| Authorship Notes |
The text is organised in numbered paragraphs, of which numbers 189-201 concern travel (pp. 244-262 of the first edition). Locke gives a fairly conventional and generally somewhat sceptical account of the value of travel, while acknowledging the commonplace perception that it was essential to the education of a gentleman. He places particular emphasis on the choice of a suitable tutor. Critical elements of Locke's position were later drawn on by Richard Hurd's 'Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel' (1764) which imagines a fictional discourse between Locke and his charge, the third earl of Shaftesbury (described elsewhere in this database). |
