Some Thoughts Concerning Education
by John Locke
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458849496
Paperback|9781458849496
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: suaded, that this rough Draught of mine might be of some Use, if made more publick, touchd upon what will always be very prevalent with me: For I think it every Man's indis- pensible Duty, to do all the Service he can to his Country; and I see not what Difference he puts between himself and his Cattle, who lives without that Thought. This Subject jf. is of so great Concernment, and a right Way of Education is of so general Advantage, that did I find my Abilities answer my Wishes, I should not have needed Exhortations or Importunities from others. However, the Meanness of these Papers, and my just Distrust of them, shall not keep me, by the Shame of doing so little, from contributing my Mite, when there is no more requir'd of me than my throwing it into the publick Receptacle. And if there be any more of their Size and Notions, who HKd them so well, that they thought them worth printing, I may flatter myself they will not be lost Labour to every Body. I myself have been consulted of late by so many, who profess themselves at a loss how to breed their Children, and the early Corruption of Youth is now become so general a Complaint, that he cannot be thought wholly impertinent, who brings the Consideration of this Matter on the Stage, and offers something, if it be but to excite others, or afford Matter of Correction: for Errors in Education should be less in- dulgd than any. These, like Faults in the first Concoction, that are never mended in the second or third, carry their afterwards incorrigible Taint with them thro' all the Parts and Stations of Life. I am so far from being conceited of any Thing I have here offer'd, that I should not be sorry, even for your sake, if some one abler and fitter for such a Task would in a just The Epistle Dedicatory. kiii . Treatise of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458849496 |
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| ISBN-10 | 145884949X |
| Weight | 0.83 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $20.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 252 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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