ABSTRACT
If there has been considerable progress made in education in the eighteenth century, it is due, in great part, to the efforts of the philosophers of that age. Condillac an acute and ingenious psychologist, established the natural order of the development of the sciences and the arts in the history of humanity. Diderot has written at least two treatises that belong to the history of education. Helvetius typifies what may be called the plastic theory in education, or the conception that the teacher, if wise enough, may ignore all differences in natural endo. Education for training, discipline, or culture, as distinguished from an education whose chief aim is to impart knowledge, receives definite recognition from Kant. Kant comes near accepting the opinion of Rousseau on the original innocence of man and the perfect goodness of his natural inclinations. The Encyclopaedist's vast collection which, under the name Encyclopedie, sums up the science and the philosophy of the eighteenth century.
