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Herbart

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[her-bahrt] / ˈhɛr bɑrt /

noun

  1. Johann Friedrich 1776–1841, German philosopher and educator.


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“Her willingness to push has definitely rubbed members the wrong way,” said Paula Herbart, the head of the Michigan Education Association.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2021

“It doesn’t cost the same amount of money to educate every student, and this budget proposal reflects that reality,” said president Paula Herbart.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2019

His rambling Left-Bank apartment is shared with stout, 82-year-old writer Maria Van Rysselberghe, her daughter and son-in-law, Newspaperman Pierre Herbart.

From Time Magazine Archive

He agreed with Herbart regarding the philosophy of apperception so far as it related to intellectual culture, but he painted Jo entirely out of harmony with Herbart’s psychology in relation to soul development.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

With a strong bent towards fully-differentiated and individualised experience Herbart conjoined a conviction of the need of logical analysis to prevent us being carried away by the first-come and inadequate generalities.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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