Twelve Lectures on the History of Pedagogy, Delivered before the Cincinnati Teachers' Association

New York: American Book Company. Near Fine. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 9-130, (2) pages; New York: Near Fine. 1874. First Edition. Viii, 9-130, (2) pages; Contents clean and complete in original brick coloured cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorative blind stamping to front board. OCLC 855695 William Nicholas Hailmann (1836 Glarus, Switzerland - 1920 Pasadena, California) was an American educator. He was a great proponent of Froebel He was a progressive educator and helped introduce the kindergarten into the United States. He taught natural science in the Louisville high schools from 1856 to 1865, and then directed the German and English Academy from 1865 to 1873, where he built the first kindergarten classroom in the United States. He eventually became president of the Froebel Institute of North America. He was superintendent of public schools of Laporte, Indiana, from 1883 to 1894. From 1894 to 1898 he superintended the Indian School Service of the United States and worked to hire more Native American teachers for the Service. He translated Froebel's Education of Man into English (1890) , and edited Erziehungsblaetter (1870-83) and Kindergarten Messenger and New Education (1876-84) . From 1883 to 1894, he was one of the chief contributors of the National Educators' Association in the interest of the kindergarten and other features of the new education. Contents: Lecture I: Importance of history of pedagogy : China and Japan; Lecture II: Greece : General features, Sparta, Lycurgus, Pythagoras, Athens, SolonLecture III: Greece : Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; Lecture IV: Rome : Numa Pompilius, General characteristics, Advent of Greek culture, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian; Lecture V: Christianity, The Sixteenth century, Bacon, Comenius; Lecture VI: Locke, Francke; Lecture VII: Rousseau; Lecture VIII: Influence of modern philosophers : Kant, Fichte, Richter, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Rosenkranz, Herbart, Benecke, Spencer; Lecture IX: Pestalozzi : biographical; Lecture X: Pestalozzi : his principles and views; Lecture XI: Frederic Froebel : kindergarten culture; Lecture XII: Summing up, Conclusion . ; Americana and American History, Philosophy and Religion, Most Recent Listing .