Philosophy
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The following text was originally published in PROSPECTS: the quarterly review of education
(Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education), vol. 24, no. 1/2, 1994, p. 6176.
©UNESCO: International Bureau of Education, 1999
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JOHN LOCKE
(16321704)
Richard Aldrich
John Locke was a great educator on several counts. In an immediate sense he was himself a
practitioner and publicist of good education. This profile is concerned with his life in education, his
theory of knowledge, his advice to parents on the upbringing of their children, and his educational
priorities with specific reference to the curriculum. But Locke also made significant contributions to
human understanding in such fields as theology, economics, medicine and science, and particularly
political philosophy. This dual prominence places Locke, arguably the most significant educationist
in English history,......
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