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Although Locke’s name is inevitably associated with An Essay Concerning Human Understanding2 which may be said to have opened a new era in philosophical thought, his political ideas as set forth in the Two Treatises of Government3 had a more far-reaching influence on world opinion. In comparison with these epoch-making works his Some Thoughts Concerning Education4 may be regarded merely as a literary diversion, and, like the Essay, written ‘in patches and at distant times’. But for the fact that the Thoughts were by the same person as the Essay it would hardly merit attention; as Laslett puts it:5 ‘Everything else which he wrote was important because he, Locke of the Human Understanding, had written it. It was so with his Thoughts Concerning Education (1694).’
1632–1704. Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (London Longmans, Green & Co., 1957). Peter Laslett, John Locke: Two Treatise, of Government (Cambridge University Press, i960), ch. 2, ‘Locke the Mar and Locke the Writer’. D. J. O’Connor, John Locke (London: Penguir Books, 1952).
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1693. R. H. Quick, Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke (Cambridge University Press, 1895). 5 P. 38.
T. Fowler, Locke’s Conduct of the Understanding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901), p. 5, section 2, ‘Parts’. Also, Essay, The Epistle to the Reader: ‘We have our understandings no less different than our palates.’
Cf. Gilbert Ryle, ‘Locke on the Human Understanding’, in John Locke: Tercentenary Addresses (Oxford University Press, 1933), pp. 26, 34.
J. W. Adamson, A Short History of Education (Cambridge University Press, 1919), p. 204. 3 Cambridge University Press (1922), p. 11.
B. Rand, The Correspondence of John Locke and Edward Clarke, also John Locke: Directions concerning Education. Being the First Draft of his Thoughts Concerning Education now printed from Add. MS. 38777 in the British Museum with an introduction by Frederick George Kenyon (Oxford, 1933).
J. R. Harrison and Peter Laslett, ‘The Library of John Locke’, The Times Literary Supplement, 27 Dec. 1957.
H. C. Hughes, ‘Locke’s Library’, Book Collectors’ Quarterly, vol. iii, nos ix-xii, 1933.
J. Lough, ‘Loeke’s Reading during his Stay in France’ (1675–9), The Library (5th series), vol. viii, Oxford University Press, 1953. P. Laslett, John Locke: Two Treatises on Government, Appendix B, pp. 130–45.
See K. Dewhurst, John Locke, Physician and Philosopher: A Medical Biography (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963); British Medical Journal, 5 Oct. 1963, ‘An Oxford Medical Quartet’. Also British Medical Journal, 4 April 1964, ‘John Locke’s Medical Notes’.
Cf. J. Adams, Modern Developments in Educational Practice (London: University of London Press, 1922), p. 30. For the slogan ‘from the gutter to the university’ see
S. S. Laurie, The Training of Teachers and Methods of Instruction (Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. 594–5; cf. pp. 149–50.
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Rusk, R.R. (1969). Locke. In: The Doctrines of the Great Educators. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15372-5_7
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