The History Of Education

The History Of Education

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THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND PROGRESS CONSIDERED AS
A PHASE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF WESTERN
CIVILIZATION
BY
ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
TO MY WIFE FOR THIRTY YEARS BEST OF COMPANIONS IN
BOTH WORK AND PLAY

PREFACE
The present volume, as well as the companion volume of Readings,
arose out of a practical situation. Twenty-two years ago, on entering
Stanford University as a Professor of Education and being 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 detailed citations to historical literature, and in 1902 was
published in book form. In 1905 a second and an enlarged edition was
issued, [1] and these volumes for a time formed the basis for classwork
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 expansion 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 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 capacity 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 university, 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 educational
theories. Of such we already have a sufficient number. Instead, I have
tried to prepare a history of