education, literature of
education, literature of.Before the 17th cent. educational writing sought mainly to improve the classical curriculum ( Ascham 's The Scholemaster, 1570 ), but calls for change came from Milton (A Small Tractate on Education, 1650 ) and Locke (Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693 ). Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Maria Edgeworth 's Practical Education ( 1798 ), influenced by Rousseau , concerned the education of both sexes from infancy onwards, and had sections on moral development as well as on grammar and arithmetic. In the late 18th and 19th cents. writing, particularly by Nonconformists, centred on the irrelevance of the classical curriculum and the need for a secular, scientific, and technological education. Such aims were expressed by Joseph Priestley (Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for a Civil and Active Life, 1765 ); Godwin (Enquiry Concerning Political...
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