and all Italy was united (1870) under the rule of one king interested in promoting the welfare of his people. Sardinia leads to national organization and control. The movement to free Italy was essentially a liberal movement. Many hoped to create a republic, but chose a liberal constitutional mon- archy under Victor Emmanuel as the most feasible plan. Cavour understood the importance of public instruction, and from the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY 609 Fig. 180 Count of Cavour (1810-61) first began to build up schools ^ and put them under state control. In 1844, a normal school was opened in Turin. In 1847, ^ Minis- ter of Public Instruction was appointed and a Council of Public Instruction created, after the plan of France. In 1848, a General School Law was enacted, and the organization and improvement of schools was begun mth a will. In 1850, a commission was sent to study the school systems of Europe, and in particular those of France and of the German States. A Supreme Council of Public Instruction was now formed for Sardinia, and the process of creating primary schools, higher-primary schools, classical and technical secondary schools, colleges, and the reorganization of the universities was begun. In 1859, when the growth of Italian unity was rapidly extending the rule of Victor Emmanuel,- a new law, providing a still better state organization of public instruction, was enacted. A Minister of Public Instruction appointed by the King, a Supreme Council of Public Instruction, and a Depart- ment of Public Instruction as a branch of the government, were all provided for, after the French plan. This Law of 1859 was later extended to cover all Italy, and has formed the basis for all subsequent legislation. It clearly estab- hshed a state system of education, though the religious schools were allowed to remain. It also established control after the French plan, with a high degree of centralization and uniformity. The schools established, too, were much after the French type, though much less extensive in scope. The primary and superior- primar>^ at first were but two years each, though since extended in all the larger communities to a six-year combined course. The two-class school system was established, as in France and German lands. The secondary- school system consisted of a five-year ginnasio, established in many places (218 in Italy by 1865; 458 by 1 Not only were schools built up, biit commerce, roads, and in particular scientific agriculture were subjects of deep interest to Cavour. He saw, very clearly, that if Sardinia was to be the nucleus of a future Italy, Sardinia must show unmistakably her worthiness to lead. ' By 1859 Sardinia had come to include Savoy and Lombardy, and was the largest State in northern Italy. A year later all but Venetia and the States of the Church bad been added. 6io HISTORY OF EDUCATION >o o ^£ g 3 ■ Point 9 1 91 6) with a three-year liceo following, but found in a smaller number of places. Parallel with this a seven-year non-classical scientific and technical secondary school was also created, and these institutions have made marked headway (461 by 191 6) in central and northern Italy. Pupils may pass to either of these on the completion of the ordi- nary four-year primary course, at the age of ten. Above the second- ary schools are numer- ous universities. The normal-school system created prepared for teaching in the primary schools, while the uni- versity system followed the completion of the liceo course. The influence of French ideas in Italian educational organiza- tion is clearly evident. Before the French ar- mies brought French governmental ideas and organization to Italy almost nothing had been done. Then, during the first six decades of the nine- teenth century, the transition from the church-school idea to the conception of education as an important function of the State was made, and the resulting system is largely French in organiza- tion and form. , Subsequent progress. From this point on educational progress has been chiefly a problem of increased finances and the slow but gradual extension of educational opportunities to more and more of the children of the people. The church schools have been al- lowed to continue side by side with the state schools, and the problem of securing satisfactory working relations has not always been easy of solution. In 1877 primary education ^ was ordered made compulsory, ^ The Law of 1877 fixed the instruction in the primary schools, for the three corn- Elementary Schools Secondary Schools Fig. 181. Outline of the Main Features OF THE Italian State School System NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALY 6il and religious instruction was dropped from the state schools, but the slow progress of the nation in extending Kteracy indicates that but little had been accomplished in enforcing the compulsion pre- vious to the new compulsory law of 1904. This made more strin- gent provisions regarding schooling, and provided for three thou- sand evening and Sunday schools for illiterate adults. In 1906, an earnest effort was begun to extend educational advantages in the southern provinces, where illiteracy has always been highest. In 191 1, the state aid for elementary education was materially in- creased. In 191 2, a new and more modern plan of studies for the secondary schools was promulgated. Since 191 2 many important advances have been inaugurated, such as elementary schools of agriculture, vocational schools, continuation schools, the middle- class industrial and commercial schools. The World War di- rected new attention to the educational needs of the nation. Italy, at last thoroughly awakened, seems destined to be a great world power poHtically and commercially, and we may look forward to seeing education used by the Italian State as a great constructive force for the advancement of its national interests. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Show how the Revolution marked out the lines of future educational evolution for France. 2. Explain why France and Italy evolved a school system so much more centrahzed than did other European nations. 3. Explain Napoleon's lack of interest in primary education, in view of the needs of France in his day. 4. Show that Napoleon was right, time and circumstances considered, in placing the state emphasis on the types of education he favored. 5. Explain why middle-class education should have received such special attention in Cousin's Report, and in the Law of 1833. 6. ^yas the course of instruction provided for the primary schools in 1833, times and needs considered, a liberal one, or otherwise? Why? 7. Compare the 1833 and the 1850 courses. 8. Explain why all forms of education in France should have experienced such a marked expansion and development after 1875. 9. Explain why great military disasters, for the past 150 years, have nearly always resulted in national educational reorganization. 10. Appraise the work and the permanent influence of Napoleon. 11. Explain Napoleon's interest in establishing schools and universities, when the Austrian and Church authorities were so interested in abolish- ing what he had created. 12. What did the dropping of religious instruction from the primary schools of both France and Italy, both strong Catholic countries, indicate as to national development? pulsory years, as reading, writing, the Italian language, elements of civics, arith- metic, and the metric system. The omission of religious instruction excited much opposition from church authorities, but without effect. 6i2 HISTORY OF EDUCATION SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections are re- produced: 282. Le Brun: Founding of the School of Arts and Trades. 283. Jourdain: Refounding of the Superior Normal School. 284. Cousin: Recommendations for Education in France. 285. Guizot: Address on the Law of 1833. 286. Guizot: Principles underlying the Law of 1833. 287. Guizot: Letter to the Primary Teachers of France. 288. Arnold: Guizot's Work as Minister of Pubhc Instruction. 289. Quinet: A Lay School for a Lay Society. 290. Ferry: Moral and Civic Instruction replaces the Religious. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Just what attitude toward education did the action of Napoleon in changing the character of the school at Compiegne (282) express? 2. What type of school (283) was the re-created Superior Normal? 3. Just what did Victor Cousin recommend (284) as to (o) schools to be created; {b) control and administration; {c) compulsory attendance; {d) schools for the middle classes; and {c) education and control of teachers? 4. Was Guizot's Law of 1833 (285) in harmony with the recommendations of Cousin (284)? 5. Why have public opinion and legislative action, in France and elsewhere, so completely reversed the positions taken by Guizot and his advisers (286) in framing the Law of 1833? 6. From Guizot's letter to the teachers of France (287), and Arnold's description of his work (288), just what do you infer to have been the nature of his interest in advancing primary education in France? 7. Contrast the reasoning of Guizot (286) and Quinet (289) on lay instruc- tion. Of the reasoning of the two men, which is now accepted in France and the United States? 8. Contrast the letters of Guizot (287) and Ferry (290) to the primar' teachers of France. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Arnold, Matthew. Popular Education in France. *Arnold, Matthew. Schools and Universities on the Continent. *Barnard, Henry. National Education in Europe. Barnard, Henry. American Journal of Education, vol. xx. Compayre, G. History of Pedagogy, chapter xxi. *Farrington, Fr. E. The Public Primary School System of France. *Farrington, Fr. E. French Secondary Schools. Guizot, F. P. G. Memoires, Extracts from, covering work as Minister of Public Instruction, 1832-37, in Barnard's American Journal of Education, vol. xi, pp. 254-81, 357-99. CHAPTER XXIV THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND I. THE CHARITABLE-VOLUNTARY BEGINNINGS English progress a slow but peaceful evolution. The begin- nings of national educational organization in England were neither so simple nor so easy as in the other lands we have de- scribed. So far this was in part due to the long-established idea, on the part of the small ruling class, that education was no busi- ness of the State; in part to the deeply ingrained conception as to the religious purpose of all instruction ; in part to the fact that the controlling upper classes had for long been in possession of an educational system which rendered satisfactory service in prepar- ing leaders for both Church and State; and in part — probably in large part — to the fact that national evolution in England, since the time of the Civil War (1642-49) has been a slow and peaceful growth, though accompanied by much hard thinking and vigorous parliamentary fighting. Since the Reformation (1534- 39) and the Puritan uprising led by Cromwell (1642-49), no civil strife has convulsed the land, destroyed old institutions, and forced rapid changes in old established practices. Neither has the country been in danger from foreign invasion since that mem- orable week in July, 1588, when Drake destroyed the Spanish Armada and made the future of England as a world power secure. EngHsh educational evolution has in consequence been slow, and changes and progress have come only in response to much pressure, and usually as a reluctant concession to avoid more seri- ous trouble. A strong English characteristic has been the ability to argue rather than fight out questions of national policy; to ex- hibit marked tolerance of the opinions cf others during the dis- cussion; and finally to recognize enough of the proponents' point of view to be wilHng to make concessions sufficient to arrive at an agreement. This has resulted in a slow but a peaceful evo- lution, and this slow and peaceful evolution has for long been the dominant characteristic of the political, social, and educa- tional progress of the English people. The whole history of 614 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the two centuries of evolution toward a national system of edu- cation is a splendid illustration of this essentially English char- acteristic. Eighteenth-century educational efforts. England, it will be remembered (chapter xix, § iii) , had early made marked progress in both political and religious liberty. Ahead of any other people we find there the beginnings of democratic liberty, popular en- lightenment, freedom of the press, religious toleration,^ social re- form, and scientific and industrial progress. All these influences awakened in England, earlier than in any other European nation, a rather general desire to be able to read (R. 170), and by the opening of the eighteenth century we find the beginnings of a char- itable and philanthropic movement on the part of the churches and the upper classes to extend a knowledge of the elements of learning to the poorer classes of the population. As a result, as we have seen (chapter xviii), the eighteenth century in England, educationally, was characterized by a new attitude toward the educational problem and a marked extension of educational opportunity. Even before the beginning of the century the courts had taken a new attitude toward church con- trol of teaching,^ and in 1700 had freed the teacher of the ele- mentary school from control by the bishops through license. '"^ In 1 7 14 an Act of Parliament (^13 Anne, c. 7) exempted elementar}'' schools from the penalties of conformity legislation, and they were thereafter free to multiply and their teachers to teach.* The dame school (R. 235) now became an established English institu- tion (p. 447). Private-adventure schools of a number of types arose (p. 451). The churches here and there began to provide elementary parish-schools for the children of their poorer mem- 1 Prussia and Holland possibly form exceptions in the matter. Frederick the Great (p. 474) was noted for his liberality in religious matters. There different varieties of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews were all tolerated, and there they mingled and intermarried. So well were the Jews received that the type — German- Jew — is to-day familiar to the world. 2 As early as 1670, in the celebrated Bates case, the English court held that a teacher could not be dispossessed from his school for teaching without the Bishop's license, if he were the nominee of the founder or patron. This led (p. 438) to a great increase in endowed schools. ^ In the Cox case (1700), another important legal decision, the Enghsh court held that there was not and never had been any ecclesiastical control over any schools other than grammar schools, and that teachers in elementary schools did not need to have a license from the Bishop. The year following, in the case of Rex v. Douse, the same principle was affirmed in even clearer language. * It was not until 1779 that an Act (19 Geo. Ill, c. 44) granted full freedom to Dissenters to teach. In 1791 a supplemental Act (31 Geo. Ill, c. 32, s. 13-14) granted similar liberty to Roman Catholics. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 615 bers (p. 449), or training-schools for other children who were to go out to service (R. 241). Workhouse schools and "schools of in- dustry" also were used to provide for orphans and the children of paupers (p. 453). The Charity-School system. Most important of all was the organization, by groups of individuals (R. 237) and by Societies (S.P.C.K.; p. 449) formed for the purpose, and maintained by subscription (R. 240), collections (R. 291), and foundation in- comes, of an extensive and well-organized system of Charity- Schools (p. 449). The "Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge" dates from the year 1699, and the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" from 1701. The first worked at home, and the second in the overseas colonies.^ Both did much to provide schools for poor boys and girls, furnish- ing them with clothing and instruction (R. 292), and training them in reading, writing, spelhng, counting, cleanliness, proper behavior, sewing and knitting (girls), and in "the Rules and Principles of the Christian Religion as professed and taught in the Church of England ' ' (R. 238 b) . The Charity-School idea was in a sense an application of the joint-stock-company principle to the organization and maintenance of an extensive system of schools for the education of the children of the poor, the stock be- ing subscribed for by humanitarian-minded people. The upper classes had for long been well provided, through tutors in the home and grammar schools and colleges, with those means for education which have for centuries produced an able succession of gentlemen, statesmen, governors, and scholars for England, and many of the commercial middle-class had, by the eighteenth cen- tury, become able to purchase similar advantages for their sons. These now united to provide, as part of a great organized charity and under carefully selected teachers (R. 238 a), for the more promising children of their poorer neighbors, the elements of that education which they themselves had enjoyed. The movement spread rapidly over England (p. 451), and soon developed into a great national effort to raise the level of intelli- gence of the masses of the EngHsh people. Thousands of persons gave their services as directors, organizers, and teachers. Trav- eling superintendents were employed. A rudimentary form of teacher-training was begun. The preaching of a Charity Sermon ' It was this second Society that did notable work in the AngHcan Colonies of America, and particulariy in and about New York City (p. 369). See Kenxp, W. W., Support oj Schools in Colonial New York by the S.P.G. (New York, 1915.) 6i6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION each year/ with a special collection, became a general Englislh practice. The Voluntary System. The rise of the Methodist move- ment," after 1730 (p. 489); the earthquake shocks of 1750; the rise of the popular novel and newspaper; the printing of poHtical news, and cheap scientific pamphlets (p. 492) ; and the growing tendency to debate questions and to apply reason to their solu- tion — all tended to give emphasis in England to these eight- eenth-century charitable means for extending education to the children of those who could not afford to pay for it. Unlike the German States, where the State and the Church and the school had all worked together from the days of the Reformation on, the English had never known such a conception. The efforts, though, of the educated few, in the eighteenth and early nine- teenth centuries, to extend the elements of learning, order, piety, cleanliness, and proper behavior to the children of the masses, formed an important substitute for the action by the Church- State which was so characteristic a feature of Teutonic lands. We see in these eighteenth-century efforts the origin of what became known in England as "the voluntary system," and upon this -v'oluntary support of education — private, parochial, charit- able — the English people for long rehed. Of action by the State there was none during the eighteenth century, aside from an Act of 1767 (7 Geo. Ill, c. 39) relating to the education of pauper children. This estabUshed the important principle — unfortunately not followed up — of providing that poor parish children of London might be maintained and educated "at the cost of the rates." The Sunday-School movement. One other voluntary eight- eenth-century movement of importance in the history of English educational development should be mentioned here, as it formed the cormecting link between the parochial-charity-school move- ^ Begun, in 1704, in London, these were continued yearly there until 1877. They were also preached for more than a century in many other places. To these sermons the children marched in procession, wearing their uniforms, and a collection for the support of the schools was taken. Of the first of these occasions in London, Strype, in his edition of Stow, says : " It was a wondrous surprising, as well as a pleasing sight, that happened June the 8th, 1704, when all the boys and girls maintained at these schools, in their habits, walked two and two, with their Masters and Mistresses, some from Westminster, and some through London; with many of the Parish min- isters going before them; and all meeting at Saint Andrews', Holburn, Church, where a seasonable sermon was preached . . . upon Genesis xviii, 19, 1 know him that he will command his children, etc., the children (about 2000) being placed in the gal- leries." ^ "The religious revival under Wesley owed, perhaps, more than is generally suspected to the Christian teaching in these new and humble elementary schools." GVIontmorency, J. E. G. de, The Progress of Education in England, p. 54.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 617 ment of the eighteenth century and the philanthropic period of the educational reformers of the early nineteenth. This was the Sunday-School movement, first tried by John Wesley in Savan- nah, in 1737, but not introduced into England until 1763. The idea amounted to Uttle, though, until practically worked out anew (1780) by Robert Raikes, a printer of Gloucester, and described by him (1783) in his Gloucester Journal (R. 293), after he had ex- perimented with it for three years. "^ His printed description of the Sunday-School idea gave a national impulse to the move- ment, and Sunday Schools were soon estabhshed all over England to take children off the streets on Sunday and provide them with some form of secular and religious instruction.^ The movement coincided with new religious, social, and eco- nomic forces which were at work, and which awakened an interest not only in the education of the children of the poorer working- classes, but caused the upper and middle classes in society to feel^ a new sense of responsibility for social and educational reform. The cold and unemotional reHgion of the EngHsh Church in the early eighteenth century had created an indifference to the simple truths and duties of the Gospels. The great religious revival un- der Wesley and Whitefield had challenged such an attitude, and had done much to infuse a new spirit into religion and awaken a new sense of responsibility for social welfare. The rapid growth of population in the towns, following the beginnings of factory life (p. 493), had created new social and economic problems, and the neglect of children in the manufacturing towns had shocked many thinking persons. The w^ay in which parents and children, freed from hard labor in the factories on Sundays, abandoned themselves to vice, drunkenness, and profanity caused many, among them Raikes himself (R. 293), to inquire if "something could not be done " to turn into respectable men and women " the little heathen of the neighborhood." The Sunday School was his answer, and the answer of many all over England.^ 1 He gathered together the children (90 at first) employed in the pin factories of Gloucester, and paid four women a shilling each to spend their Sundays in instruct- ing these poor children "in reading and the Church Catechism." - Sunday being a day of rest and the mills and factories closed, the children ran the streets and spent the day in mischief and vice. In the agricultural districts of England farmers were forced to take special precautions on Sundays to protect their places and crops from the depredations of juvenile offenders. ' "In a very special way they met the sentiment of the times. They were cheap — many were conducted by purely voluntary teachers — they did not teach too much, and they had the further merit of not interfering with the work of the week." (Birchenough, C, History 0/ Elementary Education in England and Wales, p. 40,) 6i8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION In 1785 "The Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in the different Counties of England" was formed with a view to establishing a Sunday School in every parish in the kingdom, and the Queen headed a subscription list, following a general appeal for funds. By 1787 it was estimated that 234,000 children in England and Wales were attending a Sunday School, and by 1792 the number had increased to half a million. The Parliamentary return for 18 18 showed 5463 Sunday Schools in existence, and 477,225 scholars; in 1835 the returns showed 1,548,- 890 scholars, half of whom attended no other school, and approxi- mately 160,000 voluntary teachers.^ In Manchester, then a city scourged with almost universal child-labor, the schools (1834) were in session five and a half hours on Sunday and two evenings a week. The moral and religious influence of these schools was important, and the instruc- tion in reading and writing, meager as it was, filled a real need of the time. Other voluntary schools; ** Ragged Schools.** The Charity Schools and the Sunday Schools were the two most conspic- uous of the voluntary-organization type of undertakings for providing the poor children of England with the elements of secular and religious education. Many other organiza- tions of an educational and charitable na- ture, aided also by many individual efforts, too numerous to m.ention, were formed with the same charitable and humanitarian end in view. Others, similar in type, charged a small fee, and hence were of the priv- ate-adventure type. Sunday Schools, day schools, evening schools, children's churches, bands of hope, clothing clubs, messenger bri- gades, shoeblack brigades, orphans' schools, reformatory schools, industrial schools, ragged schools — these were some of the types that arose. Only one of these — "Ragged Schools" — will be described. ^ In a Manchester Sunday School, in 1834, there were 2700 scholars and 120 un- salaried teachers, all but two or three of whom were former pupils in the Sunday Schools, now teaching others, free of charge, in return for the advantages once given them. Fig. 182. a Ragged- School Pupil (From a photograph of a boy on entering the school; later changed into a respectable trades- man. From Guthrie) Plate 15. John Pounds's Ragged School at Portsmouth Plate 16. An English Village Voluntary School (Reproduced from an early nineteenth-century engraving, through the courtesy of WiUiam G. Bruce) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 619 The originator of the "Ragged Schools" — schools for the edu- cation of destitute children, waifs and strays not reached by other agencies — was a iarge-hearted cobbler of Portsmouth, by the name of John Pounds (i 766-1839), who divided his time between cobbling and rescue work among the poorest and most degraded children of his neighborhood. His school is shown in the picture facing this page. (Plate 15.) In his shoeshop he taught such chil- dren, free of charge, to read, write, count, cook their food, and mend their shoes. He was a schoolmaster, doctor, nurse, and play- fellow to them all in one. His workshop was a room of only six by eighteen feet, yet in it he often had forty children under his in- struction. His work set an example, and "Ragged Schools," or "Schools for the Destitute," began to be formed in many places by humanitarians. These took the form of day schools, night schools, Sunday Schools, and the so-called industrial schools (R. 294). The instruction in most of them was entirely free,^ but some charged a small fee, in a few cases as high as a shilling a month. It was one of these schools that Crabbe described when he wrote : ^ Poor Reuben Dixon has the noisiest school Of ragged lads, who ever bowed to rule; Low in his price — the men who heave our coals, And clean our causeways, send him boys in shoals. To see poor Reuben, with his fry beside — Their half-check'd rudeness and his half-scorned pride — Their room, the sty in which th' assembly meet, In the close lane behind the Northgate street ; T' observe his vain attempts to keep the peace, Till tolls the bell, and strife and trouble cease, Calls for our praise; his labours praise deserves, But not our pity; Reuben has no nerves. 'Mid noise and dirt, and stench, and play, and prate, He calmly cuts the pen or views the slate. In 1844 "The Ragged School Union" was formed in London, and maintained there many of the types of schools mentioned above. The "Constitution and Rules of the Association for the Establishment of Ragged Industrial Schools for Destitute Chil- dren in Edinburgh" (R. 294) gives a good idea as to the nature, 1 "The amount of instruction rarely, if ever, exceeds the first four rules of arith- metic, with reading and writing. The class of children instructed is presumed to be of the very poorest, living in the most crowded districts. No doubt a large number come under this designation, but not a few better- to-do persons are found ready to take advantage for their children of the free instruction thus held out to them, and even at times almost pressed upon them." (Bartley, George C. T., The Schools for the People, p. 385.) * The Reverend George Crabbe (1754-1832). "The schools of the Borough." 620 HISTORY OF EDUCATION support, and instruction in such schools. As late as 1870, when national education was first begun in England, there were about two hundred of these Ragged Schools in London alone, with about 23,000 children in them. Upon many such forms of irregular schools England depended before the days of national organization. Other eighteenth-century influences. During the latter half of the eighteenth century French Revolutionary thought ^ and American political action began to exert some influence on public opinion in England. The small upper ruling class, alarmed at the developments in France, became confirmed in its opposition to any general popular education aside from a Httle reading, writing, counting, and careful reUgious training, while on the other hand men of more liberal outlook felt that popular enlightenment was a necessity to prevent the masses from becoming stirred by inflam- matory writings and speeches. The increasing distress in the agricultural regions, due to the rapid change of England from an agricultural to a manufacturing nation; the crowding of great numbers of working people into the manufacturing towns; and the social misery and political unrest following the Napoleonic wars all alike contributed to a feeling of need for any form of phil- anthropic effort that gave promise of alleviating the ills of society. There now grew up a small but influential body of thinkers who favored the maintenance of a system of general and compulsory education by the State, and the separation of the school from the Church. The most notable proponents of this new theory were Adam Smith, the Reverend T. R. Malthus, and the Anglo-Ameri- can Thomas Paine. The first approached the question from an economic point of view, the second from an economic and bio- logic, and the third from the political. In 1776 Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations appeared. This was one of the great books of all time. Among other matters he dealt with the question of education. He pointed out that English so- ciety was now becoming highly organized; that the new manu- facturing Hfe had completely changed the simple conditions of an earlier agricultural society; that in the narrow round of manufac- 1 French Revolutionary thought " represented an attack on over-interference, vested interests, superstition, and tyranny of every form. It showed a marked propensity to ignore history, and to judge everj'thing by its immediate reasonable- ness. It pictured a society free from all laws and coercion, freed from all clerical influence and ruled by benevolence, a society in which all men had equal rights and were able to attain the fullest self-realization. In its strictly educational aspects, it demanded the withdrawal of education from the Church and the setting up of a state system of secular instruction." (Birchenough, C, History of Elementary Education in England and Wales, p. 20.) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 621 turing duties and town life people tended to lose their inventive- ness and to stagnate; and that the individual degeneracy which set in in a more highly organized t\^e of society became a social danger of large magnitude. Hence, he argued (R. 295), it was a matter of state interest that "the inferior ranks of the people" be instructed to make them socially useful and to render them" less apt to be misled into any wanton or unnecessary opposition to measures of government." Accordingly, he held, the State had every right, not only to take over elementary education as a state func- tion and a pubHc charge, but also to make it free and compulsory. In 1798 the Reverend T. R. Malthus's Essay on Population appeared. This was a precursor of the work of Darwin, and another of the great books of all time. He pointed out that population everywhere tended to outrun the means of subsistence, and that it was only prevented from doing so by preventive checks which involved much misery and vice and pauperism. To prevent pauperism each individual must exercise moral restraint and foresight, and to en- able all to do this a widespread system of public instruction was a necessity (R. 296). The money England had spent in poor- rehef he regarded as largely wasted, be- cause it afforded no cure. In the general education of a people the real solution lay. He said: rr Fig. 183. Adam Smith (1723-90) We have lavished immense sums on the poor, which we have every reason to think have constantly tended to aggravate their misery, ... It is surely a great national dis- grace that the education of the lowest classes in England should be left to a few Simday Schools, supported by a subscription from individuals, who can give to the course of instruction in them any kind of bias which they may please. (R 296.) Fig. i{ Rev. T. R. Malthus (i 766-1834) Agreeing thoroughly with Adam Smith that a general diffusion of knowledge was a safeguard to society, he urged the teaching of the 622 HISTORY OF EDUCATION elements of political economy in the common schools to enable people to live better in the new type of competitive society.^ In 1791-92 Thomas Paine published his widely read Rights of Man. He expressed the French Revolutionary pohtical theory, holding that government, while capable of great good were its powers only properly exercised, was, as organized, an evil. In a well-governed nation none would be permitted to go unin- structed, he held, and he would cut off poor-relief and make a state grant of £4 a year for every child under fourteen for its edu- cation, and would compel parents to send all children to school to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. Each of these three books had a long and a slowly cumulative influence, and a small number of young and powerful champions of the idea of popular education as a public charge began, early in the nineteenth century, to urge action and to influence public opinion. II. THE PERIOD OF PHILANTHROPIC EFFORT (1800-33) Conditions at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This second period in the history of the organization of English educa- tion begins with the publication, in 1797, of Dr. Andrew Bell's An Experimenl in Education, describing his work in educating large numbers of children by means of the so-called mutual system, at the Male Asylum at Madras, India. The period properly ends with the first Parhamentary grant for education, in 1833. In its main characteristics it belongs to the eighteenth rather than to the nineteenth century, as the prominent educational movements of the eighteenth (charity-schools, Sunday Schools, schools of in- dustry) continue strong throughout the period, and many new undertakings of a similar charitable nature ("Ragged Schools"; associations for the improvement of the condition of the poor, etc.) were begun. The period — during and after the Napoleonic wars — was one of marked social and pohtical unrest, and of corresponding em- phasis on social and philanthropic service. The masses were dis- contented with their lot, and were beginning to be with their lack 1 The ideas of Malthus were especially offensive to his brother clergymen, and created quite a furor. Many regarded him as an insane and unorthodox fanatic. A prevailing idea of the time was that of a "beautiful order Providentially arranged," and it was the custom to give everything a rose-colored hue. The poor were thought to be contented in their poverty, and the rich and the aristocratic considered them- selves divinely appointed to rule over them. Malthus saw the fallacy of such thinking, and stated matters in the light of biologic and political truths. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 623 of political privileges. Numerous plans to quiet the unrest and improve conditions were proposed, of which schemes to increase employment (industrial schools; evening schools), to encourage thrift (savings banks; children's brigades), and to spread an ele- mentary and religious education (mutual schools; infant schools) that would train the poor in self-help were the most prominent. "The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor," founded in 1796, became a very important early-nineteenth-century institution. Branches were established all over England. Soup-kitchens, clothing-stations, savings banks, and schools were among the chief lines of activity. In particular it extended and improved Sunday Schools, encouraged the formation of charity-schools and schools of industry, and later gave much aid in establishing the new monitorial schools. Edu- cational interest steadily strengthened during the period, though as yet along lines that were deemed relatively harmless, were in- expensive, and were largely religious in character. The eighteenth-century conception of education as a charity, designed where given to train the poor to "an honest, upright, grateful, and industrious poverty," still prevailed; there was as yet little thought of education as designed to train the poor to think for and help themselves. The eighteenth-century concep- tion of the educational process, too, which regarded education as something external and determined by adult standards and needs, and to be imposed on the child from without, also contin- ued. The purpose of the school was to manufacture the standard man, and the business of the teacher was to so organize and meth- odize instruction that the necessary knowledge could be acquired as economically, from a financial point of view, as possible. The Pestalozzian conception of education as a development of the in- dividual, according to the law of his own nature, found but slow acceptance in England. Mental development, scientific instruc- tion, the habit of thinking, the exercise of judgment, and free and enlightened opinion were ideas that found Httle favor there, and hence had to be handled carefully by those who had caught the new conception of the educational process. In the political reaction following the end of Napoleon's rule the upper and ruling classes of England, in common with those of continental lands, became exceedingly suspicious of much educa- tion for the masses. To secure contributions for schools it be- came necessary " to avow and plead how little it was that the 024 HISTORY OF EDUCATION schools pretended or presumed to teach." ^ England now experi- enced a great development of manufacturing and commerce, a great material prosperity ensued, and the growing demand for education was met by a counter-demand that the education pro- vided should be systematized, economical, and should not teach too much. Such a system of training was now discovered and ap- plied, in the form of mutual or monitorial instruction, and was hailed as "a. new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern in- ventions in the mechanical departments." Origin of mutual or monitorial instruction. In 1797 Dr. An- drew Bell, a clergyman in the EstabUshed Church, published the Rev. Andrew Bell (1753-1832) Joseph Lancaster (,1778-1838) Fig. 185. The Creators of the Monitorial System results of his experiment in the use of monitors in India.^ The idea attracted attention, and the plan was successfully introduced into a number of charity-schools. About the same time (1798) a young Quaker schoolmaster, Joseph Lancaster by name, was led independently to a similar discovery of the advantages of using, monitors, by reason of his needing assistance in his school and be- ing too poor to pay for additional teachers. In 1803 he pub- lished an account of his plan.^ The two plans were quite similar, ' Foster, John, An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance, p. 259. - Bell, Reverend Dr. Andrew, An Experiment in Education made at the Male Asylum at Madras, Suggesting a System by which a School or a Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent. London, 1797. ' Lancaster, Joseph, Improvements in Edtication as it Respects the Industrial Classes of the Community. London, 1803; New York, 1807. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 625 attracted attention from the first, and schools formed after one or the other of the plans were soon organized all over England. Increased attention was attracted to the new plans by a bitter church quarrel which broke out as to who was the real originator of the idea/ Bell being upheld by Church-of-England supporters, and Lancaster by the Dissenters. In 1808 "The Royal Lancas- trian Institution" was formed, which in 1814 became "The Brit- ish and Foreign School Society," to promote Lancastrian schools. This society had the close support of King George III, the V/higs, and the Edinburgh Review, while such liberals as Brougham, Whi thread, and James Mill were on its board of directors. This Society sent out Lancaster to expound his "truly British" sys- tem, and by 18 10 as many as ninety-five Lancastrian schools had been established in England. His model school in Borough Road, Southwark, which became a training-school for teachers, is shown on the following page. Lancaster was a poor manager; became involved in financial difficulties; and in 18 18 left for the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life in organizing such schools and expounding his system. For a time this attracted wide attention, as we shall point out in the following chapter. Lancaster's work stimulated the Church of England into activ- ity, and in 181 1 "The National Society for Promoting the Educa- tion of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales" was formed by prominent S.P.C.K. (p. 449) members and Churchmen, with the Archbishop of Canterbury as president. This Society was supported by the Tories, the Established Church, and the Quarterly Review, and was formed to promote the Bell system,- "which made religious instruction an essential and necessary part of the plan." Within a month £15,000 had been subscribed to establish schools. Among many other contributions were £500 each from the uni- versities of Oxford and Cambridge. A training-school for teach- ers was organized; district societies were formed over England to estabhsh schools; and a system of organized aid was extended for both buildings and maintenance. By 1831 there were 900,412 ^ Both Bell and Lancaster worked with great energy to organize schools after their respective plans, and quarreled with equal energy as to who originated tiie idea. While both probably did, the idea nevertheless is older than either. In 1790 Chevalier Paulet organized a monitorial school in Paris; while the Enghsh school- master, John Brinsley (1587-1665), in his Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar Schooles (161 2), laid down the monitorial principle in explicit language. ^ This Society adopted, as a fundamental principle,, "that the national religion should be made the foundation of national education, and according to the excellent Fiturgy and catechism adopted by our Church for that purpose." 626 HISTORY OF EDUCATION children receiving instruction in the monitorial schools of the National Society alone. The mutual -instruction idea spread to other lands — France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark — and seems to have been tried NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 627 even in German lands. In France and Belgium it was experi- mented with for a time because of its cheapness, but was soon discarded because of its defects. In Teutonic lands, where the much better Pestalozzian ideas had become established, the monitorial system made practically no headway. It was in the United States, of all countries outside of England, that the idea met with most ready acceptance. The system of mutual or monitorial instruction. The great merit, aside from being cheap, of the mutual or monitorial system of instruction lay in that it represented a marked advance in school organization over the older individual method of instruc- tion, with its accompanying waste of time and schoolroom dis- order. Under the individual method only a small number of pupils could be placed under the control of one teacher, and the expense for such instruction made general education almost pro- hibitive. Pestalozzi, to be sure, had worked out in Switzerland the modern class-system of instruction, and following develop- mental lines in teaching, but of this the EngUsh were not only ignorant, but it called for a degree of pedagogical skill which their teachers did not then possess. Bell and Lancaster now evolved a plan whereby one teacher, assisted by a number of the brighter Fig. 187. Monitors xEAcmNO Reading at "Stations" Three "drafts" of ten each, with their toes to the semicircles painted on the floor, are being taught by monitors from lessons suspended on the wall. pupils whom they designated as monitors, could teach from two hundred to a thousand pupils in one school (R. 297). The pic- ture of Lancaster's London school (Figure 186) shows 365 pupils seated.^ The pupils were sorted into rows, and to each row was ^ "When Lancaster had his famous interview with King George III, that mon- arch was impressed, as he naturally might be, by the statement that one master 'could teach five hundred children at the same time.' 'Good,' said the King; 'Good,* echoed a number of wealthy subscribers to Lancaster's projects." (Binns, H. B., A Century of Education, p. 299.) 628 HISTORY OF EDUCATION assigned a clever boy (monitor) to act as an assistant teacher. A common number for each monitor to look after was ten. The teacher first taught these monitors a lesson from a printed card, and then each monitor took his row to a "station" about the wall and proceeded to teach the other boys what he had just learned. At first used only for teaching reading and the Catechism, the plan was soon extended to the teaching of writing, arithmetic, and spelling, and later on to instruction in higher branches. The sys- tem was very popular from about 1810 to 1830, but by 1840 its popularity had waned. Such schools were naturally highly organized, the organization being largely mechanical (R. 298). Lancaster, in particular, was Fig. 188. Proper Monitorial-School Positions (.From an engraved plate of 30 positions, in a Manual of the British and Foreign School Society, London, 1831) an organizing genius. The Manuals of Instruction gave complete directions for the organization and management of monitorial schools, the details of recitation work, use of apparatus, order, position of pupils at their work, and classification being minutely laid down. By carefully studying and following these directions any reasonably intelligent person could soon learn to become a successful teacher in a monitorial school. The schools, mechanical as they now seem, marked a great im- provement over the individual method upon which schoolmasters for centuries had wasted so much of their own and their pupils' time. In place of earlier idleness, inattention, and disorder, Bell and Lancaster introduced activity, emulation, order, and a kind of military discipline which was of much value to the type of NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 629 children attending these schools. Lancaster's biographer, Sal- mon, has written of the system that so thoroughly was the instruc- tion worked out that the teacher had only to organize, oversee, reward, punish, and inspire: When a child was admitted a monitor assigned him his class; while he remained, a monitor taught him (with nine other pupils) ; when he was absent, one monitor ascertained the fact, and another found out the reason; a monitor examined him periodically, and, when he made progress, a monitor promoted him; a monitor ruled the writing paper; a monitor had charge of slates and books; and a monitor-general looked after all the other monitors. Every monitor wore a leather ticket, gilded and lettered, " Monitor of the First Class," " Reading Monitor of the Second Class," etc. Value of the system in awakening interest. The monitorial system of instruction, coming at the time it did, exerted a very important influence in awakening interest in and a sentiment for schools. It increased the number of people who possessed the elements of an education; made schools much more talked about; and aroused thought and provoked discussion on the question of education. It did much toward making people see the advan- tages of a certain amount of schooling, and be willing to contrib- ute to its support. Under the plans previously in use education had been a slow and an expensive process, because it had to be carried on by the individual method of instruction, and in quite small groups. Under this new plan it was now possible for one teacher to instruct 300, 400, 500, or more pupils in a single room, and to do it with much better results in both learning and disci- phne than the old type of schoohnaster had achieved. All at once, comparatively, a new system had been introduced which not only improved and popularized, but tremendously cheapened education.^ Lancaster, in his Improvements in Educa- tion, gave the annual cost of schooling under his system as only seven shillings sixpence ($1.80) per pupil, and this was later de- creased to four shilhngs fivepence ($1.06) as the school was in- creased to accommodate a thousand pupils. Under the Bell sys- tem the yearly cost per pupil, in a school of five hundred, was only four shillings twopence ($1.00), in 18 14. In the United States, ^ In 1807 Mr. Whitbread, an ardent supporter of schools, said, in an address before the House of Commons: " I cannot help noticing that this is a period particu- larly favorable for the institution of a national system of education, because within a few years the^-e has been discovered a plan for the instruction of youth which is now brought to a state of great perfection, happily combining rules by which the object of learning must be infallibly attained with expedition and cheapness, and holding out the fairest prospect of utility to mankind." 