ABSTRACT
The three philosophers Kant, Fichte, and Herbart approached the science of education through the study of psychology. With Kant and Fichte it formed but a minor and subordinate part of their investigations, with Herbart it was the main object of inquiry. Kant wrote no special treatise on education. He lectured at the University of Konigsberg on pedagogics, as on many other subjects; and notes of these lectures were published by one of his pupils just before his death. The educational theories of Fichte could not be fully explained without a more complete exposition of his general system of philosophy than our present purpose admits of. The aesthetic judgment which, according to Herbart's philosophy, is the source not only of the higher pleasures of art, but of morality, is developed last. Herbart, on the other hand, may be regarded as the founder of modern scientific pedagogics. In the list of German philosophers he stands as the founder of modern German psychology.
