The application of psychology to the science of education / by Johann Friedrich Herbart ; translated and edited ... Beatrice C. Mulliner.

  • Johann Friedrich Herbart
Date:
1898
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    PREFACE WHAT do we owe to Herbart, and what is the secret of the strange fascination which he exercises over the educational thinkers of to-day in Germany and America, and by which England is not altogether untouched ? Two things are usually cited as the legacy we owe to him:— 1. Clearer views on the doctrine of apperception. As his predecessor Kant, in opposition to the sensa- tional school of Locke and Hume, insisted on the necessary forms of thought, so has Herbart insisted on the importance of the subjective in every apperception, shown how every conception is modified by all precedent experience, by the “content” of the per- ceiving soul. 2. He has insisted on the unity of the Subject, protesting against the mode of regarding the soul as a collective noun, consisting of many faculties. Herbart fixes our attention on the One rather than on the Many. He deprecates all the one-sided develop- ments which mar the completeness of character. As we study his psychology, however, we find there