REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1897-98.

VOLUME 1.

CONTAINING PART I.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

I. First part of the middle ages (700-1200). Ecclesiastical influence; convent and cathe-

dral schools

Charlemagne...

Noted schools of that period.

Methods of instruction..

Nobility and people

II. Second part of the middle ages (1200-1500). Universities and particular schools

Latin city schools.....

Schools for reading and writing..

LXXVIII

LXXX

LXXXIV

XCIX

CXIX

3

5

5

7

8

10

11

20

23

26

26

29

30

31

34

35

37

38

39

41

42

44

45

...

(b) The seventeenth century. National and new education..

Modern French education-academies for the nobles.

Instruction in German; Duke Ernest (the pious) of Gotha..

Private schools......

(e) The eighteenth century. Evolution of the modern university

Gymnasia (classical schools) to the middle of the eighteenth century.

The new humanism

The German school system; potent influences

Francke and Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia

Friedrich II and his code of school regulations

Private schools......

Modern high schools.