BY THE SAME AUTHOR. LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE AND ART OF EDUCATION. Price Sixpence each. I. PESTALOZZI: THE INFLUENCE OF HIS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. II. FRÖBEL AND THE KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM. Second Edition. III. THE SCIENCE AND ART OF EDUCATION. IV. THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE-TEACHING. AN ESSAY ON THE CULTURE OF THE OBSERVING POWERS OF CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY IN CONNECTION WITH THE STUDY OF BOTANY. BY ELIZA A. YOUMANS. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, F.C.P. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 2s. 6d. HENRY S. KING & CO., LONDON. A VISIT TO GERMAN SCHOOLS NOTES OF A PROFESSIONAL TOUR To inspect some of the Kindergartens, Primary Schools, Public WITH CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES BY JOSEPH PAYNE Late Professor of Education to the College of Preceptors, London; PREFATORY NOTE BY THE Editor. HIS little book was founded on Notes taken by Mr. PAYNE during his tour in the autumn of 1874, and reduced to its present shape in the spring of 1875. Various causes hindered its publication until, after my father's return from his summer journey, the state of his own health and the shock of a painful bereavement made it impossible for him to give any further attention to the subject. The manuscript accordingly remained untouched up to the close of the Author's life and labours in April 1876, and was thus never fully prepared for the press, or finally corrected. Notwithstanding this drawback, and although the information conveyed is not perfectly recent, these brief notes cannot, it is thought, fail to be of value and interest, as recording the direct impressions, and embodying the mature judgment of a highly-qualified observer in matters of education. One explanation only it seems desirable to make. |