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Milton's Tractate: An Attempt at Reassessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

G. Noel Vose
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Extract

Very few pieces of educational writing have been subject to so much confused criticism as the brief tract which, with its laconic title, Of Education, was launched anonymously upon the public on June 5, 1644.

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Research Article
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 27 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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