Note E3 — Chapter XII · THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN A NECESSITY.

“This method of object teaching is perhaps the greatest service which the naturalistic school has rendered to the cause of education. Hinted at by Rabelais and Locke, still more largely developed by Rousseau, it has received, in the last century, a more accurate and scientific form, and is probably destined to become the source of a new curriculum in which literature will only hold a secondary place.”—“Educational Theories,” p. 109. By Oscar Browning, M.A. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.