630 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Lancastrian schools cost from $1.22 per pupil in New York, in 1822, up to $3.00 and $4.00 later on. At first begun as free schools/ the expansion of effort was more rapid than the income from contributions, and a small tuition fee was in time charged. Pupils were admitted at about the age of seven, and might remain until thirteen or fourteen, though an attendance of two years was considered "abundantly sufficient for any boy." To prepare skilled masters and mistresses for the schools — girls were pro- vided for in many places — training or model schools were organ- ized by both the national societies, and these represent the begin- nings of normal- school training in England. Infant Schools. Another type of school which became of much importance in England, and spread to other lands, was the Infant School. This owed its origin to Robert Owen, proprietor of the cotton mills at New Lanark, Scotland. Being of a phil- anthropic turn of mind, and believing that man was entirely the product of circum- stance and environment, he held that it was not possible to begin too early in im- planting right habits and forming char- acter. Poverty and crime, he believed, were results of errors in the various sys- tems of education and government. So plastic was child nature, that society would be able to mould itself "into the very image of rational wishes and desires." That "the infants of any one class in the world may be readily formed into men of any other class," was a fundamental behef of his. , When he took charge of the mills at New Lanark (1799) he found the usual wretched social conditions of the time. Children of five, six, and seven years were bound out to the factory as apprentices (R. 242) for a period of nine years. They worked as apprentices and helpers in the factories twelve to thirteen hours a day, and at early manhood were turned free to Join the ignorant mass of the population. Owen sought to remedy this condition. ^ When Lancaster first hired the large hall in Borough Road which later became an important training-college, and opened it as a mutual-instruction school, he announced: "All that will may send their children, and have them educated freely, and those who do not wish to have education for nothing, may pay for it if they please." Fig. 11 Robert Owen (1771-1858) NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 631 He accordingly opened schools which children might enter at three years of age, receiving them into the schools almost as sooA as they were able to walk, and caring for them while their parents\ were at work. Children under ten he forbade to work in the mills, \ and for these he provided schools. The instruction for the chil- dren younger than six was to be "whatever might be supposed useful that they could understand," and much was made of sing- ing, dancing, and play. Moral instruction was made a prominent feature. By 1814 his work and his schools had become famous. In 181 7 he published a plan for the organization of such industrial communities as he conducted. In 1818 he visited Switzerland, and saw Pestalozzi and Fellenberg. In 1818 a number of Liberals — Brougham, James Mill, and others — • combined to establish an Infant School in London, im- porting a teacher from New Lanark. The idea took root, was popularized, and the Infant School was soon adopted as an inte- gral part of their schools by both the British and Foreign School Society (Lancastrians) and the National Society (Bell). In 1836 the " Home and Colonial Infant School Society " was formed to train teachers for and to establish Infant Schools. One of the organizers of this society was Charles Mayo who had worked with Pestalozzi at Yverdon (R. 270), and through his in- fluence much of the bookishness which had crept in was removed and the better Pestalozzian procedure put in its place. Unlike the monitorial schools, the Infant Schools were based on the idea of small-group work, and were usually conducted in harmony with the new psychological conceptions of instruction which had been worked out by Pestalozzi, and had by that time begun to be introduced into England. The Infant-School idea came at an opportune time, as the defects of the mechanical Lan- castrian instruction were becoming evident and its popularity was waning. It gave a new and a somewhat deeper philosophical interpretation of the educational process, created a stronger de- mand than had before been known for trained teachers, estab- lished a preference for women teachers for primary work, and tended to give a new dignity to teaching and school work by revealing something of a psychological basis for the instruction of httle children. It also contributed its share toward awakening a sentiment for national action. Work of the educational societies. The work of the voluntary and philanthropic educational societies in establishing schools and 632 HISTORY OF EDUCATION providing teachers and instruction before the days of national schools was enormous.^ Though the State did nothing before 1833, and little before 1870, the work of the educational societies was large and important. What was done by the church societies alone may be seen from the following table: Statistics as to 10,595 Elementary Schools founded by the Religious Societies (British Census Returns, 185 i) Date Total num- ber of schools The National Society, or Church 0/ England, schools British and For- eign Schools Society Indepen- dents, or Congrega- tionalists Wesleyan Method- ists Roman Catholics Baptists Other religious bodies Before 1801 1801-1811 1811-1821 1821-1831 1831-1841 1841-1851 Not stated 766 410 879 1,021 2,417 4,604 498 709 350 756 897 2,002 3>448 409 16 28 77 45 191 449 46 8 9 12 21 95 269 17 7 4 17 17 62 239 17 10 10 14 28 69 166 14 131 331 Totals 10-595 8,571 852 431 363 311 131 331 After about 1820-25 the rising interest in elementary education expressed itself in the formation of a number of additional socie- ties, the more important of which were: 1824. "London Infant School Society" founded by Brougham. 1826. "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" founded by Brougham. The Journal of Education begun. 1836. "Central Society of Education" founded. 1836. " Home and Colonial Infant Society " founded. Beginning of a Pestalozzian Training College. 1837. "Educational Committee of the Wesleyan Conference estab- lished." 1843. "Congregational Board of Education" formed. 1844. "Ragged School Union " founded. 1845. "Catholic Institute." 1 In 1820, Brougham, in introducing his "Bill for the Better Education of the Poor in England and Wales," gave statistics as to the progress of education at that time in England. His estimate as to the numbers being educated were: 430,000 in endowed and privately managed schools; 220,000 in monitorial schools; 50,000 being educated at home; 100,000 educated only in Sunday Schools; 53,000 being educated in dame schools. From these figures he argued that one in fifteen of the population of England and one in twenty in Wales were attending some form of school, but with only one in twenty-four in London. The usual period of school attendance for the poorer classes was only one and a half to two years. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 633 1847. The "Catholic Poor-School Committee." 1847. "Lancashire Public School Association" formed. 1850. The "National Public School Association." 1867. "Birmingham Education Aid Society." 1868. The Manchester Conference. 1869. Formation of "The League." Some of these were formed to found and support schools, and some engaged primarily in the work of propaganda in an effort to secure some national action. III. THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION The parliamentary struggle. During the whole of the eight- eenth century Parliament had enacted no legislation relating to elementary education, aside from the one Act of 1767 for the education of pauper children in London, and the freeing of ele- mentary schools, Dissenters, and Catholics, from inhibitions as to teaching. In the nineteenth century this attitude was to be changed, though slowly, and after three quarters of a century of struggle the beginnings of national education were finally to be made for England, as they had by then tor every other great nation. In 1870 the " no-business-of-the-State " attitude toward the education of the people, which had persisted from the days of the great Elizabeth, was finally and permanently changed. The legislative battle began with the first Factory Act ^ of 1802, Whit- bread's Parochial Schools BilP of 1807, and Brougham's first Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry of 1816 (R. 291); it finally culminated with the reform of the old endowed Grammar Schools by the Act of 1869, the enactment of the Elementary Education Act of 1870 (R. 304), and the Act of 1871 freeing instruction in the universities from religious restrictions (R. 305). The first of these enactments declared clearly the right of the State to inquire into, reorganize, and redirect the age-old educational foundations for secondary education; the second made the definite though tardy beginnings of a national system of elemen- tary education for England ; and the third opened up a university ^ Known as the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. It limited the working hours of apprentices to twelve; forbade night work; required day instruction to be provided in reading, writing, and arithmetic; required church attendance once a month; and provided for the registration and inspection of factories. The Act was veiy laxly enforced, and its chief value lay in the precedent of state interference which it established. ^ Whitbread proposed a national system of rate-aided schools to provide all chil- dren in England with two years of free schooling, between the ages of seven and fourteen. 634 HISTORY OF EDUCATION career to the whole nation. The agitation and conflict of ideas was long drawn out, and need not be traced in detail. The fol- lowing tabulated summary will give the main outlines of the struggle, and the selection on "The Educational Traditions of England " (R. 306) gives a good brief history of the long conflict. The Parliamentary Struggle for National Education in England Dates Proposals, Reports, etc., and Results 1802 1807 1816 1818 1820 1833 1834 1835 1837 1838 1839 1841 1843 1843 1847 1850 First Factory Act for regulating employment of children. Adopted. Whitbread's Parochial Schools' Bill introduced. Rejected by the House of Lords. Broughman secured a Parliamentary Committee to inquire into the state of education of the lower classes in London, Westminster, and South- wark. Report — 130,000 children without school accommodations [1818]. (R. 291.) Brougham secured a Committee of Inquiry on Educational Charities. No report until 1837. Bill introduced proposing a tax for schools and the granting of Government - aid in building schoolhouses. Opposed by Dissenters and Catholics. Withdrawn. Brougham's first Educational Bill. Government aid for building schoolhouses re-proposed. £20,000 a year granted. (R. 299.) Distributed through the two great Educational Societies. Committee of Inquiry appointed. No result beyond statistics. Brougham introduced bills to organize a system of elementary education. Bills failed of passage. Educational Inquiry Committee appointed [1837]. Committee report: the deplorable conditions existing. Bill of 1839. Education Department created. Bill to increase the Government grant to £30,000 and to allow all Societies to share. Inspectors to be appointed. Committee of Privy Council on Education established. Bitter opposition. Carried. Much discussion as to "undenomina' tional education." Annual grant to establish schools of design in manufacturing districts. Voted. Sir Jas. Graham's Factory Bill. Opposed by the Dissenters and defeated. Address to the Crown on condition of the working classes. No parliamentary action. Yearly grant extended to the maintenance of schools. Gradual increase in the yearly grants. Minute and Regulations on annual grants and pupil teachers. Founda- tion of a system laid. Pupil-teacher system definitely established. Certificates to teach. Annual grant extended to maintenance. Government proposals for nationalizing education. Carried, despite violent religious opposition. Fox's Bill to make education free and compulsory. Defeated. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 635 The Parliamentary Struggle for National Education in England {cont limed) Dates Proposals, Reports, etc., and Results 1853 1853 i8S5 1856 1858 1861 1864 1866 1867 1870 1871 The Government proposed a small local rate in aid of schools. Bill dropped after the first reading. Department of Science and Art created, and National Art Training Schocli. established. Promotion of elementary education in art and science, particularly after 1859. Three educational Bills introduced. Local rate proposed. Failure to agree. All withdrawn. Commons asked to declare in favor of rate aid and local Boards. Two Educational Bills introduced. First bill tabled. Second bill withdrawn. Education Department formed. A Royal Commission to inquire into the state of popular education in England asked for. The Duke of Newcastle's Commission created. Its Report pubHshed in 1861. (R. 303.) No acceptable scheme reported. Code of 1861 proposed. No advance. "Payment by results" begun [1862]. Code adopted. Schools Inquiry Commission appointed on endowed schools. Report of the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1867. Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons on Educa- tion. The Government introduced proposals as to education. Voted down. Government Bill proposing changes in distribution and larger grants. Parliament adjourned without action. Endowed Schools' Act passed. Two Educational Bills introduced. Withdrawn at the request of the Government. The Elementary Education Act of 1870 introduced. Much amended and passed. (R. 304.) Beginning of a National sys- tem of education. Religious Tests at universities withdrawn (R. 305) . The leaders in the conflict. The main leader in the parHa- mentary struggle to establish national education, from the death of Whitbread, in 1815, to about 1835, was Henry, afterwards Lord Brougham. He was aided by such men as Blackstone, and Bentham and his followers, and, after about 1837, by such men as Dickens, Carlyle, Macaulay, and John Stuart Mill. Dickens, by his descriptions, helped materially to create a sentiment favor- able to education, as a right of the people rather than a charity. He stood strongly for a compulsory and non-sectarian state sys- tem of education that would transform the children of his day into generous, self-respecting, and intelligent men and women. Carlyle saw in education a cure for social evils, and held that one 636 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of the first functions of government was to impart the gift of thinking to its future citizens. Writing, in 1840, he said: Who would suppose that education were a thing which had to be advocated on the ground of local expediency, or any ground? As if it stood not on the basis of everlasting duty as a prime necessity of man. Brougham was untiring in his efforts for popular education, and some idea as to the interest he awakened may be inferred from the fact that his Observations on the Education of the People, published in 1825, went through twenty editions the first year. He introduced bills, secured com- mittees of inquiry, made addresses,^ and used his pen in behalf of the education of the people. His belief in the power of education to improve a people was very large. Warning the "Lawgivers of Eng- land" to take heed, he once said: Let the soldier be abroad, if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another per- sonage abroad, a person less imposing — in the eye of some insignificant. The Schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full uniform array. The conqueror stalks onward with the "pride, pomp, and circum- stance of war," banners flying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering, and martial music pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded and the lamentations for the slain. Not thus the schoolmaster in his peaceful vocation. He meditates and prepares in secret the plans which are to bless mankind; he slowly gathers around him those who are to further their execution; he quietly, though firmly, advances in his humble path laboring steadily, but calmly, till he has opened to the light all the recesses of ignorance, and torn up by the roots the weeds of vice. His is a progress not to be compared with anything hke a march ; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won. Parallel with the agitation for some state action for education was an agitation for social and political reform. The basis for the election of members to the House of Commons was still mediae- 1 See J. E. G. de Montmorency's State Intervention in English Education, pp. 248- 85, for Brougham's address to the Commons in 1820 on "The Education of the Poor"; and pp. 285-324 for his address before the House of Lords in 1835, on "The Education of the People." Both addresses contain an abundance of data as to existing conditions and needs. Fig. 190 Lord Brougham (1778-1J NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 637 Fig. 191. An English Village School in 1840 (After a drawing by Hablot K. Browne, and printed in Charles Dickens's "Master Humphrey's Clock ") val. Boroughs no longer inhabited still returned members, and sparsely settled regions returned members out of all proportion to the newly created city populations. Few, too, could vote. Only about 160,000 persons in a population of 10,000,000 had, early in the century, the right of the franchise. The city popula- tions were practically disfranchised in favor of rural landlords, the nobility, and the clergy. In 1828 Protestant Non-Conform- ists were relieved of their political disability, and in 1829 a similar enfranchisement was extended to Catholics. In 1832 came the first real voting reform in the passage of the so-called Third Reform Bill,^ after a most bitter parHamentary struggle. This reapportioned the membership of the House on a more equitable basis, and enfranchised those who owned or leased lands or buildings of a value of £10 a year. The result of this was to en- franchise the middle class of the population ; increase the number of voters (1836) from about 175,000 to about 839,500 out of 6,023,000 adult males; and effectively break the power of the House of Lords to elect the House of Commons. Progressive 1 So called because the House of Lords rejected the first two passed by the Com- mons, and finally accepted the third only because the King had agreed to create enough new Lords to pass the bill unless it were enacted by the upper House. 638 HISTORY OF EDUCATION legislation now became much easier to secure, and in 1833 a Bill making a grant of £20,000 a year to aid in building schoolhouses for elementary schools — - the first government aid for elementary education ever voted in England — became a law (R. 299). During the few years following the passage of the Reform Bill many progressive measures were enacted, among which should be mentioned the aboHtion of slavery in the colonies; the beginnings of legislation looking to a scientific treatment of poverty and non- employment; the Municipal Reform Act (1835); the institution of the penny post (1839); and the abolition of the Corn Laws (1846); while after 1837 education began to take a prominent place in the programs of the new working-class movement. Progress aiter 1833. The Law of 1833, though, made but the merest beginnings, and up to 1840 the money granted was given to the two great national school societies, and without regulation. Beginning in 1840, and continuing up to the beginnmgs of na- tional education, in 1870, the grants were state-controlled and distributed through the different educational societies. The total of these grants, by years, and the proportional share of the different educational societies are well shown in the chart (Fig. 192.) In 1846 the grants were extended to maintenance as well, and in 1847 Catholic and Wesleyan societies were admitted to share in the grants. Soon thereafter we note a sharp upward turn of the curve, though the Church-of-England schools obtained the greater proportion of the increased funds. Proposals to add local taxation, in 1853 and 1856, were dropped ahnost as soon as made. The commercial and manufacturing interests, though, secured separate aid for art and science instruction (1841, 1853), and thf creation of national art training-schools (1853). Training-schoolt for teachers also were begun, and aided by grants. In 1845 the EngHsh "pupil-teacher" system^ also was begun in an effort to supply teachers of some Kttle training. A State Department of Education was created, in 1856, though without much power, and the various "Minutes" which were now adopted were organized into a system and presented to Parliament as a School Code, in 1 86 1, and finally approved. New Educational Commissions were created to inquire into educational conditions and needs in 1858 and 1864, and these reported in 1861 and 1867, but without important results. The ^ This was a development of the monitorial system of training, and was virtually an apprenticeship form of teacher-training. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 639 most notable of these was the Duke of Newcastle's Commission, appointed in 1858 to review conditions, progress, and needs, and to make recommendations for the future. This Commission re- ported in 1 86 1. It stated that one in every eight of the popula- tion was then in some kind of school ; gave statistics as to condi- 700,000 650,000 600,000 650,000 1 A /- / \ 1 1 ■il / \ J V^ V NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND 651 5. Can you explain the much greater percentage of city poor in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries than in French or German lands? 6. Can you explain why periods of prolonged warfare are usually followed by periods of social and political unrest? 7. Can you explain why Pestalozzian ideas found such slow acceptance in England? 8. Explain, on the basis of the English adult manufacturing conception of education, why monitorial instruction was hailed as "a new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern inventions in the mechanical depart- ments." 9. To what extent do we now accept Robert Owen's conception of the influence of education on children? 10. Show how the many philanthropic societies for the education of the children of the poor came in as a natural transition from church to state education. 11. Show the importance of the School Societies in accustoming people to the idea of free and general education. 12. Show how the Lancastrian system formed a natural bridge between pri- vate philanthropy in education and tax-supported state schools. 13. Why were the highly mechanical features of the Lancastrian organiza- tion so advantageous in its day, whereas we of to-day would regard them as such a disadvantage? 14. Explain how the Lancastrian schools dignified the work of the teacher by revealing the need for teacher-training. 15. Assuming that there may be some validity to the arguments of Kay- Shuttleworth, what are the limitations to such reasoning? 16. What theory as to education would naturally lie behind a "payment-by- results " plan of distributing state aid? 17. Show how English educational development during the nineteenth cen- tury has been deeply modified by the progress of democracy. 18. Show how the English have attained to minimum standards without imposing uniform requirements that destroy individuality and initia- tive. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following illustrative selections are reproduced: 291. Parliamentary Report: Charity-School Education described. 292. S.P.C.K.: Cost and Support of Charity-Schools. 293. Raikes: Description of the Gloucester Sunday Schools. 294. Guthrie: Organization, Support, and Work of a Ragged School. 295. Smith, A.: On the Education of the Common People. 296. Malthus: On National Education. 297. Smith, S.: The School of Lancaster described. 298. Philanthropist: Automatic Character of the Monitorial Schools. 299. Montmorency, de: The First Parliamentary Grant for Education. 300. Macaulay: On the Duty of the State to Provide Education. 301. Mosely: Evils of Apprenticing the Children of Paupers. 302. Kay-Shuttleworth: Typical Reasoning in Opposition to Free Schools 303. Macnamera: The Duke of Newcastle Commission Report. 304. Statute: Elementary Education Act of 1870. 305. Statute: Abolition of Religious Tests at the Universities. 306. Times: The Educational Traditions of England. 652 HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Characterize the type of education described by the witness (291), 2. Considering equipment provided and comparative money values, then and now, about how much of an effort did support (292) involve? 3. What class of children did Raikes (293) make provision for? 4. Characterize the tj^pe of education provided (294) in the Ragged Schools. 5. Would Adam Smith's reasoning (295) still hold true? 6. Would that of Malthus (296)? 7. Indicate the improvements Lancaster had made (297, 298) in organi- zation and teaching efficiency. 8. Was the first English parliamentary grant (299) expressive of deep national interest? Q. Would Macaulay's reasoning (300) still be true? 10. Is it probable that the apprenticing of paupers had always given such (301) results? 11. How sound was Kay-Shuttleworth's reasoning (302)? 12. What merit was there to the "payment-by-results" recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle Commission (303)? 13. Just what kind of schools did the Act of 1870 (304) make provision for? 14. Have we ever had such religious requirements as those so long main- tained (305) at the English universities? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Allen, W. O. B. and McClure, E. Two Hundred Years; History oj S.P.C.K. 1698-1898. Adams, Francis. History of the Elementary School Contest in England. *Binns, H. B. A Century of Education, 1 808-1 Q08 , History of the British and Foreign School Society. *Birchenough, C. History of Elementary Education in England and Wales since 1800. Escott, T. H. S. Social Transformations of the Victorian Era. Harris, J. H. Robert Raikes; the Man and his Work. *Holman, H. English National Education. *Montmorency, J. E. G. de. The Prog) ess of Education in England. *Montmorency, J. E. G. de. State Intervention in English Education to 1833- '•'Salmon, David. Joseph Lancaster. CHAPTER XXV AWAKENING AN EDUCATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE UNITED STATES I. EARLY NATIONAL ATTITUDES AND INTERESTS The American problem. The beginnings of state educational organization in the United States present quite a different history from that traced for Prussia, France, Italy, or England. While the parochial school existed in the Central Colonies, and in time had to be subordinated to state ends; and while the idea of educa- tion as a charity had been introduced into all the Anglican Colo- nies, and later had to be stamped out; the problem of educational organization in America was not, as in Europe, one of bringing church schools and old educational foundations into harmonious working relations with the new state school systems set up. In- stead the old educational foundations were easily transformed to adapt them to the new conditions, while only in the Central Colo- nies did the religious-charity conception of education give any particular trouble. The American educational problem was essentially that of first awakening, in a new land, a consciousness of need for general education; and second, that of developing a willingness to pay for what it finally came to be deemed desirable to provide. By the middle of the eighteenth century, as we have pointed out (p. 438), the earlier religious interests in America had clearly begun to wane. In the New England Colonies the school of the civil town had largely replaced the earlier religious school. In the Middle Colonies many of the parochial schools had died out. In the Southern Colonies, where the classes in society and negro slavery made common schools impossible, and the lack of city life and manufacturing made them seem largely unnecessary, the common school had tended to disappear. Even in New England, where the Calvinistic conception of the importance of education had most firmly established the idea of school support, the eight- eenth century witnessed a constant struggle to prevent the dying- out of that which an earlier generation had deemed it important to create. Effect of the war on education. The effect of the American War for Independence, on all types of schools, was disastrous. 654 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The growing troubles with the mother country had, for more than a decade previous to the opening of hostilities, tended to concentrate attention on other matters than schooling. PoHtical discussion and agitation had largely monopolized the thinking of the time. With the outbreak of the war education everywhere suffered seriously. Most of the rural and parochial schools closed, or continued a more or less intermittent existence. In New York City, then the second largest city in the country, practically all schools closed with British occupancy and remained closed until after the end of the war. The Latin grammar schools and acade- mies often closed from lack of pupils, while the colleges were almost deserted. Harvard and Kings, in particular, suffered grievously, and sacrificed much for the cause of Hberty. The war engrossed the energies and the resources of the peoples of the different Colonies, and schools, never very securely placed in the afifectiojns of the people, outside of New England, were allowed to fall into decay or entirely disappear. The period of the Revolu- tion and the period of reorganization which followed, up to the beginning of the national government (1775-89), were together a time of rapid decline in educational advantages and increasing illiteracy among the people. Meager as had been the opportuni- ties for schooling before 1775, the opportunities by 1790, except in a few cities and in the New England districts, had shrunk almost to the vanishing point. For Boston (R. 307), Providence (Rs. 309, 310), and a number of other places we have good pic- tures preserved of the schools which actually did exist. The close of the war found the country both impoverished and exhausted. All the Colonies had made heavy sacrifices, many had been overrun by hostile armies, and the debt of the Union and of the States was so great that many thought it could never be paid. The thirteen States, individually and collectively, with only 3,380,000 people, had incurred an indebtedness of $75,000,000 for the prosecution of the conflict. Commerce was dead, the Government of the Confederation was impotent, petty insurrec- tions were common, the States were quarreling continually with one another over all kinds of trivial matters, England still re- mained more or less hostile, and foreign complications began to appear. That during such a crucial period, and for some years following, but little or no attention was anywhere given to the question of education was only natural. NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 655 No real educational consciousness before a bout 1820. Re- gardless of the national land grants for education made to the new States (p. 523), the provisions of the different state constitu- tions (R. 259), the beginnings made here and there in the few cities of the time, and the early state laws (R. 262), it can hardly be said that the American people had developed an educational consciousness, outside of New England and New York, before about 1820, and in some of the States, especially in the South, a state educational consciousness was not awakened until very much later. Even in New England there was a steady decline in education during the first fifty years of the national history. There were many reasons in the national life for this lack of interest in education among the masses of the people. The simple agricultural life of the time, the homogeneity of the people, the absence of cities, the isolation and independence of the villages, the lack of full manhood suffrage in a number of the States, the want of any economic demand for education, and the fact that no important pohtical question calling for settlement at the polls had as yet arisen, made the need for schools and learning seem a relatively minor one. The country, too, was still very poor. The Revolutionary War debt still hung in part over the Nation, and the demand for money and labor for all kinds of internal improve- ments was very large. The country had few industries, and its foreign trade was badly hampered by European nations. Ways and means of strengthening the existing Government and holding the Union together,^ rather than plans which could bear fruit only in the future, occupied the attention of the leaders of the time. When the people had finally settled their pohtical and com- mercial future by the War of 181 2-14, and had built up a national consciousness on a democratic basis in the years immediately fol- lowing, and the Nation at last possessed the energy, the money, and the interest for doing so, they finally turned their energies toward the creation of a democratic system of public schools. In the meantime, education, outside of New England, and in part even there, was left largely to private individuals, churches, in- corporated school societies, and such state schools for the children 1 "The Constitution," as John Quincy Adams expressed it, "was extorted from the grinding necessities of a reluctant people" to escape anarchy and the ultimate entire loss of independence, and many had grave doubts as to the permanence of the Union. It was not until after the close of the War of 1812 that belief in the stability of the Union and in the capacity of the people to govern themselves became the belief of the many rather than the very few, and plans for education and national development began to obtain a serious hearing. 656 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of the poor as might have been provided by private or state funds, or the two combined. The real interest in advanced education. In so far as the American people may be said to have possessed a real interest in education during the first half-century of the national existence, it was manifested in the establishment and endowment of acade- mies and colleges rather than in the creation of schools for the people. The colonial Latin grammar school had been almost entirely an English institution, and never well suited to American needs. As democratic consciousness began to arise, the demand came for a more practical institution, less exclusive and less aris- tocratic in character, and better adapted in its instruction to the needs of a frontier society. Arising about the middle of the eighteenth centur y , a number of so-called Academies had been founded before the new National Government took shape. While essentially private institutions, arising from a church founda- tion, or more commonly a local subscription or endowment, it became customary for towns, counties, and States to assist in their maintenance, thus making them semi-public institutions. Their management, though, usually remained in private hands, or under boards or associations.^ Beside offering a fair type of higher training ^ before the days of high schools, the academies also became training-schools for teachers, and before the rise of the normal schools were the chief source of supply for the better grade of elementary teachers. ^ After the beginning of the national Hfe a number of States founded and endowed a state system of academies. Massachusetts, in 1797, granted land endowments to approved academies. Georgia, in 1783, created a system of county academies for the State. New York extended state aid to its academies, in 1813, having put them under state inspection as early as 1787. Maryland chartered many acade- mies between 1801 and 1817, and authorized many lotteries to provide them with, funds, as did also North Carolina. The Rhode Island General Assembly chartered many academies, and aided them by lotteries. Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, among western States, also provided for county systems of academies. ^ The study of Latin and a little Greek had constituted the curriculum of the old Latin grammar school, and its purpose had been almost exclusively to prepare boys for admission to the colony colleges. In true EngHsh style, Latin was made the language of the classroom, and even attempted for the playground as well. As a concession, reading, writing, and arithmetic were sometimes taught. The new caademies, while retaining the study of Latin, and usually Greek, though now taught through the medium of the English, added a number of new studies adapted to the needs of a new society. English grammar was introduced and soon rose to a place of great importance, as did also oratory and declamation. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geography, and astronomy were in time added, and surveying, rhetoric (including some literature), natural and moral philosophy, and Roman antiquities were frequently taught. Girls were admitted rather freely to the new academies, whereas the grammar schools had been exclusively for boys. For better instruction a "female department" was frequently organized. NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 657 These institutions rendered an important service during the first half of the nineteenth century, but were in time displaced by the publicly supported and publicly controlled American high school, the first of which dates from 1821. This evolution we shall describe more in detail a little later on. The colleges of the time. Some interest also was taken in col- lege education during this early national period. College attend- ance, however, was small, as the country was still new and the people were poor. As late as 181 5, Harvard graduated a class of but 66; Yale of 69; Princeton of 40; Williams of 40; Pennsylvania of 15; and the University of South Carolina of 37. After the organization of the Union the nine old colonial colleges were re- organized, and an attempt was made to bring them into closer harmony with the ideas and needs of the people and the govern- ments of the States. Dartmouth, Kings (now rechristened Columbia), and Pennsylvania were for a time changed into state institutions, and an unsuccessful attempt was made to make a state university for Virginia out of William and Mary. Fifteen additional colleges were organized by 1800, and fourteen more by 1820. Between 1790 and 1825 there was much discussion as to the desirabiUty of founding a national university at the seat of government, and Washington in his will (1799) left, for that time, a considerable sum to the Nation to inaugurate the new under- taking. Nothing ever came of it, however. Before 1825 six States — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Indi- iana, and Michigan — had laid the foundations of future state universities. The National Government had also granted to each new Western State two entire townships of land to help endow a university in each — a stimulus which eventually led to the estab- lishment of a state university in every Western State. A half-century of transition. The first half-century of the national life may be regarded as a period of transition from the church-control idea of education over to the idea of education under the control of and supported by the State. Though many of the early States had provided for state school systems in their constitutions (R. 259), the schools had not been set up, or set up only here and there. It required time to make this change in thinking. Up to the period of the begumings of our national development education had almost everywhere been regarded as an affair of the Church, somewhat akin to baptism, marriage, the atiministration of the sacraments, and the burial of the dead. 658 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Even in New England, which formed an exception, the evolution of the civic school from the church school was not yet complete. The church charity-school had become, as we have seen (p. 449), a familiar institution before the Revolution. The English " Soci- ety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" (p. 449), which maintained schools in connection with the Anglican churches in the Anglican Colonies and provided an excellent grade of charity-school master, withdrew at the close of the Revolution- ary War from work in this country. The different churches after the war continued their efforts to maintain their church charity- schools, though there was for a time a decrease in both their num- bers and their effectiveness. In the meantime the demand for education grew rather rapidly, and the task soon became too big for the churches to handle. For long the churches made an effort to keep up, as they were loath to relinquish in any way their former hold on the training of the young. The churches, however, were not interested in the problem except in the old way, and this was not what the new democracy wanted. The result was that, with the coming of nationality and the slow but gradual growth of a national con- sciousness, national pride, national needs, and the gradual devel- opment of national resources in the shape of taxable property — all alike combined to make secular instead of religious schools seem both desirable and possible to a constantly increasing num- ber of citizens. II. AWAKENING AN EDUCATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Between about 1810 and 1830 a number of new forces — phil- anthropic, political, social, economic — combined to change the earlier attitude by producing conditions which made state rather than church control and support of education seem both desirable and feasible. The change, too, was markedly facilitated by the work of a number of semi-private philanthropic agencies which now began the work of founding schools and building up an inter- est in education, the most important of which were: (i) the Sun- day-School movement; (2) the City School Societies; (3) the Lancastrian movement; and (4) the Infant-School Societies. These will be described briefly, and their influence in awakening an educational consciousness pointed out. The Sunday-School movement. The Sunday School, as a means of providing the merest rudiments of secular and rehgious NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 659 learning, had been made, through the initiative of Raikes of Gloucester (p. 617), a very important Enghsh institution for providing the beginnings of instruction for the children of the city poor. Raikes's idea was soon carried to the United States. In 1786 a Sunday School after the Raikes plan was organized in Hanover County, Virginia. In 1787 a Sunday School for African children was organized at Charleston, South Carolina. In 1791 "The First Day, or Sunday School Society," was organized at Philadelphia, for the establishment of Sunday Schools in that city. In 1793 Katy Ferguson's " School for the Poor " was opened in New York, and this was followed by an organization of New York women for the extension of secular instruction among the poor. In 1797 Samuel Slater's Factory School was opened at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Though there had been some Sunday instruction earlier at a few places in New England, the introduction of the Sunday School from England, in 1786, marked the real beginning of the religious Sunday School in America. After the churches had once caught the idea of a common religious school on Sundays for the instruc- tion of any one, a number of societies were formed to carry on and extend the work. The most important of these were: 1808. The Evangelical Society of Philadelphia. 1816. The Female Union for the Promotion of Sabbath Schools (New York). 1816. The New York Sunday School Union. 1816. The Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor. 1817. The Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union. 1824. The American Sunday School Union. These different types of American Sunday Schools, being open to all instead of only to the poor and lowly, had a small but an increasing influence in leveling class distinctions and in making a common day school seem possible. The movement for secular instruction on Sundays, though, soon met in America with the opposition of the churches, and before long they took over the idea, superseded private initiative and control, and changed the character of the instruction from a day of secular work to an hour or so of religious teaching. The Sunday School, in consequence, never exercised the influence in educational devel- opment in America that it did in England. The City School Societies. These were patterned after the EngHsh charity-school subscription societieSj and were formed in 66o HISTORY OF EDUCATION a number of American cities during the first quarter of the nine- teenth century for the purpose of providing the rudiments of an education to those too poor to pay for schooling. These Societies Avere usually organized by philanthropic citizens, willing to con- tribute something yearly to provide some little education for a few of the many children in the city having no opportunities for any instruction. A number of these Societies were able to effect some financial connection with the city or the State. One of the first of these School Societies was ''The Manumission Society," organized in New York, in 1785, for the purpose of ' mitigating the evils of slavery, to defend the rights of the blacks, and especially to give them the elements of an education." Alex- ander Hamilton and John Jay were among its organizers. A free school for colored pupils was opened, in 1787. This grew and prospered and was aided from time to time by the city, and in 1801 by the State. Finally, in 1834, all its schools were merged with those of the "Public School Society" of the city. In 1801 the first free school for poor white children "whose parents belong to no religious society, and who, from some cause or other, cannot be admitted into any of the charity schools of the city," was opened. This was provided by the "Association of Women Friends for the Relief of the Poor," which engaged "a widow woman of good education and morals as instructor" at £30 per year. This Association also prospered, and received some city or state aid up to 1824. By 1823 it was providing free elementary education for 750 children. Its schools also were later merged with those of the "Public School Society." " The Public School Society." Perhaps the most famous of all the early subscription societies for the maintenance of schools for the poor was the "New York Free School Society," which later changed its name to that of "The Public School Society of New York." This was organized, in 1805, under the leadership of De Witt Clinton, then mayor of the city, he heading the subscrip- tion list with a promise of $200 a year for support. On May 14, 1806, the following advertisement appeared in the daily papers: FREE SCHOOL The Trustees of the Society for establishing a Free School in the city of New York, for the education of such poor children as do not belong to, or are not provided for by any religious Society, having engaged a Teacher, and procured a School House for the accommo- dation of a School, have now the pleasure of announcing that it is NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 66l proposed to receive scholars of the descriptions alluded to without delay; applications may be made to, &c. Four days later the officers of the Society issued a general appeal to the public (R. 311), setting forth the purposes of the Society and soliciting funds. This Society was chartered by the legislature "to provide Fig. 196. The First Schoolhouse built by the Free School Society IN New York City Built in 1809, in Tryon Row. Cost, without site, $13,000 schooling for all children who are the proper objects of a gratui- tous education." It organized free public education in the city, secured funds, built schoolhouses, provided and trained teachers, and ably supplemented the work of the private and church schools. By its energy and its persistence it secured for itself a large share of public confidence, and aroused a constantly increasing interest in the cause of popular education. In 1853, after it had educated over 600,000 children and trained over 1 200 teachers, this Society, its work done, surrendered its charter and turned over its buildings and equipment to the public-school department of the city, which had been created by the legislature in 1842. School Societies elsewhere. The "Benevolent Society of the City of Baltimore for the Education of the Female Poor," founded in 1799, and the "Male Free Society of Baltimore," organized a Httle later, were other of these early school societies, though neither became so famous as the Public School Society of New York. The schools of the city of Washington were started by sub- scription, in 1804, and for some time were in part supported by 662 HISTORY OF EDUCATION subscriptions from public-spirited citizens.^ This society did an important work in accustoming the people of the capital city to the provision of some form of free education. In 1800 "The Philadelphia Society- for the Free Instruction of Indigent Boys" was formed, which a little later changed to "The Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools." In 1814 "The Society for the Promotion of a Rational System of Education" was organized in Philadelphia, and four years later the public sentiment awakened by a combina- tion of the work of this Society and the coming of the Lancastrian system of instruction enabled the city to secure a special law per- mitting Philadelphia to organize a system of city schools for the education of the children of its poor. Other societies which ren- dered useful educational service include the "Mechanics and Manufacturers Association," of Providence, Rhode Island, organ- ized in 1789 (Rs. 308, 310); "The Albany Lancastrian School Society," organized in 1826, for the education of the poor of the city in monitorial schools; and the school societies organized in Savannah in 1818, and Augusta, in 1821," to afford education to the children of indigent parents." Both these Georgia societies re- ceived some support from state funds. The formation of these school societies, the subscriptions made by the leading men of the cities, the bequests for education, and the grants of some city and state aid to these societies, all of which in time became somewhat common, indicate a slowly rising inter- est in providing schools for the education of all. This rising interest in education was greatly stimulated by the introduction from England, about this time, of a new and what for the time seemed a wonderful system for the organization of education, the Lancastrian monitorial plan. The Lancastrian monitorial schools. Church-of-England ideas were not in much favor in the United States for some time after the close of the Revolutionary War, and in consequence it was the Lancastrian plan which was brought over and popularized. In 1806 the first monitorial school was opened in New York City, and, once introduced, the system quickly spread from Massachu- 1 Thomas Jefferson's name appears in the first subscription list as giving $200, and he was elected a member of the first governing board. The chief sources of support of the schools, which up to 1844 remained pauper schools, were subscrip- tions, lotteries, a tax on slaves and dogs, certain license fees, and a small appropria- tion ($1500) each year from the city council. ^ This organization opened the first schools in Philadelphia for children regardless of religious afl&liation, and for thirty-seven years rendered a useful service there. NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 663 setts to Georgia, and as far west as Cincinnati, Louisville, and Detroit. In 1826 Maryland instituted a state system of Lancas- trian schools, wdth a Superintendent of Public Instruction, but in 1828 abandoned the idea and discontinued the office. A state Lancastrian system for North Carolina was proposed in 1832, but failed of adoption by the legislature. In 1829 Mexico organ- ized higher Lancastrian schools for the Mexican State of Texas. In 18 18 Lancaster himself went to America, and was received with much distinction. Most of the remaining twenty years of his life were spent in organizing and directing schools in various parts of the United States. In m.any of the rising cities of the eastern part of the country the first free schools established were Lancastrian schools. The system provided education at so low a cost (p. 629) that it made the education of all for the first time seem possible.