Excerpt from Vives: On Education: A Translation of the De Tradendis Disciplinis of Juan Luis Vives Was Vives a greater thinker on educational matters than Erasmus? The answer which most people would give to this question probably would be: "We never heard of Vives, and we are perfectly familiar with the outstanding importance of the work of Erasmus, therefore we are provisionally prepared to stand by the premier position of Erasmus. If we err, we err in good company, for have not the intervening centuries placed Erasmus as the leader of the progressive forces of the Renascence?" Nevertheless, even in a matter of such a widely spread tradition as that of Erasmus' leadership in education, at least if the term is understood in the sense of insight into educational principles and a comprehensive treatment of its problems, it is clear that the student of the history of education should preserve an open mind. Moreover, he will realise that he cannot form an opinion on the subject until he has read at least as much of the works on education written by Vives, as he has read of Erasmus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.