A plea for private schools, being the substance of A Paper read before the Sussex Educational Association, at Brighton, Nov. 6th, 1876, in reply to some remarks of the Rev. Mark Pattison, B.D., at the Social Science Congress, at Liverpool

KNIGHTLEY, Dr. W. Porter

Verlag: H. & C. Treacher, Brighton, 1876

Beschreibung

15pp, [1]. Recent morocco-backed tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Sidney Broad to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to contemporary front blank fly-leaf: 'With the Author's kind regards / Dec. 12th 1876'. The first edition of a paper read before the Sussex Educational Association at Brighton, 6th November, 1876, in response to remarks made by Oxford college head and scholar Mark Pattison (1813-1884) at the Social Science Congress against private schools. The author, of whom little is known, takes exception to Pattison's withering opinions regarding the educational effectiveness of private schools, putting forth an impassioned defence of efficiency of such institutions and argues for their importance to the 'intellectual culture of the middle class'. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ22129

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Titel: A plea for private schools, being the ...

Verlag: H. & C. Treacher, Brighton

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: First edition.