^ llThe first free schools in Philadelphia (18 18) were an outgrowth of Lancas- trian influence, as was also the case in many other Pennsylvania cities. ^Baltimore began a Lancastrian school sLx years before the organization of public schools was permitted by law. A number of monitorial high schools were organized in different parts of the United States, and it was even proposed that the plan should be adopted in the colleges. A number of New England cities, that already had other type schools, investigated the new moni- torial plan and were impressed with its many important points of superiority over methods then in use. The Report of the Investigating Committee (1828) for Boston (R. 312), forms a good example of such. As in England, the system was very popular from about 1810 to 1830, but by 1840 its popularity was over. The interest the new plan awakened. It is not strange that the new plan aroused wddespread enthusiasm in many discerning men, and for almost a quarter of a century was advocated as the best system of education then known. Two quotations will illustrate what leading men of the time thought of it. De Witt Clinton, for twenty-one years president of the New York ''Free School Soci- ety," and later governor of the State, wrote, in 1809" ' All at once, comparatively, a new system had been introduced which not only improved but tremendously cheapened education. In 1822 it cost but $1.22 per pupil per year to give instruction in New York City, though by 1844 the per-capita cost, due largely to the decreasing size of the classes, had risen to $2.70, and by 1852 to $5.83. In Philadelphia, in 181 7, the expense was $3, as against $12 in the private and church schools. One finds many notices in the newspapers of the time as to the value and low cost of the new system. 664 HISTORY OF EDUCATION When I perceive that many boys in our school have been taught to read and write in two months, who did not before know the alphabet, and that even one has accomplished it in three weeks — when I view all the bearings and tendencies of this system — when I contemplate the habits of order which it forms, the spirit of emulation which it excites, the rapid improvement which it produces, the purity of morals which it inculcates — when I behold the extraordinary union of celer- ity in instruction and economy of expense — and when I perceive one great assembly of a thousand children, under the eye of a single teacher, marching with unexampled rapidity and with perfect disci- pline to the goal of knowledge, I confess that I recognize in Lancaster the benefactor of the human race. I consider his system as creating a new era in education, as a blessing sent down from heaven to redeem the poor and distressed of this world from the power and dominion of ignorance. In a message to the legislature of Connecticut, a State then fairly well supplied with schools of the Massachusetts district type, Governor Wolcott said, in 1825: If funds can be obtained to defray the expenses of the necessary preparations, I have no doubt that schools on the Lancastrian mode) ought, as soon as possible, to be established in several parts of this state. Wherever from 200 to 1000 children can be convened within a suitable distance, this mode of instruction in every branch of reading, speaking, penmanship, arithmetic, and bookkeeping, will be found much more efficient, direct, and economical than the practices now generally pursued in our primary schools. The Lancastrian schools materially hastened the adoption of the free school system in all the Northern States by gradually ac- customing people to bearing the necessary taxation which free schools entail. They also made the common school common and much talked of, and awakened thought and provoked discussion on the question of public education. They likewise dignified the work of the teacher by showing the necessity for teacher-training. The Lancastrian Model Schools, first established in the United^ States in 18 18, were the precursors of the American normal schools. Coming of the Infant School. A curious early condition in America was that, in some of the cities where public schools had been established, by one agency or another, no provision had been made for beginners. These were supposed to obtain the elements of readinr at home, or in the Dame Schools. In Boston, for ex- ample, where public schools were maintained by the city, no chil- dren could be received into the schools who had not learned to read and write (R. 314 a). This made the common age of ad- NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 665 mission somewhere near eight years. The same was in part true of Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities. When the monitorial schools were established they tended to re- strict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so. In 1816 there came to America, also from England, a valuable supplement to educaiion as then known in the form of the so- called Infant Schools (p. 630). First introduced at Boston (R. 313), the Infant Schools proved popular, and in 1818 the city ap- propriated $5000 for the purpose of organizing such schools to supplement the pubHc-school system. These were to admit children at four years of age, were to be known as primary schools, were to be taught by women, were to be open all the year round, and were to prepare the children for admission to the city schools, which by that time had come to be known as EngHsh grammar schools. Providence, similar- ly, established primary (In- fant) schools in 1828 for child- ren between the ages of four and eight, to supplement the work of the public schools, there called writing schools. The Dame School absorbed. For New England the estab- hshment of primary schools virtually took over the Dame School instruction as a pubhc function, and added the pri- mary grades to the previously existing school. We have here the origin of the division, often still retained at least in name in the Eastern States, of the "primary grades" and the "grammar grades" of the ele mentary school. An " Infant-School Society " was organized in New York, in 1827. The first Infant School was established under the direction of the PubHc School Society as the "Junior Department" of Fig. 197 "Model" School Building of the Public School Society Erected in 1843. Cost (with site), $17,000. A typical New York school building, after 1830. The infant or primary school was on the first floor, the second floor contains the girls' school, and the third floor the boys' school. Each floor had one large room seating 252 children; the primary school- room could be divided into two rooms by folding doors, so as to segregate the infant class. This building was for long regarded as the perfection of the builder's art, and its picture was printed for years on the cover of the Society's Annual Reports. 666 HISTORY OF EDUCATION School No. 8, with a woman teacher in charge, and using moni- torial methods. A second school was estabhshed the next year. In 1830 the name was changed from Infant School to Primary De- partment, and where possible these departments were combined with the existing schools. In 1832 it was decided to organize ten primary schools, under women teachers, for children from four to ten years of age, and after the Boston plan of instruction. This abandoned the monitorial plan of instruction for the new Pesta- lozzian form, which was deemed better suited to the needs of the smaller children. By 1844 fifty-six Primary Departments had been organized in connection with the upper schools of the city. In Philadelphia three Infant-School Societies were founded in 1827-28, and such schools were at once established there. By 1830 the directors of the school system had been permitted by the legislature of the State to expend public money for such schools, and thirty such, under women teachers, were in operation in the city by 1837. Primary education organized. The Infant-School idea was soon somewhat generally adopted by the Eastern cities, and 1700 1800 1830 1860 1890 Fig. 198. Evolution of the Essential Features of the American Public School System changed somewhat to make of it an American primary school. Where children had not been previously admitted to the schools without knowing how to read, as in Boston, they supplemented the work of the public schools by adding a new school beneath. Where the reverse had been the case, as in New York City, the organization of Infant Schools as Junior Departments enabled the existing schools to advance their work. Everywhere it rer>ulted, NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 667 eventually, in the organization of primary and grammar school departments, often with intermediate departments in between, and, with the somewhat contemporaneous evolution of the first high schools, the main outlines of the American free pubHc-school system were now complete. These four important educational movements — the secular Sunday School, the semi-pubKc city School Societies, the Lan- castrian plan for instruction, and the Lif ant-School idea — aU arising in philanthropy, came as successive educational ideas to America during the first half of the nineteenth century, supple- mented one another, and together accustomed a new generation to the idea of a common school for all. III. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC INFLUENCES It is hardly probable, however, that these philanthropic efforts alone, valuable as they were, could have resulted in the great American battle for tax-supported schools, at as early a date as this took place, had they not been supplemented by a number of other movements of a social, political, and economic character which in themselves materially changed the nature and direction of our national life. The more important of these were: (i) The rise of cities and of manufacturing, (2) the extension of the suf- frage, and (3) the rise of new class-demands for schools. Growth of city population and manufacturing. At the time of the inauguration of the National Government nearly every one in America lived on the farm or in some little village. The first forty years of the national life were essentially an agricultural and a pioneer period. Even as late as 1820 there were but thirteen cities of 8000 inhabitants or over in the whole of the twenty-three States at that time comprising the Union, and these thirteen cities contained but 4.9 per cent of the total population of the Nation. After about 1825 these conditions began to change. By 1820 many little villages were springing up, and these frequently proved the nuclei for future cities. In New England many of these places were in the vicinity of some waterfall, where cheap power made manufacturing on a large scale possible. Lowell, Massachusetts, which in 1820 did not exist and in 1840 had a population of over twenty thousand people, collected there largely to work in the mills, is a good illustration. Other cities, such as Cincinnati and Detroit, grew because of their advanta- geous situation as exchange and wholesale centers. With the 668 HISTORY OF EDUCATION revival of trade and commerce after the second war with Great Britain the cities grew rapidly both in number and size. The rise of the new cities and the rapid growth of the older ones materially changed the nature of the educational problem, by pro- ducing an entirely new set of social and educational conditions for the people of the Central and Northern States to solve. The South, with its plantation life, negro slavery, and absence of manufacturing was largely unaffected by these changed condi- tions until well after the close of the Civil War. In consequence the educational awakening there did not come for nearly half a century after it came in the North. In the cities in the coast States north of Maryland, but particularly in those of New York and New England, manufacturing developed very rapidly. Cot- ton-spinning in particular became a New England industry, as did also the weaving of wool, while Pennsylvania became the center of the iron manufacturing industries.^ The development of this new type of factory work meant the beginnings of the breakdown of the old home and village indus- tries, the eventual abandonment of the age-old apprenticeship system (Rs. 200, 201), the start of the cityward movement of the rural population, and the concentration of manufacturing in large establishments, employing many hands to perform continuously certain limited phases of the manufacturing process. This in time was certain to mean a change in educational methods. It also called for the concentration of both capital and labor. The rise of the factory system, business on a large scale, and cheap and rapid transportation, .11 combined to diminish the impor- tance of agriculture and to change the city from an ununportant to a very important position in our national life. The 13 cities of 1820 increased to 44 by 1840, and to 141 by i860. There were four times as many cities in the North, too, where manufacturing had found a home, as in the South, which remained essentially agricultural. New social problems in the cities. The many changes in the nature of industry and of village and home life, effected by the development of the factory system and the concentration of man- ufacturing and population in the cities, also contributed materi- 1 The cotton-spinning industry illustrates the rapid growth of manufacturing in the United States. The 15 cotton mills of 1807 had increased to 801, by 1831; and to 1240, by 1840. The South owed its prosperity chiefly to cotton-growing and shipping, and did not develop factories and workshops until a much more recent period. NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 669 • ally in changing the character of the old educational problem. When the cities were as yet but little villages in size and charac- ter, homogeneous in their populations, and the many social and moral problems incident to the congestion of peoples of mixed character had not as yet arisen, the church and charity and pri- vate school solution of the educational problem was reasonably satisfactory. As the cities now increased rapidly in size, became more city-like in character, drew to them diverse elements pre- viously largely unknown, and were required by state laws to ex- tend the right of suffrage to all their citizens, the need for a new type of educational organization began slowly but clearly to mani- fest itself to an increasing number of citizens. The church, char- ity, and private school system completely broke down under the new strain. School Societies and Educational Associations, or- ganized for propaganda, now arose in the cities ; grants of city or state funds for the partial support of both church and society schools were demanded and obtained; and numbers of charity organizations began to be estabHshed in the different cities to en- able them to handle better the new problems of pauperism, in- temperance, and juvenile delinquency which arose. The extension of the sufifrage. The Constitution of the United States, though framed by the ablest men of the time, was framed by men who represented the old aristocratic conception of education and government. The same was true of the conven- tions which framed practically all the early state constitutions. The early period of the national life was thus characterized by the rule of a class — a very well-educated and a very capable class, to be sure — but a class elected by a ballot based on property quali- fications and belonging to the older type of poKtical and social thinking. Notwithstanding the statements of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the change came but slowly. Up to 181 5 but four States had granted the right to vote to all male citizens, regard- less of property holdings or other somewhat similar restrictions. After 181 5 a democratic movement, which sought to abolish all class rule and all political inequalities, arose and rapidly gained strength. In this the new States to the westward, with their ab- sence of old estates or large fortunes, and where men were judged more on their merits than in an older society, were the leaders. As will be seen from the map, every new State admitted east of ^e Mississippi River, except Ohio (admitted in 1802), where the 670 HISTORY OF EDUCATION states shaded grranted full suffrage at the time of admission to the Union • New England element predominated, and Louisiana (181 2), pro- vided for full manhood suffrage at the time of its admission to statehood. Seven ad- ditional Eastern States had extended the same full voting privileges to their citizens by 1845, while the old re- quirements had been materially modified in most of the other Northern States. This democratic movement for the leveling of all class distinctions be- tween white men be- came very marked, after 1820; came to a head in the election of Andrew Jackson as President, in 1 8 28; and the final result was full manhood suffrage in all the States. This gave the farmer in the West and the new manufacturing classes in the cities a preponderating influence in the affairs of government. Educational significance of the extension of suffrage. Th^ educational significance of the extension of full manhood suffrage to all was enormous and far-reaching. There now took place in the United States, after about 1825, what took place in England after the passage of the Second Re- form Act (p. 642) of 1867. With the extension of the suffrage to aU classes of the population, poor as well as rich, laborer, as weU as employer, there came to thinking men, often for the first time, a realization that general education had become a fundamental necessity for the State, and that the general education of all in the elements of knowledge and civic virtue must now assume that importance in the minds of the leaders of the State that the edu- cation of a few for the service of the Church and of the many for Fig. 199. Dates OP the granting of Full Manhood Suffrage Some of the older States granted almost full man- hood suffrage at an earlier date, retaining a few minor restrictions until the date given on the map. States shaded granted full suffrage at the time of admission to the Union NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 671 simple church membership had once held in the minds of ecclesi- astics. This new conception is well expressed in the preamble to the first (optional) school law enacted in Illinois (1825), which de- clares: To enjoy our rights and liberties, we must understand them; their security and protection ought to be the first object of a free people; and it is a well-established fact that no nation has ever continued long in the enjoyment of civil and political freedom, which was not both virtuous and enlightened; and believing that the advancement of liter- ature always has been, and ever will be the means of developing more fully the rights of man, that the mind of every citizen in a republic is the common property of society, and constitutes the basis of its strength and happiness; it is therefore considered the peculiar duty of a free government, like ours, to encourage and extend the improvement and cultivation of the intellectual energies of the whole. Utterances of public men and workingmen. Governors now began to recommend to their legislatures the establishment of tax-supported schools, and pubUc men began to urge state action and state control. An utterance by De Witt Clinton, for nine years governor of New York, may be taken as an example of many. In a message to the legislature, in 1826, defending the schools established, he said: The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is a precursor and protector of republican institutions, and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption, and violence. I consider the system of our common schools as the palladium of our freedom, for no reasonable apprehension can be entertained of its subversion as long as the great body of the people are enlightened by education. After about 1825 many labor unions were formed, and the rep- resentatives of these new organizations joined in the demands for schools and education, urgmg the free education of their children as a natural right. In 1829 the workingmen of Philadelphia asked each candidate for the legislature for a formal declaration of the attitude he would assume toward the provision of "an equal and a general system of education" for the State. In 1830 the Work- ingmen's Committee of Philadelphia submitted a detailed report (R. 315), after five months spent in investigating educational con- ditions in Pennsylvania, vigorously condemning the lack of pro- vision for education in the State, and the utterly inadequate pro- 672 HISTORY OF EDUCATION vision where any was made. Seth Luther, in an address on " The Education of Workingmen," delivered in 1832, declared that "a, large body of human beings are ruined by a neglect of education, rendered miserable in the extreme, and incapable of self-govern- ment." Stephen Simpson, in his A Manual for Workingmen, published in 1831, declared that "it is to education, therefore, that we must mainly look for redress of that perverted system of society, which dooms the producer to ignorance, to toil, and to penury, to moral degradation, physical want, and social bar- barism." Many resolutions were adopted by these organiza- tions demanding free state-supported schools.^ IV. ALIGNMENT OF INTERESTS, AND PROPAGANDA The alignment of interests. The second quarter of the nine- teenth century may be said to have witnessed the battle for tax- supported, publicly controlled and directed, and non-sectarian common schools. In 1825 such schools were still the distant hope of statesmen and reformers; in 1850 they had become an actuahty in almost every Northern State. The twenty-five years interven- ing marked a period of public agitation and educational propa- ganda; of many hard legislative fights; of a struggle to secure de- sired legislation, and then to hold what had been secured; of many bitter contests with church and private-school interests, which felt that their "vested rights" were being taken from them; and of occasional referenda in which the people were asked, at the next election, to advise the legislature as to what to do. Except- ing the battle for the aboHtion of slavery, perhaps no question has ever been before the American people for settlement which caused so much feeling or aroused such bitter antagonisms. The friends of free schools were at first commonly regarded as fanatics, dan- gerous to the State, and the opponents of free schools were con- sidered by them as old-time conservatives or as selfish members of society. Naturally such a bitter discussion of a public question forced an alignment of the people for or against publicly supported and ' Among many resolutions adopted by the laboring organizations the following is typical: "At a General Meeting of Mechanics and Workingmen held in New York City, in 1829, it was "Resolved, that next to life and liberty, we consider education the greatest blessing bestowed upon mankind. "Resolved, that the public funds should be appropriated (to a reasonable extent) to the purpose of education upon a regular system that shall insure the opportunity to every individual of obtaining a competent education before he shall have arrived at the age of maturity." 1 NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 673 controlled schools, and this alignment of interests may be roughly stated to have been about as follows: /. For Public Schools. Men considered as: 1. " Citizens of the Republic." 2. Philanthropists and humanitarians. 3. PubHc men of large vision. 4. City residents. 5. The intelligent workingmen in the cities. 6. Non-taxpayers. 7. Calvinists. 8. "New England men." //. Lukewarm, or against Public Schools. Men considered as: 1. Belonging to the old aristocratic class. 2. The conservatives of society. 3. Politicians of small vision. 4. Residents of rural districts. 5. The ignorant, narrow-minded, and penurious. 6. Taxpayers. 7. Lutherans, Reformed-Church, Mennonites, and Quakers. 8. Southern men. 9. Proprietors of private schools. 10. The non-English-speaking classes. The work of propaganda. To meet the arguments of the ob- jectors, to change the opinions of a thinking few into the common opinion of the many, to overcome prejudice, and to awaken the public conscience to the public need for free and common schools in such a democratic society, was the work of a generation. To convince the masses of the people that the scheme of state schools was not only practicable, but also the best and most economical means for giving their children the benefits of an education; to convince propertied citizens that taxation for education was in the interests of both public and private welfare; to convince legisla- tors that it was safe to vote for free-school bills ; and to overcome the opposition due to apathy, religious jealousies, and private in- terests, was the work of years. In time, though, the desirability of common, free, tax-supported, non-sectarian, state-controlled schools became evident to a majority of the citizens in the differ- ent American States, and as it did the American State School, free and equally open to all, was finally evolved and took its place as the most important institution in the national life working for 674 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the perpetuation of a free democracy and the advancement of the public welfare. For this work of propaganda hundreds of School Societies and Educational Associations were organized; many conventions were held, and many resolutions favoring state schools were adopted; many "Letters" and "Addresses to the PubHc" were written and published; pubHc-spirited citizens traveled over the country, making addresses to the people explaining the advan- tages of free state schools; many pubHc-spirited men gave the best years of their lives to the state-school propaganda; and many gov- ernors sent communications on the subject to legislatures not yet convinced as to the desirability of state action. At each meeting of the legislatures for years a deluge of resolutions, memorials, and petitions for and against free schools met the members. The invention of the steam printing press came at about this time, and the first modern newspapers at a cheap price now ap- peared. These usually espoused progressive measures, and tre- mendously influenced public sentiment. Those not closely con- nected with church or private- school interests usually favored public tax-supported schools. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1 . Explain why the development of a national consciousness was practically necessary before an educational consciousness could be awakened. 2. Show why it was natural, suffrage conditions considered, that the early interest should have been in advanced education. 3. Why did the Sunday- School movement prove of so much less usefulness in America than in England? 4. Show the analogy between the earlier school societies for educational work and other forms of modern associative effort. 5. Explain the great popularity of the Lancastrian schools over those previ- ously common in America. 6. What were two of the important contributions of the Infant-School idea to American education? 7. Why are schools and education much more needed in a country experi- encing a city and manufacturing development than in a country experi- encing an agricultural development? 8. Show how the development of cities caused the old forms of education to break down, and made evident the need for a new type of education. 9. Show how each extension of the suffrage necessitates an extension of educational opportunities and advantages. 10. Explain the ahgnment of each class, for or against tax-supported schoolSj on historical and on economic grounds. NEW INFLUENCES IN AMERICA 675 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following illustrative selec- tions are reproduced : 307. Fowle: The Schools of Boston about 1790-1815. 308. Rhode Island: Petition for Free Schools, 1799. 309. Providence: Rules and Regulations for the Schools in 1820. 310. Providence: A Memorial for Better Schools, 1837. 311. Bourne: Beginnings of Public Education in New York City. 312. Boston Report: Advantages of the Monitorial System. 313. Wightman: Establishment of Primary Schools in Boston. 314. Boston: The Elementary-School System in 1823. 315. Philadelphia: Report of Workingmen's Committee on Schools. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Just what advantages for boys and for girls existed in Boston (307 a, b) before the creation of the reading schools? 2. What improvements and additions did the reading schools (307 c) introduce? 3. State the main features of the Rhode Island petition (308) of 1799. 4. Just what kind of schools do the Providence regulations (309) of 1820 provide for and describe? 5. Despite the many advances made in public schools since the date of the Providence Memorial (310), have relative public and private school expenditures materially changed? 6. Compare the New York Public School Society Address (311) with the English charity-school organization (237, 238) as to purpose and instruction. 7. Show that a report on modern classroom organization would present advantages over the monitorial plan, comparable with those outlined by the Boston Report (312) comparing the monitorial and individual plans. 8. Just what does the Boston Report on Primary Schools (313) reveal as to the character of education then provided? 9. Just what kind of elementary schools did Boston have (314) in 1823? 10. Just what kind of schools existed in the cities of Pennsylvania in 1830, judging from the Report (315) of the Workingmen's Committee? Was the Report correct with reference to "a monopoly of talent"? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Binns, H. B. A Century of Education, 1808-IQ08. Boese, Thos. Public Education in the City of New York. Cubberley, E. P. Public Education in the United States. *Fitzpatrick, E. A. The Educational Views and Influences of De Witt Clinton. McManis, J. T. "The Public School Society of New York City"; in Educational Review, vol. 29, pp. 303-11. (March, 1905.) *Palmer, A. E. The New York Public School System. *Reigart, J. F. The Lancastrian System of Instruction in the Schools of New York City. *Salmon, David. Joseph Lancaster. *Simcoe, A. M. Social Forces in American History. CHAPTER XXVI THE AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE STATE SCHOOLS The problem which confronted those interested in establishing state-controlled schools was not exactly the same in any two States, though the battle in many States possessed common ele- ments, and hence was somewhat similar in character. Instead of tracing the struggle in detail in each of the different States, it will be much more profitable for our purposes to pick out the main strategic points in the contest, and then illustrate the con- flict for these by describing conditions in one or two States where the controversy was most severe or most typical. The seven strategic points in the struggle for free, tax-supported, non-sec- tarian, state-controlled schools in the United States were: 1. The battle for tax support. 2. The battle to eliminate the pauper-school idea. 3. The battle to make the schools entirely free. 4. The battle to establish state supervision. 5. The battle to eliminate sectarianism. 6. The battle to extend the system upward. 7. Addition of the state university to crown the system. We shall consider each of these, briefly, in order. I. THE BATTLE FOR TAX SUPPORT Early support and endowment funds. In New England, land endowments, local taxes, direct local appropriations, license taxes, and rate-bills had long been common. Land endowments began early in the New England Colonies, while rate-bills date back to the earliest times and long remained a favorite means of raising money for school support. These means were adopted in the different States after the beginning of our national period, and to them were added a variety of license taxes, while occupational taxes, lotteries, and bank taxes also were employed to raise money for schools. A few examples of these may be cited: Connecticut, in 1774, turned over all proceeds of liquor licenses to the towns where collected, to be used for schools. New Or- leans, in 1826, licensed two theaters on condition that they each pay $3000 annually for the support of schools in the city. New York, in 1799, authorized four state lotteries to raise $100,000 for J AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 677 schools, a similar amount again in 1801, and numerous other lot- teries before 1810. New Jersey (R. 246) and most of the other States did the same. Congress passed fourteen joint resolutions, between 181 2 and 1836, authorizing lotteries to help support the schools of the city of Washington. Bank taxes were a favorite source of income for schools, between about 1825 and i860, banks being chartered on condition that they would pay over each year for schools a certain sum or percentage of their earnings. These all represent what is known as indirect taxation, and were val- uable in accustoming the people to the idea of public schools without appearing to tax cnem for their support. The National Land Grants, begun in the case of Ohio in 1802, soon stimulated a new interest in schools. Each State admitted after Ohio also received the sixteenth section for the support of common schools, and two townships of land for the endowment of a state university. The new Western States, following the lead of Ohio (R. 260) and Indiana (R. 261), dedicated these section lands and funds to free common schools. The sixteen older States, however, did not share in these grants, so most of them now set about building up a permanent school fund of their own, though at first without any ver}' clear idea as to how the income from the fund was to be used.^ The beginnings of school taxation. The early idea, which seems for a time to have been generally entertained, that the in- come from land grants, license fees, and these permanent endow- ment funds would in time entirely support the necessar}^ schools, was gradually abandoned as it was seen how little in yearly in- come these funds and lands really produced, and how rapidly the population of the States was increasing. By 1825 it may be said to have been clearly recognized by thinking men that the only safe reliance of a system of state schools lay in the general and di- rect taxation of all property for their support. "The wealth of ^ Connecticut and New York both had set aside lands, before 1800, to create such a fund, Connecticut's fund dating back to 1750. Delaware, in 1796, devoted the income from marriage and tavern hcenses to the same purpose, but made no use of the fund for twenty years. Connecticut, in 179s, sold its "Western Reserve" in Ohio for $1,200,000, and added this to its school fund. New York, in 1805, similarly added the proceeds of the sale of half a million acres of state lands, though the fund then formally created accumulated unused until 181 2. Tennessee began to build up a permanent state school fund in 1806; Virginia in 1810; South Carolina in 1811; Maryland in 181 2; New Jersey in 1816; Georgia in 181 7; Maine, New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Louisiana in 182 1; Vermont and North Carolina in 1825; Pennsyl- vania in 1 831; and Massachusetts in 1834. These were established as permanent state funds, the annual income only to be used, in some way to be determined later, for the support of some form of sdiook. 678 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the State must educate the children of the State" became a watchword, and the battle for direct, local, county, and state taxation for education was clearly on by 1825 to 1830 in all the Northern States, except the four in New England where the prin- ciple of taxation for education had for long been estabhshed.^ Even in these States the struggle to increase taxation and provide better schools called for much argument and popular education (R. 316), and occasional backward movements (Rs. 317, 318) were encountered. The struggle to secure the first legislation, weak and ineffective as it seems to us to-day, was often hard and long. "Campaigns of education" had to be prepared for and carried through. Many thought that tax-supported schools would be dangerous for the State, harmful to in- dividual good, and thor- oughly undemocratic. Many did not see the need for schools at all. Por- tions of a town or a city would provide a free school, while other por- tions would not. Often those in favor of taxation were bitterly assailed, and even at times threatened with per- sonal violence. Often those in favor of improving the schook had to wait patiently for the opposition slowly to wear itself out (R. 319) before any real progress could be made. State support fixed the state system. With the beginnings of state aid in any substantial sums, either from the income from permanent endowment funds, state appropriations, or direct state 1 Now for the first time direct taxation for schools was Hkely to be felt by the tax- payer, and the fight for and against the imposition of such taxation was on in earnest. The course of the struggle and the results were somewhat different in the different States, but, in a general way, the progress of the conflict was somewhat as follows: 1. Permission granted to communities so desiring to organize a school taxing district, and to tax for school support the property of those consenting and residing therein. 2. Taxation of all property in the taxing district permitted. 3. State aid to such districts, at first from the income from permanent endowment funds, and later from the proceeds of a small state appropriation or a state or county tax. 4. Compulsory local taxation to supplement the state or county grant. Fig. 200. The First Free Public School in Detroit A one-room school, opened in the Second Ward, in 1838. No action was taken in any other ward until 1842 1 AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 679 taxation, the State became, for the first time, in a position to en- force quite definite requirements in many matters. Communi- ties which would not meet the State's requirements would receive no state funds. One of the first requirements to be thus enforced was that com- munities or districts receiving state aid must also levy a local tax for schools. Commonly the requirement was a duplication of state aid. Generally speaking, and recognizing exceptions in a few States, this represents the beginnings of compulsory local taxation for education. As early as 1797 Vermont had required the towns to support their schools on penalty of forfeiting their share of state aid. New York in 181 2, Delaware in 1829, and New Jersey in 1846 required a duplication of all state aid received. Wisconsin, in its first constitution of 1848, required a local tax for schools equal to one half the state aid received. The next step in state control was to add still other requirements, as a prerequisite to receiving state aid. One of the first of such was that a certain length of school term, commonly three months, must be provided in each school district. Another was the provision of free heat, and later on free schoolbooks and supplies. When the duplication-of-state-aid-received stage had been reached, compulsory local taxation for education had been estab- lished, and the great central battle for the creation of a state school system had been won. The right to tax for support, and to compel local taxation, w^as the key to the whole state system of education. From this point on the process of evolving an ade- quate system of school support in any State has been merely the further education of public opinion to see new educational needs, II. THE BATTLE TO ELIMINATE THE PAUPER-SCHOOL IDEA The pauper-school idea. The pauper-school idea was a direct inheritance from England, and its home in America was in the old Central and Southern Colonies, where the old Anglican Church had been in control. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- ware, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia were the chief representa- tives, though the idea had friends among certain classes of the population in other of the older States. The new and democratic West would not tolerate it. The pauper-school conception was a direct inheritance from English rule, belonged to a society based on classes, and was wholly out of place in a Republic founded on the doctrine that "all men are created equal, and endowed by 68o HISTORY OF EDUCATION their Creator with certain unahenable rights." Still more, it was a very dangerous conception of education for a democratic form of government to tolerate or to foster. Its friends were found among the old aristocratic or conservative classes, the heavy tax- payers, the supporters of church schools, and the proprietors of private schools. Citizens who had caught the spirit of the new Republic, public men of large vision, intelligent workingmen, and men of the New England type of thinking were opposed on prin- ciple to a plan which drew such invidious distinctions between the future citizens of the State. To educate part of the children in church or private pay schools, they said, and to segregate those too poor to pay tuition and educate them at public expense in pauper schools, often with the brand of pauper made very evident to them, was certain to create classes in society which in time would prove a serious danger to our democratic institutions. Large numbers of those for whom the pauper schools were in- tended would not brand themselves as paupers by sending their children to the schools, and others who accepted the ad- vantages offered, for the sake of their children, despised the sys- tem.^ The battle for the elimination of the pauper-school idea was fought out in the North in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the struggle in these two States we shall now briefly describe. The Pennsylvania legislation. In Pennsylvania we find the pauper-school idea fully developed. The constitution of 1790 (R. 259) had provided for a state system of pauper schools, but nothing was done to carry even this constitutional direction into effect until 1802. A pauper- school law was then enacted, directing the overseers of the poor to notify such parents as they deemed sufficiently indigent that, if they would declare themselves to be paupers, their children might be sent to some specified private or pay school and be given free education (R. 315). The expense for this was assessed against the education ^ Concerning the system, "The Philadelphia Society for the Estabhshment and Support of Charity Schools," in an "Address to the Public," in 1818, said: "In the United States the benevolence of the inhabitants has led to the establish- ment of Charity Schools, which, though affording individual advantages, are not Ukely to be followed by the political benefits kindly contemplated by their founders. In the country a parent will raise children in ignorance rather than place them in charity schools. It is only in large cities that charity schools succeed to any extent. These dispositions may be improved to the best advantage, by the Legislature, in place of Charity Schools, estabhshing Public Schools for the education of all chil- dren, the offspring of the rich and the poor alike." AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 68i poor-fund, which was levied and collected in the same manner as were road taxes or taxes for poor relief. No provision was made for the establishment of public schools, even for the children of the poor, nor was any standard set for the education to be provided in the schools to which they were sent. No other general provision for elementary education was made in the State until 1834. With the growth of the cities, and the rise of their special prob- lems, something more than this very inadequate provision for schooling became necessary. "The Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools" had long been urging a better system, and in 1814 "The Society for the Promo- tion of a Rational System of Education" was organized in Phila- delphia for the purpose of educational propaganda. Bills were prepared and pushed, and in 18 18 Philadelphia was permitted, by special law, to organize as "the first school district" in the State of Pennsylvania, and to provide, with its own funds, a system of Lancastrian schools for the education of the children of its poor.^ The Law of 1834. In 1827 "The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Public Schools" began an educational propaganda which did much to bring about the Free-School Act of 1834. In an "Address to the Public" it declared its object to be the pro- motion of public education throughout the State of Pennsylvania, and the "Address" closed with these words: This Society is at present composed of about 250 members, and a correspondence has been commenced with 125 members, who reside in every district in the State. It is intended to direct the continued attention of the public to the importance of the subject ; to collect and diffuse all information which may be deemed valuable; and to per- severe in their labors until they shall be crowned with success. Memorials were presented to the legislature year after year, governors were interested, "Addresses to the Public" were pre- pared, and a vigorous propaganda was kept up until the Free- School Law of 1834 was the result. This law, though, was optional. It created every ward, town- ship, and borough in the State a school district, a total of 987 be- ing created for the State. Each school district was ordered to vote that autumn on the acceptance or rejection of the law. Those accepting the law were to organize under its provisions, 1 In 182 1 the counties of Dauphin (Harrisburg), Allegheny (Pittsburg), Cumber- land (Carlisle) , and Lancaster (Lancaster) were also exempted from the state pauper- school law, and allowed to organize schools for the education of the children of their poor. 682 HISTORY OF EDUCATION while those rejecting the law were to continue under the educa- tional provisions of the old Pauper-School Act. The results of the school elections of 1834 are shown, by coun- ties, on the below map. Of the total of 987 districts created, 502, in 46 of the then 52 counties (Philadelphia County not voting), or I 1 to 20% IvivT?! 21 to 81 to 100% Fig. 201. The Pennsylvania School Elections of 1835 Showing the percentage of school districts in each county organizing under and accepting the School Law of 1834. Percentage of districts accepting indicated on the map for a few of the counties. 52 per cent of the whole number, voted to accept the new law and organize under it; 264 districts, in 31 counties, or 27 per cent of the whole, voted definitely to reject the law; and 221 districts, in 46 counties, or 21 per cent of the whole, refused to take any action either way. In 3 counties, indicated on the map, every district accepted the law, and in 5 counties, also indicated^ every district rejected or refused to act on the law. It was the predominantly German counties, located in the east-central portion of the State, which were strongest in their opposition to the new law. One reason for this was that the new law provided for English schools ; another was the objection of the thrifty Germans to taxation; and another was the fear that the new state schools might injure their German parochial schools. The real fight for free versus pauper schools, though, was yet to come. Legislators who had voted for the law were bitterly as- sailed, and, though it was but an optional law, the question of its repeal and the reinstatement of the old Pauper-School Law be- AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 683 came the burning issue of the campaign in the autumn of 1834. Many legislators who had favored the law were defeated for re- election. Others, seeing defeat, refused to run. Petitions for the repeal of the law,^ and remonstrances against its repeal, flooded the legislature when it met. The Senate at once repealed tho law, but the House, largely under the leadership of a Vermonter by the name of Thaddeus Stevens,- refused to reconsider, and finally forced the Senate to accept an amended and a still stronger bill. This defeat finally settled, in principle at least, the pauper-school question in Pennsylvania,^ though it was not until 1873 that the last district in the State accepted the new system. Eliminating the pauper-school idea in New Jersey. No con- stitutional mention of education was made in New Jersey until 1844, and no educational legislation was passed until 1816. In that year a permanent state school fund was begun, and in 1820 the first permission to levy taxes "for the education of such poor children as are paupers" was granted. In 1828 an extensive in- vestigation showed that one third of the children of the State were without educational opportunities, and as a result of this in- vestigation the first general school law for the State was enacted, in 1829. This provided for district schools, school trustees and visitation, licensed teachers, local taxation, and made a state appropriation of $20,000 a year to help establish the sys- tem. The next year, however, this law was repealed and the old pauper-school plan reestablished, largely due to the pressure of church and private-school interests. In 1830 and 1831 the state appropriation was made divisible among private and parochial schools, as well as the public pauper schools, and the use of all public money was limited "to the education of the children of the poor." Between 1828 and 1838 a number of conventions of friends of free public schools were held in the State, and much work in the nature of propaganda was done. At a convention in 1838 a com- mittee was appointed to prepare an "Address to the People of New Jersey" on the educational needs of the State (R. 320), and ^ Some 32,000 persons petitioned for a repeal of the law, 66 of whom signed by making their mark, and "not more than five names in a hundred," reported a legis- lative committee which investigated the matter, "were signed in English script." It was from among the parochial-school Germans that the strongest opposition to the law came. ■'' For Stevens's speech in defense of the Law of 1834, see Report of the United States Commissioner 0} Education, 1898-99, vol. i, pp. 516-24. * By 1836 the new free-school law had been accepted by 75 per cent of the districts in the State, by 1838 by 84 per cent, and by 1847 W 88 per cent. 684 HISTORY OF EDUCATION speakers were sent over the State to talk to the people on the sub- ject. The campaign against the pauper school had just been fought to a conclusion in Pennsylvania, and the result of the ap- peal in New Jersey was such a popular manifestation in favor of free schools that the legislature of 1838 instituted a partial state school system. The pauper-school laws were repealed, and the best features of the short-lived Law of 1829 were reenacted. In 1844 a new state constitution limited the income of the perma- nent state school fund exclusively to the support of public schools. With the pauper-school idea eliminated from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the North was through with it. The wisdom of its elimination soon became evident, and we hear little more of it among Northern people. The democratic West never tolerated it. It continued some time longer in Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia, and at places for a time in other Southern States, but finally disappeared in the South as well in the educational reop ganizations which took place following the close of the Civil War. III. THE BATTLE TO MAKE THE SCHOOLS ENTIRELY FREE The schools not yet free. The rate-bill, as we have previously stated, was an old institution, also brought over from England, as the term " rate " signifies. It was a charge levied upon the parent to supplement the school revenues and prolong the school term, and was assessed in proportion to the number of children sent by each parent to the school. In some States, as for example Massa- chusetts and Connecticut, its use went back to colonial times; in others it was added as the cost for education increased, and it was seen that the income from permanent funds and authorized taxa- tion was not sufficient to maintain the school the necessary length of time. The deficiency in revenue was charged against the par- ents sending children to school, pro rata, and collected as ordi- nary tax-bills (R. 321). The charge was small, but it was suffi- cient to keep many poor children away from the schools. The rising cities, with their new social problems, could not and would not tolerate the rate-bill system, and one by one they se- cured special laws from legislatures which enabled them to organ- ize a city school system, separate from city-council control, and under a local ''board of education." One of the provisions of these special laws nearly always was the right to levy a city tax for schools sufficient to provide free education for the children of the city. AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 685 The fight against the rate-bill in New York. The attempt to abolish the rate-bill and make the schools wholly free was most \rigorously contested in New York State, and the contest there is tnost easily described. From 1828 to 1868, this tax on the par- ents produced an average annual sum of $410,685.66, or about one half of the sum paid all the teachers of the State for salary. While the wealthy districts were securing special legislation and vctr::^- I I For Free Schools |.