History of Education

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HISTORY
OF
EDUCATION
BY
LEVI SEELEY, Ph. D.
PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY IN THE
NEW JERSEY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
REVISED EDITION
NEW YORK : CINCINNATI : CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1899, 1904, by
LEVI SEELEY.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
HIST. OF EDUCATION
PREFACE
The importance of a knowledge of the history of
education was never so fully recognized as at the present
time. Normal schools and teachers' colleges give this
subject a prominent place in their professional courses,
superintendents require candidates for certificates to
pass examination in it, and familiarity with it is an
essential part of the equipment of every well-informed
teacher. The history of education portrays the theories
and methods of the past, warns of error and indicates
established truth, shows difficulties surmounted, and
encourages the teacher of to-day by examples of heroism
and consecration on the part of educators whose labors for
their fellow-men we discuss. To the teacher this study is
a constant help in the schoolroom, the trials of which are
met with the added strength and inspiration from contact
with great teachers of the past.
No text-book can be said to contain the last word upon
any subject. Least of all can such a claim be made for a
history of education, which aims to trace the intellectual
development of the human race and to indicate the means
and processes of that evolution. Any individuals or
factors materially contributing thereto deserve a place in
educational history. As to which of these factors is the
most important, that is a question of choice, upon which,

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