GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Mémoire sur l'éducation publique, 1764

GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis-Bernard.

Mémoire sur l'éducation publique, avec le prospectus d'un collège suivant les principes de cet ouvrage.

[Dijon], s.n., 1764.

12mo (167x95 mm), 324 pages. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, gilt spine in six compartments.

First edition.
Early work by Guyton de Morveau, then a lawyer in the Parliament of Dijon.
This writing on education comes two years after the publication of Emile by Rousseau and one year after the Essay on National Education by Chalotais in the Parliament of Brittany. The Jesuits who until then controlled education in France have just been banished from the kingdom, leaving a vacant space for secular education inspired by the Enlightenment. Even if Guyton de Morveau is still timid in his proposals, he is still classified by Buisson among the leaders of the renovation of pedagogy.
In particular, it offers language teaching less focused on the in-depth study of grammar but more on the practice of the language.

references: MOCELLIN [Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau : Chimiste et Professeur au Siècle des Lumières, 2009 (thèse de Doctorat) : "Il conçoit l’éducation du jeune garçon (mais pas encore de la jeune fille !) comme un processus, qui commence par les sens pour arriver à la raison."] BUISSON [Dictionnaire de Pédagogie, I, 1227].

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