Author: John Clarke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781330776964

Excerpt from Bishop Gilbert Burnet as Educationist, Being His Thoughts on Education: With Notes and Life of the Author Burnet's Thoughts on Education is a work little known even to students of education. It was published posthumously in 1761, and as it has never been reissued, copies of it are now scarce. At a time when we are seeking to reconstruct the broken links of educational history and to trace the continuity of its development, it seems worth while to restore to its position a work which in its day formed an interesting contribution to the subject. The author was a graduate of Marischal College, possibly the most famous of all that ever issued from the University of Aberdeen or from either of its colleges. The local association makes it appropriate that the new edition of the treatise should form a member of the series of Aberdeen University Studies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.