Richard Mulcaster, Positions (1581)
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Date
1581
Author
Richard Mulcaster Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
Positions Wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances Be Examined, Which Are Necessarie For The Training vp of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie. Written by Richard Mvlcaster, master of the schoole erected in London anno. 1561. in the parish of Sainct Laurence Powntneie, by the worshipfull companie of the merchaunt tailers of the said citie
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Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Vautrollier
Publisher
Thomas Chare
Transcription source
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Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
education
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type: undifferentiated
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type: other
sample: Besides his maners and behauiour, which require testimonie and assurance: besides his skill in exercising and trayning of the body, he must be able to teach the three learned toungues, the latin, the greeke, the hebrew, if the place require so much, if not, so much as is required. Wherin assuredly a mediocritie in knowledge, will proue to meane, to emplant, that in another which he hath in himselfe. For he that meaneth to plant but some litle well: must himselfe farre exceede any degree of mediocrite. He must be able to vnderstand his writer, to maister false printes, vnskilfull dictionaries, simple coniectures of some smattering writers concerning the matter of his traine, and be so appointed ear he begine to teach, as he may execute readyly, and not make his owne imperfection, to be a torture to his scooler, and a schooling to him selfe. (p. 238)
sample: Besides his maners and behauiour, which require testimonie and assurance: besides his skill in exercising and trayning of the body, he must be able to teach the three learned toungues, the latin, the greeke, the hebrew, if the place require so much, if not, so much as is required. Wherin assuredly a mediocritie in knowledge, will proue to meane, to emplant, that in another which he hath in himselfe. For he that meaneth to plant but some litle well: must himselfe farre exceede any degree of mediocrite. He must be able to vnderstand his writer, to maister false printes, vnskilfull dictionaries, simple coniectures of some smattering writers concerning the matter of his traine, and be so appointed ear he begine to teach, as he may execute readyly, and not make his owne imperfection, to be a torture to his scooler, and a schooling to him selfe. (p. 238)
Alston
X. 18-19
STC
18253
Other editions
1581: STC 18253a
Modern editions
Mulcaster , Richard. Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children. Ed. William Barker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. view record
Mulcaster, Richard. Positions: wherein those primitive circumstances be examined which are necessarie for the training up of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie; with an appendix containing some account of his life and writings. Ed. Robert Hebert Quick. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. view record
Mulcaster, Richard. Positions. Ed. Richard L. DeMolen. Classics in Education, no. 44. New York: Teachers College Press, 1971. view record
Mulcaster, Richard. Positions: wherein those primitive circumstances be examined which are necessarie for the training up of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie; with an appendix containing some account of his life and writings. Ed. Robert Hebert Quick. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. view record
Mulcaster, Richard. Positions. Ed. Richard L. DeMolen. Classics in Education, no. 44. New York: Teachers College Press, 1971. view record
Criticisms
Klähr, T. Leben und Werke Richard Mulcasters. n.p.: n.p., 1893. view record
