Uses of education
Subtitle: readings in Enlightenment theory in England
By: Stephen Bygrave.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780838757253
Subjects: Education -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century; Education, Humanistic -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is education for?; title: Hewers of wood and drawers of water : Mandeville and Smith; title: Polite and British education : Chesterfield and Sheridan; title: "Strangers to refinement" : British education and Sparta, 1740-1790; title: Women's time : MaCaulay, Edgeworth, Wollstonecraft; title: Afterword.