Excerpt from Herbart and Education by Instruction We shall try to give an idea of this vast system, with the intention of throwing light on a theory of education, which is at times obscure and always complicated; we shall, so to say, try to make this somewhat muddy stream clearer and this not without the fear of weakening it by our abridg ment and of making it shallower by our explana tions. 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.