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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 179 5 200 x 127 mm 3 vols |
MARIA EDGEWORTH Practical Education 1801 Maria Edgeworth and her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth argued that learning should be accomplished through pleasure and curiosity, and that the child should be taught something about everything. Chapters on temper, or toys, sit beside others on grammar, or mechanics. Attacked in its own time (by Jane Austen and others) for its emphasis on filling the child’s head with superficial facts, and implicitly criticised by Wordsworth and Coleridge for hostility to the imagination, Practical Education nevertheless represented a huge advance on previous educational theory and established itself as the most influential work on education of its generation. First published in two quarto volumes in 1798, it was reissued in 1801 in the three octavo volumes on which our facsimile is based. £125 $225
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