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In many writings Aristotle expresses interest in educational problems in order to contribute to the formation of men.
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St. Augustine in his Confessions speaks of the importance of educating with love.
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Women took their time for dressing their children so that adults don’t have to pay attention of them.
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Luis Vives expressed an interest in the child's development, for individual differences, for the education of " abnormal" and the need to adapt education to individual cases and levels.
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Some thinkers were concerned to adapt education to the child and criticize traditional teaching practices.
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There was a massive mortality and abandonment of children in the streets and churches.
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Abad Bérulle wrote: “There is no worse, more vile and abject, after death, that childhood. A concern for children was observed. The child is conceived as a homunculus (miniature man).
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Comenius said “we should educate both boys and girls and the role of the mother as first educator”.
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Felipe prohibits grammar taught in the homes of "foundlings" breaking the tradition of the church in favor of the lower classes.
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Locke insists on the importance of experience and habits proposing a vision of the newborn as a tabula rasa. the child is not born good or evil, but all he gets to do and be dependent on their experiences.
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Creation of the first hospital for abandoned children
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The bishop Comenius highlights the importance of educating everyone and affirms family is important in education.
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The piece of Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Émile ou de l’éducation”. It contains basic principles of how to educate children. His most influential idea is “the child is naturally good”.
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Decrease in infant mortality : the child is no longer an "inevitable loss" and gradually disappears the previous idea of the child as "necessary waste"
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Froebel highlights the importance of developing games for children and the need for interaction between parents and children.
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The need to provide schooling was a primary goal because children stop going to work and they had left too many hours of entertainment.
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Teaching is adapted to the conditions and characteristics of children based on instructionist methods.
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Teaching is adapted to the conditions and characteristics of children based on instructionist methods.
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The zerda plan raises the importance of encouraging children in observation and research to feel the joy of discovery
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They begin to raise questions about whether the teaching objective is for all children or whether it is suitable only for young children.
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Appear the legal category of " minor" focusing on the punitive mechanisms - care.
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It is speaking of " active methods " in the "Applied Psychology to Education Handbook". In Pestalozzi childhood is assumed as a chronological time. Pestalozzi exceeds the concept of childhood as a place of sin and error, to point as the space of the "confused intuitions "
