Excerpt from Meaning of Education, as Interpreted by Herbart "The ossential task of education must be to cultivate in the mind of the youth the power of vivid and reverent realisation of the external and internal universe. . . . Let him have a broad general vision of the wonders of his dwelling-place and the glories and miseries of his kind." "Not to ' train the mind nor teach the pupil to think' but to widen the range of intercourse, is the pressing business of the school." "The child faces two kinds of environment - one consisting of real things and situations, to which adjustment is made by intelligent learning; the other the 'spiritual' environment, consisting of the accumulation of knowledge by the race. The school is the instrument of adjustment . . . The teacher mediates the products of culture." "Education is the process in which the educand assimilates the external world and is assimilated by it." 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.