Studies in the History of Education Opinion from the Renaissance

First published in 1969. This volume includes selected historical studies of the various schools of thought and educational opinion. The author looks at the period of transition from the scholastic philosophy and monastic and cathedral schools down to these times, which may be regarded as the beginning of the Modern period, taking in such writings of Vittorino da Feltre, Roger Ascham, Francis Bacon, Comenius, John Milton and John Locke.