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In this incisive, original and elegantly written study of eighteenth-century pedagogy, Michele Cohen makes us rethink almost every aspect of education during the Enlightenment. Astutely sensitive to the class and especially gendered assumptions that shaped teaching, learning and knowing, she re-fashions our views on public and private education, the grand tour, Latin pedagogy, the role of modern subjects such as geography, the paradoxical nature of accomplishment (about which she is especially brilliant), and the values attached to conversation. Her insights resonate into the present and show how fundamental the education of boys and girls was to the construction of eighteenth-century society and culture. -- John Brewer, Eli and Edythe Broad Professor of History and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University

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MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK.

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