Textbook in the History of Education

“These two volumes supply a long-felt need in the teaching of the history of education. The Source Book, which was the first to appear, covers the Greek and Roman period, and is the first of a series of such source-books intended to supplement the Text-Book, which has just appeared.
This volume is designed as a text; hence the sources are classified into periods, in order to afford the student aid in their interpretation, and each group of sources is accompanied by a brief introductory sketch indicating the general setting of the period to which it belongs and the main principles of interpretation to be followed. These introductory chapters furnish little more than a syllabus for study; the interpretation is purposely left in a large degree to the student.
The book aims to meet the needs of the average student of the history of education-needs which involve, on the one hand, a widening and deepening of the general background of knowledge of human culture, as achieved in the successive efforts of the race toward self-instruction, and, on the other, hand, a more definite conception of the meaning, nature, process, and purpose of education which will “lift him above the narrow prejudices, the restricted outlook, the foibles, and- the petty trials of the average schoolroom, and afford him the fundamentals of an everlasting faith as broad as human nature and as deep as the life of the race.”
Book Review by H. HEATH BAWDEN. VASSAR COLLEGE, published in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Mar., 1906), pp. 693-696, The University of Chicago Press.