THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF J. F. HERBART'S EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT.

There have been countless expositions of the educational thought of educationist J.F. Herbart, but they all tend to synthesize his doctrine and present it as a kind of composite. Even the standard histories of education seem to pay little attention to the sequence in which his ideas were built up over a period of thirty years, or give a clear indication of the particular works in which these may be found. Herbart's first educational writings show the continuing influence of Pestalozzi. In the latter year, in a kind of appendix to a edition of the "Idea," he made his first independent contribution.