Pages 172 to 218.

1. Purpose and method of Saint Cyran’s “Little Schools.”

2. Actual results of English public-school influences as opposed to St. Cyran’s theory.

3. Port-Royalists’ restoration of the mother tongue as the subject-matter of elementary instruction.

4. Literature study as distinguished from grammar study of Latin and Greek.

5. Logic, or the act of thinking.

6. The principles set forth in the pedagogic writings of the Port-Royalists.

1. Francis Bacon: first great leader of the realists—of those who sought to know the facts of Nature rather than the thoughts of man.

2. Charles Hoole: “one of the pioneer educators of his century.”

3. Dury and Petty: extending the doctrines of realism.

4. Milton: elevating the moral nature to the first place in his theory of a complete education.