Educational Discourses - Softcover

Philip Lindsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371963079 ISBN 13: 9780371963074

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Educational Discourses by Philip Lindsley presents a dense collection of lectures and speeches from a Tennessee educator reformer on the philosophy, policy, and practice of universal literacy and moral formation in the early 19th century South. The volume juxtaposes domestic, village, and centralized education, arguing for a social or domestic system controlled by families and voluntary groups, while also advocating robust higher education—central universities, trained teachers, and rigorous college standards—to secure true national enlightenment. It surveys funding models (endowments, lotteries, county funding) and critiques public fund dispersion, praising Icelandic domestic education and warning against sectarian control of curricula. Notable components include the Baccalaureate addresses (1838), speeches on colleges (1848), and the Life and Character of Prof. Gerard Troost (1860), along with appendices on popular education in Tennessee. Throughout, moral and religious formation is inseparable from schooling, with calls for temperance, civic virtue, and the cultivation of the governing mind through a well-educated citizenry and an enduring regional university in Nashville.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371963079
• ISBN 13: 9780371963074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 668