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Excerpt from A Guide to the History of Education Writers on the history of education have taken at least three very different standpoints from which to view the nature, scope, and purpose of their subject. Some have seen its chief purpose in the edification of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, and have regarded the study as one of exclusively professional interest. The main concern of others is the evolution of educational theory; for some of this second group the range of their survey is as wide as human culture itself, with small reference to time or place. A third group, probably the smallest of the three in number, understands by the term "history of education" the history of certain concrete institutions (in the main, schools and universities) which have been charged with specific duties at particular times in particular places. These last writers are more concerned about whatever has been done with an educational purpose than about what individual thinkers believed should have been done. 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.