An Essay on the History and Management of Literary, Scientific, Mechanics Institutions (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Hole

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ISBN 10 : 1330779916 ISBN 13 : 9781330779910

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The year 1851 will ever be memorable as the epoch of the Great Exhibition. We then witnessed, collected into one focus, the best results of the skill, taste, and industry of the world. Different nations, no longer rivalling each other in military contests or diplomatic chicane, tried whether peace could not show more glorious victories than war! Each learnt by comparison its peculiar merits or special deficiencies, and every member of that Congress of Nations was benefited by the lesson. Of the many consequences flowing from this grand organisation of the products of industry, we note the steady rise of a feeling for the industrial education ol the people in the minds of those whose interest in the Exhibition was not confined to the temporary amusement of a few hours.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this Essay, first published in 1853, the Victorian social activist James Hole offers an impassioned defence of the one of the central products of early Victorian social reformism, the mechanics' institutes. Aimed at improving the education of working-class men, women and youths, the institutes offered basic literacy training as well as higher-level lectures on science, the arts, and industry. This volume, originally a prize-winning essay, outlines Hole's plan for improving the efficacy of the institutes, which he saw as failing in their mission of enlivening the minds of those whose primary labours were physical. The institutes 'have established the right of the people to culture', Hole writes, but they had yet, in his view, to instil it. An important work in the history of education, Hole's Essay provides revealing insights into social reformism and the complexities of class politics within the movement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330779916
• ISBN 13: 9781330779910
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 231
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