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Excerpt from The Critics of Herbartianism: And Other Matter Contributory to the Study of the Herbartian Question
During the last twenty years two phenomena have been notice able to Observers Of the educational world - a steady increase in the in¿uence Of the Herbartian system, and a series Of vigorous attacks upon that system from various quarters of the Father land. The former phenomenon has been patent to all, the second to those who have followed the course Of events abroad. It is Germany, the land in which Herbartianism is indigenous, which has presented the world with supposed antidotes.
These supposed antidotes, it would be no great exaggeration to say, have received no notice whatever in this country. Never very enthusiastic over educational problems, especially unenthusiastic over such as are not Obviously practical, the British nation as a whole, and many [even Of its professional educationists, have passed two decades unconscious Of the fact that the most complete system Of education hitherto given to the world has been going through a period of keen hostile criticism. Even America, where Herbartianism has attained a position Of honour and in¿uence, knows little Of the battles it has to fight in the home Of its birth.
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