1851 The Spirit and Scope of Education, in Promoting the Well-Being of Society

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce first English language edition, translated from the original German by Robert Gordon.

Joseph Ambrose Stapf was an Austrian Catholic theologian who published a number of works in the early nineteenth century.

This volume includes discussion of 'education in its capacity of forming the faculties', the application of the 'principles of education', the cultivation of intellectual faculties, and how the educator should - both directly and indirectly - 'promote virtue in his pupils'.

With errata to the tail of the final leaf.