e, St., _City of God_, _Confessions_, 114.
conversion of, 114.
influence of, 18, 115.
life of, 114.
pedagogy, 115.
services to education, 101.
works of, used in monasteries, 119.

Augustus, age of, 74, 75.

Azarias, Brother, on La Salle, 228.
on the Simultaneous Method, 227.

Babylon, Saracenic school at, 140.
school of rabbis at, 44.

Bacon, Francis, character of, 206.
Comenius applies principles of, 214.
degradation of, 207.
Inductive Method introduced, 207, 208.
influence of, 18.
life of, 205.
Montaigne's influence on, 195.
new era in education, 209.
_Novum Organum_, 207.
object teaching of, 189.
on Jesuit schools, 186, 187.
pedagogy of, 208, 209.
political advancement of, 206.
reforms of, 204.

Bagdad, caliphs foster education, 145.
Saracenic school at, 140.

Barrett, influences Horace Mann, 285.

Basedow, _Elementary Book_ (_Elementarbuch_), 251.
failure of, 254.
life of, 250.
methods of teaching, 250.
pedagogy of, 253, 255, 256.
Philanthropin established, 251, 252.
professor at Soroee, 251.
writings of, 255.

Basel, center of printing industry, 162.

Basil the Great, life of, 106.
pedagogy of, 106.
services to education, 101.

Beautifying of schoolrooms, 197, 198.

Bell, Andrew, founds National Schools, 305.
Monitorial system of, 307.

Belles-Lettres, in Chinese education, 25.

Benedict, St., principles of, 117.

Benedictines, growth of, 117.
principles of, 117.
schools founded by, 118.
teachers, 118.

Berlin Conference, 236 _n_.

Bernsdorf, Danish minister of education, 251.

Besant, Walter, on Rabelais, 193, 194, 195.

Bible, only literature of early Christians, 95.
study of, 153.
translated by Alfred the Great, 131.
translated into German, 168.

Biographies of educators, 18.

Blankenburg, Froebel's school at, 276.

Bluntschli, advice to Pestalozzi, 260.

Board of Education in United States school system, 310, 311.

Board schools, established in England, 305.

Boatman, third caste in Egypt, 48.

Boccaccio, humanistic leader of Italy, 155, 157.
influences of, 151.

Body, care of, 221, 230.

Bologna, university established at, 124.

Boniface, of Germany, Benedictine teacher, 118.

_Book of Method_, Basedow's, 255.

Books, school, adoption of, 290.

Bouillon, Godfrey of, leads first crusade, 137.

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