The Education of Things
Hoiem, Elizabeth Massa![The Education of Things](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/442/44202219/CHSBZCOP0344202219.jpg)
By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast array of games and books from the era taught children how to comprehend the physical world of "things." Examining a diverse archive of historical periodicals, grammar books, toys, machinery displays, and literature from Maria Edgeworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Anna Letitia Barbauld, The Education of...