Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A STUDENT’S HISTORY OF EDUCATION CHAPTER I THE EARLIEST EDUCATION OUTUNE Even a brief survey of the history of education may greatly broaden one’s view. Starting with primitive man, we find that his training aims only at the necessities of life, and is acquired informally through the elders and the medicine-men. In Oriental education, the next stage in progress, illustrated by India, a traditional knowledge is acquired through memoriter and imitative methods. While Oriental, Jewish education afforded greater development of individuality, but it was late in organizing schools, memoriter in methods, and restricted in content. Thus all education before the day of the Greeks was largely non- progfessive. The Value of the History of Education.?The His- Breadth of view obtained tory of Education from the earliest times should contribute largely to one’s breadth of view and prove a study of the greatest liberal culture. A record of typical instances of the moral, aesthetic, and intellectual development of man in all lands and at all periods should certainly enlarge one’s vision and enable him to appreciate more fully the part that education has played in the A STUDENT’S HISTORY OF EDUCATION CHAPTER I THE EARLIEST EDUCATION OUTLINE Even a brief survey of the history of education may greatly broaden one’s view. Starting with primitive man, we find that his training aims only at the necessities of life, and is acquired informally through the elders and the medicine-men. In Oriental education, the next stage in progress, illustrated by India, a traditional knowledge is acquired through mtmoriter and imitative methods. While Oriental, Jewish education afforded greater development of individuality, but it was late in organizing schools,…