Herbart maintained that a science of education was possible, and he furthered the idea that education should be a subject for university study.He stressed the need for moral education through experience and brought the work of teaching into the area of conscious method. According to his theory of apperception, new ideas, when properly presented to the student, become linked to existing ideas and form a system of associated ideas called the apperceptive mass.

 

In the Herbart Educational Theory the teacher leads the process. The student pays attention and works on the exercise. The student does the exercises following the models given by teachers.