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General Editor: Professor A. A. COCK. 



The present age is seeing an unprecedented advance in educa- 

 tional theory and practice ; its whole outlook on the ideals and 

 methods of teaching is being widened. The aim of this new series 

 is to present the considered views of teachers of wide experience, 

 and eminent ability, upon the changes in method involved in this 

 development, and upon the problems which still remain to be 

 solved, in the several branches of teaching with which they are 

 most intimately connected. It is hoped, therefore, that these 

 volumes will be instructive not only to teachers, but to all who are 

 interested in the progress of education. 



Each volume contains an index and a comprehensive biblio- 

 graphy of the subject with which it deals. 



EDUCATION : ITS DATA AND 

 FIRST PRINCIPLES. 



By T. PERCY NUNN, M.A., D.Sc., 



PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ; AUTHOR OF " THE AIMS 

 AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD," "THE TEACHING OF ALGEBRA," ETC. 



Crown Svo. Cloth. 6s. net. 



Dr. Nunn's volume really forms an introduction to the whole 

 series, and deals with the fundamental questions which lie at the 

 root of educational inquiry. The first is that of the aims of educa- 

 tion. These, he says, are always correlative to ideals of life, and, 

 as ideals of life are eternally at variance, their conflict will be 

 reflected in educational theories. The individualism of post- 

 reformation Europe gradually gave way to a reaction culminating 

 in Hegel, which pictured the state as the superentity of which the 

 single life is but a fugitive element. The logical result of this 

 Hegelian ideal the world has just seen, and educators of to-day 

 have to decide whether to foster this sinister tradition or to help 

 humanity to escape from it to something better. What we need 

 is a doctrine which, while admitting the importance of the social 

 element in man, reasserts the importance of the individual. 



This notion of individuality as the ideal of life is worked out at 

 length, and on the results of this investigation are based the con- 

 clusions which are reached upon the practical problem of 

 embodying this ideal in teaching. Among other subjects, the 

 author deals with Routine and Ritual, Play, Nature and Nurture, 

 Imitation, Instinct ; and there is a very illuminating last chapter 

 on "The School and the Individual." 



