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Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects

Although philosophers have been pontificating on education and pedagogy since ancient times, Victorian thinker Herbert Spencer's ideas about education proved to be instrumental in helping to shape modern thinking about teaching and learning. The four essays collected in this volume were particularly influential in helping to define the liberal arts curricula that would take hold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A must-read for educators, homeschooling proponents, or anyone interested in learning processes.

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  • "Although philosophers have been pontificating on education and pedagogy since ancient times, Victorian thinker Herbert Spencer's ideas about education proved to be instrumental in helping to shape modern thinking about teaching and learning. The four essays collected in this volume were particularly influential in helping to define the liberal arts curricula that would take hold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A must-read for educators, homeschooling proponents, or anyone interested in learning processes."@en
  • "Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. The four essays on education which Herbert Spencer published in a single volume in 1861 were all written and separately published between 1854 and 1859. Their tone was aggressive and their proposals revolutionary; although all the doctrines - with one important exception - had already been vigorously preached by earlier writers on education ..."@en

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  • "Essays on education and kindred subjects... (Introduction by Charles W. Eliot)"
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  • "Essays on education : and kindred subjects"
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  • "Eseuri despre educație"
  • "Essays on Education and kindred subjects. (Introduction by Charles W. Eliot.)"@en
  • "Essays on Education and kindred subjects. (Introduction by Charles W. Eliot.)"
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  • "Essays on education and kindred subjects"
  • "Eseuri despre educaţie"

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