Uses of Education

Uses of Education
Author: Stephen Bygrave
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0838757251

What is education for? The question framed in the second half of the eighteenth century in England is still urgent. Posed in textbooks, histories, conduct books, economic treatises, novels, and other kinds of writing, it was asked about punishment, the classical curriculum, the low status of teachers, education of the poor, public school or private tutor, and the education of girls. Uses of Education shows the fundamental question to be about the potential and limits of Enlightenment thought as it seeks to be embodied in institutions.