Virtue, Reason, and the False Public Voice: Catharine Macaulay's Philosophy of Moral Education
Titone, C. (2009). Virtue, Reason, and the False Public Voice: Catharine Macaulay's Philosophy of Moral Education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 41 (1): 91-108.
Abstract: Catharine Macaulay, an 18th century English historian, published her educational philosophy in Letters on Education with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects
in 1790. The ultimate goal of her educational process, to 'bring the
human mind to such a height of perfection as shall induce the practice
of the best morals', (Macaulay, 1790,
p. 173) is examined in this paper. Her ideas about the interactions
among benevolence, sympathy, reason and the public voice with regard to
the education of the moral, virtuous person are considered. Macaulay's
suggestions regarding the benefits of a specific curriculum and
pedagogy in developing students capable of filtering the limiting
dictates of society and aspiring toward virtue are analyzed. Particular
attention is paid to the tensions her suggestions embody for the ideal,
co-educational classroom.
Source: Wiley InterScience
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