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1. His products of education: wisdom, eloquence, and piety.

2. His emphasis upon the study of things.

3. His standard of physical training.

1. His prime product of education: wisdom, in thought and action; not knowledge.

2. The practical errors in his theory of educational methods.

1. His method of Latin instruction.

1. His principles of education as identical with the best of to-day.

2. His recognition of the need for trained teachers.

1. His practical failure due to the characteristics of the man, not to faults in his principles of education.

2. Nine cardinal principles of didactics as gathered from his writings upon method.

1. The first to treat education in a scientific spirit.

2. Based educational method upon an understanding of the nature of the child.

3. Insisted upon the direct study of external Nature, and upon the learning of words only in connection with things.

4. Recognized education as the development of all the faculties of body and of mind.

5. Demanded the equal instruction of both sexes.

6. Taught that languages must be learned through practice, not by means of rules.

7. Made provision for education through the hand as well as through the eye and ear.