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Ways of wisdom : moral education in the early national period
- Title
- Ways of wisdom : moral education in the early national period / Jean E. Friedman ; including the Diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus transcribed and edited with the assistance of Glenna Schroeder-Lein.
- Author
- Friedman, Jean E.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2001.
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- Description
- xviii, 286 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. In 1808 Mordecai founded the Warrenton Female Academy on the principles described in the Edgeworths' guide, Practical Education, and he enlisted family members to teach and manage the school. Rachel Mordecai, inspired by her father's progressive methods, initiated an Edgeworthian experiment in the home education of her young half sister, Eliza. Rachel's diary, reproduced in full in Ways of Wisdom, chronicles the moral instruction of Eliza. While retaining the traditional didacticism of wisdom literature, the diary also describes Eliza's resistance to enlightened discipline and method."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Moral education in the early national period
- Subject
- Lazarus, Rachel Mordecai, 1788-1838
- Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744-1817
- Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744-1817
- Lazarus, Rachel Mordecai, 1788-1838
- 1800-1899
- Moral education > United States > History
- Education, Humanistic > United States > History
- Jews > Education > History > United States > 19th century
- Education, Humanistic
- Jews > Education
- Moral education
- Sittliche Erziehung
- Erziehung
- United States
- USA
- Juden
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-279) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Mordecai Family Wisdom: Rachel Mordecai and Family Pedagogy -- Ch. 2. Enlightened Wisdom: Rational Pedagogy and Irrational Impulse in the Edgeworth Family -- Ch. 3. Wisdom Tested: Rachel Mordecai's Practice -- Ch. 4. Ways of Wisdom: Separate Paths of Holiness -- Ch. 5. Wisdom Transformed: The Evangelization of Edgeworthian Pedagogy -- The Diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus -- App. Short Biographies of the Mordecai and Edgeworth Families.
- ISBN
- 0820322520
- 9780820322520
- 0820322547
- 9780820322544
- LCCN
- 00032541
- OCLC
- ocm44046759
- 44046759
- SCSB-1207691
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library