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Excerpt from Some Thoughts: Concerning Education The Germans, who hitherto have had the history of education in their own hands, have uniformly attributed an important part in it to one Englishman and one only - the philosopher Locke; and their first well-known historian, F. H. Ch. Schwarz, has asserted that modem pedagogy is more or less directly [a safe form of statement] the pedagogy of Locke. Die PÄdagogik und Didaktik der neuen Zeit ist die Locke'sche, mehr oder weniger folgerecht (quoted by Herbart, PÄd. Schriften ii. 329 in Beyer's Bibliothek). But so little has been thought of education in this country that our one classic has never been carefully edited, and has now been for some time out of print. An inquiring student was lately told that the only edition obtainable was the Tauchnitz. I have no doubt there are American editions; the whole work is certainly to be found in Henry Barnard's English Pedagogy; but our booksellers have not as yet had the enterprise or the good fortune of Columbus. It has lately occurred to at least two committees at once that an English edition was wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.