-.;. :. .. I Against Free Schools mmntH N. Y. C. & H. R. Ry. Fig. 202. The New York Referendum of 1850 Total vote: For free schools, 17 counties and 209,346 voters; against free schools, 42 counties and 184,308 voters. taxing themselves to provide free schools for their children, the poorer and less populous districts were left to struggle to main- tain their schools the four months each year necessary to secure state aid. Finally, after much agitation, and a number of appeals to the legislature to assume the rate-bill charges in the form of general state taxation, and thus make the schools entirely free, the legislature, in 1849, referred the matter back to the people to be voted on at the elections that autumn. The legislature was to be thus advised by the people as to what action it should take. 686 HISTORY OF EDUCATION The result was a state-wide campaign for free, public, tax-sup>- ported schools, as against partially free, rate-bill schools. The result of the 1849 election was a vote of 249,872 in favor of making "the property of the State educate the children of the State," and 91,952 against it. This only seemed to stir the op- ponents of free schools to renewed action, and they induced the next legislature to resubmit the question for another vote, in the autumn of 1850. The result of the referendum of 1850 is shown on the map on page 685. The opponents of tax-supported schools now mustered their full strength, doubling their vote in 1849, while the majority for free schools was materially cut down. The interesting thing shown on this map was the clear and unmistakable voice of the cities. They would not tolerate the rate-bill, and, despite their larger property interests, they favored tax-supported free schools. The rural districts, on the other hand, opposed the idea. The rate-bill in other States. These two referenda virtually settled the question in New York, though for a time a compro- mise was adopted. The state appropriation for schools was very materially increased, the rate-bill was retained, and the organiza- tion of "union districts" to provide free schools by local taxation where people desired them was authorized. Many of these "union free districts" now arose in the more progressive com- munities of the State, and finally, in 1867, after rural and other forms of opposition had largely subsided, and after almost all the older States had abandoned the plan, the New York legislature finally aboHshed the rate-bill and made the schools of New York entirely free. The dates for the abolition of the rate-bill in the other older Northern States were: 1834. Pennsylvania. 1867. New York. 1852. Indiana. 1868. Connecticut. 1853. Ohio. 1868. Rhode Island 1855- Illinois. 1869. Michigan. 1864. Vermont. 1871. New Jersey. The New York fight of 1849 ^^^ 1^5° was the pivotal fight; in the other States it was abandoned by legislative act, and without a serious contest. In the Southern States free education came with the educational reorganizations following the close of the Civil War. AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 687 IV. THE BATTLE TO ESTABLISH SCHOOL SUPERVISION Beginnings of state control. The great battle for state schools was not only for taxation to stimulate their development where none existed, but was also indirectly a battle for some form of state control of the local systems which had already grown up. The establishment of permanent state school funds by the older States, to supplement any other aid which might be granted, also tended toward the establishment of some form of state supervi- sion and control of the local school systems. The first step was the establishment of some form of state aid; the next was the im- posing of conditions necessary to secure this state aid. State oversight and control, however, does not exercise itself, and it soon became evident that the States must elect or appoint some officer to represent the State and enforce the observance of its demands. It would be primarily his duty to see that the laws relating to schools were carried out, that statistics as to existing conditions were collected and printed, and that communities were properly advised as to their duties and the legislature as to the needs of the State. We find now the creation of a series of school officers to represent the State, the enactment of new laws extending control, and a struggle to integrate, subordinate, and reduce to some semblance of a state school system the hundreds of Kttle community school systems which had grown up. The first state school officers. The first American State to create a state officer to exercise supervision over its schools was New York, in 181 2. In enacting the new law ^ providing for state aid for schools the first State Superintendent of Common Schools in the United States was created. So far as is known this was a distinctively American creation, uninfluenced by the practice in any other land. It was to be the duty of this officer to look after the establishment and maintenance of the schools throughout the State. ^ Maryland created the office in 1826, but two years later abolished it and did not re-create it until 1864. Illinois directed ^ This State had enacted an experimental school law, and made an annual state grant for schools, from 1795 to 1800. Then, unable to reenact the law, the system was allowed to lapse and was not reestablished until the New England element gained control, in 181 2. ^ By his vigorous work in behalf of schools the first appointee, Gideon Hawley, gave such offense to the politicians of the time that he was removed from office, in 1821, and the legislature then abolished the position and designated the Secretary of State to act, ex officio, as Superintendent. This condition continued until 1854, when New York again created the separate office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 688 HISTORY OF EDUCATION its Secretary of State to act, ex officio, as Superintendent of Schools in 1825, as did also Vermont in 1827, Louisiana in 1833, Pennsylvania in 1834, and Tennessee in 1835. Illinois did not create a real State Superintendent of Schools, though, until 1854, Vermont until 1845, Louisiana until 1847, Pennsylvania until 1857, or Tennessee until 1867. The first States to create separate school officials who have been continued to the present time were Michigan and Kentucky, both in 1837. Often quite a legislative struggle took place to secure the establishment of the office, and later on to prevent its aboKtion. By 1850 there were ex-officio state school officers in nine and regular school officers in seven of the then thirty-one States, and I I No Scliool Snperri.io. I;:;;J Hid » •i-oScio Sut« Sshool I I Had K YtgHlar SlBte Srhool Officer llllllll Had CouDlJ Sapexintandonti of SchooU fe^fta Had both StaU aAd CouDtr Srhool Offlrar • Cities haTiog a Cit; SuppT'oleDdeDt orSchooti Fig. 203. Status of School Supervision in the United States BY 1 86 1 For a list of the 29 City Superintendencies established up to 1870, see Cubberley's Public School Administration, p. 58. For the history of the state educational office in each State see Cubberley and Elliott, State and County School Administration, Source Book, pp. 283-87. by 1 86 1 there were ex-officio officers in nine and regular officers in nineteen of the then thirty-four States, as well as one of each in two of the organized Territories. The above map shows the growth of supervisory oversight by 1 861 — forty-nine years from the time the first American state school officer was created. The map also shows the ten of the thirty-four States which had, by 1 86 1, also created the office of County Superintendent of Schools, as well as the twenty-six cities which had, by 1861, created the office of City Superintendent of Schools. Only three more cities AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 689 — Albany, Washington, and Kansas City — were added before 1870, making a total of twenty-eight, but since that date the number of city superintendents has increased to something like fourteen hundred to-day. The first State Board of Education. Another important form for state control which was created a little later was the State Board of Education, with an appointed Secretary, who exercised about the same functions as a State Superintendent of Schools. This form of organization first arose in Massachusetts, in 1837, ^ an effort to subordinate the district schools and reduce them to a semblance of an organized system. In 1826 each town (town- ship) had been required to appoint a School Committee (School Board) to exercise general supervision over its schools, in 1834 the state permanent school fund was created, and in 1837 the reform movement reached its culmination in the creation of the first real State Board of Education in the United States. Instead of fol- lowing the usual American practice of the time, and providing for an elected State School Superintendent, Massachusetts provided for a small appointed State Board of Education which in turn was to select a Secretary, who was to act in the capacity of a state school officer and report to the Board, and through it to the legis- lature and the people. Neither the Board nor the Secretary were given any powers of compulsion, their work being to investigate conditions, report facts, expose defects, and make recommenda- tions as to action to the legislature. The permanence and influ- ence of the Board thus depended very largely on the character of the Secretary it selected. Horace Mann the first Secretary. A prominent Brown Univer- sity graduate and lawyer in the State Senate, by the name of Horace Mann (i 796-1859), who as president of the Senate had been of much assistance in securing passage of the bill creating the State Board of Education, was finally induced by the Governor and the Board to accept the position of Secretary. Mr. Mann now began a most memorable work of educating pubHc opinion, and soon became the acknowledged leader in school organization in the United States. State after State called upon him for ad- vice and counsel, while his twelve annual Reports to the State Board of Education will always remain memorable documents. PubHc men of all classes — lawyers, clergymen, college professors, Hterary men, teachers — were laid under tribute and sent forth over the State explaining to the people the need for a reawakening 690 HISTORY OF EDUCATION of educational interest in Massachusetts. Every year Mr. Mann organized a " campaign," to explain to the people the meaning and importance of general education. So successful was he, and so ripe was the time for such a movement, that he not only started a great common school revival in Massachusetts which led to the regeneration of the schools there, but one which was felt and which influenced development in every Northern State. His twelve carefully written Reports on the condition of educa- tion in Massachusetts and elsewhere, with his intelligent discus- sion of the aims and purposes of public education, occupy a com- manding place in the history of American education, while he will always be regarded as perhaps the greatest of the "founders" of our American system of free public schools. No one did more than he to estabhsh in the minds of the American people the con- ception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, and free, and that its aim should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sec- tarian ends. Under his practical leadership an unorganized and heterogeneous series of community school systems was reduced to organization and welded together into a state school system, and the people of Massachusetts were effectively recalled to their an- cient belief in and duty toward the education of the people. Henry Barnard in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Ahnost equally important, though of a somewhat different character, was the work of Henry Barnard (1811-1900) in Connecticut and Rhode Island. A graduate of Yale, and also educated for the law, he turned aside to teach and became deeply interested in education. The years 1835-37 ^^ spent in Europe studying schools, particularly the work of Pestalozzi's disciples. On his return to America he was elected a member of the Connecticut legislature, and at once formulated and secured passage of the Connecticut law (1839) providing for a State Board of Commis- sioners for Common Schools, with a Secretary, after the Massa- chusetts plan. Mr. Barnard was then elected as its first Secre- tary, and reluctantly gave up the law and accepted the position at the munificent salary of $3 a day and expenses. Until the legis- lature abolished both the Board and the position, in 1842, he ren- dered for Connecticut a service scarcely less important than the better-known reforms which Horace Mann was at that time car- rying on in Massachusetts. In 1843 he was called to Rhode Island to examine and report ffi AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 691 upon the existing schools, and from 1845 to 1849 acted as State Commissioner of PubHc Schools there, where he rendered a serv- ice similar to that previously rendered in Connecticut. In addi- tion he organized a series of town libraries throughout the State For his teachers' institutes he devised a traveling model school, to give demonstration lessons in the art of teaching. From 185 1 to 1855 he was again in Connecticut, as principal of the newly estab- lished state normal school and ex-ojjicio Secretary of the Connec- ticut State Board of Education. He now rewrote the school laws, increased taxation for schools, checked the power of the dis- tricts, there known as "school societies," and laid the foundations of a state system of schools. The work of Mann and Barnard had its influence throughout all the Northern States, and encouraged the friends of education everywhere. Almost contemporaneous with them were leaders in other States who helped fight through the battles of state establishment and state organization and con- trol, and the period of their labors has since been termed the period of the ''great awakening." V. THE BATTLE TO ELIMINATE SECTARIANISM The secularization of American education. The Church, it will be remembered, was from the earliest colonial times in posses- sion of the education of the young. Not only were the earUest schools controlled by the Church and dominated by the religious motive, but the right of the Church to dictate the teaching in the schools was clearly recognized by the State. Still more, the State looked to the Church to provide the necessary education, and as- sisted it in doing so by donations of land and money. The minis- ter, as a town ofhcial, naturally examined the teachers and the in- struction in the schools. After the establishment of the National Government this relationship for a time continued.^ New York and the New England States specifically set aside lands to help both church and school. After about 1800 these land endow- ments for religion ceased, but grants of state aid for religious schools continued for nearly a half-century longer. Then it be- came common for a town or city to build a schoolhouse from city taxation, and let it out rent-free to any responsible person who ^ When Connecticut sold its Western Reserve, in 1795, and added the sum to the Connecticut school fund, it was stated to be for the aid of "schools and the gospel." In the sales of the first national lands in Ohio (1,500,000 acres to The Ohio Company, in 1787; and 1,000,000 acres in the Symmes Purchase, near Cincinnati, in 1788), section 16 in each township was reserved and given as an endowment for schools, and section 29 "for the purposes of religion." 692 HISTORY OF EDUCATION would conduct a tuition school in it, with a few free places for se- lected poor children. Still later, with the rise of the state schools, it became quite common to take over church and private schools and aid them on the same basis as the new state schools. In colonial times, too, and for some decades into our national period, the warmest advocates of the estabHshment of schools were those who had in view the needs of the Church. Then grad- ually the emphasis shifted to the needs of the State, and a new class of advocates of public education now arose. Still later the jmphasis has been shifted to industrial and civic and national needs, and the religious aim has been almost completely elimi- nated. This change is known as the secularization of American education. It also required many a bitter struggle, and was ac- compHshed in the different States but slowly. The two great fac- tors which served to produce this change were: 1. The conviction that the life of the Republic demanded an edu- cated and intelligent citizenship, and hence the general education of all in common schools controlled by the State ; and 2. The great diversity of religious beliefs among the people, which forced tolerance and religious freedom through a consideration of the rights of minorities. The secularization of education must not be regarded either as a deliberate or a wanton violation of the rights of the Church, but rather as an unavoidable incident connected with the coming to self-consciousness and self-government of a great people. The fight in Massachusetts. The educational awakening in Massachusetts, brought on largely by the work of Horace Mann, was to many a rude awakening. Among other things, it re- vealed that the old school of the Puritans had gradually been re- placed by a new and purely American type of school, with instruc- tion adapted to democratic and national rather than reHgious ends. Mr. Mann stood strongly for such a conception of pubHc education, and being a Unitarian, and the new State Board of Education being almost entirely liberal in religion, an attack was launched against them, and for the first time in our history the cry was raised that *'The public schools are Godless schools." Those who beheved m the old system of religious instruction, those who bore the Board or its Secretary personal ill-will, and those who desired to break down the Board's authority and stop the development of the public schools, united their forces in thiy first big attack against secular education. Horace Mann was the AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 693 first prominent educator in America to meet and answer the re- ligious onslaught. A violent attack was opened in both the pulpit and the press It was claimed that the Board was trying to eliminate the Bible from the schools, to abolish correction, and to "make the schools a counterpoise to religious instruction at home and in Sabbath schools." The local right to demand religious instruction was in- sisted upon. Mr. Mann felt that a great public issue had been raised which should be answered carefully and fully. In three public state- ments he answered the criticisms and pointed out the errors in the argument (R. 322). The Bible, he said, was an invaluable book for forming the character of children, and should be read without comment in the schools, but it was not necessary to teach it there. He showed that most of the towns had given up the teaching of the Catechism before the establisliment of the Board of Education. He contended that any attempt to decide what creed or doctrine should be taught would mean the ruin of the schools. The attack culminated in the attempts of the reHgious forces to aboUsh the State Board of Education, in the legislatures of 1840 and 1841, which failed dismally. Most of the orthodox people of the State took Mr. Mann's side, and Governor Briggs, in one of his mes- sages, commended his stand by inserting the following: Justice to a faithful public officer leads me to say that the inde- fatigable and accomplished Secretary of the Board of Education ha? performed services in the cause of common schools which will earn him the lasting gratitude of the generation to which he belongs. The attempt to divide the school funds. As was stated earher, in the beginning it was common to aid church schools on the same basis as the state schools, and sometimes, in the beginnings of state aid, the money was distributed among existing schools with- out at first establishing any public schools. In many Eastern cities church schools at first shared in the pubHc funds. In Penn- sylvania church and private schools were aided from poor-law funds up to 1834. In New Jersey the first general school law of 1829 had been repealed a year later through the united efforts of church and private-school interests, who unitedly fought the de- velopment of state schools, and in 1830 and 1831 new laws had permitted all private and parochial schools to share in the small state appropriation for education. After the beginning of the forties, when the Roman Catholic in- 694 HISTORY OF EDUCATION fluence came in strongly with the increase in Irish immigration to the United States, a new factor was introduced and the problem, which had previously been a Protestant problem, took on a some- what different aspect in the form of a demand for a division of the school funds. Between 1825 and 1842 the fight was especially severe in New York City. In 1825 the City Council refused to grant pubHc money to any religious Societ}',^ and in 1840 the Catholics carried the matter to the State Legislature. The legislature deferred action until 1842, and then did the un- expected thing. The heated discussion of the question in the city and in the legislature had made it evident that, while it might not be desirable to continue to give funds to a privately organized corporation, to divide them among the quarreling and envious re- ligious sects would be much worse. The result was that the legis- lature created for the city a City Board of Education, to establish real public schools, and stopped the debate on the question of aid to religious schools by enacting that no portion of the school funds was in the future to be given to any school in which ''any religious sectarian doctrine or tenet should be taught, inculcated, or practiced." Thus the real public-school system of New York City was evolved out of this attempt to divide the public funds among the churches. The PubHc School Society continued for a time, but its work was now done, and, in 1853, it surrendered its buildings and property to the City Board of Education and dis- banded. The contest in other States. As early as 1830, Lowell, Massa- chusetts, had granted aid to the Irish Catholic parochial schools in the city, and in 1835 had taken over two such schools and maintained them as public schools. In 1853 the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church made a demand on the state legis- lature for a division of the school fund of the State. To settle the question once for all a constitutional amendment was submitted by the legislature to the people, providing that all state and town moneys raised or appropriated for education must be expended only on regularly organized and conducted public schools, and. that no religious sect should ever share in such funds. This measure failed of adoption at the election of 1853 by a vote of ^ The Public School Society continued to receive money grants, it being regarded as a non-denominational organization, though chartered to teach "the subHme truths of religion and morality contained in the Holy Scriptures" in its schools. In 1828 the Society was even permitted to levy a local tax to supplement its resources, it being estimated that at that time there were 10,000 children in the city with no opportunities for education. AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 695 65,111 for and 65,512 against, but was re-proposed and adopted in 1855. This settled the question in Massachusetts, as Mann had tried to settle it earlier, and as New Hampshire had settled it in its constitution of 1792, Connecticut in its constitution of 1818, and Rhode Island in its constitution of 1842. Other States now faced similar demands, but no demand for a share in or a division of the public-school funds, after 1840, was successful. The demand everywhere met with intense opposi- tion, and with the coming of enormous numbers of Irish CathoKcs after 1846, and German Lutherans after 1848, the question of the preservation of the schools just established as unified state school systems now became a burning one. Petitions for a division of the funds deluged the legislatures (R. 323), and these were met by counter-petitions (R. 324). Mass meetings on both sides of the question were held. Candidates for office were forced to declare themselves. Anti-CathoHc riots occurred in a number of cities. The Native- American Party was formed, in 184 1, " to prevent the union of Church and State," and to "keep the Bible in the schools." In 1841 the Whig Party, in New York, inserted a plank in its platform against sectarian schools. In 1855 the na- tional council of the Know-No thing Party, meeting in Philadel- phia, in its platform favored public schools and the use of the Bible therein, but opposed sectarian schools. This party carried the elections that year in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Con- necticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Kentucky. To settle the question in a final manner legislatures now began to propose constitutional amendments to the people of their sev- eral States which forbade a division or a diversion of the funds, and these were almost uniformly adopted at the first election after being proposed. No State admitted to the Union after 1858, ex- cept West Virginia, failed to insert such a provision in its first state constitition.^ VI. THE BATTLE TO ESTABLISH THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL The elementary or common schools which had been established in the different States, by 1850, suppHed an elementar}' or com- mon school education to the children of the masses of the people, ^ The question may be regarded as a settled one in our American States. Our people mean to keep the public-school system united as one state school system, well realizing that any attempt to divide the schools among the different religious de- nominations (the Wr^rld Almanac for 19 17 lists 49 different denominations and 171 different sects in the United States) could only lead to inefficiency and educational chaos. 696 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and the primary schools which were added, after about 1820, car- ried this education downward to the needs of the beginners. In the rural schools the American school of the 3 Rs provided for all the children, from the little ones up, so long as they could ad- vantageously partake of its instruction. Education in advance of this common school training was in semi-private institutions — the academies and colleges — in which a tuition fee was charged. The next struggle came in the attempt to extend the system up- ward so as to provide to pupils, free of charge, a more complete education than the common schools afforded. The transition Academy. About the middle of the eighteenth century a tendency manifested itself, in Europe as well as in America, to establish higher schools offering a more practical curriculum than the old Latin schools had provided. In Amer- ica it became particularly evident, after the coming of nationality, that the old Latin grammar- school type of instruction, with its hmited curriculum and exclu- sively college-preparatory ends, was wholly inadequate for the needs of the youth of the land. The result was the gradual dying • Fig. 204. A Typical New ^^^ ^^ ^^^ Latin school and the England Academy evolution of the tuition Acad Pittsfield Academy, New Hampshire, emy, previously referred to briefly on page 463. The academy movement spread rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century. By 1800 there were 17 academies in Massachusetts, 36 by 1820, and 403 by 1850. By 1830 there were, according to Hinsdale, 950 incorporated academies in the United States, and many unincorporated ones, and by 1850, ac- cording to Inglis, there were, of all kinds, 1007 academies in New England, 1636 in the Middle Atlantic States, 2640 in the Southern States, 753 in the Upper Mississippi Valley States, and a total re- ported for the entire United States of 6085, with 12,260 teachers employed and 263,096 pupils enrolled.^ The greatest period of ^ The movement gained a firm hold everywhere east of the Missouri River, the States incorporating the largest number being New York with 887, Pennsylvania with 524, Massachusetts with 403, Kentucky with 330, Virginia with 317, North Carolina with 272, and Tennessee with 264. Some States, as Kentucky and Indian^ AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 697 their development was from 1820 to 1830, though they continued to dominate secondary education until 1850, and were very promi- nent until after the Civil War. Characteristic features. The most characteristic features of these academies were their semi-public control (R. 325), their broadened curriculum and religious purpose, and the extension of their instruction to girls. The Latin Grammar School was essen- tially a town free school, maintained by the towns for the higher education of certain of their male children. It was aristocratic in type, and belonged to the early period of class education. With the decline in zeal for education, after 1750, these tax-supported higher schools largely died out, and in their place private energy and benevolence came to be depended upon to supply the needed higher education. One of the main purposes expressed in the endowment or crea- tion of the academies was the establishment of courses which should cover a number of subjects having value aside from mere preparation for college, particularly subjects of a modem nature, ■.useful in preparing youths for the changed conditions of society :and government and business. The study of real things rather than words about things, and useful things rather than subjects jnerely preparatory to college, became prominent features of the new courses of study. Among the most commonly found new subjects were algebra, astronomy, botany, chemistry, general his- tory, United States history, English literature, surveying, intellec- tual philosophy, declamation, and debating.^ Not being bound up with the colleges, as the earlier Latin gram- mar schools had largely been, the academies became primarily independent institutions, taking pupils who had completed the English education of the common school and giving them an ad- vanced education in modern languages, the sciences, mathemat- ics, history, and the more useful subjects of the time, with a view to "rounding out" their studies and preparing them for business provided for a system of county academies, while many States extended to them some form of state aid. In New York State they found a warm advocate in Gover- nor De Witt Clinton, who urged (1827) that they be located at the county towns of the State to give a practical scientific education suited to the wants of farmers, merchants, and mechanics, and also to train teachers for the schools of the State. 1 The new emphasis given to the study of English, mathematics, and book- science is noticeable. New subjects appeared in proportion as the academies in- creased in numbers and importance. Of 149 new subjects for study appearing in the academies of New York, between 1787 and 1870, 23 appeared before 1826, 100 be- tween 1826 and 1840, and 26 after 1840. Between 1825 and 1828 one half of the new subjects appeared. This also was the maximum period of development of the academies. 698 HISTORY OF EDUCATION life and the rising professions. They thus built upon instead of running parallel to the common school course, as the old Latin grammar school had done (see Figure 198, p. 666) and hence clearly mark a transition from the aristocratic and somewhat exclusive college-preparatory Latin grammar school of colonial times to the more democratic high school of to-day. The academies also served a very useful purpose in supplying to the lower schools the best-educated teachers of the time. The old Latin grammar school, too, had been maintained exclusively for boys. Girls had been excluded as " Improper & inconsistent w^^ such a Grammar Schoole as y^ law injoines, and is y^ Designe of this Settlem^." The new academies soon reversed this situation. Almost from the first they began to be estabHshed for girls as well as boys, and in time many became co-educational. In New York State alone 32 academies were incorporated between 1819 and 1853 with the prefix "Female" to their title. In this respect, also, these institutions formed a transition to the modern co-educational high school. The higher education of women in the United States clearly dates from the establishment of the academies. Troy (New York) Seminary, founded by Emma Willard, in 182 1, and Mt. Holyoke (Massachusetts) Seminary, founded by Mary Lyon, in 1836, though not the first institutions for girls, were nevertheless important pioneers in the higher educa- tion of women. The demand for higher schools. The different movements tending toward the building-up of free pubHc-school systems in the cities and States, which we have described in this and the preced- ing chapter, and which became clearly defined in the Northern States after 1825, came just at the time when the Academy had reached its maximum development. The settlement of the ques- tion of general taxation for education, the elimination of the rate- bill by the cities and later by the States, the estabHshment of the American common school as the result of a long native evolution, and the complete establishment of pubHc control over the entire elementary-school system, all tended to bring the semi-private tuition academy into question. Many asked why not extend the public-school system upward to provide the necessary higher edu- cation for all in one common state-supported school.^ ^ The existence of a number of colleges, basing their entrance requirements on the completion of the classical course of the academy, and the establishment of a few embryo state universities in the new States of the West and the South, naturally raised the further question of why there should be a gap in the public-school sys- AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 699 The demand for an upward extension of the pubHc school, which would provide academy instruction for the poor as well as the rich, and in one common public higher school, now made itself felt. As the colonial Latin grammar school had represented the ]] The Latin Grammar School y////\ The Tuition Academy The Free Public High School (Proportional heights indicate estimated relative development) 21000 18000 15000 9000 6000 3000 .^^rr-'^'f/V'T^^^ '^Me^w/y//////. 1900 1930 1630 1660 1700 1750 1800 1850 Fig. 205. The Development of Secondary Schools in the United States The transitional character of the Academy is well shown in this diagram. educational needs of a society based on classes, and the academies had represented a transition period and marked the growth of a middle class, so the rising democracy of the second quarter of the nineteenth century now demanded and obtained the democratic high school, supported by the public and equally open to all, to meet the educational needs of a new society built on the basis of a new and aggressive democracy. Where, too, the academy had represented in a way a missionary effort — that of a few provid- ing something for the good of the people (Rs. 319, 325) — the high school on the other hand represented a cooperative effort on the part of the people to provide something for themselves. The first American high school. The first high school in the United States was established in Boston, in 1821 (R. 326). For three years it was known as the ''English Classical School" tem. The increase of wealth in the cities tended to increase the number who passed through the elementary course and could profit by more extended education; the academies had popularized the idea of more advanced education; while the new manufacturing and commercial activities of the time called for more training than the elementary schools afforded, and of a dififerent type from that demanded by the small colleges of the time for entrance. 700 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Fig. 206 The First High School in THE United States Established at Boston in 1821 (R. 327), but in 1824 the school appears in the records as the "Enghsh High School." In 1826 Boston also opened the first high school for girls, but abolished it in 1828, due to its great popularity, and instead extended the course of study for girls in the elementary schools. The Massachusetts Law of 1827. Though Portland, Maine, established a high school in 1821, Worcester, Massa- chusetts, in 1824, and New Bedford, Haverhill, and Salem, Massachusetts, in 1827, copying the Boston idea, the real beginning of the American high school as a distinct institution dates from the Massachusetts Law of 1827 (R. 328), enacted through the influence of James G. Carter, This law formed the basis of all subsequent legislation in Massa- chusetts, and deeply influenced development in other States. The law is significant in that it required a high school in every town having 500 famiHes or over, in which should be taught United States history, bookkeeping, algebra, geometry, and sur- veying, while in every town having 4000 inhabitants or over, instruction in Greek, Latin, history, rhetoric, and logic must be added. A heavy penalty was attached for failure to comply with the law. In 1835 the law was amended so as to permit any smaller town to form a high school as well. This Boston and Massachusetts legislation clearly initiated the public high-school movement in the United States. It was there that the new type of higher school was founded, there that its curriculum was outUned, there that its standards were estabhshed, and there that it developed earliest and best. The struggle to establish and maintain high schools. The development of the American high school, even in its home, was slow. Up to 1840 not much more than a dozen high schools had been established in Massachusetts, and not more than an equal number in the other States. The Academy was the dominant institution, the cost of maintenance was a factor, and the same opposition to an extension of taxation to include high schools was manifested as was earlier shown toward the establishment of com- mon schools. The early state legislation, as had been the case AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 701 vvith the common schools, was nearly always permissive and not mandatory. Massachusetts forms a notable exception in this regard. The support for the schools had to come practically entirely from increased local taxation, and this made the struggle to estabhsh and maintain high schools in any State for a long time a series of local struggles. Years of propaganda and patient effort were required, and, after the establishment of a high school in a community, constant watchfulness was necessary to prevent its abandonment (R. 329). In many States, legislation providing for the establishment of high schools was attacked in the courts. One of the clearest cases [/£; ^ J> ( \ ■ •• V ' •'• '6 y^ ^/^^-^^---~^ — '^''\-'J^'" 1 ) \ . A /'• " ' 'r^ xfM • .'.'l^^^ 1 \ Y ■:' ^ High Schools \ 1 \j ^ in 1860 Fig. 207. High Schools in the United States by i860 Based on the table given in the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 1904, vol. 11, pp. 1782-1989. This table is only approxi- mately correct, as exact information is difficult to obtain. This table gives 321 high schools by i860, and all but 35 of these were in the States shown on the above map. There were two schools in California and three in Texas, and the remainder not shown were in the Southern States. Of the 321 high schools reported, over half (167) were in the three States of Massachusetts (78), New York (41), and Ohio (48). of this came in Michigan, in a test case appealed from the city of Kalamazoo, and commonly known as the Kalamazoo case. The opinion of the Supreme Court of the State (R. 330) was so favor- able and so positive that this decision deeply influenced develop- ment in almost all of the Upper Mississippi Valley States, The struggle to establish and maintain high schools in Massa- 702 HISTORY OF EDUCATION chusetts and New York preceded the development in most other States, because there the common school had been established earlier. In consequence, the struggle to extend and complete the public-school system came there earlier also. The development was likewise more peaceful there, and came more rapidly. Ir Massachusetts this was in large part a result of the educational awakening started by James G. Carter and Horace Mann. In New York it was due to the early support of Governor De Witt Clinton, and the later encouragement and state aid which came from the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire were like Massachusetts in spirit, and followed closely its example. In Rhode Island and New Jersey, due to old conditions, and in Connecticut, due to the great decline in education there after 1800, the high school devel- oped much more slowly, and it was not until after 1865 that any marked development took place in these States. The democratic West soon adopted the idea, and established high schools as soon as cities developed and the needs of the population warranted. In the South the main high-school development dates from rela- tively recent times. Gradually the high school has been accepted as a part of the state common-school system by all the American States, and the funds and taxation originally provided for the common schools have been extended to cover the high school as well. The new States of the West have based their legislation largely on what the Eastern and Central States earlier fought out. VII. THE STATE UNIVERSITY CROWNS THE SYSTEM The colonial colleges. The earlier colleges — Harvard, William and Mary, Yale — had been created by the religious-state govern- ments of the earlier colonial period, and continued to retain some state connections for a time after the coming of nationality. As it early became evident that a democracy demands intelhgence on the part of its citizens, that the leaders of democracy are not likely to be too highly educated, and that the character of collegi- ate instruction must ultimately influence national development, efforts were accordingly made to change the old colleges or create new ones, the final outcome of which was the creation of state universities in all the new and in most of the older States. The evolution of the state university, as the crowning head of the free pubHc school system of the State, represents the last phase which AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 703 we shall trace of the struggle of democracy to create a system of schools suited to its peculiar needs. The close of the colonial period found the Colonies possessed of nine colleges. These, with the dates of their foundation, the Col- ony founding them, and the religious denomination they chiefly represented were : 1636. Harvard College Massachusetts Puritan 1693. William and Mary Virginia Anglican I70I. Yale College Connecticut Congregational 1746. Princeton New Jersey Presbyterian 1753-55- Academy and College Pennsylvania Non-denominational 1754- King's College (Columbia) New York Anglican 1764. Brown Rhode Island Baptist 1766. Rutgers New Jersey Reformed Dutch 1769. Dartmouth New Hampshirf ; Congregational The religious purpose had been dominant in the founding of each institution, though there was a gradual shading-off in strict denominational control and insistence upon religious conformity in the foundations after 1750. Still the prime purpose in the founding of each was to train up a learned and godly body of min- isters, the earlier congregations at least "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." In a pamphlet, published in 1754, Presi- dent Clap of Yale declared that "Colleges are Societies of Minis- ters, for training up Persons for the Work of the Ministry,'^ and that "The great design of founding this School (Yale), was to Educate Ministers in our own Way." In the advertisement pub- lished in the New York papers announcing the opening of King's College, in 1754, it was stated that: IV. The chief Thing that is aimed at in this College, is, to teach ancj engage the Children to know God in Jesus Christ, and to love and serve him in all Sobriety, Godliness, and Richness of Life, with a perfect Heart and a Willing Mind: and to train them up in all Virtuous Habits, and all such useful Knowledge as may render them creditable to their Families and Friends, Ornaments to their Country, and useful to the Public Weal in their generation. These colonial institutions were all small. For the first fifty years of Harvard's history the attendance at the college seldom exceeded twenty, and the President did all the teaching. The first assistant teacher (tutor) was not appointed until 1699, and the first pre lessor not until 1721, when a professorship of divinity was endowed. By 1800 the instruction was conducted by the President and three professors — divinity, mathematics, and 704 HISTORY OF EDUCATION "Oriental languages" — assisted by a few tutors who received only class fees, and the graduating classes seldom exceeded forty. The course was four years in length, and all students studied the same subjects. The first three years were given largely to the so-called "Oriental languages" — Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. In addition, Freshmen studied arithmetic; Sophomores, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; and Juniors, natural (book) science; and all were given much training in oratory, and some general history was added. The Senior year was given mainly to ethics, philosophy, and Christian evidences.-^ The instruction in the eight other older colleges, before 1800, was not materially different. Growth of colleges by i860. Fifteen additional colleges were founded before 1800, and it has been estimated that by that date the two dozen American colleges then existing did not have all told over one hundred professors and instructors, not less than + Colonia.I Colleges •Colleges founded. 