Ways of Wisdom: Moral Education in the Early National Period

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In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. In 1808 Mordecai founded the Warrenton Female Academy on the enlightened principles described in the Edgeworths’ guide, Practical Education, and he enlisted family members to teach and manage the school. Rachel Mordecai, inspired by her father’s progressive methods, initiated an Edgeworthian experiment in home education on her young stepsister, Eliza. Rachel’s diary, reproduced in full in Ways of Wisdom, chronicles the moral instruction of Eliza. While retaining the ...

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In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system developed by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria. In 1808 Mordecai founded the Warrenton Female Academy on the enlightened principles described in the Edgeworths’ guide, Practical Education, and he enlisted family members to teach and manage the school. Rachel Mordecai, inspired by her father’s progressive methods, initiated an Edgeworthian experiment in home education on her young stepsister, Eliza. Rachel’s diary, reproduced in full in Ways of Wisdom, chronicles the moral instruction of Eliza. While retaining the traditional didacticism of wisdom literature, the diary also describes Eliza’s resistance to enlightened discipline and method.

Friedman’s case study bears particular importance for scholars as it qualifies and enriches our understanding of the American Enlightenment as an amalgam of religious and ethnic assumptions rather than a universal acceptance of Liberalism or Republicanism. Ways of Wisdom also offers an illuminating reinterpretation of “Republican Motherhood” as a culturally diverse and politically complicated domestic paradigm.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780820322520
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2001
  • Pages: 312
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Jean E. Friedman is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mordecai Family Wisdom: Rachel Mordecai and Family Pedagogy
Chapter 2. Enlightened Wisdom: Rational Pedagogy and Irrational Impulse in the Edgeworth Family
Chapter 3. Wisdom Tested: Rachel Mordecai's Practice
Chapter 4. Ways of Wisdom: Separate Paths of Holiness
Chapter 5. Wisdom Transformed: The Evangelization of Edgeworthian Pedagogy
Afterword
The Diary of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus
Appendix: Short Biographies of the Mordecai and Edgeworth Families
Notes
Index
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