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Excerpt from The French Tradition in Education: Ramus to Mme Necker De Saussure The history of Education in France affords an extensive and profitable field for research. Much valuable work has already been accomplished; the teachings of such reformers as Rabelais, Montaigne, and Rousseau are familiar to every training-college student, while the school practice of the Jesuits and the Port-Royalists is described in every text-book of educational history. But there are many aspects of the subject which have not yet been presented to readers in this country or even, in any detail, in France itself, although the original sources which are available present a vast amount of material. It is with the object, therefore, of filling in some of the existing lacunæ that the present volume has been prepared. It is doubtless true that education is coterminous with life itself, for, in a sense, all experience is educative. At the same time it is advisable to give terms their customary connotation and in the present case to limit education to those formative processes which aim at preparing the future citizen for a life of usefulness and service. In this book the outlook is still further restricted, for I have dealt primarily with the education of children and adolescents up to the end of what to-day would be called secondary school age; I have purposely set aside a consideration of higher education such as is the special province of the modern university. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.