Source: Herbert Spencer, ch. 2 in Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (A. L. Curt Company, Publishers, 1891) 5-93.
Concepts
- The unfolding mind
- Natural process of mental evolution
- Psychology
- Organization of knowledge
- A culture of the powers of observation
- Object-lessons
- Self-education
- Self-sufficingness
- Development of the faculties
- Unconscious learning
- (Guidance and discipline)
- Early civilization of the child
- Early civilization of the race
- ‘Unhelped’
- Self-development
- The empirical
- The rational
- Self-evolution
- Self-instruction
- Self-mastered
- Moral development
- Happiness
- Gratification
- (Lifelong learning)
- Self-culture
Inventory of Questions
- What is the relationship between the systems of education and the social states which they have co-existed?
- What political trends favor better educational practices?
- What is the role of dissent in education?
- What are the differences between the education of the past and the education of the present?
- What is the old approach to teaching language?
- What is the role of grammar in education?
- What is the importance of the element of observation in education?
- Why should the individual learn in the order that the race learned the Sciences?
- How do abstractions become relevant in the learning of the child?
- What is the role of the pleasure-pain mechanism in learning?
- What is the importance of curriculum?
- What would be a possible objection to freedom of action in education?
