ABSTRACT
Education as a plastic art has never been exhibited in a more favorable light than in this history of Fenelon's teaching. Fenelon, as an educator of women, was the founder of a school. He wrote the first classical work of French pedagogy, and he is the head of a school of educators. Fenelon's very decided taste for agreeable studies, determines him to place in the foremost rank of the child's intellectual occupations, fables and history. The great number of authors and many teachers have been inspired by his thoughts. One of them is Madame de Lambert. In her Counsels to her Son, and especially in her Counsels to her Daughter, she has taken up the tradition of Fenelon with greater breadth and freedom of spirit. In 1680 Fenelon wrote The Education of Girls that is a work of gentleness and goodness, of a complaisant and amiable grace, which is pervaded by a spirit of progress.
