Education & the Young Mind

The philosophy of education — Rousseau’s Émile and the long argument about what schools are for and what learning should be.

How a society raises its children

In this collection

• Perspective (Rhymes for the Times)
• The Humour of the Public
• The Epigrammatist
• To a Young Poet
• Looking Backward
• A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. an Infant of Twelve Months
• The Spirits of Light and Darkness. [Voices Singing.]
• Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature with Which Philosophers Were Delighted
• Natural Magic
• Ennui
• Win' that 'Blaws
• The Prince
• Love and Mr. Lewisham
• Psalm of the Day
• The Deadliest Sin
• The End
• How to Know the Fallacies

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