"Practical Education" is an educational treatise written by Maria Edgeworth and her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth. It is a comprehensive theory of education that combines the ideas of philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as well as of educational writers such as Thomas Day, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, and Catharine Macaulay. The Edgeworths' theory of education was based on the premise that a child's early experiences are formative and that the associations they form early in life are long-lasting. They also encourage hands-on learning and include suggestions of «experiments» that children can perform and learn fun. In Edgeworths' work, the attention of the child appears as a key site for pedagogical work and interventions. Following Locke's emphasis on the importance of concrete language over abstract, the Edgeworths' argued that words should clearly indicate «distinct ideas». This contributed to what Romanticist Alan Richardson calls «their controversial positions», including their resistance to reading fairy tales to children or discussing religion with them. Contents: Toys Tasks On Attention Servants Acquaintance On Temper On Obedience On Truth On Rewards and Punishments On Sympathy and Sensibility On Vanity, Pride, and Ambition Books On Grammar and Classical Literature On Geography and Chronology On Arithmetic Geometry On Mechanics Chemistry On Public and Private Education On Female Accomplishments, &c. Memory and Invention Taste and Imagination Wit and Judgment Prudence and Economy Summary Notes, containing Conversations and Anecdotes of Children
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Maria Edgeworth. Practical Education
Practical Education
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. TOYS
CHAPTER II. TASKS
CHAPTER III. ON ATTENTION
CHAPTER IV. SERVANTS
CHAPTER V. ACQUANTAINCE
CHAPTER VI. ON TEMPER
CHAPTER VII. ON OBEDIENCE
CHAPTER VIII. ON TRUTH
CHAPTER IX. ON REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER X. ON SYMPATHY AND SENSIBILITY
CHAPTER XI. ON VANITY, PRIDE, AND AMBITION
CHAPTER XII. BOOKS
Volume 2
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CHAPTER XIII. ON GRAMMAR, AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
CHAPTER XIV. ON GEOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY
CHAPTER XV. ON ARITHMETIC
CHAPTER XVI. GEOMETRY
CHAPTER XVII. ON MECHANICS
CHAPTER XVIII. CHEMISTRY
CHAPTER XIX. ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATION
CHAPTER XX. ON FEMALE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, MASTERS, AND GOVERNESSES
CHAPTER XXI. MEMORY AND INVENTION
CHAPTER XXII. TASTE AND IMAGINATION
CHAPTER XXIII. ON WIT AND JUDGMENT
CHAPTER XXIV. ON PRUDENCE AND ECONOMY
CHAPTER XXV. SUMMARY
NOTES, CONTAINING CONVERSATIONS AND ANECDOTES OF CHILDREN
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Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth
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Whilst our pupils occupy and amuse themselves with observation, experiment, and invention, we must take care that they have a sufficient variety of manual and bodily exercises. A turning-lathe, and a work-bench, will afford them constant active employment; and when young people can invent, they feel great pleasure in the execution of their own plans. We do not speak from vague theory; we have seen the daily pleasures of the work-bench, and the persevering eagerness with which young people work in wood, and brass, and iron, when tools are put into their hands at a proper age, and when their understanding has been previously taught the simple principles of mechanics. It is not to be expected that any exhortations we could use, could prevail upon a father, who happens to have no taste for mechanics, or for chemistry, to spend any of his time in his children's laboratory, or at their work-bench; but in his choice of a tutor, he may perhaps supply his own defects; and he will consider, that even by interesting himself in the daily occupations of his children, he will do more in the advancement of their education, than can be done by paying money to a hundred masters.
We do not mean to confine young people to the laboratory or the work-bench, for exercise; the more varied exercises, the better. Upon this subject we shall speak more fully hereafter: we have in general recommended all trials of address and dexterity, except games of chance, which we think should be avoided, as they tend to give a taste for gambling; a passion, which has been the ruin of so many young men of promising talents, of so many once happy families, that every parent will think it well worth his while to attend to the smallest circumstances in education, which can prevent its seizing hold of the minds of his children.
