Outlines of Pedagogics Author:W. Rein Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I. Practical Pedagogics. The philosophical examination of the practical conditions under which education may take place is comprehended under the conc... more »eption of practical pedagogics. It aims to present and establish those common laws for the conditions of education which belong to a definite class. The process of education is accomplished in certain concrete forms which change according to the standard of the place, time, and persons, and which stand in certain relations to the central points of the external organization of society, to the family, community, State, and Church. It is the task of practical pedagogics to point out these relations, to indicate the equilibrium of forces which constitute modern society, with reference to the organization of the school system,—in short, to present the various forms of education under which the cultivation of the rising generation is being accomplished, and to reveal their best organization. It aims to survey the entire system and organization of education, to determine the relative position of its single departments, and to set the limits between them according to their purpose and form. Practical pedagogics surveys the manifold concrete forms of life in the light of certain conceptions; in inquiring into the place, time, and persons upon which education is encumbent, it arrives at the following aggroupment. 1. Education takes place in the home, in the family. Here it is chiefly the private education of the individual. 2. Education is also cared for in special private institutions. Here it appears as private education in masses. 3. Education is undertaken by the public schools, where it appears in the form of public education in masses. We meet with education in these three forms; they are to be briefly discus...« less