Private Tutoring in Scotland: The Example of Mure of Caldwell
| Autor: | Henry L. Fulton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Eighteenth-Century Life. 27:53-69 |
| ISSN: | 1086-3192 0098-2601 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/00982601-27-3-53 |
| Popis: | Modern research into the history of education in the British Isles in the eighteenth century has often reflected modern cultural concerns and thus has explored, for example, the establishment of new scholastic opportunities for classes of children other than the noble and wealthy. Rather than treat the better-known public, or “classical,” schools that dosed their pupils with sufficient Latin to make them eligible for university and careers in the law, the church, or the government, such research has described schools sponsored by various Christian denominations— for example, Hackney Academy— or vocational institutions that prepared young men for trades such as accounting or the merchant marine. And considerable research has been done on the relatively meager opportunities for women.1 This limited range of scholarly treatment of schools and their curricula has misleadingly seemed to cover the topic fairly well, or at least mark its boundaries; yet it is easy to forget that a great deal of the tuition for young boys was private rather than institutional and that many a family of rank, fashion, or means employed a bright young man, fresh from the university and seeking preferment or eventual ordination, to tutor its male children in Latin, literature, and mathematics, perhaps some geography, and maybe a little elementary science. Private tutoring was, in fact, the preferred option among the upper |
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