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What is Gentleman's Education

A bourgeois aristocratic education advocated by the English bourgeois educator Locke. The purpose of its education is to cultivate gentlemen with four qualities: virtue, wisdom, etiquette and learning, and the content of education is divided into three parts: physical education, intellectual education and moral education. Locke's idea of gentleman's education had an important influence on the development of modern education in the West. British materialist philosopher J. Locke's educational theory in the educational masterpiece "educational discourse". Gentleman education" theme idea is: gentleman should have both aristocratic manners, can be active in the upper class and the political arena, but also has the enterprising spirit of the entrepreneur, is the development of the bourgeoisie economy of the practical talents; gentleman should be subjected to sports, moral and intellectual education.