Essays on Professional Education Paperback / softback
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Education series
Paperback / softback
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The scientist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford, was known for his significant mechanical inventions.
He was a Member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, where he exchanged ideas with other scientists, including James Watt.
However, Edgeworth was also greatly interested in education: drawing on his own experiences of raising twenty children (by his four wives), in 1788 he published, with his daughter, the poet Maria Edgeworth, his famous two-volume Practical Education (also reissued in this series).
The work was very influential, and led to this book, published in 1809, a series of essays on professional education (again written in co-operation with Maria), dealing with the nature of different occupations in a state.
He discusses education for the professions, including the Church, the Army and the Law, but also refers to the education of statesmen, gentlemen and even princes.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:510 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/2012
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- ISBN:9781108047463
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:510 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/05/2012
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- ISBN:9781108047463
