The Scottish Enlightenment and the American college ideal.
Series: Teachers College studies in education
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Columbia University
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Education, Higher -- United States -- History; Enlightenment -- United States; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; United States -- Civilization -- Scottish influences
Table of contents: title: The Scottish universities in the Enlightenment.; title: Log colleges, revivals, and the mother church of Scotland: the Presbyterian academy.; title: Old Side educator: Francis Alison.; title: The Scottish Enlightenment comes to Princeton: John Witherspoon.; title: Education, progress, and polygamy: Samuel Stanhope Smith.; title: From Nottingham Academy to the Edinburgh of America: Benjamin Rush.; title: Science, society, and the curriculum: conclusions.; title: Bibliography (p. [249]-280).; title: Appendix (p. 281-284): Presbyterian academies.