How To Use Herbart In A Sentence
- Taking Pestalozzi's idea that the purpose of the teacher was to give pupils new experiences through contacts with real things, without assuming that the pupils already had such, Herbart elaborated the process by which new knowledge is assimilated in terms of what one already knows, and from his elaboration of this principle the doctrine of apperception -- that is, the apperceiving or comprehending of new knowledge in terms of the old -- has been fixed as an important principle in educational psychology. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
- Herbart's moral education theory is based on his psychological and philosophical ideas.
- If the mental process of Herbart's four periods is to come naturally, it would be essential that great interest in the object should exist; it is interest which would keep the mind amused, or, as the famous pedagogist would say, plunged in the idea, and would maintain it in a system nevertheless embracing multilateral ideas; and hence it is necessary that "interest" should be awakened and should persist in all instruction. Spontaneous Activity in Education
- The term embodying the concept of form A reappeared in J.F. Herbart's aesthetics and especially in the writings of his disciple, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- This equation, which later came to be known as Weber's Law, [19] was crucial to the development of psychology because it apparently demonstrated that where Herbart had failed in his aprioristic construction of mathematical regularities of mind, experimentation could succeed. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
