Westminster College and its Archives

• Peter S. Forsaith ^[1]
  1. [1] Oxford Brookes University

     Oxford Brookes University

     Oxford District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: History of education researcher, ISSN 1740-2433, Nº. 87, 2011, págs. 40-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Education was always writ large in the Methodist psyche. It was stressed by John Wesley (1703- 1791), the Anglican clergyman often, though inaccurately, referred to as the 'founder of Methodism' (he neither sought to start a new denomination, nor was he the movement's initialleader). He twice published details of his mother's domestic educacional regime, based upon the principie of the need to break a child's will. This stern approach still tended to have influence long after Wesley's death