Uses of Education: Readings in Enlightenment in England

by Stephen Bygrave

This ambitious book takes education as a paradigm for eighteenth-century thinking, especially "Enlightenment." That egalitarian project required limits on those who could profit. Hundreds of English educational treatises between 1762 and 1800 demonstrate that education emerged as the concern of a modern public then. The book engages on philosophical and historical fronts in an informed, competent, and readable manner. Although not a history of education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483204
• ISBN13: 9781611483208
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 238 Pages