Excerpt from Three Historical Educators, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Herbart: A Lecture, Delivered at Torquay, February 17th, 1905, the Mayor of the Borough in the Chair Rousseau to study child nature instead of forcing it along lines only suitable for mature beings; to take the child into woods and valleys instead of introducing it, at too early a stage, to letters and books. Things before words, Concrete before abstract - these famous maxims, so prominent in Pestalozzi's later system of doctrine, were, to all intents and purposes, learnt by him from Rousseau. If any one desires in brief form a summary of the work of Rousseau at its best it may be found in the wise maxim, Don't expect an old head to stand on young shoulders. 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.