Essays on education in the early Republic
Because they recognized themselves as being engaged in the making of a nation, the essayists thought readily about education as a national problem and as a national opportunity. These essaysist revealed a bias toward "the good of society" rather than "the good of the individual."...
| Main Author: | Rudolph, Frederick. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1965.
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| Physical Description: |
xxv, 389 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series: |
John Harvard library.
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Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Benjamin Rush:
- A plan for the establishment of public schools and the diffusion of knowledge in Pennsylvania; to which are added, thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic; addressed to the legislature and citizens of the state
- 2.
- Benjamin Rush:
- Thoughts upon female education, accommodated to the present state of society, manners, and government of the United States of America
- 3.
- Noah Webster:
- On the education of youth in America
- 4.
- Robert Coram:
- Political inquiries: to which is added, a plan for the general establishment of schools throughout the United States
- 5.
- Simeon Doggett:
- A discourse on education, delivered at the dedication and opening of Bristol Academy, the 18th day of July, A.D. 1796
- 6.
- Samuel Harrison Smith:
- Remarks on education: illustrating the close connection between virtue and wisdom, to which is annexed a system of liberal education; which having received the premium awarded by the American Philosophical Society, December 15th, 1797, is now published by their order
- 7.
- Amable-Louis-Rose de Lafitte du Courteil:
- Proposal to demonstrate the necessity of a national institution in the United States of America, for the education of children of both sexes; to which is joined, a project of organization, etc.
- 8.
- Samuel Knox:
- An essay on the best system of liberal education, adapted to the genius of the government of the United States; comprehending also, an uniform general plan for instituting and conducting public schools, in this country, on principles of the most extensive utility; to which is prefixed, an address to the legislature of Maryland on that subject.