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Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...
It complements Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, which explains how to educate children. [2] The text espouses the importance of rational self-examination and its virtues when combating mental illness. Moral purity and sanity were, according to Locke, inextricably linked to self-scrutiny and mental freedom. [3]
Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education is an outline on how to educate this mind. Drawing on thoughts expressed in letters written to Mary Clarke and her husband about their son, [79] he expresses the belief that education makes the man—or, more fundamentally, that the mind is an "empty cabinet": [80]
John Locke, author of Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), painted by Godfrey Kneller in 1697. By the end of her life, Wollstonecraft had been involved in almost every arena of education: she had been a governess, a teacher, a children's writer, and a pedagogical theorist. Most of her works deal with education in some way.
The two most influential pedagogical works in 18th-century Europe were John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. In Original Stories and her other works on education, Wollstonecraft responds to these two works and counters with her own pedagogical theory. [citation needed]
Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England.
In 1693, John Locke published Some Thoughts Concerning Education. In describing the teaching of children, he declares, In describing the teaching of children, he declares, None of the things they are to learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos'd on them as a task.
Science of Education (book) Science, Art, and Methods of Teaching; Secondary Education for All; Secure the Base; Seven Myths about Education; The Shame of the Nation; Stuart Shanker; Some Thoughts Concerning Education