Robert Hebert Quick’s Essays on Educational Reformers is a classic survey of the great thinkers who shaped modern educational theory and practice. Quick discusses such figures as Comenius, Locke, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and others, examining their ideas about teaching, learning, and the development of the child.
The book made the history of educational thought accessible to teachers and helped spread the influence of reform-minded ideas in the English-speaking world. Quick writes clearly and sympathetically, drawing out the lasting contributions of each reformer. For students of education and anyone interested in how the principles of modern schooling were formed, it remains a valuable and widely respected introduction to the thinkers who transformed the way children are taught.