1775-1860 (Mostly Denomina^tional) O Stzite Universities. Fig. 208. Colleges and Universities established by i860 Compiled from data given in the Reports of the United States Commissioner of Edu- cation. Of the 246 colleges shown on the map, but 17 were state institutions, and but two or three others had any state connections. one thousand nor more than two thousand students, or property worth over one million dollars. Their graduating classes were small. No one of the twenty-four admitted women in any way to its privileges. After 1820, with the firmer establishment of the 1 For an interesting table showing the simple entrance requirements of Harvard in 1642, 1734, 1803, 1825, 1850, 1875, and 1885, see Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 1902, vol. I, pp. 930-33. AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 705 Nation, the awakening of a new national consciousness, the devel- opment of larger national wealth, and a court decision (p. 706) which safeguarded the endowments, interest in the founding of new colleges perceptibly quickened, as may be seen from the adjoining table, and between 1820 and 1880 came the great period of denominational effort. The map shows the colleges established by i860, from which it will be seen how large a part the denomi- national colleges played in the early history of higher education in the United States. Up to about 1870 the provision of higher education, as had been the case earher with the provision of secondary education by the acade- mies, had been left largely to private lygo-gg ' effort. There were, to be sure, a 1790-99 7 few state universities before 1870, 1800-09 9 th'ough usually these were not better 18^^29 22 than the denominational colleges 1830-39 38 around them, and often they main- 1840-49 42 tained a non-denominational char- 155^50 2^ acter only by preserving a proper 1870-79 61 balance between the different de- 1880-89 74 nominations in the employment of ^ ^°"^^ -^- their faculties. Speaking generally, , . , 1 ^. • ^1 TT -i 1 Oi ^ Colleges FOUNDED UP TO iQoo higher education m the United States , - „ • 1 1 (After a table by Dexter, corrected before 1870 was provided very by U.S.Comr. Educ.data. Onlyap- largely in the tuitional colleges of P^'^i^^ateiy correct.) the different religious denominations, rather than by the State. Of the 246 colleges founded by the close of the year i860, as shown on the map, but 1 7 were state institutions, and but two or three others had any state connections. The new national attitude toward the colleges. After the com- ing of nationality there gradually grew up a widespread dissatis- faction with the colleges as then conducted, because they were aristocratic in tendency, because they devoted themselves so exclusively to the needs of a class, and because they failed to answer the needs of the States in the matter of higher education. Due to their religious origin, and the common requirement that the president and trustees must be members of some particular denomination, they were naturally regarded as representing the interests of some one sect or faction within the State rather than the interests of the State itself. With the rise of the new demo- cratic spirit after about 1820 there came a demand, felt least in 706 HISTORY OF EDUCATION New England and most in the South and the new States in the West, for institutions of higher learning which should represent the State. It was argued that colleges were important instru- mentalities for moulding the future, that the kind of education given in them must ultimately influence the welfare of the State, and that higher education cannot be regarded as a private matter. The type of education given in these higher institutions, it was argued, "will appear on the bench, at the bar, in the pulpit, and in the senate, and will unavoidably affect our civil and rehgious principles." For these reasons, as well as to crown our state school system and to provide higher educational advantages for its leaders, it was argued that the State should exercise control over the colleges. This new national spirit manifested itself in a number of ways. In New York we see it in the reorganization of King's College, the rechristening of the institution as Columbia, and the placing of it under at least the nominal supervision of the governing edu- cational body of the State. In Pennsylvania an attempt was made to bring the university into closer connection with the State, but this failed. In New Hampshire the legislature tried, in 1816, to transform Dartmouth College into a state institution. This act was contested in the courts, and the case was finally carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. There it was decided, in 18 19, that the charter of a college was a contract, the obligation of which a legislature could not impair. Effect of the Dartmouth College decision. The effect of this decision manifested itself in two different ways. On the one hand it guaranteed the perpetuity of endowments, and the great period of private and denominational effort (see table, p. 705) now fol- lowed. On the other hand, since the States could not change charters and transform old establishments, they began to turn to the creation of new state universities of their own. Virginia created its state university the same year as the Dartmouth case decision. The University of North Carolina, which had been estabhshed in 1789, and which began to give instruction in 1795, but which had never been under direct state control, was taken over by the State in 182 1. The University of Vermont, originally chartered in 1791, was rechartered as a state university in 1838. The University of Indiana was estabhshed in 1820. Alabama provided for a state university in its first constitution, in 1819, and the institution opened for instruction in 1831. Michigan, in AMERICAN BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS 707 framing its first constitution preparatory to entering the Union, in 1835, made careful provisions for the safeguarding of the state university and for establishing it as an integral part of its state school system, as Indiana had done in 1816. Wisconsin provided for the creation of a state university in 1836, and embodied the idea in its first constitution when it entered the Union in 1848, and Missouri provided for a state university in 1839, Mississippi in 1844, Iowa in 1847, ^^^ Florida in 1856. The state univers ity/ is to-day found ineve iy " new " State and i n some of_the^^^riginal ' \ States, and practically every new Western and Southern State \ followed the patterns set by Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin^ and made careful provision for the establishment and maintenance^ of a state university in its first state constitution. There was thus quietly added another new section to the American educational ladder, and the free public-school system was extended farther upward. Though the great period of state university foundation came after i860, and the great period of state university expansion after 1885, the beginnings were clearly marked early in our national history. Of the sixteen States having state universities by i860 (see Figure 208), all except Florida had established them before 1850. For a long time small, poorly sup- ported by the States, much like the church colleges about them in character and often inferior in quahty, one by one the state univer- sities have freed themselves alike from denominational restric- tions on the one hand and political control on the other, and have set about rendering the service to the State which a state univer- sity ought to render. Michigan, the first of our state universities to free itself, take its proper place, and set an example for others to follow, opened in 1841 with two professors and six students. In 1844 it was a little institution of three professors, one tutor, one assistant, and one visiting lecturer, had but fifty-three stu- dents, and offered but a single course of study, consisting chiefly of Greek, Latin, mathematics, and intellectual and moral science (R. 331). As late as 1852 it had but seventy- two students, but by i860, when it had largely freed itseh from the incubus of Baptist Latin, Congregational Greek, Methodist intellectual philosophy, Presbyterian astronomy, and Whig mathematics, and its remarkable growth as a state university had begun, it enrolled five hundred and nineteen. The American free public-school system now established. By the close of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, certainly 7o8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION by i860, we find the American public-school system fully estab- lished, in principle at least, in all our Northern States (R. 332), Much yet remained to be done to carry into full effect what had been established in principle, but everywhere democracy had won its fight, and the American pub- lic school, supported by general taxation, freed from the pauper- school taint, free and equally open to all, under the direction of rep- resentatives of the people, free from sectarian control, and com- plete from the primary school through the high school, and in the Western States through the university as well, was estab- lished permanently in American public pohcy. It was a real dem- ocratic educational ladder that had been created, and not the typical two-class school system of continental European States. The establishment of the free public high school and the state uni- versity represent the crowning achievements of those who strug- gled to found a state-supported educational system fitted to the needs of great democratic States. Probably no other influences have done more to unify the Amer- ican people, reconcile diverse points of view, eliminate state jealousies, set ideals for the peo- ple, and train leaders for the serv- ice of the States and of the Nation than the academies, high schools, and colleges scattered over the land. They have edu- cated but a small percentage of the people, to be sure, but they have trained most of the leaders who have guided the American democracy since its birth. 1 X. w ■< J3 !iO W > 8 < u 5 c 1 1860 y ^ .v^-^^=^^ , /^ 1846/ \ S^ 1 ''^ 1313 ^j \ isiG y J (^ ^ 1354 • r7l845 •\n \ 1858 ^ — ( / 1851 1846 ^ ^ ) ^ V ^ I State Normal School • ll 1845 Etc. - Date of First Introduction of the Teach ers' Institute | Fig. 225. Teacher-Training in the United States by i860 A few private training-schools also existed, though less than half a dozen in all. one teacher and three students. Later that same year a second state normal school was opened at Barre, and early the next year a third at Bridgewater, both in Massachusetts. For these the State Board of Education adopted a statement as to entrance re- quirements and a course of instruction (R. 350 b) which shows well the academic character of these early teaching institutions. Their success was largely due to the enthusiastic support given the new idea by Horace Mann. In an address at the dedication of the first building erected in America for normal-school purposes, NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 753 in 1846, he expressed his deep belief as to the fundamental im- portance of such institutions (R. 350 c). By i860 eleven state normal schools had been established in eight of the States of the American Union, and six private schools were also rendering simi- lar services. Closely related was the Teachers' Institute, first definitely organized by Henry Barnard in Connecticut, in 1839, to offer four- to six-weeks summer courses for teachers in service, and these had been organized in fifteen of the American States by i860. Since 1870 the establishment of state normal schools has been rapid in the United States, two hundred having been estab- lished by 1910, and many since. The United States, though, is as yet far from having a trained body of teachers for its elementary schools. For the high schools, it is only since about 1890 that the professional training of teachers for such service has really been begun. 4. England. In England the beginnings of teacher-training came with the introduction of monitorial instruction, both the Bell and the Lancaster Societies (p. 625) finding it necessary to train pupils for positions as monitors, and to designate certain schools as model and training schools. In 1833, it will be remem- bered (p. 638), Parliament made its first grant of money in aid of education. Up to 1840 this was distributed through the two Na- tional Societies, and in 1839 a portion of this aid was definitely set as'de to enable these Societies to establish model schools (R. 347). Prom this beginning, the model training-schools for the different religious Societies were developed. In these model schools pro- spective teachers were educated, being trained in religious in- struction and in the art of teaching. In 1836, with the founding of the "Home and Colonial Infant Society," a Pes talozzian Train- ing College was founded by it. In a further effort to secure trained teachers the government, in 1846, adopted a plan then in use in Holland, and instituted what became known as the "pupil-teacher system" (R. 348). This was an improvement on the waning monitorial training system previously in use. Under this, a favorite old English method, used somewhat for the same purpose a century earlier (R. 243), was adapted to meet the new need. Under it promising pupils were apprenticed to a head teacher for five years (usually from thirteen to eighteen), he agreeing to give them instruction in both secondary-school subjects and in the art of teaching in return for ^eir help in the schoolroom. Begirming in 1846, there were, by 754 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 1848, 200 pupil teachers; by 1861, 13,871; and by 1870, 14,612. This system formed the great dependence of England before the days of national education. In 1874 the pupil-teacher-center system was begun, and between 1878 and 1896 the age for enter- ing as a pupil- teacher was raised from thirteen to sixteen, and the years of apprenticeship reduced from five to two. In most cases now the academic preparation continues to seventeen or eighteen, and is followed by one year of practice teaching in an elementary school, under supervision. After that the teacher may, or may not, enter what is there known as a Training-College.^ So far the training of teachers has not made such headway in England and Wales as has been the case in the German States, France, the United States, or Scotland, but important progress may be ex- pected in the near future as an outcome of new educational im- pulses arising as a result of the World War. Spread of the normal-school idea. The movement for the creation of normal schools to train teachers for the elementary schools has in time spread to many nations. As nation after na- tion has awakened to the desirability of establishing a system of modern-type state schools, a normal school to train leaders has often been among the first of the institutions created. The normal school, in consequence, is found to-day in all the conti- nental European States; in all the English self-governing domin- ions; in nearly all the South American States; and in China,^ Japan, Siam, the Philippines, Cuba, Algiers, India, and other less important nations. In all these there is an attempt, often reach- ing as yet to but a small percentage of the teachers, to extend to them some of that training in the theory and art of instruction which has for long been so important a feature of the education of the elementary teacher in the German States, France, and the United States. Since about 1890 other nations have also begun to provide, as the German States and France have done for so ^ These are higher institutions which offer two, three, or four years of academic and some professional education, and may be found in connection with a university, may be maintained by city or county school authorities; or may be voluntary insti- tutions. In 1910-11 there were eighty-three such institutions in England and Wales. 2 In China, for example, as soon as the new general system of education had been decided upon, normal schools of three types — higher normal schools, lower normal schools, and teacher-training schools — were created, and missionary teachers, for- eign teachers, and students returning from abroad were used to staff these new schools. By 1910 as many as thirty higher normal schools, two hundred and three lower normal schools, and a hundred and eighty-two training classes had been estabHshed in China under government auspices. (Ping Wen Kuo, The Chinese System of Public Education, p. 156.) NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 755 long, some form of professional training for the teachers intended for their secondary schools ^ as well. Psychology becomes the master science. Everywhere the es- tablishment of normal schools has meant the acceptance of the newer conceptions as to child development and the nature of the educational process. These are that the child is a slowly develop- ing personahty, needing careful study, and demanding subject- matter and method suited to his different stages of developmen*!. The new conception of teaching as that of directing and guiding the education of a child, instead of hearing recitations and ^'keep- ing school," in time replaced the earlier knowledge-conception of school work. Psychology accordingly became the guiding science of the school, and the imparting to prospective teachers proper ideas as to psychological procedure, and the proper methodology of instruction in each of the different elementary-school subjects, became the great work of the normal school. Teachers thu''^ trained carried into the schools a new conception as to the nature of childhood; a new and a minute methodology of instruction; and a new enthusiasm for teaching; — all of which were impor- tant additions to school work. A new methodology was soon worked out for all the subjects of instruction, both old and new. The centuries-old alphabet method of teaching reading was superseded by the word and sound methods ; the new oral language instruction was raised to a position of first importance in developing pupil- thinking; spelling, word- analysis, and sentence-analysis were given much emphasis in the work of the school; the Pestalozzian mental arithmetic came as an important addition to the old ciphering of sums ; the old writing from copies was changed into a drill subject, requiring careful teaching for its mastery; the "back to nature" ideas of Rousseau and Pestalozzi proved specially fruitful in the new study of geography, which called for observation out of doors, the study of type forms, and the substitution of the physical and human aspects of geography for the older political and statistical; object lessons on natural objects, and later science and nature study, were used to introduce children to a knowledge of nature and to train them in thinking and observation ; while the new subjects of music and drawing came in, each with an elaborate technique of instruction. ^ The beginnings in the United States date from about 1890, and in England even tater. In France, on the other hand, the training of teachers for the secondary dchools goes back to the days of Napoleon. 756 HISTORY OF EDUCATION By 1875 the normal school in all lands was finding plenty to do, and teaching, by the new methods and according to the new psy- chological procedure, seemed to many one of the most wonderful and most important occupations in the world. How great a change in the scope, as well as in the nature of elementary-school 2775 1825 1850 187S READING Spelling Writing Catechism 1 BIBLE Arithmetic (READING* ( Declamation SPELLING * Writing j Oood Behavior \ Manners & Morals ARITHMETIC* ( READING 1 DECLAMATION SPELLING WRITING ( Manners ( Conduct (MENTAL ARITH* } CIPHERING I READING I Literary Selectiorit SPELLING PENMANSHIP* Conduct j PRIMARY ARITH.* \ ADVANCED ARITH. Bookkeeping GRAMMAR Geography Bookkeeping j Elem. Language \ GRAMMAR Oeography History U.S. ( Oral Language • i GRAMMAR j Home Geography • \ TEXT GEOGRAPHY f U.S. HISTORY \ Constitution Sewing aad Knit* ting Object Lessons ( Object Lessons * ( Elementary Science * Drawing * Music* Physical Exercises CAPITALS =: Hoit Jmportast anbjeots. Italics = Snbjeets of medlacn importance. 1 Boman = Leaat Important oubjecU. * = Now metbods of t«aehi&g now employed. 1 Fig. 226. Evolution of the Elementary-School Curriculum AND OF Methods of Teaching instruction had been effected in a century, the above diagram of American elementary-school development will reveal. History and literature, it will be noticed, had also come in as addi- tional new subjects, but these were relatively unimportant in either the elementary school or the normal school until after the coming of Herbartian ideas, to which we shall refer a Uttle further on. Accompanying the organization of professional instruction for teachers, another important change in the nature of the elemen- tary school was effected. The grading of schoolroom instruction. For some time after elementary schools began it was common to teach all the children of the different ages together in one room, or at most in two rooms. In the latter case the subjects of instruction were divided NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 757 between the teachers, rather than the children.^ Many of the pic- tures of early elementary schools show such mixed-type schools. In these the children were advanced individually and by subjects as their progress warranted,^ until they had progressed as far a£ the instruction went or the teacher could teach (R. 352). From this point on the division of the elementary school into classes and a graded organization has proceeded by certain rather well-de- fined steps. The first step (Rs. 353, 354) was the division of the school into two schools, one more advanced than the othe/, such as lower and higher, or primary and grammar. Another division was in- troduced when the Infant School was added, beneath. The next step was the division of each school into classes. This began by the employment of assistant teachers, in England and America known as "ushers," to help the "master," and the provision of small recitation rooms, off the main large schoolroom, to which the usher could take his class to hear recitations. The third and final step came with the erection of a new type of school building, with smaller and individual classrooms, or the subdivision of the larger schoolrooms. It was then possible to assign a teacher to each classroom, sort and grade the pupils by ages and advance- ment, outline the instruction by years, and the modern graded elementary school was at hand. The transition to the graded elementary school came easily and naturally. For half a century the course of instruction in the evolving elementary state school had been in process of expan- sion. Pestalozzi paved the way for its creation by changing the purpose and direction, and greatly enlarging (p. 543) the field of ^ A common division was between the teacher who taught reading, religion, and spelHng, and the teacher who taught writing and arithmetic (R. 307). Writing be- ing considered a difiBcult art, this was taught by a separate teacher, who often in- cluded the ability to teach arithmetic also among his accomplishments. ^ A good example of this may be found in the monitorial schools. The New York Free School Society (p. 660), for example, reported in its Fourteenth Annual Report (1819) that the children in its schools had pursued studies as follows: 297 children have been taught to form letters in sand. 615 have been advanced from letters in sand to monosyllabic reading on boards. 686 from reading on boards, to Murray's First Book. 335 from Murray's First Book, to writing on slates. 218 from writing on slates, to writing on paper. 341 to reading in the Bible. 277 to addition and subtraction. 153 to multiplication and division. 60 to the compound of the four first rules. 20 to reduction. 24 to the rule of three. 758 HISTORY OF EDUCATION instruction of the vernacular school. After him other new sub- jects of study were added (see diagram, Figure 226), new and bet- ter and longer textbooks were prepared (R. 351), and the school Fig. 227. An "Usher" and His Class The usher, or assistant teacher, is here shown with a class in one of the small recitation-rooms, ofif the large schoolroom. term was gradually lengthened. The way in time became clear, earliest in the German lands and in a few American cities, but by about 1850 in most leading nations, for that simple reorganiza- tion of school work which would divide the school into a number of classes, or forms, or grades, and give one to each teacher to handle. When this point had been reached, which came about 1850 to i860 in most nations, but earlier in a few, the modern type of town or city graded elementary school was at hand. Teaching had by this time become an organized and a psychologi- cal process; graded courses of study began to appear; professional school superintendents began to be given the direction and super- vision of instruction; and the modern science of school organiza- tion and administration began to take shape. From this point on the further development of the graded elementary public school has come through the addition of new materials of instruction, and by changing the direction of the school to adapt it better to meeting the new needs of society brought about by the scientific, industrial, social, and political revolutions which we, in previous NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 759 chapters, have described, A few of the more important of these additions and changes in direction we shall now briefly describe. II. NEW IDEAS FROM HERBARTIAN SOURCES The work of Herbart. Taking up the problem as Pestalozzi left it, a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776- 1841) carried it forward by organizing a truer psychology for the whole educational process, by erecting a new social aim for in- struction, by formulating new steps in method, and by showing the place and the importance of properly organized instruction in history and literature in the education of the child. Though the two men were entirely different in type, and worked along en- tirely different lines, the connection between Herbart and Pesta- lozzi was, nevertheless, close. ^ The two men, however, approached the educational problem from entirely different angles. Pestalozzi gave nearly all his long life to teaching and human service, while Herbart taught only as a traveling private tutor for three years, and later a class of twenty children in his university practice school. Pestalozzi was a social reformer, a visionary, and an impractical enthusiast, bu|. was possessed of a remarkable intuitive insight into child nature Herbart, on the other hand, was a well- trained scholarly thinker, who spent the most of his life in the peaceful occupation of a pro- fessor of philosophy in a German university. ^ It was while at Konigsberg, between 18 10 and 1832, and as an appendix to his work as professor of philosophy, that he organized a small prac- tice school, conducted a Pedagogical Seminar, and worked out his educational theory and method. His work was a careful, schol- arly attempt at the organization of education as a science, carried out amid the peace and quiet which a un^'versity atmosphere al- most alone affords. He addressed himself chiefly to three things: (i) the aim, (2) the content, and (3) the method of instruction. The aim and the content of education. Locke had set up as ^ Herbart had visited Pestalozzi at Burgdorf, in 1799, just after graduating from Jena and while acting as a tutor for three Swiss boys, aiid had written a very sympa- thetic description of his school and his theory of instruction. Herbart was one of the first of the Germans to understand and appreciate " the genial and noble Pesta- lozzi." 2 The son of a well-educated pubHc official, Herbart was himself educated at the Gymnasium of Oldenburg and the University of Jena. After spending three years as a tutor, he became, at the age of twenty-six, an under teacher at the University of Gottingen. At the age of thirty-three he was called to succeed Kant as professor of philosophy at Konigsberg, and from the age of fifty-seven to his death at sixty-five he was again a professor at Gottingen. 760 HISTORY OF EDUCATION the aim of education the ideal of a physically sound gentleman. Rousseau had declared his aim to be to prepare his boy for life by developing naturally his inborn capacities. Pestalozzi had sought to regenerate society by means of education, and to pre- pare children for society by a "harmonious training" of their "faculties." Herbart rejected alike the conventional-social edu- cation of Locke, the natural and unsocial education of Rousseau, and the " faculty -psychology " conception of education of Pesta- lozzi. Instead he conceived of the mind as a unity, instead of be- ing divided into "faculties," and the aim of education as broadly social rather than personal. The purpose of education, he said, was to prepare men to live properly in organized society, and hence the chief aim in education was not conventional fitness, natural development, mere knowledge, nor personal mental power, but personal character and social morality. This being the case, the educator should analyze the interests and occupa- tions and social responsibilities of men as they are grouped in or- ganized society, and, from such analyses, deduce the means and the method of instruction. Man's interests, he said, come from two main sources — his contact with the things in his environ- , ment (real things, sense-impressions), and from his relations with //human beings (social intercourse). His social responsibilities and duties are determined by the nature of the social organization of which he forms a part. Pestalozzi had provided fairly well for the first group of con- tacts, through his instruction in objects, home geography, num- bers, and geometric form. For the second group of contacts Pestalozzi had developed only oral language, and to this Herbart now added the two important studies of literature and history, and history with the emphasis on the social rather than the politi- cal side. Two new elementary-school subjects were thus devel- oped, each important in revealing to man his place in the social whole. History in particular Herbart conceived to be a study of the first importance for revealing proper human relationships, and leading men to social and national "good- will." The chief purpose of education Herbart held to be to develop personal character and to prepare for social usefulness (R. 355)- These virtues, he held, proceeded from enough of the right kind of knowledge, properly interpreted to the pupil so that clear ideas as to relationships might be formed. To impart this knowledge in- terest must be awakened, and to arouse interest in the many kinds NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 761 of knowledge needed, a "many-sided" development must take place. From full knowledge, and with proper instruction by the teacher, clear ideas or concepts might be formed, and clear ideas ought to lead to right action, and right action to personal charac- ter — the aim of all instruction. Herbart was the first writer on education to place the great emphasis on proper instruction, and to exalt teaching and proper teaching-procedure instead of mere knowledge or intellectual discipline. He thus conceived of the educational process as a science in itself, having a definite content and method, and worthy of special study by those who desire to teach. Herbartian method. With these ideas as to the aim and con- tent of instruction, Herbart worked out a theory of the instruc- tional process and a method of instruction (R. 356). Interest he held to be of first importance as a prerequisite to good instruc- tion. If given spontaneously, well and good; but, if necessary, forced interest must be resorted to. Skill in instruction is in part to be determined by the ability of the teacher to secure interest without resorting to force on the one hand or sugar-coating of the subject on the other. Taking Pestalozzi's idea that the purpose of the teacher was to give pupils new experiences through contacts with real things, without assuming that the pupils already had such, Herbart elaborated the process by which new knowledge is assimilated in terms of what one already knows, and from his elaboration of this principle the doctrine of apperception — that is, the apperceiving or comprehending of new knowledge in terms of the old — has been fixed as an important principle in educa- tional psychology. Good instruction, then, involves first putting the^ child into a proper frame of mind to apperceive the new Knowledge, and hence this becomes a corner-stone of all good teaching method. Herbart did not always rely on such methods, holding that the "committing to memory" of certain necessary facts often was necessary, but he held that the mere memorizing of isolated facts, which had characterized school instruction for ages, had little value for either educational or moral ends. The teaching of mere facts often was very necessary, but such instruction called for a methodical organization of the facts by the teacher, so as to make their learning contribute to some definite purpose. This called for a purpose in instruction; the organization of the facts neces- sary to be taught so as to select the most useful ones ; the connec- 762 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tion of these so as to establish the principle which was the purpose of the instruction ; and training in systematic thinking by apply- ing the principle to new problems of the type being studied. The carrying-out of such ideas meant the careful organization of the teaching process and teaching method, to secure certain prede- termined ends in child development, instead of mere miscella- neous memorizing and school-keeping. The Herbartian movement in Germany. Herbart died in 1841, without having awakened any general interest in his ideas, and they remained virtually unnoticed until 1865. In that year a pro- fessor at Leipzig, Tuiskon Ziller (1817-1883), published a book setting forth Herbart's idea of instruction as a moral force. This attracted much attention, and led to the formation (1868) of a scientific society for the study of Herbart's ideas. Ziller and his followers now elaborated Herbart's ideas, advanced the theory of culture-epochs in child development, the theory of concentration in studies, and elaborated the four steps in the process of in- struction, as described by Herbart, into the five formal steps of the modern Herbartian school. In 1874 a pedagogical seminary and practice school was organ- ized at the University of Jena, and in 1885 this came under the direction of Professor William Rein, a pupil of Ziller's, who de veloped the practice school according to the ideas of Ziller. A detailed course of study for this school, filling two large volumes, was worked out, and the practice lessons given were thoroughly planned beforehand and the methods employed were subjected to a searching analysis after the lesson had been given. Herbartian ideas in the United States. For a time, under the inspiration of Ziller and Rein, Jena became an educational center to which students went from many lands. From the work at Jena Herbartian ideas have spread which have modified elementary educational procedure generally. In particular did the work at Jena make a deep impression in the United States. Between 1885 and 1890 a number of Americans studied at Jena and, returning, brought back to the United States this Ziller-Rein-Jena brand of Herbartian ideas and practices.^ From the first the new ideas met with enthusiastic approval. ^ Charles De Garmo's Essentials of Method, published in 1889, marked the be- ginning of the introduction of these ideas into this country. In 1892 Charles A. McMurry published his General Method, and in 1897, with his brother, Frank, pub- lished the Method in the Recitation. These three books probably have done more to popularize Herbartian ideas and mtroduce them into the normal schools and col- leges of the United States than all other influences combined. Another important ^ • - « ical doings and occupations of the larger, maturer society into which he is finally to go forth; and that it is through production and creative use that valuable knowledge is clinched. The work of this school ^ was of fundamental importance in di- recting the reorganization of the work of the kindergarten along different and larger lines, and also has been of significance in re- directing the instruction in both the social subjects — history (R. 366), hterature, etc. — and the manual, domestic, and artis- tic activities of the school. In bis subsequent writings he may be said to have stated an important new philosophy for the school in terms of modern social, political, and industrial needs. The Dewey educational philosophy. Believing that the public school is the chief remedy for the ills of organized society. Pro- fessor Dewey has tried to show how to change the work of the school so as to make it a miniature of society itself. Social defi- ciency, and not mere knowledge, he has conceived to be the end, and this social efficiency is to be produced through participation in the activities of an institution of society, the school. The dif- ferent parts of the school system thus become a unified institu- tion, in which children are taught how to live amid the con- stantly increasing complexities of modern social and industrial life. Education, therefore, in Dewey's conception, involves not merely learning, but play, construction, use of tools, contact with nature, expression, and activity; and the school should be a place where children are working rather than listening, learning life by living life, and becoming acquainted with social institutions and ^ Dewey, John, in Elementary School Record, p. 142. ^ Described in The Elementary School Record, a series of nine monographs, making a volume of 241 pages. University of Chicago Press, 1900. NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 783 industrial processes by studying them. The work of the school is in large part to reduce the complexity of modern life to such terms as children can understand, and to introduce the child to modern life through simplified experiences. Its primary business may be said to be to train children in cooperative and mutually Xhelpful living. The virtues of a school, as Dewey points out, are learning by doing; the use of muscles, sight and feeling, as well as hearing; and the employment of energy, originality, and initia- tive. The virtues of the school in the past were the colorless, negative virtues of obedience, docility, and submission. Mere obedience and the careful performance of imposed tasks he holds to be not only a poor preparation for social and industrial effi- ciency, but a poor preparation for democratic society and govern- ment as well. Responsibility for good go^^ernment, under any democratic form of organization, rests with all, and the school should prepare for the political life of to-morrow by training its pupils to meet responsibilities, developing initiative, awakening social insight, and causing each to shoulder a fair share of the work of government in the school. We have now before us the great contributions to a philosophy for the educational process made since the beginning of the nine- teenth century. Many other workers in different lands, but more particularly in German lands, France, Italy, England, and the United States, have added their labors to the expansion and re- direction of the school. They are too numerous to mention and, though often nationally important, need not be included here. Still more, the contributions of Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel, Spencer, Dewey, and their followers and disciples are so inter- woven in the educational theory and practice of to-day that it is in most cases impossible to separate them from one another. ^ ^ A very good example of this is to be found in the work of Colonel Francis W. Parker (1837-1902) in the United States. It was he who introduced Germanized Pestalozzian-Ritter methods of teaching geography; he who strongly advocated the Herbartian plan for concentration of instruction about a central core, which he worked out for geography; he who insisted so strongly on the Froebelian principle of self-expression as the best way to develop the thinking process; he who advocated science instruction in the schools; and he who saw educational problems so clearlj from the standpoint of the child that he, and the pupils he trained, did much to bring about the reorganization in elementary education which was worked out in the United States between about 1875 and 1900. 784 HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. How do you explain the long-continued objection to teacher-training? 2. Contrast "oral and objective teaching" with the former "individual in- struction." 3. Show how complete a change in classroom procedure this involved. 4. Show how Pestalozzian ideas necessitated a " technique of instruction." 5. Why is it that Pestalozzian ideas as to language and arithmetic instruc- tion have so slowly influenced the teaching of grammar, language, and arithmetic? 6. How do you explain the decline in importance of the once-popular mental arithmetic? J. Show how child study was a natural development from the Pestalozzian psychology and methodology. 8. Explain what is meant by the statements that Herbart rejected: (a) The conventional-social ideal of Locke. (b) The unsocial ideal of Rousseau. (c) The "faculty-psychology" conception of Pestalozzi. 9. Explain what is meant by saying that Herbart conceived of education as broadly social, rather than personal. 10. Show in what ways and to what extent Herbart: (a) Enlarged our conception of the educational process. (b) Improved the instruction content and process. 11. Explain why Herbartian ideas took so much more quickly in the United States than did Pestalozzianism. 12. State the essentials of the kindergarten idea, and the psychology behind it. 13. State the contribution of the kindergarten idea to education. 14. Show the connection between the sense impression ideas of Pestalozzi, the self-activity of Froebel, and the manual activities of the modern ele- mentary school. 15. Explain why scientific studies came into the schools so slowly, up to about i860, and so very rapidly after about that time. 16. Explain the particularly long resistance to the introduction of scientific studies by industrial England. 17. State the comparative importance of content and drill in education. 18. Does the reasoning of Herbert Spencer appeal to you as sound? If not, why not? 19. Show how the argument of Spencer for the study of science was also an argument for a more general diffusion of educational advantages. 20. Would schools have advanced in importance as they have done had the industrial revolution not taken place? Why? 21. Why is more extended education called for as "industrial life becomes more diversified, its parts narrower, and its processes more concealed"? 22. Point out the social significance of the educational work of John Dewey. 23. Point out the value, in the new order of society, of each group of school subjects listed in footnote i on page 763. 24. Contrast the virtues of a school before Pestalozzi's time and those of a modern school. SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections illustrative of the contents of this chapter are reproduced: 344. Bache; The German Seminaries for Teachers. NEW CONCEPTIONS OF EDUCATION 785 345. Bache: A German Teachers' Seminary Described. 346. Bache: A French Normal School Described. 347. Barnard: Beginnings of Teacher-Training in England. 348. Barnard: The Pupil-Teacher System Described. 349. Clinton: Recommendation for Teacher-Training Schools. 350. Massachusetts: Organizing the First Normal Schools. (a) The Organizing Law. (b) Admission and Instruction in. (c) Mann: Importance of the Normal School. 351. Early Textbooks: Examples of Instruction from (a) Davenport: History of the United States. (b) Morse: Elements of Geography — Map. (c) Morse Elements of Geography. 352. Murray: A Typical Teacher's Contract. 353. Bache: The Elementary Schools of Berlin in 1838. 354. Providence: Grading the Schools of. 355. Felkin: Herbart's Educational Ideas. 356. Felkin: Herbart's Educational Ideas Applied. 357. Titchener: Herbart and Modern Psychology. 358. Marenholtz-Biilow: Froebel's Educational Views. 359. Huxley: EngHsh and German Universities Contrasted. 360. Huxley: Mid-nineteenth-Century Elementary Education in Eng- land. 361. Huxley: Mid-nineteenth-Century Secondary Education in England. 362. Spencer: What Knowledge is of Most Worth? 363. Spencer: Conclusions as to the Importance of Science. 364. Dewey: The Old and New Psychology Contrasted. 365. Ping: Difficulties in Transforming the School. (a) Relating Education to Life. (b) The Old Teacher and the New System. 366. Dewey: Socialization of School Work illustrated by History. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Contrast the instruction in a German Teachers' Seminary (345) or a French normal school (346) of 1838, as described by Bache, with that of an American normal school of to-day. 2. What do the beginnings of teacher-training in England (347, 348) indi- cate as to conceptions then existing as to the educational process? 3. Show, by comparison, that the beginnings of the American normal school were German, rather than English in origin. 4. Just what educational conditions does Governor Clinton (349) indicate as existing in New York State, in 1827? 5. Contrast the instruction in the early Massachusetts normal schools (350) with that in the German (345) and French (346) of about the same time. 6. What do the three professional courses reproduced (345, 346, 350 b) in- dicate as to the development of pedagogical work by about 1840? 7. Compare the textbook types, given in 351, with modern textbooks in equivalent subjects. 8. Just what light on school teaching, in 1841, does the teacher's contract given (352) throw? 9. State the steps in the evolution of a graded system, of schools (353, 354). 10. State the essentials of Herbart's educational ideas (355, 356), and the nature of the advances made over his predecessors. 786 HISTORY OF EDUCATION 11. State the essentials of Froebel's educational ideas, as explained by the Baroness von Marenholtz-Biilow (358). 12. Explain the difference between the universities of the two nations (359). 13. Contrast elementary education in England (360) with that in the United States at the same period. 14. Would you add anything else to Spencer's requirements to prepare for complete living? What? Why? 15. How do you explain science being "written against in our theologies and frowned upon from our pulpits" (363) when it is of such importance as Spencer concludes? 16. Contrast the old and the new psychology (357, 364). 17. Have the difficulties experienced in the transformation of instruction in China (365) been essentially different than with us? How? 18. Apply Dewey's idea as to the socialization of history (366) to instruc- tion in geography. SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES Barnard, Henry. National Education in Europe. *Bowen, H. C. Froebel and Education through Self-Activity. Compayre, G. Herbart and Education by Instruction. *De Garmo, Chas. Herbart and the Herbartians. Dewey, John. The School and Social Progress. (Nine numbers.) *Dewey, John. The School and Society. Gordy, J. P. Rise and Growth of the Normal School Idea in the United States. Circular of Information, United States Bureau of Education, No. 8, 1891. Hollis, A. P. The Oswego Movement. *Jordan, D. S. " Spencer's Essay on Education"; in Cosmopolitan Maga- zine, vol. XXIX, pp. 135-49. (Sept. 1902.) Judd, C. H. The Training of Teachers in England, Scotland, and Ger- many. (Bulletin 35, 1914, United States Bureau of Education.) Monroe, Will S. History of the Pestalozzian Movement in the United States. *Parker, S. C. History of Modern Elementary Education. Ping Wen Kuo. The Chinese System of Public Education. Spencer, Herbert. Education; Intellectual, Moral, and Physical. Vanderwalker, N. C. The Kindergarten in American Education. CHAPTER XXIX NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS I. POLITICAL The enlarged conception of public education. The new ideas as to the purpose and functions of the State promulgated by Eng- lish and French eighteenth-century thinkers, and given concrete expression in the American and French revolutions near the close of the century, imparted, as we have seen, a new meaning to the school and a new purpose to the education of a people. In the theoretical discussion of education by Rousseau and the empirical work of Pestalozzi a new individualistic theory for a secular school was created, and this Prussia, for long moving in that di- rection, first adopted as a basis for the state school system it early organized to serve national ends. The new American States, also long moving toward state organization and control, early created state schools to replace the earlier religious schools; while the French Revolution enthusiasts abolished the religious school and ordered the substitution of a general system of state schools to serve their national ends. From these beginnings, as we have seen, the state-school idea has in course of time spread to all continents, and nations every- where to-day have come to feel that the maintenance of a more or less comprehensive system of state schools is so closely connected with national welfare and progress as to be a necessity for the State (R. 367). In consequence, state ministries for education have been created in all the important world nations; state and local school officials have been provided generally to see that the state purpose in creating schools is carried out; state normal schools for the preparation of teachers have been established; comprehensive state school codes have been enacted or educa- tional decrees formulated; and constantly increasing expendi- tures for education are to-day derived by taxing the wealth of the State to educate the children of the State. Change from the original purpose. The original purpose in the establishment of schools by the State was everywhere to pro- mote literacy and citizenship. Under all democratic forms of government it was also to insure to the people the elements of 788 HISTORY OF EDUCATION learning that they might be prepared for participation in the functions of government.