Jean Frederic Herbart and Education by Instruction

Jean Frederic Herbart (1776-1841) was at once a schoolmaster and a profound philosopher; and if it could be said of him that he was " the father of modern psychology," he has no less a claim to be considered the founder of a scientific pedagogy, with psychology as its basis.

Gabriel Compayré is the author of History of Pedagogy, Montaigne and the Education of the Judgment, Peter Abelard and the Rise of the Modern Universities and Jean Jacques Rousseau and Education from Nature.