The Scottish Enlightenment and the American college ideal / [print]
Douglas Sloan.
- [New York, New York] : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, (c)1971.
- xi, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
- Teachers College studies in education .
The Scottish universities in the Enlightenment -- Log colleges, revivals, and the mother church of Scotland: the Presbyterian academy -- Old Side educator: Francis Alison -- The Scottish Enlightenment comes to Princeton: John Witherspoon -- Education, progress, and polygamy: Samuel Stanhope Smith -- From Nottingham Academy to the "Edinburgh of America:" Benjamin Rush -- Science, society, and the curriculum: conclusions -- Appendix: Presbyterian academies.