^ This is well expressed in the quota- tions given (p. 525) from early American statesmen as to the need for the education of public opinion and the diffusion of knowledge among the people. The same ideas were expressed by French writers and statesmen of the time, and by the English after the passage of the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867 (p. 642). With the gradual extension of the franchise to larger and larger numbers of the people, the extension of educational advantages naturally had to follow. The education of new citizens for " their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen "' became a neces- sity, and closely followed each extension of the right to vote. In all democratic governments the growing complexity of modern political society has since greatly enlarged these early duties of the school. To-day, in modern nations where general manhood suffrage has come to be the rule, and still more so in nations which have added female suffrage as well, the continually in- creasing complexity of the political, economic, and social prob- lems upon which the voters are expected to pass judgment is such that a more prolonged period of citizenship education is necessary if voters are to exercise, in any intelligent manner, their functions of citizenship. In nations where the initiative, referendum, and recall have been added, the need for special education along po- litical, economic, and social lines has been still further empha- sized. At first instruction in the common-school branches, with in- struction in morals or religion added, was regarded as sufficient. In States, such as the German, where religious instruction was re- tained in the schools, this has been made a powerful instrument in moulding the citizenship and upholding the established order. The history of the different nations has also been used by each as a means for instilling desired conceptions of citizenship, and some work in more or less formal civil government has usually been added. To-day all these means have been proven inadequate for democratic peoples. In consequence, the work in civil govern- ment is being changed and broadened into institutional and com- munity civics; the work of the elementary school is being social- ized, along the lines advocated by Dewey; and instruction in economic principles and in the functions of government is being 1 For long the knowledge-conception dominated instruction, it being firmly believed by the advocates of schools that knowledge and virtue were somewhat synonymous termi. NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 789 introduced into the secondary schools. Instead of being made mere teaching institutions, engaged in promoting literacy and diffusing the rudiments of learning among the electorate, schools are to-day being called upon to grasp the significance of their political and social relationships, and to transform themselves into institutions for improving and advancing the welfare of the State (R. 368). The promotion of nationality. In Prussia the promotion of na- tional solidarity was early made an important aim of the school. This has in time become a common national purpose, as there has dawned upon statesmen generally the idea that a national spirit or culture is "an artificial product which transcends social, reli- gious, and economic distinctions," and that it "could be manu- factured by education" (R. 340). In consequence of this dis- covery the school has been raised to a new position of importance in the national life, and has become the chief means for develop- ing in the citizenship that national unity and national strength so desirable under present-day world conditions. In the German States, where this function of the school has in recent times been perverted to carry forward mperialistic national ends (R. 342) ; in France, where it has been intelligently used to promote a rational type of national strength (R. 341); in Italy, where divergent ra- cial types are being fused into a new national unity; in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines (R. 343) where the United States has used education to bring backward peoples up to a new level of culture, and to develop in them firm foundations of national solidarity; in China (R. 335) where an ancient people, speaking numerous dialects, is making the difficult transition from an old culture to the newer western civilization ; and in Algiers and Mo- rocco, where the spirit of French nationality is being fused into dark-skinned tribesmen — everywhere to-day, where public edu- cation has really taken hold on the national life, we find the school being used for the promotion of national solidarity and the incul- cation of national ideals and national culture. To such an extent has this become true that practically all the pressing problems of the school to-day, in any land, find their ultimate explanation in terms of the new nineteenth-century conceptions of political na- tionality. Since the development of world trade routes following long rail and steamship lines, along which people as well as raw materials and manufactured articles pass to and fro, the entrance of new and 790 HISTORY OF EDUCATION diverse peoples into distant national groups has created a new problem of nationalization that before the early nineteenth cen- tury was largely unknown. Previous to the nineteenth century the problem was confined almost entirely to peoples conquered and annexed by the fortunes of war. To-day it is a voluntary migration of peoples, and a migration of such proportions and from such distant and unlike civilizations that the problem of as- similating the foreigner has become, particularly in the English- speaking nations and colonies, to which distant and unrelated peoples have turned in largest numbers,^ a serious national prob- lem. The migration of 32,102,671 persons to the United States, between 1820 and 19 14, from all parts of the world, has been a movement of peoples compared with which the migrations of the Germanic tribes — Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Goths, Visigoths, Van- dals, Suevi, Danes, Burgundians, Huns — into the old Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries pale into insignificance. No such great movement of peoples was ever known before in his- tory, and the assimilative power of the American nation has not been equal to the task. The World War revealed the extent of the failure to nationalize the foreigner who has been permitted to come, and brought the question of "Americanization" to the front as one of the most pressing problems connected with Ameri- can national education. With the world in flux racially as it now is, the problem of the assimilation of non-native peoples is one which the schools of every nation which offers political and eco- nomic opportunity to other peoples must face. This has called for the organization of special classes in the schools, evening and adult instruction, community-center work, nationalization pro- grams, compulsory attendance of children, state oversight of private and religious schools, and other forms of educational un- dertakings undreamed of in the days when the State first took over the schools from the Church the better to promote literacy and citizenship. Effects of the Industrial Revolution. The effects of the great industrial and social changes which we have previously described are written large across the work of the school. As the civiliza- tion in the leading world nations has increased in complexity, and 1 It is to democratic England and the United States, and to the EngHsh self- governing dominions, that the greatest flood of emigrants from less advanced civili- zations have gone. South America has also experienced a large recent immigration, but this has been mainly of peoples from the Latin races, and hence easier of assimi- lation. NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 791 the ramifications of the social and industrial life have widened, the school has been called upon to broaden its work, and develop new types of instruction to increase its effectiveness. An educa- tion which was entirely satisfactory for the simpler form of social and industrial life of two generations ago has been seen to be ut- terly inadequate for the needs of the present and the future. It is the far-reaching change in social and industrial and home-life, brought about by the Industrial Revolution, which underlies most of the pressing problems in educational readjustment to-day. As the industrial life of nations has become more diversified, its parts narrower, and its processes more concealed, new and more extended training has been called for to prepare young people for the work of life ; to reveal to them something of the intricacy and interdependence of modern political and industrial and social groups; and to point out to them the importance of each one's part in the national political and industrial organization. With the ever-increasing subdivision and specialization of labor, the danger from class subdivision has constantly increased, and more and more the school has been called upon to instill into all a po- litical and social consciousness that will lead to unity amid in- creasing diversity, and to concerted action for the preservation and improvement of the national life. More education than formerly has also been demanded to en- able future citizens to meet intelligently national and personal problems, and with the widening of the suffrage and the spread of democratic ideas there has come a necessary widening of the edu- cational ladder, so that more of the masses of the people may climb. Even in nations having the continental-European two- class school system, larger educational opportunities for the masses have had to be provided. This has come through the pro- vision of middle schools, continuation schools, higher primary schools, and people's high schools,^ as in Germany, France (see diagram, p. 598), the Scandinavian countries (p. 713; R. 37o), and Japan (p. 720). In nations having an American- type educa- tional ladder, it has led to the multiplication of secondary schools and secondary-school courses, that a larger and larger percentage of the people may be prepared better to meet the increasingly complex and increasingly difficult conditions of modern political, social, and industrial life. In the more advanced and more dem- ^ See a good article on this development by I. L. Kandel, in the Educational Re- view for November, 1919, entitled "The Junior High School in European Sys- tems." 792 HISTORY OF EDUCATION ocratic nations we also note the establishment of systems of eve- ning schools, adult instruction, university extension, science and art instruction in special centers, the multiplication of libraries, and the increasing use of the lecture, the stereopticon, and the public press, for the purpose of keeping the people informed. No nation has done more to extend the advantages of secondary edu- cation to its people than has the United States; France has been especially prominent in adult instruction ; England has done note- worthy work with university extension and science and art instruc- tion; while the United States has carried the library movement farther than any other land. All these, again, are extensions of educational opportunity to the masses of the people in a manner undreamed of a century ago. University expansion. The modern university first attained its development in Prussia (pp. 553-55), while in England and in the nations which drew their inspiration from her, the teaching college, with its narrow range of studies and disciplinary instruction (R. 331) , continued to dominate higher education until past the middle of the nineteenth century (R. 359) . The old universities of France, aside from Paris, were virtually destroyed in the days of the Rev- olution, and their re-creation as effective teaching and research institutions has been a relatively recent (1896) event. The uni- versities of Italy and Spain ceased to be effective teaching in- stitutions centuries ago, and only recently have begun to give evidences of new life. Within the past three quarters of a century, and in many na- tions within a much shorter period of time, the university has very generally experienced a new manifestation of popular favor, and is to-day looked upon as perhaps the most important part, viewed from the standpoint of the future welfare of the State, of the entire system of public instruction maintained by the State. In it the leaders for the State are trained; in it the thinking which is to dominate government a quarter-century later is largely done; out of it come the creative geniuses whose work, in dozens of fields of human endeavor, will mould the political, social, and sci- entific future of the nation (R. 369). Every government depend- ing upon a two-class school system must of necessity draw its leaders in the professions, in government, in pure and applied sci- ence, and in many other lines from the small but carefully se- lected classes its universities train. In a democracy, depending entirely upon drawing its future leaders from among the mass, NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 793 the university becomes an indispensable institution for the train- ing of leaders and for the promotion of the national welfare. In a democratic government one of the highest functions of a univer- sity is to educate leaders and to create the standards for democ- racy. The university has, accordingly, in all lands, recently experi- enced a great expansion. The German universities have been prominent modern institutions for a century and a half. Realiz- ing, as no other people have done, their value in developing skilled leaders for the State, promoting the national welfare, integrating the Empire, and as centers for building up among students of other nationalities a good-will toward Germany, large sums have been spent on their further development since 187 1. Within the past quarter-century new and strong French universities have been created,^ and old universities in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece have been awakened to a new life. The English universi- ties have been made over, since 1870, and new municipal univer- sities in Sheffield, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Liv- erpool, and London have set new standards in English higher edu- cation. The universities of Scotland, Holland, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries have also recently attained to world prominence. In Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, the Philippines, India, Egypt, Palestine, Algiers, and South Africa, new universities have been created to advance the national wel- fare. The South American nations have also established a num- ber of promising new foundations, and given new life to older ones. Often nations swinging out into the current of western civilization have developed their universities before popular edu- cation really got under way. In no country has the development of university instruction been more rapid than in the United States and Canada. New and important state universities are to-day found in most of the American States and Canadian Provinces, some States maintain- ing two. These have been relatively recent creations to serve democracy's needs, and upon the support of these state universi- ties large and increasing sums of money are spent annually.- In ' Paris, for example, has become the greatest university in Europe, exceeding Berlin (19 14) in students by approximately 25 per cent and in expenditures 40 per cent. * "The rise of these great universities is the most epoch-making feature of our American civilization, and they are to become more and more the leaders and the makers of our civilization. They are of the people. When a state university has gained solid ground, it means that the people of a whole state have turned their 794 nioivjr\.i kjv i^j_^u\^/\i iwxn no nation of the world, too, has private benevolence created and endowed so many private universities of high rank as in the United States,^ and these have fallen into their proper places as auxiliary agents for the promotion of the national welfare in gov- ernment, science, art, and the learned professions. From small collegiate institutions with a very limited curricu- lum, a century ago, stimulated in part by the German example and in part responding to new national needs, universities to-day, in all the leading world nations, have developed into groups of well-organized professional schools, ministering to the great num- ber of special needs of modern life and government. The univer- sity development since the middle of the nineteenth century has been greater than at any period before in world history, and with the spread of democracy, dependent as democracy is upon mass education to obtain its leaders, the university has become *'the soul of the State" (R. 369). The university development of the next half-century, the world as a whole considered, may possibly surpass anything that we have recently witnessed. The state school systems as organized. We now find state school systems organized in all the leading world nations. In many the system of public instruction maintained is broad and extensive, beginning often with infant schools or kindergartens, continuing up through elementary schools, middle schools, con- tinuation schools, secondary schools, and normal schools, and cul- minating in one or more state universities. In addition there are to-day, in many nations, state systems of scientific and technical schools and institutions, and vocational schools and schools for special classes, to which we shall refer more in detail a little fur- ther on. The support of all these systems of public instruction to-day comes largely from the direct or indirect taxation of the wealth of the State. Being now conceived of as essential to the welfare and progress of the State, the State yearly confiscates a portion of every man's property and uses it to maintain a service deem.ed vital to its purposes. The sums spent to-day on education by modern States seem faces toward the light; it means that the whole system of state schools has been welded into an effective agent for civilization. Those who direct the purposes of these great enterprises of democracy cannot be too often reminded that the highest function of a university is to furnish standards for a democracy." (Pritchett, Henry S., in Atlantic Monthly.) ^ The gifts and bequests for colleges and universities in the United States, from 1871 to 1916, totaled $647,536,608, and by 1920 probably have reached $750,000- 000. enormous, compared with the sums spent for education under conditions existing a century ago. In England, for example, where the first national aid was granted, in 1833, in the form of a parliamentary grant of £20,000 (approximately $100,000), the parliamentary grants for elementary schools had reached approxi- mately £12,000,000 by 1910, with an additional national aid for universities of over £1,100,000. By 1920 the grants were £32,- 851,111, and by 1931, Scotland included, were £56,717,000. In France a treasury grant of 50,000 francs (approximately $10,000) was first made for primary schools, in 18 16. This was doubled in 1829, and in 1831 was raised to a million francs. By 1850, the state aid for primary education had reached 3,000,000 francs; by 1870, 10,000,000 francs; by 1880, 30,000,000; by 1914, 220,000,000; and by 1930, approximately 600,000,000 francs (old value). In addi- tion the State made grants for secondary schools and universities. In the United States the total expenditures for maintenance only of public elementary and secondary schools was $69,107,612, in 1870-71; had reached $214,964,618 by the end of the nineteenth century; and was $640,717,053 in 1915-16, with an additional $101,752,542 for universities. By 1920 the total expenditures for the maintenance of public elementary, secondary, and higher education in the United States was $1,036,151,209, and by 1930 approximately $3,200,000,000. These rapidly increasing ex- penditures merely record the changing political conception as to the national importance of enlarging the educational opportuni- ties and advantages of those who are to constitute and direct the future State. II. SCIENTIFIC In no phase of the remarkable educational development made by nations, since the middle of the nineteenth century, has there been a more important expansion of the educational service than in the creation of schools dealing with the applications of science to the affairs of the national life. Still more, no extension of in- struction into new fields has ever yielded material benefits, in- creased productivity, alleviated suffering, or multiplied comforts and conveniences as has this new development in applied scientific education during the past three quarters of a century. Science instruction in the schools. At first this new work came in, as we have seen (p. 774), but slowly, and its introduction into the secondary schools of France, Germany, England, the United States, and other nations for a time met with bitter opposi- 796 HlblUKY Ut l^UUL^Al lUiN tion from the partisans of the older type of intellectual trainims. In Germany it was not until after Emperor William II came tc> the throne (1888) that the Realschulen really found a warm parti- san, he demanding (1890), in the name of the national welfare, that the secondary schools ''depart entirely from the basis that has existed for centuries — the old monastic education of the Middle Ages" — and that "young Germans and not young Greeks and Romans " be trained in the schools (R. 368). During his reign the Realschulen (six-year course) and Oberrealschulen (nine-year course) were especially favored, while permission to found additional Gymnasien became hard to obtain. The scien- tific course in the French Lycees similarly did not prosper until after the coming of the Third Republic (187 1) and the rise of modern scientific and industrial demands. In England it was not until after 1870 that the endowed secondary schools began to in- clude science instruction, and laboratory instruction in the sci- ences began to be introduced into the secondary schools of the United States at about the same time. In the United States, too, the first manual- training high school was not established until 1880, but by 1890 the creation of such schools was clearly under way. Other nations — Switzerland, Holland, the Scandinavian countries — also began to include laboratory science instruction in the work of their secondary schools at about the same time. The decade of the seventies witnessed a rising interest in instruc- tion in science which carried such work into the secondary schools of all progressive nations. To-day, in nearly all lands, we find secondary-school courses in science, or special secondary schools for scientific instruction, occupying a position of at least equal importance with the older classical courses or schools. As science instruction has become organized, and a knowledge of the princi- ples of science has become diffused, object lessons, Realien, nature study, or elementary science instruction has very generally been put into the elementary or people's schools for the younger pu- pils. As a result, young people finishing the elementary schools to-day know more relating to the laws of the universe, and the applications of these laws to human life and industry, than did distinguished scholars two centuries ago. All this work in the elementary schools, middle schools, people's high schools, secondary schools, or special technical schools of middle or secondary grade has been of much value in diffusing scientific knowledge and scientific methods of thinking and work- ing among large numbers of people, as well as in revealing to many the possibilities of a scientific career. The great and im- portant development of scientific instruction, however, since about i860, has been in the fields of advanced applied science or techni- cal education, and has taken place chiefly in new and higher spe- cialized schools and research foundations. The fields in which the greatest scientific advances have been made, and to which we shall here briefly refer, have been engineering, agriculture, and medicine. The beginnings of technical education. The beginnings of technical education were made earliest in France, Germany, and the United States, and in the order named. France and German lands, but particularly France, inherited through the monasteries what survived of the old Roman skills and technical arts. In the building of bridges, roads, fortifications, aqueducts, and imposing public buildings, the Romans had shown the possession of en- gineering abihty of a high order. Some of this knowledge was re- tained by the monks of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the monasteries they erected and the churches they built. Later it passed to others, and is evidenced in the great cathedrals and town halls of Europe, and particularly of northern France. In military and civil engineering the French were also the true successors of the Romans. As early as 1747 a special engineering school for bridges and highways {Ecole des Fonts et Chaussees) had been created, and a little later a special school to train mining en- gineers {Ecole des Mines) was added. These were the first of the world's higher technical schools. After the Revolution, the new need for military and medical knowledge, as well as the general French interest in applied science, led to the creation of a large number of important higher technical institutions (list, p. 518), most of which have persisted to the present and been enlarged and extended with time. Napoleon also created a School of Arts and Trades (R. 282), and a number of military schools (p. 590). In German lands there was early founded a series of trade schools,^ which have in time been developed into important tech- nical universities. After the creation of the Imperial German Empire, in 1871, these schools were especiaUy favored by the * The oldest was Charlottenburg (1799), Darmstadt (1822), Carlsruhe (1825), Munich (1827), Dresden (1828), Nuremberg (1829), Stuttgart (1829), Cassel (1830), Hanover (1831), Augsburg (1833), and Brunswick (1835). A similar school, which later developed into a technical university, was foianded at Prague, in Bohemia, in 1806. 790 MlblUKY Ut t.UUCAriON government, and their work was raised to a rank equal to that of the older universities. To the excellent training given in these institutions the German leadership in applied science and indus- try, before 1914, was largely due.^ It has been the particular function of these technical universities to apply scientific knowl- edge to the industries and the arts, and to show the technical schools beneath and the directors of German industries how further to apply it (R. 371). Of their work a recent Report - well says: While in other countries the development of science has been aca- demic, in Germany every new principle elaborated by science has revolutionized some industry, modified some manufacturing process, or opened up an entirely new field of commercial exploitation. In the chemical industries of Germany , . . there is one trained university chemist for every forty working-people. It is important to realize that the development of Germany's manufactures and commerce has depended not upon the establishment of any monopoly in the domain of science, not upon any special advancement of science within her own boundaries, but primarily upon the practical utilization of the results of scientific research in Germany and other countries. The creation of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, in 1802, marks the American beginnings in technical edu- cation. In 1824 the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was begun, largely as a manual-labor school after the Fellenberg plan, to give instruction "in the applications of science to the common pur- poses of life," and about 1850 this developed into one of the ear- liest of our four-year engineering colleges. In 1846 the United States organized a college for naval engineering, at Annapolis, to do for the Navy what West Point had done for the Army. In 1 86 1 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded, opening its doors in 1865. This was the first of a number of important new engineering colleges, and eight others had been established, by private funds, before 1880. The development in England came a little later. Good en- gineering schools have since been developed in connection with ^ The German technical training "produces an engineer who is not only older in years, but also more mature in experience and in judgment than the average gradu- ate of an engineering college in America. Whether or not it would be wise to adopt — so far as that would be possible — German methods in the schools and colleges of the United States, it must nevertheless be recognized that those methods have given Germany a leadership in applied science and in industry which she will keep unless the educational authorities of other nations find some way of producing men of hke calibre." (Munroe, James P., "Technical Education"; in Monroe's Cyclo- pedia of Education.) 2 Report of Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education, Washington, 1914, p. 90. the new municipal universities, while good engineering colleges have also been created at Oxford and Cambridge, as well as at the Scottish and Irish universities. The new impulses to development. During the first six dec- ades of the nineteenth century, France, the German States, and the United States were slowly moving toward the creation of special schools for technical education. After about i860 the movement increased with great rapidity. A number of events contributed to this change in rate of development, the most im- portant of which were : 1. The development attained by pure science, by about i860. (See chapter xxvii, part 11, p. 723.) 2. The Industrial Revolution (p. 728), which changed nations from an agricultural to an industrial status, opened up the possibilities of vast world trade, and created enormous demands for techni- cally trained men to supervise and develop the rapidly growing industries of nations. 3. The London Exhibition of 1851, which displayed to the world the applications of science to trade, manufacturing, and the arts, made in particular by England. This opened the eyes of Europe and America to the possibilities of technical education, and led to the creation, in 1853, of a national Department of Science and Art (p. 638) for England. This began the stimulation, by money grants, of technical education and instruction in drawing, and exerted from the first an important influence on EngHsh educa- tion. 4. The passage by the Congress of the United States of the Morrill Land-Grant-College Act, in 1862, which provided for the creation of colleges of engineering, military science, and agriculture, in each of the American States. 5. The militarily successful wars of Prussia against Denmark, in 1864; Austria, 1866; and France, 1870-71. These revealed to other nations the importance of sound military and engineering education for a nation, and so tremendously stimulated German technical education that the new nation soon arose, in many lines, to a position of world industrial leadership (369). 6. The Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876, which re- peated the work of the London Exhibition of 1851, and gave a new meaning to the scientific and engineering education then de- veloping in the new American Land-Grant Colleges. 7. The work of Virchow in Germany (1856) in developing pathology; of Pasteur in France, after 1859, in establishing the germ theory of disease ; the English surgeon Lister, about the same time, in de- veloping antiseptic surgery; and the new work of physiologists and chemists. Combined these have remade medical science, and have opened up immense possibiUties for benefiting man- kind. 800 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Following these important stimuli to activity, the important nations of the world began the earnest development of technical education, and later medical education, with the result that this new development has affected educational practice all over the world. The new ideas have spread to all continents, and to-day the call for technical education comes not only from the older na- tions and such new countries as Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the South American States, but from such ancient and back- ward civilizations as Japan, China, Siam, the Philippines, the East Indies, Egypt, Persia, and Turkey. In consequence to-day numerous and expensive engineering colleges and research institutions are maintained by the impor- tant world nations. To-day the trained engineer goes to work his wonders in all corners of the globe, and his task has become pri- marily that of organizing and directing men in the work of con- trolling the forces and materials of nature so that they may be made to benefit the human race. So rapid has been the develop- ment that, out of the earher comprehensive type of engineering, to-day dozens of specialized types of engineering education and specialization have been evolved, covering such related fields as civil, mechanical, mining, metallurgical, electrical, architectural, chemical, electro-chemical, marine, naval, sanitary, biological, and public-health engineering. No longer can a nation hope to develop its resources, care properly for the modern needs of its people, or be counted among the important industrial or agricul- tural nations if it neglects the development of technical educa- tion. Science applied to agriculture. France also was the direct in- heritor, through the monks, of the old Roman agricultural knowl- edge and skills, though up to the nineteenth century no attempt to organize agricultural instruction took place anywhere in Eu- rope. The earliest effort in that direction was a proposal made in 1775 by Abbe Rosier, in France, to Turgot, then Minister of Fi- nance, on " A Plan for a National School of Agriculture." Noth- ing coming of the proposal, the Abbe submitted the proposal to the National Assembly, in 1789, and the same idea was later pre- sented to Napoleon, but without results. The first person to give practical form to the idea was Fellenberg (p. 546), who conducted his manual-labor agricultural institute at Hofwyl, from 1806 to 1844, and inaugurated a plan of educational procedure which was soon afterwards copied in Switzerland, France, the South German States, England, and the United States. One of the earliest in- stitutions to be established outside of Switzerland was the Insti- tute of Agriculture and Forestry, founded by the Agricultural Society of Wiirtemberg, in 1817, at Hohenheim, near Stuttgart. The earliest schools to teach agriculture in France were the Royal Agronomic Institution at Grignon (1827); the Institute at Coetbo (1830), and the Agricultural School at San Juan (1833). By 1847 twenty-five agricultural schools were in operation in France, to several of which orphan asylums and penal colonies were attached. In 1848 the French Government reorganized the instruction in agriculture and gave it a national basis. It ordered the creation of a farm school in each department of France; a number of higher schools for agricultural instruction at central places; and a National Agronomic Institute for more advanced instruction. A treasury grant of 2,500,000 francs to estabhsh the system was voted. In 1873 elementary instruction in agriculture was ordered given in all village and rural elementary schools. In the United States a number of agricultural societies were formed early in the century, and a private school of agriculture was opened in Maine, in 1821, and another in Connecticut, in 1824. With the opening-up of the new West to farming and the change of the East to manufacturing, after about 1825, the agita- tion for agricultural education for a time died out, reappearing in Michigan, in 1850. In that year a new constitution was adopted which required the legislature to create a State School of Agricul- ture, and in 1857 the Michigan Agricultural College opened its doors. Two years later a ''Farmers' High School," which later became the Pennsylvania State College, was opened in central Pennsylvania. In 1862, in the midst of the greatest civil war in history, the American Congress passed the very important Mor- rill Act, which provided for the creation of a college to teach agri- culture, mechanic arts, and military science in each of the Ameri- can States. It was a decade before many of these institutions opened, and for a time they amounted to but little. They had but few students, little money, and the instruction was very ele- mentary and but poorly organized. Cornell University, in New York State, was one of the first (1868) of the new institutions to get under way and find its work. The Centennial Exposition (1876) gave the needed emphasis to the engineering courses, and by 1880 these were well established. The agricultural courses did not flourish for two decades longer, and the military science not 0O2 Jrli:!)HJKY KJf t.UU^I\l IU1\ until the World War. Despite feeble beginnings, the result of the aid given by the national government has in time proved very- valuable, and to-day very large sums of money are being appro- priated by the American States and Territories for instruction in engineering, agriculture, home economics, and related sciences, and large numbers of students are now enrolled for this technical training. The recent new interest in agricultural education. Since the latter part of the nineteenth century agricultural education has awakened new interest in many lands. The German States have created many schools for instruction in agriculture and forestry. Denmark has regenerated the rural life of the nation (R. 370) by its "People's High Schools" and its special schools for instruction in agriculture. Italy has recently made special efforts to extend agricultural instruction to its people. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have established agricultural schools. In Algiers, Morocco, Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, good begin- nings in agricultural education have been made. As agricultural knowledge has been worked out and classified, and agricultural instruction has become organized, it has become possible to relegate some of the more elementary instruction to the school below. This was done in European nations before it took place in the United States. In 1888 the first American agricultural high school was established in Minnesota. By 1898 there were ten such schools in the United States, but since 1900 the development has been very rapid. By 1920 probably a thousand high schools were offering instruction in agriculture, while elementary instruction in agriculture had been introduced into the rural and village schools of practically every American agricultural State. The agricultural schools, colleges, and experimental stations established by the national, state, and local educational authori- ties of different nations have added another new division to the work of public education, and one which is both very costly and very remunerative. Out of the work of these schools has come a vast quantity of useful knowledge, and hundreds of important applications of science to farm and home life. Old breeds in stock and grains have been improved, new breeds have been derived, and productivity has been greatly increased. Through the teachings of home economics the farmer's home is being trans- formed, while the applications of science made in these schools NEW TEJNUEJNCIES AND EXPANSIONS 803 are modifying almost every phase of agricultural life and rural living. Medicine and sanitary science. Closely related to sanitary, biological, and public-health engineering has been the enormous recent development of medicine and surgery. Within half a century instruction in these subjects has been entirely trans- formed, and large and costly laboratories and hospitals are now required for the work. There has also been much specialization in medical training, within recent years, and especially has pre- ventive medicine been developed. Extending the newly found biological and medical knowledge to the animal and vegetable worlds has resulted in a similar development of veterinary medi- cine ^ and plant pathology. A combination of medical knowledge with engineering and chemistry has produced the sanitary engi- neer, while medical knowledge and applied biology has produced the public-health expert.- So important, too, has the control of all kinds of disease be- come, now that people, animals, insects, plants, and goods move so freely along the great trade routes of the world, that nations everywhere feel the necessity, now that scientific research has re- vealed to questioning man the methods of transmission of the dis- eases which once decimated armies and cities, destroyed stocks, and ruined harvests, of developing ample quarantine service and medical staffs to cope with diseases — human, animal, and plant — from without, and to control those which arise within. Na- tions too poor as yet to provide such service for themselves are to- day having such provision made for them by other nations, or by great national foundations,^ so that other lands may be protected from the ravages of their diseases and the economic wealth of all ^ The first veterinary school in the world was established at Lyons, France, in 1762; the second at Alfort, a suburb of Paris, in 1766; the third at Berlin, in 1792; and the fourth at London, in 1793. ^ The development of scientific training for nursing, begun by the Germans near the end of their wars with Napoleon, is another example of the creation of a new pro- fession through the application of science. This was carried to new levels by Miss Florence Nightingale, who began work in London, in i860, after her experiences in the Crimean War of 1854-56, and has been greatly improved since 1870 as a result of the new medical knowledge and methods which have come in since that time. The provision of training for nurses, and the certification of doctors and nurses for practice, are other new developments in the field of state education. Similarly is the training and certification of dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists, all of which are nineteenth-century additions. ' The work of the Rockefeller Foundation, an American Foundation organized to promote "the well-being of mankind throughout the world," in spending millions to provide China with a modern system of western medical education and hospital service, is perhaps the greatest example of a scientifically organized service ever Tendered by the people of one nation to those of another. 8o4 HISTORY OF EDUCATION may be increased. The element of Christian charity has also en- tered into the service, the labors of Dr. Grenfell in Labrador, and the work of the Rockefeller medical and surgical boat traveling ^^0%%v&^^^?i <^^^ FiG. 232. The Peking Union Medical College A well-equipped center for instruction in western medicine, endowed by ttie Rocke- feller Foundation. A similar school is being created at Shanghai, in central China. Existing medical schools at two other points, and nineteen hospitals scattered over the Republic, have also been aided by this American foundation. In addition, many medical missionaries, Chinese physicians, and nurses have been sent to the United States for study. To improve health standards and living conditions throughout the world is the purpose of the work of the Foundation, which now has work under way on every continent. among the Philippine Islands and its hookworm work on every continent, being good examples of such Christian effort. Applied science the nation's protector. To-day applied science stands everywhere as the nation's protector. Applied in sanita- tion and preventive medicine it has reduced the death rate, pro- longed life, and protects homes from many hidden dangers. In the engineering fields it has transformed the face of the earth and all our ways of living and doing business. Applied to industry it builds factories and railways, and works out new processes to eliminate wastes, improve production, and utilize by-products. Thousands of labor-saving inventions owe their origin to a new truth worked out in some laboratory, and applied in another. Applied chemistry has wrought wonders in advancing industry, protecting the public welfare, eliminating unnecessary labor, and making life richer for all. To-day the engineer with his railway and irrigating dam and NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 805 power plant in the desert has replaced the monk as the vanguard of the forces of civiHzation. The scientist in his laboratory in part replaces armies and navies as the protector of the nation's safety. The scientifically trained Red Cross nurse is fast replac- ing the unskilled devotion of the older Sister of Charity. The doctor and the surgeon at the medical mission are carrying a very practical type of Christian civilization into far-away lands. The laboratory expert in the quarantine station has succeeded the priest with bell and book in keeping pestilence away from the land. The public-health officer in the httle town, and the sanitary engineer in the city, protect the health and happiness of millions of homes. The plant pathologist and veterinarian guard the crops and herds from which food and clothing are derived. The scientific experts in plant and animal industries work steadily to improve breeds and increase yields. When one compares present- day scientific knowledge with that represented in the thirteenth- century Encyclopaedia of Bartholomew Anglicus (R. 77); our modern knowledge of diseases with the theories as to disease ad- vanced by Hippocrates (p. 197), and taught for so many centuries in Christian Europe; our modern knowledge of bacterial trans- mission with the mediaeval theories of Divine wrath and diabolic action; our modern ability to annihilate time and space compared with early nineteenth-century conditions ; or modern applied sci- ence with the very limited technical knowledge possessed by the guilds of the later Middle Ages — the stories of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp seem to have been even more than realized in our practical everyday life. Engineering, agriculture, and modern medicine stand as three of the great applications of modern science to human affairs, and as three of the most important and costly additions to state edu- cational effort made since the time when nations began to accept the political philosophy of the eighteenth-century reformers and to take over the school from the Church, because by so doing the interests of the State could better be advanced thereby. III. VOCATIONAL What is vocational education? In a certain sense, all education is vocational, in that it aims to prepare one for some vocation in life. In Greece and Rome education was vocational, in that it prepared one to be a citizen in the State. During the Middle Ages education was to prepare for a vocation in the Church 8o6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Later the vocation of a scholar appeared, and still later that of a gentleman. In modern times a large range of state services have been opened up as vocations. Since the beginning of the nine- teenth century, with the extension of educational advantages to increasing numbers of the people, preparation for more intelligent living and citizenship have come to be new motives in education. To-day we no longer use the term vocational education in this rather general sense, but restrict its use to the specific training of individuals for some useful employment. Training for law, medicine, the ministry, teaching, engineering, scientific agricul- ture, nursing, and commerce are examples of vocational education in its higher ranges. The development of education along these lines has previously been described. In this division of this chap- ter we shall use the term in a still more common and still more re- stricted sense, as meaning the training of the younger people of a State to do well certain specific things, by teaching them processes and the practical applications of knowledge, chiefly science and art, to the work of the vocation they expect to follow to earn their living. The Report of the American Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education (1914) defined vocational education (p. 16) as follows: Wherever the term "vocational education" is used in this Report, it will mean, unless otherwise explained, that form of education whose controlling purpose is to give training of a secondary grade to persons over fourteen years of age, for increased efficiency in useful employ- ment in the trades and industries, in agriculture, in commerce and commercial pursuits, and in callings based upon a knowledge of home economics. The occupations included under these are almost endless in number and variety. The need for vocational education. Used in this sense voca- tional education is an application of technical knowledge, worked out in the higher schools, to the ordinary vocations of a modern industrial world. As such it is a product of the Industrial Revolu- tion and the breakdown of the age-old system of apprenticeship training,^ and represents another of the important recent exten- 1 "Large-scale production, extreme division of labor, and the all-conquering march of the machine, have practically driven out the apprenticeship system through which, in a simpler age, young helpers were taught, not simply the tech- nique of some single process, but the 'arts and mysteries of a craft' as well. The journeyman and the artisan have given way to an army of machine workers, per- forming over and over one small process at one machine, turning out one small part of the finished article, and knowing nothing about the business beyond their narrow and limited task." {Report 0/ the Commission on National Aid to Vocational Educa- tion vol. I, pp. 19-20.) sions of educational advantages to the masses of the people who labor with their hands to earn their daily bread. Besides further democratizing education by extending its ad- vantages to those who work in the shop and the office and on the farm, vocational education tends to correct many of the evils of modern industrial life. It puts the worker in possession of a great body of scientific knowledge relating to his work which shops and offices cannot give, and it keeps him, for several years after he be- comes a wage earner and at a very impressionable period of his life, under the directing care of the school. It thus tends "to counteract the specialization and routine of the workshop, which wears out his body before nature has completed its development in form and power, blunts the intelligence which the school had tried to awaken, shrivels up his heart and imagination, and de- stroys his spirit of work." Vocational education in Europe and the United States. For al- most half a century the leading nations of western Europe, in an effort to readjust their age-old apprenticeship system of training to modern conditions of manufacture, and to develop new na- tional prestige and strength, have given careful attention to the education of such of their children as were destined for the voca- tions of the industrial world. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France have been leaders, with Germany most prominent of all.^ No small part of the great progress made by that country in securing world-wide trade, ^ before the World War, was due to the extensive and thorough system of vocational education worked out for German youths (R. 371). In commercial education, too, the Germans, up to 19 14, led the world. Even more, they were the only great national group which had done much to develop commercial training. Next to Germany probably came the United States. The marked economic progress of Switzerland during the past quarter-century has likewise been due in large part to that type of education which would enable her, by skillful 1 "In no country will you find the problem taken up in so thorough a manner; in no country will you find an attempt made to cover, by means of industrial schools, the occupations of everyone, from the lowly laborer to the director of the great manufacturing establishment. The State provided industrial training for every per- son who will be better off with it than without it. No occupation is too humble to receive the attention of the German authorities; and the opinion prevails there that science and art have a place in every occupation known to man." (Cooley, E. G., in Report to the Commercial Club of Chicago, 191 2.) 