Vives: On Education

Preface; Bibliography of Latin texts of de Disciplinis; Chronological table of the life of J. L. Vives; Introduction: 1. Vives: known and unknown; 2. Juan Luis Vives; 3. Vives on education; The Transmission of Knowledge: Dedicatory address; Vives' preface; Book I. Educational Origins: 1. Beginnings of society; 2. Beginnings of studies; 3. Arts and sciences; 4. God our highest good; 5. Divisions of knowledge; 6. Choice of books; Book II. Schools: 1. Schools and teachers; 2. The ideal school; 3. Choice of pupils; Book III. Language Teaching: 1. Latin and other languages; 2. The vernacular in teaching; 3. Latin speaking; 4. The course of training; 5. The reading of authors; 6. Latin authors; 7. The study of Greek; 8. Classical philology; 9. Vives' contemporaries; Book IV. Higher Studies: 1. Logic. Nature-study; 2. Disputations and the 'first philosophy'; 3. The study of rhetoric; 4. Imitation; 5. The mathematical sciences; 6. Auxiliary practical arts; 7. The training of the physician; Book V. Studies and Life: 1. Practical wisdom; 2. Historical studies; 3. Moral philosophy; 4. The study of law; Appendix. The Scholar's Life and Character: 1. The aim of studies; 2. The scholar and the world; 3. The scholar's difficulties; Index.