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List of contents
1. The Ecclesiastical Organisation of Schools. 2. Religion in the Schools, 1500-1600. 3. The Teaching of the Bible. 4. The Catechism. 5. The Teaching of Logic and the Method of Disputations. 6. The Teaching of Manners and Morals. 7. Mediaeval Elementary Instruction. 8. The Elementary Schools, 1547-1660. 9. The A B C and the Horn-Book A B C. 10. The Teaching of Reading. 11. The Teaching of Writing. 12. The Teaching of Music in the 16th and 17th Centuries. 13. Medieval Grammar Schools and Schoolmasters. 14. The Early English Printed Grammars Including the Magdalen College School (Oxford) Group. 15. The Authorised Latin Grammar. 16. The Emendations of Lily’s Grammar. 17. The Grammar War. 18. The Practice of Grammar Teaching. 19. Latin Speaking. 20. Colloquies. 21. Translation of Authors. 22. The Higher Authors. 23. Vocabularies and Dictionaries. 24. The Making of Latins. 25. Letter-Writing. 26. Theme Writing at the Beginning of the 17th Century. 27. Rhetoric. 28. The School Oration at the Time of the Commonwealth. 29. Verse-Making. 30. The Teaching of Greek. 31. The Text-Books for the Teaching of Greek. 32. Hebrew.
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Foster Watson
Summary
First published in 1908, this important work on the history of education traces the development of teaching in English Grammar Schools from the invention of printing up to 1660.