2 For example, the foreign trade of Germany, in 1880, was $31 per capita of the total population, and that of the United States was $32. Thirty years later, in 1910, Germany's foreign trade had increased to $62 per capita, and that of the United States to only $37, 80« nibiUKY ^t tvlJUL^AilUlN artisanship, to make the most of her very limited resources. France has profited greatly, during the past half-century also, from vocational education along the lines of agriculture and in- dustrial art. In Denmark, agricultural education has remade the nation (R. 370), since the days of its humiliation and spolia- tion at the hands of Prussia. England, though keenly sensitive to German trade competition, made only very moderate efforts in the direction of vocational education until Germany plunged the world in war in an effort more quickly to dominate commercially. Now, in the Fisher Education Act of 1918 (p. 649), England has at last laid foundations for a great national system of vocational education. Japan, also, recently laid large plans for a national system of vocational training. In the United States but httle attention was given to educating young people for the vocations of Hfe until about 1905-10, though modern manufacturing condi- tions had before this largely destroyed the old apprentice- ship type of training. En- dowed with enormous natural resources; not being pressed for the means of subsistence by a rapidly expanding popu- lation on a limited land area; able to draw on Europe for both cheap manual labor and technically educated workers; largely isolated and self-suffi- cient as a nation; lacking a merchant marine; not being thrown into severe competi- tion for international trade; and able to sell its products ^ to nations anxious to buy them and willing to come for them in their own ships ; the people of the United States did not, up to recently, feel any particular need for anything other than a good common-school education or a general high-school education for their workers. The commercial course in the high school, the manual- training schools and courses, and 1 Chiefly raw products — a prodigal waste of natural resources. What every nation should do is to work up its raw products at home, and sell finished goods rather than raw products — "sell brains, rather than materials." (R. 370.) Fig. 233. The Destruction of the Trades in Modern Industry Under the old conditions of apprenticeship a boy learned all the processes and became a tailor. To-day, in a thoroughly organized clothing factory, thirty-nine different per- sons perform different specialized opera- tions in the manufacture of a coat. some instruction in drawing and creative art were felt to be about all that it was necessary to provide. The National Commission on Vocational Education. Largely since 1910, due in part to expanding world commerce and in- creasing competition in world trade ; in part to a national realiza- tion that the battles of the future are to be largely commercial battles ; and in part to the dawning upon the American people of the conception, first thought out and put into practice by Impe- rial Germany (R. 371), that that nation will triumph in foreign trade, with all that such triumph means to-day in terms of the happiness and welfare of its citizenship (R. 372), which puts the greatest amount of skill and brains into what it produces and sells. After a number of sporadic efforts in different parts of the country,^ and the introduction of a number of bills into Congress which failed to secure passage, the favorite EngHsh plan was fol- lowed and a Presidential Commission was appointed (19 13) to in- quire into the matter, and to report on the desirability and feasi- bility of some form of national aid to stimulate the development of vocational education. The Commission made its report in 1 9 14, and submitted a plan for gradually increasing national aid to the States to assist them in developing and maintaining what will \ irtually become a national system of agricultural, trade, commercial, and home-economics education. The Commission's findings. The Commission found that there were, in 1910, in round numbers, 12,500,000 persons en- gaged in agriculture in the United States, of whom not over one per cent had had any adequate preparation for farming; and that there were 14,250,000 persons engaged in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, not one per cent of whom had had any op- portunity for adequate training. ^ In the whole United States there were fewer trade schools, of all kinds, than existed in the lit- tle German kingdom of Bavaria, a State about the size of South Carolina; while the one Bavarian city of Munich, a city about the 1 The first trade school in the United States was established privately, in New York City, in 188 1. By 1900 some half-dozen had been similarly established in dif- ferent parts of the country. In 1902 a trade school for girls was founded in New York City, which did pioneer work. In 1906 Massachusetts created a State Com- mission on Industrial Education, and later provided for the creation of industrial schools. In 1907 Wisconsin enacted the first trade-school law, and New York State followed in 1909. * Germany before 19 14 formed an interesting contrast to such conditions. There few untrained youths were to be found, and the nation, before 1914, was rapidly moving toward universal vocational education. »IO HlblUKY Ut t.UUL.A I lUi^ size of Pittsburgh, had more trade schools than were to be found in all the larger cities of the United States, put together. The Commission further found that there were 25,000,000 persons in 100; Years of Age 16 17 _ 18 Fig. 234. School attendance of American Children, Fourteen TO Twenty Years of Age Based on an estimate made by the United States Bureau of Education in 1907 (Bulletin No. i, p. 29), and based on conditions then existing, but probably still approximately true. In evening schools all classes were counted — public, private, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.CA., etc. Public and pri- vate day schools, both elementary and secondary, also were counted. the nation, eighteen years of age or over, engaged in farming, mining, manufacturing, and mechanical pursuits, and in trade and transportation, and of these the Report said : If we assume that a system of vocational education, pursued through the years of the past, would have increased the wage-earning capacity of each of these persons to the extent of only ten cents a day, this would have made an increase of wages for the group of $2,500,000 a day, or $750,000,000 a year, with all that this would mean to the wealth and life of the nation. This is a very moderate estimate, and the facts would probably show a difference between the earning power of the vocationally trained and the vocationally untrained of at least twenty-five cents a day. This would indicate a waste of wages, through lack of training, amounting to $6,250,000 every day, or $1,875,000,000 for the year. The Commission estimated that a million new young people were required annually by our industries, and that it would need three years of vocational education, beyond the elementary-school NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 8ll age, to prepare them for efficient service. This would require that three million young people of elementary-school age be con- tinually enrolled in schools offering some form of vocational train- ing. This was approximately three times the number of young people then enrolled in all public and private high schools in the United States, and following any kind of a course of study. In addition, the untrained adult workers then in farming and in- dustry also needed some form of adult or extension education to enable them to do more effective work. The Commission further pointed out that there were in the United States, in 1910, 7,220,298 young people between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, only i ,032,461 of whom were enrolled in a high school of any type, pubhc or private, day or evening (Fig. 234), and few of those enrolled were pursuing studies of a technical type. American beginnings; meaning of the work. In 191 7 the American Congress made the beginnings of what is destined to develop rapidly into a truly national system of vocational educa- tion for the boys and girls of secondary-school age in the United States. This new addition to the systems of pubhc instruction now provided is one which in time will bring returns out of all proportion to its costs. Without it the national prosperity and happiness would be at stake, and the position the United States has attained in the markets of the world could not possibly be maintained (R. 372). This new American legislation is based on the best continental European experience, and is somewhat typical of recent national legislation for similar objects elsewhere. It is to include voca- tional training for agriculture, the trades and industries, com- merce, and home economics. ^ A certain portion of the money appropriated annually by the national government is to be used for making or cooperating in studies and investigations as to needs and courses in agriculture, home economics, trades, indus- tries, and commerce. The courses must be given in the public 1 As illustrative of the general character of the vocations to be trained for, a few of the more common ones may be mentioned: In agriculture: The work of general farming, orcharding, dairying, poultry-raising, truck gardening, horticulture, bee culture, and stock-raising. In the trades and industries: The work of the carpenter, mason, baker, stonecutter, electrician, plumber, machinist, toolmaker, engineer, miner, painter, typesetter, linotype operator, shoecutter and laster, tailor, garment maker, straw-hat maker, weaver, and glove maker. In commerce and commercial pursuits: The work of the bookkeeper, clerk, stenog- rapher, typist, auditor, and accountant. In home economics: The work of the dietitian, cook and housemaid, institution manager, and household decorator. 8I2 HISTORY UK EUUCATIUP^ schools ; must be for those over fourteen years of age and of less than college grade ; and must be primarily intended for those who are preparing to enter or who have entered (part-time classes) a trade or a useful industrial pursuit. As nation after nation becomes industrialized, as all except the smallest and poorest nations are bound to become in time, voca- tional education for its workers in the field, shop, and office will be found to be another state necessity. Only the State can ade- quately provide this, for only the State can finance or properly organize and integrate the work of so large and so important an undertaking. Though costly, this new extension of state educa- tional effort will be found to be a wise business investment for every industrial and commercial nation. Considered nationally, the workers of any nation not provided with vocational education tvill find themselves unable to compete with the workers of other nations which do provide such specialized training. IV. SOCIOLOGICAL A new estimate as to the value of child life. As we saw in chapter xviii, which described the opportunities for and the kind of schooling developed up to the middle of the eighteenth century, but little of what may be called formal education had been pro- vided up to then for the great mass of children, even in the most progressive nations. We also noted the extreme brutality of the school. Such was the history of childhood, so far as it may be said to have had a history at all, up to the rise of the great humanita- rian movement early in the nineteenth century.^ Neglect, abuse, mutilation, excessive labor, heavy punishments, and often virtual slavery awaited children everywhere up to recent times. The sufferings of childhood at home were added to by others in the school (p. 455) for such as frequented these institutions. After the coming of mills and manufacturing the lot of children became, for a time, worse than before. The demand for cheap labor led to the apprenticing of children to the factories to tend machines, instead of to a master to learn a trade, and there they ^ "The snail's pace at which the race has moved toward humanitarianism is indicated by Payne's estimate (p. 6) that the race is perhaps two hundred and forty thousand years old, civilized man a few hundred years old, and a humanitarian- ism large enough to have any real concern in any organized fashion for the protec- tion of children scarcely fifty years old. The fact that organizations in great num- ber, laws, penalties, and constant vigilance are still everywhere needed to secure for children their inherent rights is evidence enough that we have still a long way to go before we reach the golden age." (Waddel, C. W., An Introduction to Child Psy- chology, p. S-) became virtual slaves and their treatment was most inhuman.' Conditions were worse in England than elsewhere, not because the English were more brutal than the French or the Germans, but because the Industrial Revolution began earlier in England and before the rise of humanitarian influences. England was a manu- facturing nation decades before France, and longer still before Germany. By the time Germany had changed from an agricul- tural to a manufacturing nation (after 1871), the new humani- tarianism and new economic conditions had placed a new value on child life and child welfare. Since about 1850 an entirely new estimate has come to be placed on the importance of national attention to child welfare, though the beginnings of the change date back much earlier. As we have seen (p. 325), England early began to care for the children of its poor. In the Poor-Relief and Apprenticeship Law of 1601 (R. 174) England organized into law the growing practice of a century (p. 326) and laid the basis for much future work of importance. In this legislation, as we have seen, the foundations of the Massa- chusetts school law of 1642 were laid. In the Virginia laws of 1643 and 1646 (R. 200 a) and the Massachusetts law of 1660, pro- viding for the apprenticeship of orphans and homeless children, the beginnings of child-welfare work in the American Colonies were made. Many of the Catholic religious orders in Europe had for long cared for and brought up poor and neglected children, and in 1729 the first private orphanage in the new world was established by the Ursulines (p. 346) in New Orleans. The first public orphan- age in America was established in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1790; the first in England at Birmingham, in 181 7; and in 1824 the New York House of Refuge was founded. The latter was the forerunner of the juvenile reformatory institutions established later by practically all of the American States. These have de- veloped chiefly since 1850. To-day most of the American States and governments in many other lands also provide state homes 1 "As late as 1840 children of ten to fifteen years of age and younger v/ere driven by merciless overseers for ten, twelve, sixteen, even twenty hours a day in the lace mills. Fed the coarsest food, in ways more disgusting than those of the boarding schools described by Dickens, they slept, when they had opportunity, often in re- lays, in beds that were constantly occupied. They lived and toiled, day and night, in the din and noise, filth and stench, of the factory' that coined their life's blood into gold for their exploiters. Sometimes with chains about their ankles, to prevent their attempts to escape, they labored until epidemics, disease, or premature death brought welcome relief from a slavery that was forbidden by law for ncf ro slaves in the colonies." (Payne, G. H., The Child in Human Progress.) for orphan and neglected children, where they are clothed, fed, cared for, educated, and trained for some useful employment. Child-labor legislation. One of the best evidences of the new nineteenth-century humanitarianism is to be found in the large amount of child-labor legislation which arose, largely after 1850, and which has been particularly prominent since 1900. Under the earlier agricultural conditions and the restricted de- mand for education for ordinary life needs, child labor was not especially harmful, as most of it was out of doors and under rea- sonably good health conditions. With the coming of the factory system, the rise of cities and the city congestion of population, and other evils connected with the Industrial Revolution, the whole situation was changed. Humanitarians now began to demand legislation to restrict the evils that had arisen. This demand arose earliest in England, and resulted in the earliest legislation there. The year 1802 is important in the history of child- welfare work for the enactment, by the English Parliament, of the first law to regulate the employment of children in factories. This was known as the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act (R. 373). This Act, though largely ineffectual at the time, ordered impor- tant reforms which aroused public opinion and which later bore important fruit. By it the employment of work-house orphans was limited; it forbade the labor of children under twelve, for more than twelve hours a day; provided that night labor of chil- dren should be discontinued, after 1804; ordered that the children so employed must be taught reading and writing and ciphering, be instructed in religion one hour a week, be taken to church every Sunday, and be given one new suit of clothes a year ; ordered separate sleeping apartments for the two sexes, and not over two children to a bed ; and provided for the registration and inspection of factories. This law represents the beginnings of modern child- labor legislation. It was 1843 before any further child-labor legislation of importance was enacted, and 1878 before a compre- hensive child-labor bill was finally passed. In the United States the first laws regulating the employment of children and provid- ing for their school attendance were enacted by Rhode Island in 1840, and Massachusetts in 1842. Factory legislation in other countries has been a product of more recent forces and times. To-day important child-labor legislation has been enacted by all progressive nations, and the leading world nations have taken NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 815 advanced ground on the question. All recent thinking is opposed to children engaging in productive labor. With the rise of organ- ized labor, and the extension of the suffrage to the laboring man, he has joined the humanitarians in opposition to his children be- ing permitted to labor. From an economic point of view also, all recent studies have shown the unprofitableness of child labor and the large money-value, under present industrial conditions, of a good education. As a result of much agitation and the spread of popular education, it has at last come to be a generally accepted principle (R. 374) that it is better for children and better for soci- ety that they should remain in school until they are at least four- teen years of age, and be specially trained for some useful type of work. Shown to be economically unprofitable, and for long morally indefensible, child labor is now rapidly being superseded by suitable education and the vocational training and guidance of youth in all progressive nations. Compulsory school-attendance legislation. The natural corol- lary of the taxation of the wealth of the State to educate the chil- dren of the State, and the prohibition of children to labor, is the compulsion of children to attend school that they may receive the instruction and training which the State has deemed it wise to tax its citizens to provide. Except in the German States, compulsory education is a rela- tively recent idea, though in its origins it is a child of the Protes- tant Reformation theory as to education for salvation. Luther and his followers had stood for the education of all, supported by (R. 156) and enforced by (R. 158) the State. This idea of the edu- cation of all to read the Bible took deep root, as we have seen, with both Lutherans and Calvinists. In 1619 the httle Duchy of Wei- mar made the school attendance of all children, six to twelve years of age, compulsory, and the same idea was instituted in Gotha by Duke Ernest (p. 317), in 1642; the same year that the Massachusetts General Court ordered the Selectmen of the towns to ascertain if parents and the masters of apprentices (R. 190) were training their children "in learning and labor" and "to read and understand the principles of rehgion and the capital laws of the country." This latter law is remarkable in that, for the first time in the English-speaking world, a legislative body represent- ing the State ordered that all children should be taught to read. Five years later (1647) the Massachusetts Court ordered the es- tabhshment of schools (R. 191) better to enforce the compulsion, 8i6 HISTORY OF EDUCATION and thus laid the foundations upon which the American public- school systems have since been built. In Holland, the Synod of Dort (1618) had tried to institute the idea of compulsory educa- tion (R. 176), and in 1646 the Scotch Parliament had ordered the compulsory establishment of schools (R. 179). In German lands the compulsory-attendance idea took deep root, and in consequence the Germans were the first important modern nation to enforce, thoroughly, the education of all. In 1717 King Frederick William I issued (p. 555) the first compul- sory-education law for Prussia, ordering that "hereafter wherever there are schools in the place the parents shall be obliged, under severe penalties, to send their children to school, . . . daily in winter, but in summer at least twice a week." He further ordered that the fees for the poor were to be paid "from the community's funds." Finally Frederick the Great organized the earlier pro- cedure into comprehensive codes, and made (1763, R. 274, § 10; 1765, R. 275 d) detailed provisions relating to the compulsion to attend the schools. In the Code of 1794 (p. 565) the final legisla- tive step was taken when it was ordered that "the instruction in school must be continued until the child is found to possess the knowledge necessary to every rational being." By the middle of the eighteenth century the basis was clearly laid in Prussia for that enforcement of the compulsion to attend schools which, by the middle of the nineteenth century, had become such a notable characteristic of all German education. The same compulsory idea early took deep root among the Scandinavian peoples. In consequence the lowest illiteracy in Europe, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, was to be found (see map, p. 714) among the Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, and Germans. The compulsory-attendance idea died out in America, in the Netherlands, and in part in Scotland. In England and in the Anglican Colonies in America it never took root. In France the idea awaited the work of the National Convention, which (1792) ordered three years of education compulsory for all. War and the lack of interest of Napoleon in primary education caused the requirement, however, to become a dead letter. The Law of 1833 provided for but did not enforce it, and real compulsory education in France did not come until 1882. In England the compulsory idea received but Httle attention until after 1870, met with much opposition, and only recently have comprehensive reforms been provided. In the United States the new beginnings of compul- NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 817 sory-attendance legislation date from the Rhode Island child- labor law of 1840, and the first modern compulsory-attendance law enacted by Massachusetts, in 1852. By 1885, fourteen American States and six Territories had enacted some form of compulsory-attendance law. Since 1900 there has been a general revision of American state legislation on the subject, with a view to increasing and the better enforcement of the compulsory-at- tendance requirements, and with a general demand that the National Congress should enact a national child-labor law. As a result of this legislation the labor of young children has been greatly restricted; work in many industries has been pro- hibited entirely, because of the danger to life and health ; compul- sory education has been extended in a majority of the American States to cover the full school year; poverty, or dependent par- ents, in many States no longer serves as an excuse for non-attend- ance; often those having physical or mental defects also are in- cluded in the compulsion to attend, if their wants can be provided for ; the school census has been changed so as to aid in the location of children of compulsory school-attendance age; and special offi- cers have been authorized or ordered appointed to assist school authorities in enforcing the compulsory-attendance and child- labor laws. Having taxed their citizens to provide schools, the different States now require children to attend and partake of the advantages provided. The schools, too, have made a close study of retarded pupils, because of the close connection found to exist between retardation in school and truancy and juvenile delin- quency. One result of this legislation. One of the results of all this legislation has been to throw, during the past quarter of a cen- tury, an entirely new burden on schools everywhere. Such legis- lation has brought into the schools not only the truant and the in- corrigible, who under former conditions either left early or were expelled, but also many children who have no aptitude for book learning, and many of inferior mental qualities who do not profit by ordinary classroom procedure. Still more, they have brought into the school the crippled, tubercular, deaf, epileptic, and blind, as well as the sick, needy, and physically unfit. By steadily rais- ing the age at which children may leave school, from ten or twelve up to fourteen and sixteen, schools everywhere have come to con- tain many children who, having no natural aptitude for study, would at once, unless specially handled, become a nuisance in the 8i8 HISTORY OF EDUCATION school and tend to demoralize schoolroom procedure. These laws have thrown upon the school a new burden in the form of public expectancy for results, whereas a compulsory-education law can- not create capacity to profit from education. Under the earlier educational conditions the school, unable to handle or educate such children, dealt with them much as the Church of the time dealt with religious delinquents. It simply expelled them or let them drop from school, and no longer concerned itself about them. To-day the public expects the school to retain and get results with them. Consequently, within the past twenty -five years the whole attitude of the school toward such children has undergone a change; many different kinds of classes and courses, that might serve better to handle them, have been introduced; and an at- tempt has been made to salvage them and turn back to society as many of them as possible, trained for some form of social and per- sonal usefulness. The education of defectives. Another nineteenth-century ex- pansion of state education has come in the provision now gener- ally made for the education of defectives. To-day the state school systems of Christian nations generally make some provi- sion for state institutional care, and often for local classes as well, for the training of children who belong to the seriously defec- tive classes of society. This work is almost entirely a product of the new humanitarianism of modern times. Excepting the edu- cation of the deaf, seriously begun a little earlier, all effective work dates from the first half of the nineteenth century. At first the feasibility of all such instruction was doubted, and the work generally was commenced privately. Out of successes thus> achieved, public institutions have been built up to carry on, on a large scale, what was begun privately on a small scale. It is now felt to be better for the State, as well as for the unfortunates themselves, that they be cared for and educated, as suitably and well as possible, for self-respect, self-support, and some form of social and vocational usefulness. In consequence, the compul- sory-attendance laws of the leading world States to-day require that defectives, between certain ages at least, be sent to a state institution or be enrolled in a public-school class specialized for their training. Beginnings of the work. Up to the middle of the eighteenth century a number of private efforts at the education of the deaf are on record, all dating however from the pioneer work of a Soan- NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 819 Fig. 235. Abbe de l'Epee (1712-89) ish Benedictine, in 1578. In 1760 a new era in the education of the deaf was begun when Abbe de l'Epee opened a school at Paris for the oral instruction of poor deaf mutes, and Thomas Braidwood (17 15-1806) be- gan similar work at Edinburgh, A few years later (1778) a third school was opened at Leipzig. This last was established under the patronage of the Elector of Saxony, and was the first school of its kind in the world to receive government recognition. The Paris school was taken over as a state institution by the Consti- tuent Assembly, in 1 79 1. In England the instruction of the deaf remained a private and a family monopoly until 1819. In 1 8 1 7 the first school in America was opened, at Hartford, Connecticut, by the Rever- end Thomas H. Gallaudet, and Massa- chusetts, in 1819, sent the first pupils paid for at state expense to this institution. In 1823 Kentucky cre- ated the first state school for the training of the deaf established in the new world, and Ohio the second, in 1827. The education of the blind began in France, in 1784; Eng- land, in 1 791; Aus- tria, in 1804; Prussia, in 1806; Holland, in 1808; Sweden, in 18 10; Denmark, in 181 1; Scotland, in 1812; in BostonandNewYork, in 1832; and in Phila- delphia, in 1833. All were private institu- tions, and general in- terest in the education of the blind was awakened later by exhibit- ing the pupils trained. The first book for the blind was printed in Paris, in 1786. The first kindergarten for the blind was estab- FiG. 236. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet TEACHING THE DeAF AKD DuMB From a bas-relief on the monument of Gallaudet, erected by the deaf and dumb of the United States, in the grounds of the American Asylum, at Hartford, Connecticut. 820 HISTORY OF EDUCATION lished in Germany, in 1861 ; the first school for the colored blind, by North Carolina, in 1869. Before the nineteenth century the feeble-minded and idiotic were the laughing-stock of society, and no one thought of being able to do anything for them. In 181 1 Napoleon ordered a cen- sus of such individuals, and in 1816 the first school for their train- ing was opened at Salzburg, Austria. The school was unsuccess- ful, and closed in 1835. The real beginning of the training of the feeble-minded was made in France, by Edouard Seguin, "The Apostle of the Idiot," in 1837, when he began a life-long study of such defectives. By 1845 three or four institutions had been opened in Switzerland and Great Britain for their study and training, and for a time an attempt was made to effect cures. Gallaudet had tried to educate such children at Hartford, about 1820, and a class for idiots was established at the Blind Asylum in Boston, in 1848. The interest thus aroused led to the creation of STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Normal Schools Special State Institutions for Colleges and Universities / / X \ \ \ Agricultural Schools X \ Industrial Schools Feeble Minded Cripples ' Dependents Incorrigibles / \ Blind Idiots Orphans Neglected Penitentiary for First Offenders Deaf Fig. 237. Educational Institutions maintained by the State As state institutions, other than public schools. the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, in 1851, the first institution of its kind in the United States. In 1867 the first city school class to train children of low-grade in- telligence was organized in Germany, and all the larger cities of Germany later organized such special classes. Norway followed with a similar city organization, in 1874; and England, Switzer- land, and Austria, about 1892. The first American city to organ- ize such classes was Providence, Rhode Island, in 1893. Since that time special classes for children of low-grade mentality have NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 821 become a common feature of the large city school systems in most American cities. In 1832 the first attempt to educate crippled children, as such, was made in Munich. The model school in Europe for the educa- tion of cripples was established in Copenhagen, in 1872. The work was begun privately in New York City, in 1861, and first publicly in Chicago, in 1899. The London School Board first be- gan such classes in England, in 1898. Dependents, orphans, children of soldiers and sailors, and in- corrigibles of various classes represent others for whom modern States have now provided special state institutions. To-day a modern State finds it necessary to provide a number of such spe- cialized institutions, or to make arrangements with neighboring States for the care of its dependents, if it is to meet what have come to be recognized as its humanitarian educational duties. The more important of these special state institutions are shown in the diagram given in Fig. 237. Public playgrounds and play directors, vacation schools, juve- nile courts, disciplinary classes, parental schools, classes for moth- ers, visiting home-teachers and nurses, and child- welfare societies and officers, are other means for caring for child life and child wel- fare which have all been begun within the past half-century. The significance of these additions lies chiefly in that the history of the attitude of nations toward their child life is the history of the rise of humanitarianism, altruism, justice, order, morality, and civili- zation itself. The education of superior children. All the work described above and relating to the work of defectives, delinquents, and children for some reason in need of special attention and care has been for those who represent the less capable and on the whole less useful members of society — the ones from whom society may expect the least. They are at the same time the most costly wards of the State. Wholly within the second decade of the present century, and largely as a result of the work of the French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) we are now able to sort out, for special atten- tion, a new class of what are known as superior, or gifted children, and to the education of these special attention is to-day here and there beginning to be directed. Educationally, it is an attempt to do for democratic forms of national organization what a two-class school system does for monarchical forms, but to select intellec- S22 HISTORY OF EDUCATION tual capacity from the whole mass of the people, rather than from a selected class or caste. We know now that the number of chil- dren of superior ability is approximately as large as the number of the feeble in mind, and also that the future of democratic govern- ments hinges largely upon the proper education and utilization of these superior children. One child of superior intellectual capac- ity, educated so as to utilize his talents, may confer greater bene- fits upon mankind, and be educationally far more important, than a tliousand of the feeble-minded children upon whom we have recently come to put so much educational effort and expense. Questions relating to the training of leaders for democracy's serv- ice attain new significance in terms of the recent ability to meas- ure and grade intelligence, as also do questions relating to grad- ing, classification in school, choice of studies, rate of advance- ment, and the vocational guidance of children in school. The new interest in health. Another new expansion of the educational service which has come in since the middle of the Net Average Worth of a Person nineteenth century, and which has recently grown to be one of large significance, is work in the medical inspection of schools, the supervision of the health of pupils, and the new instruction in preventive hygiene. This is a product of the scientific and social and industrial revolu- tions which the nineteenth century brought, rather than of humanita- rian influences, and represents an application of newly discovered scientific knowledge to health work among children. Its basis is economic, though its results are largely physical and educational and social (R. 375). The discovery and isolation of bacteria; the vast amount of new knowledge which has come to us as to the transmission and possibilities for the elimination of many diseases; the spread of information as to sanitary science and preventive medicine; the change in emphasis in medical practice, from curative to preven- tive and remedial; the closer crowding together of all classes of people in cities; the change of habits for many from life in the open to life in the factory, shop, and apartment; and the growing realization of the economic value to the nation of its manhood and womanhood; have all alike combined with modern humani- Age Worth $90 5 950 10 2000 20 4000 30 40 4100 3650 50 60 2900 1650 70 80 15 — 700 (Calculations by Dr. William Farr, former- ly Registrar of Vital Statistics for Great Britain. Based on pre-war values.) NEW TENDENClKb AND EXFANblOJNb «23 tarianism and applied Christianity to make progressive nations take a new interest in child health and proper child development. European nations have so far done much more in school health work than has the United States, though a very commendable beginning has been made here. Medical inspection and health supervision. Medical inspec- tion of schools began in France, in 1837, though genuine medical inspection, in a modern sense, was not begun in France until 1879. The pioneer country for real work was Sweden, where health offi- cers were assigned to each large school as early as 1868. Norway made such appointments optional in 1885, and ol^ligatory in 189 1. Belgium began the work in 1874. Tests of eyesight were begun in Dresden in 1867. Frankfort-on-Main appointed the first Ger- man school physician in 1888. England first employed school nurses in 1887; and, in 1907, following the revelations as to low physical vitality growing out of the Boer War, adopted a manda- tory medical- inspection and health-development act applying to England and Wales, and the year following Scotland did the same. Argentine and Chili both instituted such service in 1888, and Japan made medical inspection compulsory and universal in 1898. In the United States the work was begun voluntarily in Boston, in 1894, following a series of epidemics. Chicago organized medi- cal inspection in 1895, New York City in 1897, and Philadelphia in 1898. From these larger cities the idea spread to the smaller ones, at first slowly, and then very rapidly. The first school nurse in the United States was employed in New York City, in 1902, and the idea at once proved to be of great value. In 1906 Massachusetts adopted the first state medical inspection law. In 191 2 Minnesota organized the first "State Division of Health Supervision of Schools" in the United States, and this plan has since been followed by other States. From mere medical inspection to detect contagious diseases, in which the movement everywhere began, it was next extended to tests for eyesight and hearing, to be made by teachers or physi- cians, and has since been enlarged to include physical examina- tions to detect hidden diseases and a constructive health-program for the schools. The work has now come to include eye, ear, nose, throat, and teeth, as well as general physical examinations; the supervision of the teaching of hygiene in the schools, and to a cer- tain extent the physical training and playground activities; and a «24 HlblUKY Ub EUULATIUJN constructive program for the development of the health and phys- ical welfare of all children. All this represents a further exten- sion of the public-education idea. V. THE SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATION An important recent development in the field of public educa- tion, and in a sense an outgrowth of all the preceding recent de- velopment which we have described, has been the organization of collegiate and university instruction in the history, theory, prac- tice, and administration of education. Still more recent has been the organization %i Teachers' Colleges and Schools of Education to give advanced training in educational research and in the solu- tion of the practical problems of school organization and adminis- tration. So important has this recent development become that no history of educational progress would be complete without at least a brief mention of this recent attempt to give scientific or- ganization to the educational process. Early beginners. Though the teachers' seminaries had been organized in Germany and other northern lands toward the close of the eighteenth century, the normal school in France early in the nineteenth, and the training-college in England and the normal school in the United States by the close of the first third of that century, the work in these remained for a long time almost en- tirely academic in nature and elementary in character. This was also true of the superior normal school for training teachers for the lycees of France. The reason for this is easy to find. The writings of the earlier educational reformers were little known; the contributions of Herbart and Froebel had not as yet been popularized; there was no organized psychology of the educational process, and no psy- chology better than that of John Locke ; the detailed Pestalozzian procedure had not as yet been worked out in the form of teaching technique; the history of the development of educational theory or of educational practice had not been written; and almost no philosophy of the educational purpose had been formulated which could be used in the training-schools. In consequence the train- ing of teachers, both for elementary and secondary instruction,^ ^ An exception to this statement is to be found in the work of the Pedagogical Seminars, organized in the German universities in the second decade of the nine- teenth century, which were intended for the professional training of German uni- versity students for teaching in the German secondary schools. (See footnote i, page 57$.i Nb.W/ l\bWUh.P^L:ilib AND t.Xt'ANhiUN^ «25 was almost entirely in academic subjects, with some talks on school-keeping and class organization and management added, and at times a little philosophy as to educational work, such as habit-formation, morality, thinking, and the training of the will. Educational journalism did not begin in either Europe or America until near the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and it was 1850 before it attained any significance, and 1840 to 1850 before any important pedagogical literature arose. ^ New influences. In 1843 there appeared, in Germany, the first two volumes of a very celebrated and influential History of Education, by a professor of miner- alogy in the University of Erlangen, by the name of Karl Georg von Raumer. As a young man in Paris (1808-09), studying the great mineral collections found there, he read and was deeply stirred by Fichte's "Address to the German Nation" (p. 567), As a re- sult he went to Yverdon, in 1809, and spent some months in studying the work in Pestalozzi's Institute. This interest in education he never lost, and thereafter, as professor of miner- alogy at Halle and Erlangen, he also gave lectures on pedagogy {Uber Pdda- gogik). The outgrowth of these lec- tures was his four- volume History of Pedagogy from the Revival of Classical Studies to our own Time} The work was done v/ith characterisT-ic German thoroughness, and for long served as a standard organization and text on the history of the devel- opment of educational theory and practice since the days of the Revival of Learning. The work of von Raumer stimulated many to a study of the writings of the earlier educational re- 1 When the first teachers' training-school in America was opened at Concord, Vermont, by the Reverend Samuel R. Hall, in 1823, it included, besides a three-year academy-type academic course, practice teaching in a rural school in winter, and some lectures on the " Art of Teaching." Without a professional book to guide him, and relying only upon his experience as a teacher, Hall tried to tell his pupils how to organize and manage a school. To make clear his ideas he wrote out a series of Lectures on Schoolkecpiitg, which some friends induced him to publish. This, the first professional book in EngHsh issued in America for teachers, appeared in 1829. 2 Gesc.iiichte der Pddagogik voni Wiederaufbliihcn klassicher Stiidicn his auf unsere Zeit. Vols. I and 11, 1843; vol. in, 1S47; vol. iv, 1855. Much of this was translated into other languages. Barnard's American Journal of Education, begun in 1855, published a translation of much of von Raumer's work for American readers. Fig. 238 Karl Georg von Raumer (1783-1865) 520 ni;!5lUK.l Ur £!vl_>»UV^/\l IWIN formers, and numerous books and papers on educational history and theory soon began to appear. Most important, for Ameri- can students, was Henry Barnard's monumental American Journal of Education, begun in 1855, and contmued for thirty- one years. This is a great treasure-house of pedagogical litera- ture for American educators. After 1850 the organization of a technique of instruction for the elementary-school subjects took place rapidly, in the normal schools of all lands, as it had earlier in the German teachers' semi- naries. By 1868 the study of the new Herbartian psychology and educational theory was well under way in Germany, and by 1890 in the United States. By 1875 the kindergarten, with its new theory of child life, was also beginning to make itself felt in both Europe and America. Between 1850 and 1875 Weber, Lotze, Fechner, and Wundt laid the foundations for a new psychology (R' 357)) and in 1878 Wundt opened the first laboratory for the experimental study of psychology at the University of Leipzig. In 1890 William James published his two- volume work on Prin- ciples of Psychology, a book so original and lucid in treatment that it at once gave a new teaching organization to modern psychol- ogy. After about 1880, the extension of education upward and outward in the United States, and the rapid development of state school systems which had by that time begun, began to make new demands for better scientific and legal and administrative organization, and this gave rise to a new type of educational literature. After von Raumer's work, probably the greatest single stimu- lative influence of the mid-nineteenth century was that exerted by the marked successes of the Prussian armies in a series of short but very decisive wars. Against Denmark (1864) and Austria (1866), but in particular in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the Prussian armies proved irresistible. These military opera- tions attracted new attention to education, and "the Prussian schoolmaster has triumphed" became a common world saying. This, coupled with the remarkable national development of United Germany which almost immediately set in, caused pro- gressive nations to turn to the study of education with increased interest. The English and Scottish universities now began to es- tablish lectureships in the theory and history of education,^ and ^ In 1876 S. S. Laurie (1829-1909) was elected to one of the first chairs in educa- tion in Great Britain, that of "Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education" in the University of Edinburgh- NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 827 the first university chairs in education in the United States were founded. The university study of education. In no country in the world have the universities, within the past three decades, given the attention to the study of Education — a term that in EngUsh- speaking lands has replaced the earlier and more limited "Peda- gogy" — ^that has been given in the United States.^ After the United States the newer universities of England probably come next. Up to 1890 less than a dozen chairs of education had been established in all the colleges of the United States, and their work was still largely limited to historical and philosophical studies of education, and to a type of classroom methodology and school management, since almost entirely passed over to the normal schools. By 1930 there were some six hundred colleges in the United States giving serious courses on educational history and procedure and administration, many of them maintaining large and important professional Schools of Education for the more scientific study of the subject, and for the training of leaders for the service of the nation's schools. In the great advances which have taken place in the organiza- tion of education, during these three decades, no institution in the world has exerted a more important influence than has "Teachers College," Columbia University, in the City of New York, which was organized in 1887 as "The New York College for the Training of Teachers," but since 1890 has been afiiliated with Columbia University, under its present name. This institution has been a model copied by many others over the world ; has trained a large percentage of the leaders in education in the United States; and has been particularly influential with students from England, the English self-governing dominions, China, and South America. To-day, in all the state universities and in many non-state in- stitutions in the United States, we find well -organized Teachers' Colleges engaged in a work which two decades ago was being at- ^ Probably the first lectures on Pedagogy given in any American college were given in 1832, in what is now New York University. From 1850 to 1855 the city superintendent of schools of Providence, Rhode Island, was Professor of Didactics, in BrowTi University. In i860 a course of lectures on the "Philosophy of Educa- tion, School Economy, and the Teaching Art" was given to the seniors of the Uni- versity of Michigan. In 1873 ^ Professorship of Philosophy and Education was es- tablished in the University of Iowa. This was the first permanent chair created in America. In 1870 a Department of the Science and Art of Teaching was created at the University of Michigan. In 1881 a Department of Pedagogy was created at the University of Wisconsin, and in 1884 similar departments at the University of North Carolina and at Johns Hopkins University. "^ J_-/J_-^ \y V-'X i X X v^x ^ tempted by but a few institutions anywhere. In the municipal universities of England, in Canada, in Japan and China, and in other democratic lands, we find the beginnings of a similar devel- opment of the scientific study of education. In these Schools or Colleges for the scientific study of education the best thinking on the problems of the reorganization and administration of educa- tion, and the most new and creative work, has been and is being done.^ The problems of the present. Pestalozzi dreamed that he might be able to psychologize instruction and reduce all to an orderly procedure, which, once learned, would make one a master teacher. What he was not able to accomplish he died thinking others after him would do. The problem of education has had, with time, no such simple and easy solution. Instead, with the development of state school systems, the extension of education in many new directions to meet new needs, and the application to the study of education of the same scientific methods which have produced such results in other fields of human knowledge, we have come to-day to have hundreds of problems, many of which are complex and difficult and which influence deeply the welfare of society and the State. That these problems, even with time, will receive any such simple solution as that of which Pestalozzi dreamed, may well be doubted. In the days of church control, memoriter instruction, and a school for religious ends, education was a simple matter; to-day it partakes of the difficulty and com- plexity which characterize most of the problems of modern world States. In consequence of this important change in the character of education a great number of important problems in educational organization, practice, and procedure now face us for solution. Space can here be taken to mention only the more prominent of these present-day educational problems. On the administrative side is a v/hole group of problems relating to forms of organiza- tion: the proper educational relationships between the State and its subordinate units; the development of a state educational policy: the types of instruction the State must provide, and com- pel attendance upon; questions of taxation and support, compul- sory attendance, and child labor; the training and oversight of teachers for the service of the State; problems of child health and welfare; the provision of adequate and professional supervision; 1 In education, as in other lines of work, the statement of Richard H. Quick that the distinctive function of a university is not action, but thought, has been exempli- tied. NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 829 the provision of continuation schools, and of industrial and voca- tional training; the supervision of school buildings for health and sanitary control; and the relation of the State to private and parochial education. The problem of how to produce as effective and as thorough education for leadership with a one-class school system as with a two-class; the opening-up of opportunity for youth of brains in any social class to rise and be trained for serv- ice; the selection and proper training of those of superior intelh- gence; the elimination of barriers to the advancement of children of large intellectual endowment; and what best to do with those of small intellectual capacity, form another important group of present-day educational problems. Vocational training and technical education, and the relation and the proper solution of these questions to national happiness and prosperity and human welfare, form still another important group. The many ques- tions which hinge upon instruction; the elimination of useless sub- ject-matter; the best organization of instruction; proper aims and ends; moral and civic training; the most economical organization of school work ; the saving of time ; and what are desirable educa- tional reorganizations, all these form a group of instructional problems of large significance for the future of public education. Still more in detail, but of large importance, are the questions re- lating to the scientific measurement of the results of instruction; the erection of attainable goals in teaching; and the introduction of scientific accuracy into educational work. Still another im- portant group of problems relates to the readjustment of inherited school organization and practices, the better to meet the changed and changing conditions of national life - social, industrial, po- litical, religious, economic, scientific — brought about by the in- dustrirJ and social and scientific and political revolutions which have taken place. These represent some of the more important new problems in education which have come to challenge us since the school was taken over from the Church and transformed into the great con structive tool of the State. Their solution will call for careful in- vestigation, experimentation, and much clear thinking, and be- fore they are solved other new problems will arise. So probably it will ever be under a democratic form of government; only in autocratic or strongly monarchical forms of government, where the study of problems of educational organization and adjust- ment are not looked upon with favor, can a school system to-day 830 HISTORY OF EDUCATION remain for long fixed in type or uniform in character. Education to-day has become intricate and difficult, requiring careful pro- fessional training on the part of those who would exercise intelli- gent control, and so intimately connected with national strength and national welfare that it may be truthfully said to have be- come, in many respects, the most important constructive under- taking of a modern State. