Tractate of Education
by John Milton
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1644
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 15 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendComplete Poems and Major ProseHackett, 2003Printed with the other prose in the standard annotated one-volume Milton.
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A short open letter to the reformer Samuel Hartlib setting out a plan for an academy for boys from twelve to twenty-one. Milton defines the end of learning as repairing the ruins of our first parents by regaining a right knowledge of God, and proposes a curriculum that moves from languages through agriculture, mathematics, natural philosophy, ethics, politics and theology to poetry and rhetoric, with music, fencing and military exercise in the afternoons.
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