Frases de johann friedrich herbart biography

Johann Friedrich Herbart (4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline.

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• The intention with which the educator is to approach his work, this practical reflection, provisionally detailed down to the measures which our present state of knowledge suggests we should choose, is to my mind the first half of pedagogics.

  But there must be a second in which the possibility of education is theoretically explained and presented with its limitations in the light of changing circumstances.

  • Herbart (1982b, p. 22), as cited in: Norbert Hilgenheger, "Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841)." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny 3-4 (1999): 5-26.

• It is of course a familiar precept that the teacher must try to arouse the interest of his pupils in all that he teaches.

  However, this precept is generally meant and understood to denote the idea that learning is the end and interest the means to att