| Authorship Notes |
Marc-Antoine Jullien's considerations on educational travel appear in his 'Essai général'. Jullien, a former revolutionary turned liberal, imagines an educational program for the best families of the country, with the aim of forming a robust, enlightened elite. In his program education happens in small groups of 8-10 students, and Jullien's ambition is get the best out of both private and public education. Travel is to be performed around the age of 21-24, before marriage, following the examples of Locke (his main inspiration), and Rousseau. Jullien also refers to Berchtold, notably his advice on creating tables to structure information. Jullien wanted children to keep three parallel journals, to record their moral, intellectual, and physical progress.
In the 1808 edition the chapter on travels occurs pp. 78-81, there are also tables at pp. 207-210. Although the second edition of 1835 is extended, the sections on travel are unchanged. In the intervening years Jullien had encountered Pestalozzi's educational ideas, however, these are not reflected in his opinions on travel. |
