On Education : A Call for the Reform to End the Domination of the Scholasticism

Of Education represents John Milton''s most comprehensive statement on educational reform. It was Milton''s opinion that education had two objectives: one public, to "fit a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war"; and the other private, to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of tha...