A HANDBOOK OF REFERENCE ON ALL SUBJECTS CONNECTED PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIRST EDITION. THE OBJECT kept in view by the writers of this work has been to make it useful to all who take an interest in educational questions, and espe-. cially to those engaged in the work of teaching, whether in Elementary, Secondary, or the Higher Schools. Within the limits of a small Cyclopædia an exhaustive treatment of the great variety of subjects dealt with is not to be expected. It has therefore been the aim of the Contributors to give a telescopic rather than a microscopic view of the educational facts and questions discussed, and to bring their purely pedagogic features into clear outline. References to authorities have been given at the conclusion of the more important articles only, as a carefully compiled Bibliography of Pedagogy is given as an Appendix to the book. The biographical section of the work does not, for obvious reasons, include notices of living persons. A. E. F. |