Download or read book The Educational World of Edward Thring written by Donald Leinster-Mackay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1987, attempts to take fresh stock of a man who made a great impact on nineteenth-century English Secondary Education. A quasi psycho-biographical approach is adopted from the beginning so that Thring, the man, is examined from the perspective of his paradoxes, personality and the pervasive influences on him. Specia