Pioneers of modern education 1600-1700

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Preface.--Table of dates.--The new philosophy.--The school-room in the early seventeenth century.--Bacon and Comenius.--The Great didactic.--The new pedagogy in London and in Germany.--The Long parliament: Samuel Hartlib and education.--Two letters to Hartlib: Milton and Petty.--"The Reformed school" of John Dury.--A successful schoolmaster: Hoole.--The courtly "academies."--Elementary education.--St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.--A. H. Francke and the Pietist schools.--Conclusion.--Publications referred to in the text: p. [271]-275. Index. ; Mode of access: Internet.