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An Essay on the History and Management of Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutions - And Especially How Far They May Be Developed and Combined so as to Promote the Moral Well-Being and Industry of the Country (Paperback)
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An Essay on the History and Management of Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutions - And Especially How Far They May Be Developed and Combined so as to Promote the Moral Well-Being and Industry of the Country (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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In this Essay, first published in 1853, the Victorian social
activist James Hole offers an impassioned defence of the one of the
central products of early Victorian social reformism, the
mechanics' institutes. Aimed at improving the education of
working-class men, women and youths, the institutes offered basic
literacy training as well as higher-level lectures on science, the
arts, and industry. This volume, originally a prize-winning essay,
outlines Hole's plan for improving the efficacy of the institutes,
which he saw as failing in their mission of enlivening the minds of
those whose primary labours were physical. The institutes 'have
established the right of the people to culture', Hole writes, but
they had yet, in his view, to instil it. An important work in the
history of education, Hole's Essay provides revealing insights into
social reformism and the complexities of class politics within the
movement.
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