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Show that education must be extended and increased in efficiency in proportion as the suffrage is extended, and additional political functions given to the electorate. Illustrate. 2. Trace the changes in the character of the instruction given in the schools, paralleling such changes. 3. Explain the difference in use of the schools for nationality ends in Ger- many and France. 4. Of what is the recent development of evening, adult, and extension edu- cation an index? 5. Show why university education is more important in national life to-day than ever before in history. 6. Compare the rate of development of universities during the nineteenth century, and all time before the nineteenth. Of what is the difference in rate an index? 7. Explain why Americans have been less successful in introducing science instruction into their schools than have the Germans. Agriculture than the French. 8. Explain the breakdown of the old apprenticeship education. 9. Explain the American recent rapid acceptance of the agricultural high school, whereas the agricultural colleges for a long time faced opposition and lack of interest and support. 10. Explain the continued emphasis of high-school studies leading to the pro- fessions rather than the vocations, though so small a percentage of peo- ple are needed for pr"*"essional work. 11. In Germany this was largely regulated by the Government; show how it would be much easier there than in the United States. 12. Show why European nations would naturally take up vocational training ahead of the United States, Canada, Australia, or South America. 13. Explain the reasons for the new conceptions as to the value of childlife which have come within the past hundred years, in all advanced nations. Why not in the less advanced nations? 14. Show the relation between the breakdown of the apprentice system, the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of compulsory school attendance. 15. Show that compulsory school attendance is a natural corollary to general taxation for education. 16. How do you account for the relatively recent interest in the education of defectives and delinquents? Of what is this interest an expression? i"]. Does the obligation assumed to educate involve any greater exercise of state authority or recognition of duty than the advancement of the health of the people and the sanitary welfare of the State? 18. What additional unsolved problems would you add to the list givec on the preceding page? NEW TENDENCIES AND EXPANSIONS 831 SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying Book of Readings the following selections illustrative of the contents of this chapter are reproduced: 367. McKechnie, W. S.: The Environmental Influence of the State. 368. Emperor William II.: German Secondary Schools and National Ends. 369. Van Hise, Chas. R. : The University and the State. 370. Friend: What the Folk High Schools have done for Denmark. 371. U.S. Commission: The German System of Vocational Education. 372. U.S. Commission: Vocational Education and National Prosperity. 373. de Montmorency: English Conditions before the First Factory-Labor Act. 374. Giddings, F. R.: The New Problem of Child Labor. 375. Hoag, E. B., and Terman, L. M.: Health Work in the Schorl;?, QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Explain why it is now so important that the State properly environ (367) its youth. 2. What were the actuating motives behind the German Emperor's speech (368)? Was he right in his position as to the relation of the schools and national needs and welfare? 3. Explain Van Hise's conception (369) that the university is "The Soul of the State." 4. Does Denmark form any exception as to what might be done (370) in any country, such as Russia? Mexico? 5. Show that the results justified the German emphasis (371) on vocational training. How do you explain this German far-sightedness? 6. What will be the result when many nations (372) become highly skilled? 7. Show the growth of humanitarian influences by contrasting conditions in England in 1802 (373), and conditions to-day. 8. Would the English 1802 conditions be found in anv Christian land to- day? Why? 9. Show that the child-labor problem (374) is a product of the Industrial Revolution. 10. Viewed in the light of history, what would we say of the present opposi- tion to health work (375) in the schools? SUPPLEMENTARY REFERENCES *Allen, E. A. "Education of Defectives"; in Butler, N. M., Education in the United States, pp. 771-820. Barnard, Henry. National Education in Europe. ^Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education, Report, vol. I. (Document 1004, H. R., 63d Congress, 2d session, Washington, 1914.) Cook, W. A. "A Brief Survey of the Development of Compulsory Edu- cation in the United States"; in Elementary School Teacher, vol. 12, pp. 331-35. (March, 191 2.) *Dean, A. D. The Worker and the State. Eliot, C. W. Education for Efficiency. Farrington, F. E. Commercial Education in Germany. Foght, H. W. Rural Denmark and its Schools. 832 HISTORY OF EDUCATION Friend, L. L. The Folk High Schools of Denmark. (Bulletin No. 3, 1914, United States Bureau of Education.) *Hoag, E. B., and Terman, L. M. Health Work in the Schools. Kandel, I. L. "The Junior High School in European Systems"; in Edu- cational Review, vol. 58, pp. 305-29. (Nov. 1919.) *Munroe, J. P. New Demands in Education. *Payne, G. H. The Child in Human Progress. Smith, A. T., and Jesien, W. S. Higher Technical Education in Foreign Countries. (Bulletin No. n, 1917, United States Bureau of Educa- tion.) Snedden, D. S. Vocational Education. *Terman, L. M. The Intelligence of School Children. Waddle, C. W. Introduction to Child Psychology, chap. I. Ware, Fabian. Educational Foundations of Trade and Industry. CONCLUSION; THE FUTURE We have now reached the end of the story of the rise and progress of man's conscious effort to improve himself and advance the wel- fare of his group by means of education. To one who has fol- lowed the narrative thus far it must be evident how fully this con- scious effort has paralleled the history of the rise and progress of western civilization itself. Beginning first among the Greeks — the first people in history to be ''smitten with the passion for truth," the first possessing sufficient courage to put faith in rea- son, and the first to attempt to reconcile the claims of the State and the individual and to work out a plan of ''ordered liberty" — ■ a new spirit was born and in time passed on to the western world. As Butcher well says (R. ii), "the Greek genius is the European genius in its first and brightest bloom, and from a vivifying con- tact with the Greek spirit Europe derived that new and mighty impulse which we call Progress." Hellenizing first the Eastern Mediterranean, and then taking captive her rude conqueror, the Hellenization of the Roman and early Christian world was the result. Then followed the reaction under early Christian rule, and the fearful deluge of barbarism which for centuries well-nigh extin- guished both the ancient learning and the new spirit. Finally, after the long mediaeval night, came "time's burst of dawn," first and for a long time confined to Italy, but later extending to all northern lands, and in the century of revival and rediscovery and reconstruction the Greek passion for truth and the Greek courage to trust reason were reawakened, and once more made the heri- tage of the western world. Once again the Greek spirit, the spirit of freedom and progress and trust in the power of truth, became the impulse that was to guide and dominate the future. To fol- low reason without fear of consequences, to substitute scientific for empirical knowledge, to equip men for intelligent participa- tion in civic life, to discover a rational basis for conduct, to unfold and expand every inborn faculty and energy, and to fill man with a restless striving after an ideal — these essentially Greek charac- teristics in time came to be accepted by an increasing number of modern men, as they had been by the thoughtful men of the an- cient Greek world, as the law and goal of human endeavor. From 834 HISTORY OF EDUCATION this point on the intellectual progress of the western world was certain, though at times the rate seems painfully slow. The great events which stand out in niodern history — mile- stones, as it were, along the road of the intellectual progress of mankind in the recovery of the Greek spirit — were the revival of the ancient learning, the Protestant appeal to reason, the re- covery and vast extension of the old scientific knowledge, the as- sertion of the rights of the individual as opposed to the rights of the State, and the growth of a new humanitarianism, induced by the teachings of Christianity, which has softened old laws and awakened a new conception of the value of child and human life. Out of these great historic movements have come modern schol- arship, the inestimable boon of religious liberty, the firm estab- lishment of the idea of the reign of law in an orderly universe, the conception of government as in the interests of the governed, the substitution of democracy and political equality for the rule of a class or an autocratic power, and the assertion of the right to an education at public expense as a birthright of every child. The common school, the education of all, equality of rights and op- portunity, full and equal suffrage, the responsibility of all for the advancement of the common welfare, and liberty under law have been the natural consequences and the outcome of these great struggles to set free and quicken the human spirit. The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which marked the close of a century of effort to crush human reason and religious liberty with violence and oppression, marked a turning-point in the history of the world. Though religious intolerance and bigotry might still persist in places for centuries to come, this Peace acknowledged the futility of persecution to stamp out human inquiry, and marked the downfall of intellectual mediaevalism. The work of the political philosophers of the eighteenth century, the estab- lishment of a new political ideal by the leaders of the American Revolution, and the drastic sweeping-away of ancient abuses in Church and State in the Revolution in France, applied a new Spirit to government, ushered in the rule of the common man, and began the establishment of democracy as the ruHng form of gov- ernment for mankind. The recent World War in Europe was in a sense a sequel to what had gone before. One result of its out- come, despite certain reactionary but temporary old-type gov- ernments that the near future may see set up in places, has been the elimination of the mediceval theory of the "divine right of CONCLUSION; THE FUTURE 835 Fig. 239. The Established aisto Experimental Nations of Europe The established nations are in white; the experimental nations shaded. After a time Germany should become white also. kings"' from the continent of Europe, and the estabhshment of the democratic type of government as the ruHng t}^e of the fu- ture. Some of the nations for a time will be in a sense experi- mental, as shown on the above map, and even well-governed Ger- many must learn new forms and ways, but in time government of and by and for the people is practically certain to become estab- lished ever3avhere on the continent of Europe. Still more, the outcome of the World War would seem to indi- cate that democratic forms of government are destined in time to extend to peoples everywhere who have the capacity for using them. The great problem of the coming century, then, and per- haps even of succeeding centuries, will be to make democracy a safe form of government for the world. This can be done only by a far more general extension of educational opportunities and ad- vantages than the world has as yet witnessed. In the hands of an uneducated proletariat democracy is a dangerous instrument. In Russia, Mexico, and in certain of the Central American Republics 836 HISTORY OF EDUCATION we see what a democracy results in in the hands of an uneducated people. There, too often, the revolver instead of the ballot box is used to settle public issues, and instead of orderly government under law we have a reign of injustice and anarchy. Only by the slow but sure means of general education of the masses in charac- ter and in the fundamental bases of liberty under law can govern ments that are safe and intelligent be created. In a far largi^r sense than anything we have as yet witnessed, educatioii must be- come the constructive tool for national progress. The great needs of the modern world call for the general diffu- sion among the masses of mankind of the intellectual and spiritual and political gains of the centuries, which are as yet, despite the great recent progress made in extending general education, the possession of but a relatively small number of the world's popula- tion. Among the more important of these are the religious spirit, coupled with full religious liberty and tolerance; a clear recogni- tion of the rights of minorities, so long as they do not impair the advancement of the general welfare; the general diffusion of a knowledge of the more common truths and applications of science, particularly as these relate to personal hygiene, sanitation, agri- culture, and modern industrial processes; the general education of all, not only in the tools of knowledge, but in those fundamental principles of self-government which lie at the basis of democratic life; training in character, self-control, and in the ability to as- sume and carry responsibility; the instilling into a constantly widening circle of mankind the importance of fidelity to duty, truth, honor, and virtue; the emphasis of the many duties and re- sponsibilities which encompass all in the complex modern world, rather than the eighteenth-century individualistic conception of political and personal rights ; the clear distinction between liberty and license ; and the conception of liberty guided by law. In addi- tion each man and woman should be educated for personal effi- ciency in some vocation or form of service in which each can best realize his personal possibilities, and at the same time render the largest service to that society of which he forms a part. The great needs of the modern world also call for that form of education and training which will not merely impart literacy and prepare for economic competence and national citizenship, but which will give to national groups a new conception of national character and international morality and create new standards of value for human effort. National character and international CONCLUSION; THE FUTURE 837 morality are always the outgrowth of the personality of a people, and this in turn calls for the inculcation of humane ideals, the proper discipKne of the instincts, the training of a will to do right, good physical vigor, and, to a large degree, the development of individual efficiency and economic competence. Moral and reli- gious instruction, as it has been given, will not suffice, because it does not reach the heart of the problem. No nation has shown more completely the utter futility of religious instruction to pro- duce morality than has Germany, where the instruction of all in the principles of religion has been required for centuries. The problem of the twentieth century, then, and probably of other centuries to come, is how the constructive forces in modern society, of which the schools of nations should stand first, can best direct their efforts to influence and direct the deeper sources of the life of a people, so that the national characteristics it is desired to display to the world will be developed because the schools have instilled into every child these national ideals. Many forces must cooperate in such a task, but unless the schools of nations become clearly conscious of national needs and of inter- national purposes, become inspired by an ideal of service for the welfare of mankind, substitute among national groups competi- tion in the things of the spirit — art, architecture, music, sports, education, letters, sanitation, housing, public works, and such applications of science as minister to health and happiness — for competition in the creation of material wealth, the piling-up of armaments, the extension of national boundaries, and the present overemphasis of a narrow nationalism, and direct the energies of coming generations to the carrying-out of this new and larger human service, nations must inevitably fail to reach the world position they might otherwise have occupied, destructive inter- national competition and warfare will continue, and the advance- ment of world civilization and international well-being will be greatly retarded thereby. In this work of advancing world civilization, the nations which have long been in the forefront of progress must expect to assume important roles. It is their peculiar mission — for long clearly recognized by Great Britain and France in their political rela- tions with inferior and backward peoples; by the United States in its excellent work in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; and clearly formulated in the system of "mandatories" under the League of Nations — to help backward peoples to advance, and 838 HISTORY OF EDUCATION to assist them in lifting themselves to a higher plane of world civi- lization. In doing this a very practical type of education must naturally play the leading part, and time, probably much time, will be required to achieve any large results. Disregarding the CONCLUSION; THE FUTURE 839 large need for such service among the leading world nations, the map reproduced on the opposite page reveals how much of such work still remains to be done in the world as a whole. "The White Man's Burden" truly is large, and the larger world tasks of the twentieth century for the more advanced nations will be to help other peoples, in distant and more backward lands, slowly to educate themselves in the difficult art of self-government, gradually establish stable and democratic governments of their own, and in time to take their places among the enlightened and responsible peoples of the earth. At the bottom of all this work and service lie the new human- liberty conceptions first worked out and formulated for the world by little Greece. In time the ideas to which they gave expression have become the heritage of what we know as our western civiliza- tion, and the warp and woof of the intellectual and political life of the modern world. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, and of the new political and commercial and social forces of our time, this western civilization, using education as its great constructive tool, is now spreading to every continent on the globe. The task oi succeeding centuries will be to carry forward and extend what has been so well begun; to level up the peoples of the earth, as far as inherent differences in capacity will permit; and to ex- tend, through educative influences, the principles and practices of a Christian civilization to all. In establishing intelligent and in- terested government, and in moulding and shaping the destinies of peoples, general education has become the great constructive tool of modern civilization. A hundred and fifty years ago edu- cation was of but little importance, being primarily an instrument of the Church and used for church ends. To-day general educa- tion is an instrument of government, and is rightfully regarded as a prime essential to good government and national progress. With the spread of the democratic type the importance of the school is enhanced, its control by the State becomes essential, its continued expansion to include new types of schools and new forms of educational opportunities and service a necessity, the study of its organization and administration and problems be- comes a necessary function of government, while the training it can give is dignified and made the birthright of every boy and girl. INDEX Abelard, 188-90, 196. Academic des Armes, 404. Academy, the, 44, 272; at Venice, 250, 265; in Europe and America, 400, 418, 463, 524, 696-99* Act, Five-Mile, 324; Roman Catholic relief, 490; of Conformity, 324, 400; of Suprem- acy, 298,321,358. Adams, John, 526. Adelhard, 185. Ad visor J' Order of 1717, 555. Africa, education in South, 717. Agricola, 254, 271, 389. Agriculture,'' beginnings of instruction in, 546; science applied to, 800; first schools of, 801; a world movement, 802. Agricultural Institute of Fellenberg, 546. Albany, educational beginnings in, 662. Albertus Magnus, 191. Alcuin, 140, 163. Aldus press, 250, 257. Alexandria, importance of, in history, 47-49. Alexandrian learning, 48, 381. Alfred, King, 145-47. Algebra, study of, begun, 280, 392. Algemeine Landrecht, the, 565. Algiers, education in, 741, 787. Alhazen, 185. Alphabet, origins of, 77. Altenstein, Baron von, 581. America, battles for schools in, 676; begins constitutional government, 494; colonial colleges in, 703; contributions to world history, 496; educational ladder evolved, 708; effect of Revolutionary War on schools, 654; Protestant settlement of, 356. Anglican educational foundations, 319-26. Anselm, 187. Antoninus, St., 264. Apprenticeship) education, 210, 452; break- down of, 734. Aquinas, Thomas, 19J, 227. Argentine, The, education in, 717; school system of, 718. Aristotle, 42, 197, 225, 390; translations of, 185, 226. Arithmetic, Gerbert's, 160; in Greece, 27; in Middle Ages, 160, 280; in Rome, 65; in Seven Liberal Arts, 158; first modern texts in, 444. Arnaul de Marviel, 243. Arnold, Matthew, on Guizot, 599; on Na- poleon, 604. ^^tronomy, in Seven Liberal Arts, 160, 280. Athenian education, the new, 39-50; the old, 23-37- Athens, university of, 45. Attica, ancient, 17-20. Augustine, St., 96, 138, 198. Austria, education in, 715, 716. Austrian reformers, 475. Austrian School Code of 1774, 562. Averroes, 185. Avicenna, 185, 198, 226. Baccalaureus, in a mediaeval university 222. Bache, Alexander D., 752. Bacon, Sir Francis, 390, 394, 405, 423. Bacon, Roger, 227. Bacteria, isolation of, 726. Bagdad, Mohammedan learning at, 182. Baines, Edward, on education, 641 . Balfour Annexation Law of 1912, 645. Baltimore, educational beginnings in, 661. Banking, revival of, 207. Barbarian migrations, 109-23. Barbarian tribes accept Chnstianity, iiS- 21. Barnard, Henry, 690, 753. Basedow, J. B., 534-38. Battles for education in U.S., 676. Bade, Venerable, 139. Bell, Andrew, 622-24. Benedict, St., 99, 128. Benedictines, 100, 128. Berlin, University of, 574-77. Bible, translation of, into English, 289, zgo into French, 289; into German, 310. Bills of Rights, 498. Binet, Alfred, 821. Blind, education of, 819. Blow, Susan, 766. Boccaccio, 245. Boethius, 163. Bologna, law developed at, 192-97, 225. Boston, first high school at, 699. Boston Latin School, 361. Brahe, Tycho, 387, 394. Braidwood, Thomas, 819. Brazil, education in, 717, 719. Brethren of the Common Life, 271. Britain, introduction of Christianity into, 119, 138; early learning in, 138". British and Foreign School Society, 625. British Museum founded, 492. Brothers of the Christian Schools, 347-51, 51S, 590, 596. 842 INDEX Brougham, Lord, 625^31, 633, 636. Budaeus, Guillaume, 268. Billow, Baroness, 765. Bunyan, John, 491. Burgher class, rise of, 207. Burgher school, 418, 419, 599. Cadet years, in ancient Greece, 34. Caesar de Bus, 346. Cahiers of 1789, 512. Calvin, Jolin, 298, 330. Calvinists, educational work of, 330-35. Cambridge, and science study, 423. Cambridge university, founding of, 218. Campe, J. H., 538 f. Campion, teaching of, 283. Canada, education in, 716. Canon Law organized, 196. Capella, Martianus, 163. Carter, James G., 700, 702, Cassian, 99, 128. Cassio'dorus, 163. Catechetical schools, 93. Catecliism, 311, 430, 437, 442. Catechumenal instruction, 92. Cathedral school?, 97, 152, 188. Cathedral school at Paris, 189. Cathedral school at York, 139. Catherine II of Russia, 477, 511, 715. Cato the Elder, 63. Cavour, Count of, 609. Caxton, work of, 256. Certificates, first teachers', 176. Cessatio, in mediaeval universities, 221. Chalcondyles, Demetrius, 248. Chalotais, Rene de la, 509. Chancellor, in the university, 224. Chantry schools, 152. Charity school, religious, 449, 615; in New Jersey, 682; in Pennsylvania, 680. Charlemagne, his work, 140-45; his procla- mations, 142-44. Chemical laboratory, the first, 724. Chemistry, beginnings of modern, 724. Childhood, care of, 457, 630. Child Labor, 738, 813-15. Chili, education in, 718. China, educational system of, 721, 789. Chivalric commandments, 169. Chivalric education, 164-69. Chivalric ideals, 168. Christianity, challenge of, 87; contribution of, 82-100; influence of, on barbarians, 118, 121; rejects pagan learning, 94, 282, 429; where arose, 84. Chrysoloras, Manuel, 247. Church and elementary education, 344-51; early organization of, 95; work of, in Mid- dle Ages, 121. Cicero, Petrarch discovers work of, 244, 265. Ciceronian style, 274, 283, 398. Cities, development of, in U.S., 667; new problems arising in, 668. Citizen-cadet, in Ancient Greece, 34. City class, rise of, 204. City life, revival of, 202. City school societies in U.S., 660. Clinton, De Witt, 660, 671, 751. Colet, John, 254, 274, 275, 288. College de France, 269. Colleges in the U.S., 657; by i860, 704; by 1900, 705; colonial, 703. Comenius, John Amos, 408-16. Commerce, revival of, 205. Communal colleges of France, 595. Compulsory school attendance, 815-17; in England, 644; in German lands, 552, 815; in U.S., 816. Concordat of Napoleon, 590. Condorcet, 514, 516, 597. Conic sections, 392. Connecticut, Bernard in, 690; Law of 1650, 366. Conservation of energy, 725. Constance, Council of, 291. Constan^ine accepts Christianity, 91. Constantine, of Carthage, 199, 216. Constituent Assembly of France, 512. Constitutional government begins, in Amer- ica, 494, 499, 522; in France, 500; in other lands, 503. Convention, National, of France, 515-18. Convents, and their schools, 137, 150, 346 Coote, Edmund, 443. Copernicus, Nicholas, 386. Council of Constance, 291. Council of Trent, 303, 336. Counting-board, Greek, 27; Roman, 65. Court schools of Italy, 265-68. Cousin, Victor, 597, 751. Crippled children, education of, 821. Crusade movement, 199-202. Cuba, education in, 740, 789. Curriculum, evolution of, elementary, 756, 780; grading of instruction in, 756; secon- dary, 281. Cygnaeus, Uno, 769. Dalton, 724. Dame School, in England, 447; in U.S., 665 Dante, 242. Dartmouth College decision, 706. Darwin, Charles, 726. Deaf, education of, 819. Defectives, education of, 818-21. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 491. De Garmo, Charles, 722 f. Demia, Father, 745. Democracy, spread of idea, 503, 504. Denmark, educational system of, 713. Descartes, Rene, 394, 423. Dewey, John, 780-83. INDEX 843 Dialectic, in Seven Liberal Arts, 158; super- sedes Grammar, 190, 280. Diderot, 477, 482, 511. Diesterweg, 570, 582. Dilworth, Thos., 443, 444. Directory, the, in France, 518. Discipline, school, 455; by a Swabian school- master, 455. Disease, modern theory of, 383. Dissenters allowed to establish schools, 438, 459- Dominicans, 191 f. Donatus, 156. Dutch, early education among, 333-35. Education a national tool, 739; problems of, in the future, 838; present, 828-30; scien- tific organization of, 824-30. Educational societies, in England, 632; in U.S., 659. Egypt, education in, 741. Eighteenth century, importance of, 471-72. Elementarwerk of Basedow, 535. Elementary school curriculum, evolution of, 756. Elyot, Sir Thomas, 275. Encyclopedia, first modern, 492. Engine, steam, 493. England, Annexation Law of 1902, 645; Department of Science and Art created, 776; early Christian learning in, 138; edu- cational system evolved, 649; Fisher Edu- cation Act of 1918, 649; 'progress since 1870, 645-50; pupil-teacher system in, 753; Reform Bill of 1832, 637; of 1867, 642; secondary education included in the national system, 646; teacher training in, 627, 753- English Bible, 289, 321. English eighteenth-century educational ef- forts, 614. English grammar schools, 277, 278. EngHsh Law of 1833, 638. English Law of 1870, 642. Enghsh Hberty, beginnings of, 486. Enghsh parhamentary battle for schools, 633-44. English period of philanthropic effort, 622- 33- English Prayer Book, 321. £p6e, Abbe de 1', 819. Ephebic oath, the, 35. Ephebic years, in ancient Greece, 35. Episcopal schools, 97. Erasmus, 274, 281, 288, 398. Ernest, Duke, educational work of, 317, 417. Euclid, translations of, 185, 186, 392. Europe, illiteracy in, in 1900, 714. faculties, in a mediaeval university, 223-25; in a modern university, 422. Farraday, 724. Fechner, 826. Feeble-minded, education of, 820. Fellenberg and his Institutions, 546, 800. Female academies founded, 698. Feudalism, 164. Fichte, J. G., 545, 567, 574. Finland, education in, 297, 713; manual training in, 769. Five-Mile Act, the, 324. Florence, Mediceart Library at, 251; revival of banking at, 207; revival of study of Greek at, 248. Fourcroy, Count de, 590. Fourier, Peter, 346. France, creation of primary education in, 596-600; educational organization under Napoleon, 590-96; eighteenth-century conditions in, 478; higher schools created by Napoleon, 593; Law of 1791, 512; Law of 1793, 515; Law of 1795,517; Law of 1802, 590-92; Law of 1833, 597; Law of 1850, 601 ; progress since 1870,602; re- duction of illiteracy in, 602; revolution in thinking, in i8th century, 484; revolu- tionary pedagogy of, 508-19; school sys- tem created, 598; special revolutionary foundations, 518; University of, created, 593. Franciscans, 191 f. Francke's Institutions, 418. Frederick Barbarossa, 216. Frederick the Great, 474, 558-61. Frederick William I, 555. Frederick William III, 565, 580. Frederick William IV, 583. Froebel, Fr., 764-68; Dewey's modification of educational ideas of, 780-82. Galen, 47, 185, 198, 226, 380, 382. GaHleo, G., 388. Gallaudet, Thos. R., 819. Gaza, Theodorus, 248, 267. General Land-Schule Reglement, 558. Geneva, center of Calvinism, 299. Genoa, center of commerce, 206. Geographical discovery, revival of, 257. Geography, in Seven Liberal Arts, 160, 280. Geometry, in Seven Liberal Arts, 160, 280. Gerbert, 160, 183. Gerhard of Cremona, 185. German education, development of. See Prussia. German educational propaganda abroad, 741- German school organization, early, 312-19, 552. Gesner, Conrad, 390. Gesner, J. M., 555. Gesner, Rector, 420. Gilbert, William, 389. 844 INDEX Ginnasio, of Italy, 609. Girls, education of, in early Church, 100. Gladstone and Law of 1870, 642. Gotha, Duke Ernest's work in, 317, 417. Gottingen, university of, 423. Grading of school instruction, 756-59. Grammar, at Rome, 67; in Seven Liberal Arts, 15s, 279, 280. Grammar schools, English, 277, 353, 461; founded after the Reformation, 321-24. Grammatist, school of, 26. Gratian organizes Canon Law, 196, 226. Greece, early education in, 21 ; golden age of, 39; land and government of, 15; our debt to, 50, loi. Greek at Cambridge, 274, 289. Greek Church, divides off, 103; in education in East, 715. Greek conquest of Eastern Mediterranean, 46. Greek education, the old, 15-37; the new, 39-50; results under old, 36. Greek higher education, spread and influence of, 46. Greek langutige and learning, preservation of, 57- Greek learning, in Syria, 180; forgotten, 138, 247; revival of, 247-49. Greek universities, ancient, 47. Gregorian calendar, 392. Grocyn, William, 253, 274, 288. Grote, Gerhard, 271. Guarino da Verona, 266. Guilds of Middle Ages, 209; university de- grees in, 221. Guizot, M., 598-600. Gulliver's Travels, 491. Gundling, at Halle, 554. Gymnasia, German, 316, 353, 418, 554, 558; reorganized, 572, 574, 577. Gymnasial training in Ancient Greece, 32. Gymnasium, ancient Greek, 33, 272; Sturm's, 273. Gymnastics in Greek education, 31, 41. Halle, University of, 423, 553-55. Hamilton, Alexander, 660. Hanseatic League, 208. Hardenburg, 567. Haroun-al-Raschid, 182. Harris, William T., 766. Harvard College, early history of, 367, 657, 702, 703 ; founding of, 363 ; Greek brought to, 254. Harvey, William, 389, 394. Health, new interest in, 822. Health supervision, 823. Hebrew, revival of study of, 254, 269. Hebrews, early, 84. Hecker, Julius, 421, 558, 562. Hedge schools, 451. Hegius, 271, 289. Heidelberg, University of, founding 01, :st6, 220; center of humanistic learning, 254, 270. Hellinization of Eastern Mediterranean, 46, 180-83; of Rome, 62. Herbart, J. Fr., 759-64; contributions of, 763. Herbartian ideas, in Germany, 762; in U.S., 762. Heretic, in Middle Ages, 291. Hieronymians, 271. High school, in U.S., battle to establish, 095- 702; first 699; for agriculture, 802; Massa- chusetts 'aw of 1827, 700. High schools, some early, 700. Hippocrates, 185, 197, 226, 380, 389. Hoddei^'s Arithmeti€r444# Holland, educatiori in, 333, 712. Home and Colonial Infant Society, 631, 753. Horn Book, 440. Huguenots, 299, 301, 356; in education, ;i:i3. Humanism, a religious reform movement, 288; in France, 268; in England, 274; in Germany, 269; rise and spread of, 252-54. Humanistic course of study, 267. Humanistic realism, 397-401 . Humboldt, Wilhelm von. work of, in reor- ganizing secondary education, 472-74; in creating the University of Berlin, 474- 77- Huss, John, 291. Huxley, Thomas, 778; his definition of an educated man, 779. Idiotic, training of, 820. Illinois, educational provisions of first con- stitution, 671. Illiteracy, in Europe by 1900, 714; in France, 602; in German lands, 583. Individual instruction, 454. Industrial revolution. 728, 736, 779; effects of, on education, 736, 790. Industry, revival of, in Middle Ages, 207. Infant schools, in England, 630; in France, 600; in U.S., 664-66. Innovators, ideas of, 406. Inquisition, the, 384. Institutes of France, 515. Institutes of Justinian, 195. Ireland, learning in early, 138. Irnerius of Bologna, 195. Isidore of Seville, 163. Isocrates, 43. ^ Italy, beginnings of modern education in, 606; decline after the Renaissance, 605: modern school system created, 608-12; recent educational progress, 610; work of Sardinia and Cavour, 609. James, William, 826. Jansenists, 347. jaoan, education in, 719: school system created, 720. Jay, John, 526, 660. Jefferson, Thomas, 525. Jerome, St., 99. Jesuit colleges, 337. Jesuit education, 336-44. Jesuit methods, 341. Jesuit school organizarfon, 340. Jesuit teachers, training of, 342. Jesus, his teachings, 86. Jesus, Society of, 336^44. Jewish faith, early, 85. Joseph II, 475. Justinian, Institutes of, 195, 226. Kalamazoo decision, 701. Kant, Immanuel, 534, 537. Kepler, Johann, 387, 394. Kindergarten idea, 767; contribution of, 768; Dewey's reorganization of, 781; in U.S., 766; origin of, 764; spread of, 765. King's College (Columbia), 703. Knight, the, 167. Knox, John, 335. Kriisi, Hermann, 545. Lakanal, 516. Lancaster, Joseph, 624-27. Lancastrian system, in England, 627-30; in U.S., 662-64. Land grants for education, in U.S., 677. Languages, rise of national, 242. La Salle, educational work of, 347^1, 745. Latin, importance of, in Middle Ages, 282. Latin grammar schools, in England, 277, 321-24, 353, 461, 776; in New England, 361, 698; in Middle Ages, 307. Law, canon, 196, 226. Law, evoli-tion of, as a study, 192-97, 226. Leaving examinatitons esablished, 564. Leeds Mercury on education, 641. Lefevre, Jacques, 289. Lehrerseminar, 563. i-,ehrfreiheit und Lehrnfreiheit, 554. Leonard and Gertrude, 539, 542. Lepelletier le Saint-Fargeau, 516. Libraries, early monastic, 135; university, 228, 231; first circulating, 492. License to teach, first, 176; in Middle Ages, 222. Liceo in Italy, 610. Liebig, Justus von, 724. Lily's Latin Grammar, 276, 281. Linacre, WilUam, 253, 274, 288. Lister and antiseptics, 726. Literature, in ancient Greek education, 29. Living conditions, transformation of, in 19th century, 729-36. Locke, John, 402, 433-37- Logarithms, 392. Lollards, the, 291. Lombard League, the, 194. Lombard, Peter the, 171, 191. Lotze and modern psychology, S26. Loyola, Ignatius, 336. Luder, Peter, 254. Ludi magister, the, 65. Luther, Martin, 270; his Theses, 295; his educational ideas, 306, 312-14. Lutheran school organization, 312-19. Lutheranism, 297, 300. Lycees, creation of, under Law of 1802, 591, 595. 5Q6, 603; instruction in, 601, 775. Lyceum, the, 44, 272. Lyell, Charles, 725. Lyon, Mary, 698. Macaulay, Lord, 640. Madison, James, 525, 526. Magellan, 260. Malthus, Rev. F. R., 621. Mandeville, Sir John, 258. Mann, Horace, on Prussian Teachers' Sem- inaries, 570; work in establishing normal schools, 752; work in Massachusetts, 689, 692, 702. Manual activities in education, 768-72; con- tribution of, 771; origin of instruction in 769; spread of the idea of, 769. Manual-labor school idea, 564, Manual training high school in U.S., 79 Manufacturing, rise of, 492. Manumission Society of N.Y., 660. Manuscripts, copying of, 132. Maria Theresa, 475, 562. Massachusetts Law of 1642, 326, 3^ Law of 1647, 365, 506; Law o' , Massachusetts school systerr tional provision for, 52 basis of, 366. Maturitatspriifung, 573. Maurus, R., 155, 164. Mayo, Charles, 631. Mebrissensis, 253. Mechanics, 392. Mediaeval Church, repress Medisval education, char; ,^, 174. Medieval man, transformatio, oi, 243. Mediaeval town, a typical, 203 . Medievalism, reaction against, 278. Medical inspection in schools, .823. Medical instruction, beginnings', of, 198; in Middle Ages, 226; in modern times, &o;^. Medicean Library, 250. I Medici, Cosimo de, 250, 257, 265. Melancthon, 270, 281, 289; his Sjaxonyplan, 316. Mercator's map of the world, 39i. Methodism, rise of, 489. | , Methods of teaching, evolution of new, 756 Middle Ages, deadly sins of, 173; problems faced by, 123; what started with, loi. Middle schools, 791. Migrations of peoples, 732-34; to U.S., 790. Mill, James, 625, 631. Milton, John, 399. Minnesingers, rise of, 186, 242. Mirabeau, Count de, 512. Modern studies, evolution of, 281. Mohammedans in Spain, 180-86; influence of, on Europe, 184-86. Monasteries, civilizing work of, 122; in Charlemagne's day, 136; preserve learning, 129-36; suppression of, in England, 321. Monastic collections, 135. Monastic schools, 100, 128, 150, 152. Monasticism, rise of, 98. Monitorial system, in England, 624-30; in U.S., 662-64. Monroe Doctrine, 503, 717. Montaigne, 401. Monte Cassino, 99, 245. Montesquieu, 480. Montpellier as a medical center, 199, 225, 226. More, Sir Thomas, 288. Morocco, education in, 741, 787. Mount Holyoke College, 698. 'fulcaster, Richard, 432. 'sic, in ancient Greece, 30; in Seven Lib- al Arts, 162, 280. oleon, 518; and technical education, 797; ^anizing work of, in France, 590-95; in >lland, 712; in Italy, 603-07. -lal Convention of France, 515; work t8. Is in education, 836. 3 of spirit of, 242, 473, 738; )mote, 789. 'onal problems of the future led and experimental, 835. V of, 725. ns, 181. education in, 333. i-,. ginning of schools in, 36c, New J- .imer, 374. > New Jerse>, jarly educational history, 371; ehminatior of charity school in, 683. Newspapers, first, 309, 490, 491. Newton, Sir Isaac, 388, 395, 423, 485. New York, attempt to divide the school funds in, 693; early educational history in, 368, 660, 666; elimination of rate bill in, 685; first State Superintendent, '687. New Zealand, education in, 716. Nicene Creed, 96, 196. Nobility, training of, in early Middle Ages, 164-69; in later Middle Ages, 265-68; in early modern times, 403-05, 418, 462. Normal school, contribution of Pestalozzi to work of, 746-49; in France, 517, 595, 597, 750; in Prussia, 561, 562, 570, 750; in U.S., 664, 745- Northmen, invasions of, 145. Nunneries, 100. Oberschulecollegium Board created, 564; aboUshed, 569. Odyssey, translation of, into Latin, 61. Orbis P ictus, 412-15, 441. Orphanages, first, 813. Orphans, care of, 821. Owen, Robert, 630. Pagan learning, rejection of, in West, 95. Page, a, 166. Paine, Tom, 622. Palace School of Charlemagne, 141. Palaestra, in ancient Greece, 31, 34. Palestine, education in, 741. Papal schism, the, 291, 302. Paper, invention of, 254. Paracelsus, 389. Paris, cathedral school at, 189, 217; rise of University of, 217, 225; work of Univer- sity of, 423. Parish school of early Middle Ages, 151. Pasteur, Louis, 726. Pauper school, 451. Pauper school idea, in England, 615; in U.S., 679-84. Peabody, Elizabeth, 766. Pedagogy. See Education. Pennsylvania, early educational history of, 369- Pennsylvania, Law of 1834, 681. Percy vail, John, 277. Peru, education in, 718. Pestalozzi, and Basedow compared, 538; and / Froebel, 764; contribution of, 541-44; to teacher-training problem, 746-49, 760; Prussia sends teachers to study work of, 569; spread of ideas of, 544; work of, 539- 46. Peter the Great, 477. Peter the Lombard, 171, 191, 227. Petrarch, 244, 247, 265, 386, 424. Philadelphia, educational beginnings in, 652, 666. Philanthropinum of Basedow, 536, 538. I^hilippines, education in, 740, 789. Philosophers banished from Rome, 63. Phrase books, 282. Physics, in Middle Ages, 162; modern, 724 Piarists, 346. Pietism, 418. Pilgrimages, in Middle Ages, 200. Pilgrim's Progress, 491. Plato, 41. Political influences modify school, 787-95 ( INDEX 84. X olitical pamp)^fets appear, 490. Polo, Marco. ^58. Poor-Law legislation in England, 325, 367, 372. Porto Rico, education in, 740, 789. Pounds, John, 619. Precenter, the, 176. Presbyterians, Scotch, 299, 335. Press, freedom of, 490. Primary education in U.S., 666. Primer, the New England, 441. Primer, the religious, 440. Principia Regulative, the, 557. Printing, early presses, 256; invention of, 254- Private adventure schools, 451. Probejahr, the, 573. Protestant revolts, results of, 296. Protestant school organization, 319. Providence, early educational beginnings in, 662; grading of schoob in, 756-59. Prussia, benevolent rulers of, 473; earliest school laws for, 555, 557-61, 565; earliest Teachers' Seminaries in, 746 f.; humilia- tion of, 566 ; regeneration of, 566-79. Prussian school system, 577; 19th-century characteristics evolved, 578; modern pur- pose of, 585; reaction after 1848, 580-84; reorganization of 1872, 584. Psychology, becomes the master science, 755 ; history of modern, 826 Ptolemy, 49, 160, 185, 385. Public meetings, first in England, 491. Public School Society of N.Y., 660. Punishments, school, 455. Pupil- teacher system, 753. Puritans, the, 299, 357, 488. Quadrivium, the, 158-62, 164, 280. Quintilian, 67, 155, 246. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, recovered, 246, 257, 265. Rabelais, Fr., 398. Ragged Schools, 618, 619. Raikes,_Rpbert, 617. Rate bill, elimination of, in U.S., 684-86. Ratio Studiorum, 340. Ratke, Wolfgang, 607. Raumer, Karl Georg von, 545 f, 825. Raymer, Andreas, 317, 417. Reading, in ancient Greece, 28. Readmg schools, 445. Realien, 419, 796. Realism in education, 397-425. Realschule, first, 420; in Germany, 423, 582, 775. 796. R( ♦or, the, in the University, 224. Rf rmation, the Protestant, 287-304; and ation, 351-53- aatories, juvenile, 813. Reform Bill, oi 1832 in England, 637; of 1867 in England, 642. Rein, William, 762. Religions in the Roman world, 82. Religious freedom, 300, 489, 497. Religious societies for education in England, 632. Religious theory for schools, 312, 437; weak- ^ng of, 438, 493, 519. ReucWin, Johann, 255, 271, 289. Revolution in France, results of, 502. Revolutionary War in U.S., effect of, on edu- cation, 657. Rhetoric, in Seven Liberal Arts, 157; law a part of, 157; law separates from, 196; schools of, at Rome, 69. Rhode Island, Barnard in, 690; early educa- tion in, 368. Richter, Jean-Paul, 534. Ritter, Carl, 544 f. Ritterakademien, 405, 418, 462. Robinson Crusoe, 491. Rolland. 510. Roman cities, fate of, 117, 193; survival of law in, 194. Roman education, schools die out, 116; an- cient system, 721. Roman law, influence of, 117. Rome, barbarian inroads on, 11 1; debt to, 102; education and work of, 53-78; great mission of, 55, 74-78. Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 483, 508, 530-33. Royal Society of Great Britain, 492. Russia, benevolent despots of teenth-century progre Catherine II, 477, 51 St. Paul's School, 275 Saleno, rise of medi Salzmann, C. G.. Sanitary science Sardinia, bep^'' organizat' Savonarol Savoy, e; Saxe-G' Saxon' 'org i,ochar Schisn Scholat Scholast School c 563- School soi u.s; 659. School suppoi Schools of ind Science, charac recovery of, ^ y industry, 492, > 84^ 1NI.:)EX ii. --C liools, X. t6, 744-46, 795; in ntiiversity, 421, 773, 79V; nation's protector, 804. Scientific knowledge, advance of, in 19th century, 723; applications of, 727. Scientific method, beginnings of, 385. Scientific societies, rise of, 393, 492. Scotland, early education in, 335, 714. Scriptorium, the, 134. Secondary schools, rise of, in German lands, 271; evolution of studies of, 281. Sectarian instruction, elimination of, in France, 602; in Italy, 61 r; in U.S., 691-95. Seguin, Edouard, 820. Seminaries for teachers, earliest, in German lands, 746 f. Seminars in German universities, 573, 577. Semler, Christopher, 420. Sense realism in education, 401-05. Seven Liberal Arts, in Middle Ages, 153; in Rome, 70; modification of, 279. Seven Perfections of Chivalry, 168. Silesian School Code of 1765, 559. Smith, Adam, 485, .620. S.P.C.K., 449-51, 615. S.P.G., 449, 615, 658. Societies, scientific, rise of, 393, 492. Sociologial influences in education, 812-24. Socrates, 43- Song schools, 151. Sophists, the, 41. South Africa, education in, 717. .L-Soain, 18th-century benevolent rulers, 476. "■-i ... -^S,j education in, 22-23. ■ ._. ~ -Srst, 309. •irst, 689. -ments, early stance of, ed. 657; in on, 5, 220. .d, 637, 642; 'nificance of Sundr- ■ ' -vini. ^ .1 ■■. Sunday Schools, in BerUn, 56:^, in England 616-18, in U.S., 658. Superior children, education of, 821. Sweden, educational system of, 297, 713 manual instruction in, 769. Sydenham, Thomas, 392, 395. Talleyrand, 513, 516. Taxation for education, beginnings of, 677. Teacher training, beginnings of, 745-48; con tributions of Pestalozzi to, 746-49; th« first normal schools, 750-54. Teachers' certificates, first, 176. Teachers, character of, in i8th century, 446, 452. Teachers' Colleges, 827. Teachers' Seminaries in Germany, 561, 562, 570, 746 f. Teaching methods by i8th century, 454. Teaching Orders, Catholic, 345. Technical education, beginnings of, 797; in U.S., 798; impulses to the develop- ment of, 799. Tetzel and indulgences, 294. Te.xtbooks by the i8th century, 439; ot the Middle Ages, 162. Theodulf of Orleans, 144. Theology, in the mediaeval universities, 227 422; rise of study of, 169-7':. Thirteenth century, the wonderful, 241. Thirty Years' War, the, 301. Thomas Aquinas, 191, 227. Tournaments, 165. Tours, battle of, 113. Trade and commerce, revival ~f, 205. Trade routes, early, 206; of the moderr world, 733. Trent, Council of, 303. Trigonometry, study of, begun, 280, 392. Trivium, the, 155-58, 164, 222, 280. Troubadours, rise of, 186, 242. Troy Seminary founded, 698. Truce of God, 166, 187. Turgot, 480, SIX, 800. Twelve Tables, the, 59. Ulphilas, Bishop, 119. United States, awakening an educational consciousness in, 658-67; battles for schools, and alignments of people, 672-74; beginnings of State universities, 657; of teacher training, 751; early colleges in, 657; efJcct of Revolutionary War on edu- cation, 654. Universities, evolution of, 216; faculties in, 223-25; German, American students at, 576 f.; instruction in, 225-33, 421; in the U.S., State, 657, 702-07; mediaeval, rise of, 215-35; new modern foundations, 793; of ancient Greek world, 47. INDEX 849 I University expansion, recent, 792. University mothers, 218. University of Alexandria, 48. University of Berlin, 574-77. University of France, 512, 593. University of the State of New York, 524. University of Virginia, founded, 526. University privileges granted, 220, 534. Uprising of Prussia of 1813, 568, 572. Urbino, Ducal library at, 251. Ursulines, 346. Usher, school, 758. Vatican Library founded, 252. Venetians capture Constantinople, 201 ; de- velop trade and commerce, 205. Venice, center of book trade, 257, 265. Vernacular schools, introduction of science instruction into, 416; rise of, 309, 352, 430. Vesalius, 198, 389: Vespasiano, 251. Victor Emmanuel, 609. Vinet, Ehe, 269. Virchow, 726. Virginia, early educational history, 371; JeflFerson's plan for education in, 525. Vittarino da Feltre, 265. Vocational education, beginnings of, in U.S., 809-12; in Germany, 780, 807; need for, 805. Volksschule, German, 315, 353, 571, 577, 581, 582. Voltaire, 480, 485. Voluntary educational system in England, 616, 645; work of, in establishing schools, 632. /uigate Bible, 131, 170. Waldenseemiiller, his Geography, 258. Walther von der Vogelweide, 294. Washington, George, 525; his will, 657. Watt, James, 493. Weber and modern psychology, 826. Webster, Noah, 443. Wedgwood and potterj', 493. Wedmore, Peace of, 145. Weimar, schools in duchy of, 317, 417. Wesley, John, 489. Wessel, Johann, 254, 271. Westphalia, Peace of, 302, 417, 834. Whitbread, 625, 631, 633. White man's burden, the, of future, 839. Whitfield, George, 489. Willard, Emma, 698. WilMam and Ma-y College, 372, 657, 702. Winchester Schocl founded, 277. Workhouse schools 453. Workingmen, interest of, in education ir U.S., 671. Writing schools, 445. Wundt and modern psychology', 8 '^, Wiirtemberg, plan of 1559, 317; scuVols in 439.545- Wycliffe, John, 290, 297, 311. Xenophon, 42. Yale College, early history of, 657, 702 founding of, 367. York, cathedral school at, 139. Yverdon, 541, 544, 749. Zeller, Carl August, 545, 569. Ziller, Tuiskon, 762. ZwingU, Huldreich, 297, 311. -^ Aj,^" -\> .^^ *'' .- •~ ■'?■ v- V " t kO°„ y 1 '"^".^ ^r:.*^^^' > % O' ' ..o'J".- » ''-'- .oc>. ." r^' ,a\ \ A\^ ^^.^r.^^^o^ V' " ^ -^^ ^' <^^ ■* -0^ . '' ■-5-, "^^^ .-J^ vi^ .^ ^0O. .0^' nV •/>. Q o. <. ■%^^^ ? - .^ ^. ; .A^' ^P vOo. \^ O 0' ^^> ;> '-C