Chrestomathia

1983. Bentham, Jeremy Smith, M.J. Burston, W.H. Chrestomathia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. xxix, 451 pp., 3 folded plates. Original cloth with gilt stamped spine and boards, light shelfwear, internally clean and bright. Very good. $85. * From the authoritative Bentham Project of the Faculty of Laws, University College London. A collection of papers detailing his plan for a new type of secondary school and its innovative curriculum. It outlines his educational philosophy, which emphasized practical, useful knowledge and applied a "new system of instruction" for the "middling and higher ranks in life". Chrestomathia, comes from Greek words meaning "useful learning", provides his sole in-depth work exclusively on education.