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Locke and the Politics of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Hugh Kearney*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

Abstract

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Copyright © 1972 by New York University 

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Notes

1. Hereafter referred to as Education. I am grateful to my colleague, Dickinson, Dr. Harry, for a number of helpful suggestions.Google Scholar

2. The generalization, though still broadly true, is less so in 1971 than in 1961. The latest and outstanding exception is Cremin, Lawrence, American Education: The Colonial Experience (New York, 1971).Google Scholar

3. In particular, Peter Laslett's critical edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government (New York and London, 1960).Google Scholar

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