Some Thoughts Concerning Education

The English philosopher John Locke wrote Some Thoughts Concerning Education in 1693 as an essay on gentlemanly education. It was England's most influential philosophical treatise on education for more than a century. During the eighteenth century it was translated into practically every major written European language and nearly every European writer on education following Locke recognized its impact including Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Some Thoughts Corcerning Education teaches how to train that mind through three different methods: the development of a healthy physique the construction of virtuous character and the selection of a suitable academic program.This is a reviewed and updated version. The archaisms that would make the reading difficult were removed for a better experience of the reader.