Algunos pensamientos sobre la educación
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~120.000 palabras · 561 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAJohn Locke. (n.d.). Algunos pensamientos sobre la educación. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902
- MLAJohn Locke. "Algunos pensamientos sobre la educación." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902.
- ChicagoJohn Locke. Algunos pensamientos sobre la educación. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/john-locke/some-thoughts-concerning-education-1902.
De qué trata
El libro de Locke sobre cómo criar a un niño, nacido de las cartas que escribió a un amigo sobre su hijo y publicado en 1693.
Contexto e historia
Es el texto que puso en circulación la imagen de la mente del niño como una página en blanco, y extrae de ella la conclusión práctica: lo que será de mayor depende casi todo del hábito, y por tanto la educación debe formar el carácter antes que llenar la cabeza. De ahí sus recomendaciones concretas, que escandalizaron y triunfaron: nada de castigo corporal salvo en casos de obstinación, nada de premios en golosinas, mucho ejercicio y aire libre, dormir en camas duras, y sobre todo razonar con el niño como si fuera una persona, porque lo es. Fue el manual de educación más influyente de Europa durante un siglo, y Rousseau escribió el «Emilio» discutiéndolo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Kw, being written several Years since for Your Sake^ and are no other than what You have already by You in my Letters, I have so little var^d any Things but only the I Order of what was sent you at different Times^ and on several , Occasions^ that the Reader will easily find^ in the Familiarity and Fashion of the StiUy that they were rather the private Conversation of two Friends, than a Discourse designed for publick View, The Importunity of Friends is the common Apology for Publications Men are afraid to own themselves forward to. But you know I can truly say, that if some^ who having heard of these Papers of mine, had not presid to ^ee them, and afterwards to have them printed, they had lain dormant still in that Privacy they were designed for. But those, whose Judgment I defer much tOj telling me, that they were per' Ixii • The Epistle Dedicatory. Ixii • The Epistle Dedicatory. suaded^ that this rough Draught of mine might he of some Use^ if made more fublick^ touched upon what will always be very prevalent with me : For I think it every Man^s indispensible Duty, to do all the Service he can to his Country; and I see not what Difference he puts between himself and his Caftlcy who lives without that Thought This Subject is of so great Concernment, and a right Way of Education is of so general Advantage, that did I find my Abilities answer my Wishes, I should not have needed Exhortations or Importunitiesfrom others. However, the Meanness of these Papers, and my fust Distrust of them, shall not keep me, by the Shame of doing so little, from contributing my Mite, when there is no more required of me than my throwing it into the publick Receptacle, And if there be any more of their Size and Notions, who liHd them so well, that they thought them worth printing, 1 may flatter myself they will not be lost Labour…