Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects.
Title:
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects.
Author:
Spencer, Herbert.
ISBN:
9781775567431
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (648 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Herbert Spencer -- Introduction -- Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical -- PART I ON EDUCATION -- What Knowledge is of Most Worth? -- Intellectual Education -- Moral Education -- Physical Education -- PART II ESSAYS ON KINDRED SUBJECTS -- Progress: Its Law and Cause -- On Manners and Fashion -- On the Genesis of Science -- On the Physiology of Laughter -- On the Origin and Function of Music -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
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...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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