Includes index.

I. Introduction -- II. Plato -- III. Quintilian -- IV. St. Augustine -- V. Comenius -- VI. Locke -- VII. Rousseau -- VIII. Kant -- IX. J. S. Mill -- X. John Dewey -- XI. In Retrospect.

This book would have been much longer coming to the light without my mother's unstinting assistance in research, and my father's kind willingness to be neglected by her. It would have been difficult to organize without the patient and efficient help of the staff of the library of the Johns Hopkins University - notably of Martha Hubbard, Sue Kemp, Loretta Reinhardt, ang Louis Kuethe - and without the critical reading of it by students working in that university for the degree of master of arts in teaching.