Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
by
Stephen Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced.
Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology—the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character—played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal...