Fedchyshyn N. The didactic system of J. F. Herbart and its influence on the development of home education.

In Chapter I the regularities of the formation and the development of education in the country in XVIII and the first half of XIX century have been analyzed, preconditions and socially important factors as well as the influence on the formation of worldview and pedagogical views of the classic of German pedagogics have been determined. At that time polemics about the reform of the system of education entered a new phase of the overcoming of drawbacks for the sake of achieving harmonious combination of all-round development of pupils, intellectual and physical in particular. School education in Germany was grounded on teaching children to read, write and understand Bible.On the grounds of the results of primary source analysis the main stages of life and pedagogical creativity of the pedagogue have been traced and the importance of his practical pedagogical activity on the position of a tutor and in the seminary have been well-founded. In general it was a peculiar experimental data set for his pedagogical theory. As a result of such activity J.F. Herbart became the founder of Pedagogics as an independent and professional science.