Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . FROEBEL, FOUNDER OF KINDERGARTENS.(The Perry Pictures. Copyright, 1898, by E. A. Perry, Maiden, Mass.) tant admiration from foreign critics. While there has been much uneven-ness in quality, yet Americans have no reason to feel ashamed of their con-tribution to pedagogical literature. The best wo
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . FROEBEL, FOUNDER OF KINDERGARTENS.(The Perry Pictures. Copyright, 1898, by E. A. Perry, Maiden, Mass.) tant admiration from foreign critics. While there has been much uneven-ness in quality, yet Americans have no reason to feel ashamed of their con-tribution to pedagogical literature. The best work has been done in thediscussion of specific questions, rather than in an elaboration of general 520 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY ideals. Administration, with its manifold problems, has appealed strongly tothe American genius ; and consequently the greatest names of the century arethose of men who have devoted themselves to some practical work, the idealsand details of which they have thoroughly mastered, and so have left endur-ing monuments of their lives work. The great achievement of the century in the United States has been the. DR. THOMAS ARNOLD. OF RUGBY, ENGLAND. (Courtesy of The School Journal, New York.) establishment of a system of free and public schools. Like most of thenations intellectual impulses, this spirit seems to have come from New Eng-land. There, the democratic ideals of the people led to an early apprecia-tion of the necessity for universal education. There can be little doubt thatit was from the Puritan settlements in Massachusetts that the original im-pulse toward universal education came. Thus, in 1647, the Colonial Assem-bly required that each town containing one hundred families should establish EDUCATION DURING THE CENTURY 521 a grammar school to prepare youths for the university. During colonialtimes more and more schools were steadily established. But the movement,which was zealously supported in New England and encouraged in the Mid
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