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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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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Education Philosophy & theory of education

• Full title: Essays on Professional Education
• Author: Richard Lovell Edgeworth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 510
• EAN: 9781108047463
• ISBN: 1108047467
• ID: 02058037
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 810 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 170 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. May 2012

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