Une Philosophie de l'Education: John Locke
"The Philosopher of Freedom."
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Read the book on line: Locke, Some
Thoughts Concerning Education
The French
translation is also available (Traduction française de G. Compayré
en 1889.)
The Educational Theory of John Locke (Analysts: W. Gussie, J. Jingeleski)
Excerpt:
IV. THEORY OF LEARNING : What is learning? How are skills and knowledge acquired?
The learning that gentlemen should possess is general, according to Locke (Deighton, p 21). Learning is the last and least part of education. Learning is a great help to virtue and wisdom, but without them it produces only the more foolish or worse men (Tarcov, p. 198)
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V. THEORY OF TRANSMISSION: Who is to teach? By what methods? What will the curriculum be?
The goal of the gentlemen's education cannot be achieved by sending him to a school. Learning should be superintended by a tutor assisted by genuinely interested parents (Deighton, p. 22
For working classes, poor children of both sexes between the ages of 3-14 should be compelled to attend school with "teachers" (Deighton p. 20)
Locke attacked ordinary method of teaching - manners learned by example, latin learned by speaking (cranston p. 16)
The best way to get men to do what is wanted is not t terrify or force them but to motivate them, to arouse and then rely on desires, while letting them think, not without justice, that they are acting for their own sakes and of their own free will (Tarcov, p. 98)
Methods for poor - learn by practice; for gentlemen - bring pupil to practice the activities of the gentlemanly ideal until they become habitual (Deighton, p., 22)
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