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.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
One of these is of great importance and has probably had more and better influence upon the "hearing of lessons" than all others put together; namely, the analysis by herbart of a recitation into five successive steps.
"How We Think"
John Dewey
It was almost inevitable that speculative minds, starting from this point, should diverge into one or other of three courses; either following the line of the "subject" exclusively, and treating the "object" as a superfluous incumbrance, so as to reach, as Schulz and Maimon did, a pure Subjective Idealism, akin to utter Skepticism; or following the line of the "object," and giving it greater prominence than it had in the system of Kant, so as to lay the foundation, as Jacobi and herbart did, of a system of Objective Certitude; or keeping both in view, and attempting, as Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel did, to blend the two into one, so as to reduce them to systematic unity.
"Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws"
James Buchanan