The Scottish Enlightenment and the American college ideal.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sloan, Douglas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, [1971]
Series:Teachers College studies in education.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The Scottish universities in the Enlightenment
  • Log colleges, revivals, and the mother church of Scotland: the Presbyterian academy
  • Old Side educator: Francis Alison
  • The Scottish Enlightenment comes to Princeton: John Witherspoon
  • Education, progress, and polygamy: Samuel Stanhope Smith
  • From Nottingham Academy to the Edinburgh of America: Benjamin Rush
  • Science, society, and the curriculum: conclusions
  • Bibliography (p. [249]-280)
  • Appendix (p. 281-284): Presbyterian academies.