Some Thoughts Concerning Education | John Locke | *Philosophers, Explained* by Stephen Hicks

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Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.
In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses John Locke’s 1693 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, and Locke’s thoughts on corporal punishment, physical education, history, arithmetic and science.

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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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