ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the fact, that the very slow rate at which progress in education takes place. Since the thirteenth century, the University of Paris had been a centre of light and a resort for students. In the reform of the University of Paris the State became an educator. The statutes of the new university were promulgated by the order and the will of the most Christian and most invincible king of France and Navarre, Henry IV. From 1680 to 1700, a real rejuvenescence of studies, was initiated in part by Rollin. He has summed up his educational experience, an experience of fifty years, in a book which has become celebrated under the title of Treatise on Studies. He has given people a compendium of astronomy, of physics, and of natural history. He was the first to introduce the study of history into French colleges. It is moral edification that Rollin seeks in philosophical studies, as in historical studies.
